sub ledger accounting deep drive

COLLABORATE 10 — OAUG Forum SLA Deep Dive © Jeannie Dobney & Alyssa Johnson as at 7-Apr-10

Sub-Ledger Accounting: Deep Drive

Presenters: Jeannie Dobney (independent consultant) & Alyssa Johnson (solution architect, Solution Beacon)

Introduction

Sub-Ledger Accounting (SLA) is functionality introduced by Oracle in R12 of the Oracle eBusiness Suite. In the 3 years since then, we as a user community have been able to accumulate considerable understanding of SLA This paper attempts to draw together some of that knowledge, highlighting what we have learnt from the early implementations as well as indicating the availability of valuable papers and presentations available for in-depth follow up.

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Formally, this paper covers the following:

• What is SLA? (i.e. an introduction to its functionality and concepts)

• How does it work? (i.e. system architecture, both process and configuration aspects)

• What can we do with it? (i.e. how it can be used to meet business requirements)

• What does it mean for the end-users? (i.e. reports, inquiries, month-end process and diagnostics)

What is Sub-Ledger Accounting?

In R12 the Set of Books concept was replaced with Ledgers; i.e. the 3 “C’s” became the 4 “C’s”:

Set of Books Ledger

Chart of Accounts Chart of Accounts

Functional Currency Functional Currency

Calendar Calendar

Accounting Convention

The Accounting Convention aspect of a Ledger is enabled by Oracle’s introduction of sub-ledger accounting, which facilitated multiple accounting representations of a single transaction. (This very fundamental point is absolutely key to understanding SLA: the transaction entered has now been separated from the accounting entry created from it. This paper will underscore the implications of that change.)

So for example it became possible to have the following:

Primary Ledger – using standard accrual as an accounting convention

Secondary Ledger - using a cash accounting convention

In this scenario when the user enters a supplier invoice into Accounts Payable, the following accounting impacts follow:

Primary Ledger: Dr Expense (determined by Invoice Distribution) Cr AP Control

Secondary Ledger: no accounting impact

To provide this new functionality, Oracle introduced sub-ledger accounting, which is:

• Both a set of accounting rules and an engine to generate the accounting transactions

• A separate product with its own schema (XLA) to which accounting transactions are posted from each participating sub-ledger prior to being posted to the General Ledger

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(Although SLA is a separate product, it may be helpful to think of it as a service rather than a separate Application, since it is accessed via the existing sub-ledgers).

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• Participating sub-ledgers include: Payables Receivables Projects


Assets Cash Management Purchasing Cost Management Process Manufacturing

• Using a single engine to derive accounting from all these sub-ledgers, standardises the accounting process.

• The SLA engine also supports user defined (modified) accounting conventions which allow users to determine how the sub-ledgers derive the accounting. The screens used for this are called the Accounting Methods Builder (AMB). Configurations created via the AMB are much easier and transparent than equivalent modifications in previous eBS versions and are more easily supported.

For many end-users the introduction of SLA may be almost transparent. For example for a Payables or Assets clerk, probably the only impact will be a change in some inquiry screens. The very subtlety of these changes, however, may present a trap, and this will be discussed further in a later section.

How it Works (Accounting Process)

The following diagram shows how the participating sub-ledgers post ‘through’ SLA to the General Ledger

4. This actually has quite significant impacts at Month-End (which we will come to later in this

paper), however the diagram also indicates that the SLA forms a central transactional data repository with its own reports and inquiry windows.

SLA

GL

AP

FA

AR

PA CE

CM

PO

The process which controls the interfacing of transactions from the sub-ledgers to the SLA tables and into GL is Creating Accounting, which is submitted from SRS.


For readers new to this process there are some additional notes about the parameters of this process in the end-notes to this paper

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Transitioning from Account Generators to the R12 Subledger Accounting Engine (slide 54 ff).

How it Works (Configuration)

The following diagram shows the elements used in the SLA architecture:

Accounting

Methode.g. Standard Accrual

Application

Accounting

Definition

Application

Accounting

Definition

Application

Accounting

Definition

An Accounting Method is made up of

multiple Application Accounting

Definitions, one for each sub-ledger

Event Classes

Each Application has a number of

Events which can generate

Accounting entries. For example

Payables has event classes like

invoices and payments.

Journal Header

Assignments

Journal Line

Definitions

Account

Derivation Rules

Journal Line

Types

Journal

Descriptions

Sources

Each event that generates a journal is

made up of components that can be

defined using rules or by entering data

into the available forms.

Sources are components of

transactions e.g. the supplier who

submitted the invoice. Custom sources

can also be defined using PL/SQL


Refer to the PowerPoint presentation accompanying this white paper for screen shots of each of these elements.

For more detail on SLA Architecture refer to Alyssa’s 2008 paper: Oracle EBS Release 12, Subledger Accounting: What It Is, What It Does, How It Works, (Alyssa’s contact details are included at the end of this paper). The GL SIG’s Introduction to SLA series also contains excellent examples which are helpful in understanding both what each of these building blocks are and also how they can be used.

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For consultants looking for more detail on some of the configuration ‘bells and whistles’ we also recommend Melanie Cameron’s SLA white-paper for the Oracle Contractor’s network (cf key references).

In the next section of the current paper we will highlight how these elements can be used as supported configurations to achieve the accounting outcomes which may be required by your business.

Top Tip

Through this paper we will include tips which reflect specific queries we’ve fielded over the past 3 years. Here’s the first one: How do you control whether the sub-ledgers post to GL in summary or detail.

The Accounting SetUp Manager controls the grouping of journal headers as shown below (the level of posting detail field)..

To access this screen, from the GL SuperUser Responsibility: (N) Setup ~ Financials ~ Accounting Setup Manager ~ Accounting SetUps ~ Subledger Accounting Options, and select specific sub-ledger

Use the Accounting Methods Builder (introduced in the next section) to control the summarisation of journal lines.

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The 2 options work together as shown in the following table from MOS Note 876190.1.

GL Journal Entry Summarization

JLT -Transfer to GL Expected behaviour

Summarize (By GL Date or Period)

Summary Summarized at both GL_JE_HEADERS and GL_JE_LINES

Summarize (By GL Date or Period)

Detail Summarized at GL_JE_HEADERS, detail GL_JE_LINES

No Summarization Detail Detailed at GL_JE_HEADERS and GL_JE_LINES

No Summarization Summary Detailed at GL_JE_HEADERS and GL_JE_LINES

Note: The last two options cause the level of detail in the GL to be the same as in the Subledger

Sidebar: Events

For those who are interested, this section deals in a little more detail with the “event” concept which is an important part of SLA architecture and processing.

SLA uses events for processing transactions. An event is the recording of a change of status in the transaction life cycle, i.e., invoice approved, payment received, period close, etc. This allows for a clear separation between transactions and accounting representation. Events are the bridge between transactions and journal entries.


The following table explains the related terminology8, (note that these event concepts are

hierarchical, i.e. event entities have event classes).

Concept Explanation Example from Oracle Projects

Event entity Event Entities allow SLA to handle the accounting for similar business events in a consistent manner.

Expenditures, Revenue and Budgets

Event class An Event Class represents a category of business event for a particular transaction type or document.

For Event Entity Expenditures, Event Classes include Labor Cost; Usage Cost; and Supplier Cost.

Event Type An Event Type represents a business operation that you can perform for an Event Class. Event Types are the most granular level of business event which has an accounting impact

For Event Class Supplier Cost, event types include Expense Report Cost Distribution and Supplier Cost Distribution.

Top Tip

Later in this paper we will recommend that at least some of your end-users need training in how to use SLA Inquiry screens; some understanding of how to use ‘events’ may be helpful for this. To identify the events in your Application you can do the following:

In a non-production instance, query back the Event Model screen (e.g. from Payables: N > Setup ~ Accounting Setups ~ Subledger Accounting Setup ~ Accounting Methods Builder ~ Events)

Use the Event Classes button to display the event classes and types for each Event Entity.

Include this data in your end-user training notes, so that users understand how to use the Inquiry screens to focus their query on e.g. only cancelled invoices.

For consultants interested in understanding event identifiers, we recommend Melanie Cameron’s paper pp. 10 ff (see key references section below).

Sidebar: Transitioning from Account Generators

Alyssa has previously presented a paper on this topic (Transitioning from Account Generators to the R12 Subledger Accounting Engine at Collaborate 09) and whilst we do not want to rehash the same material here, there are a couple of key points worth highlighting here as well:

• Most of the sub-ledgers continue to use their existing (11i) methods to derive the accounting which users see in Distribution windows. For example: - Receivables still uses AutoAccounting to default invoice accounting - Projects still uses AutoAccounting to default revenue accounting and an Account Generator to default P2P expenditure accounting - Assets may use an Account Generator to derive its account codes.

• In most cases SLA picks up this account code as the default source for its account derivation rules. By default, it will simply pass this through to GL, however SLA also allows you to modify this if you wish to. (This is very significant fundamental point and we will come back to it later in this paper).

• In cases where you have a choice between methods (for example in Assets where the profile option FA: Use Workflow Account Generation allows you to opt to bypass the use of the Account Generator), we recommend you seriously consider going directly to the ‘newer’ technology i.e. SLA, (rather than investing further in a workflow based method whilst knowing that workflow technology will not used in the next generation Fusion Applications).

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Using SLA to Meet Specific Business Requirements

One of the key business benefits Oracle claim for SLA, is that it provides User-Configurable Accounting Rules

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‘vanilla’ Oracle has not foreseen, you can meet that requirement with Application level configuration using the SLA architecture described in the previous section. This is indeed a major benefit which will have a direct impact on total cost of ownership.

Here are some examples of using the SLA Architecture to meet specific business requirements:

• GL users would like to be able to distinguish AR invoice journal lines which originated from feeder systems - rather than as manual invoices in AR (and they post from AR in detail). In 11i this would have required a significant customisation, in R12 it is a simple and supported configuration of journal line descriptions.

• An Assets client requires that disposals be charged to a specific cost centre instead of to the balance sheet i.e. 000. In 11i this would require a Workflow developer to customise the Account Generator; however in R12 this is a supported SLA configuration. (How to do this is illustrated in Alyssa Johnson’s paper Transitioning from Account Generators.)

• A Receivables team wants to differentiate their Receivables balance for products vs services; again this can be easily achieved using conditional logic via SLA.

• The GL SIG’s excellent series on SLA included a discussion of how Automatic Offsets are implemented in R12

11. Whilst this is standard functionality, it provides a useful template for

similar requirements e.g. a client has multiple balancing segments within an operating unit. Their default accrual account configuration uses company 01, however the company wants to have a separate accrual account- mirroring the balancing segment value in the expense account. SLA supports this using the same principle used for automatic offsets.

• Metalink (a.k.a. My Oracle Support) Note 458375.1 also includes case study of similar requirements, e.g. where the liability account is cost centre specific and the cost centre value should match the item distribution.

• There is an example of Purchase Price Variance by product line described by Streubel and Volz in their paper Cost Accounting As You Want It ─ EBS R12 Cost Accounting with SLA

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• There are a series of other excellent examples in the GL SIG’s SLA presentations; these include rules that include conditions and other more sophisticated examples than are listed above.

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The examples provided above are intended to assist you in understanding the power of SLA to help you meet your business requirements in a supportable way. We recommend that you refer to the papers referenced above for the specifics of how this can be done.

Top Tip

The details of SLA configuration may be primarily of interest to implementers; we have not dwelt on them here because we assume that key end-users are likely to require only a conceptual understanding of how it works. However we recommend that if your site uses a non-standard / user-configured sub-ledger accounting method (SLAM), users should check that this is documented to their satisfaction as part of the implementation. Existing AIM documentation may not be easily adapted for SLAMs, - so our recommendation is that a brief functional specification be created listing briefly what the business requirement was that justified the custom SLAM and how the SLA elements are used to achieve the required outcome.

Extending this recommendation to treat a user-configured SLAM as a customisation, we would also recommend it be specifically and intensively tested during UAT to ensure that the configuration meets the business requirements.

Note: Oracle provide a mechanism for importing and exporting Application Accounting Definitions – to make the process of migrating a user-configured SLAM from a TEST instance to Production. Alyssa Johnson discusses this in her paper Transitioning from Account Generators: slide 60 ff.

Some other functionality provided by SLA may also be helpful and is indicated briefly here:


• Supporting References This functionality allows you to ‘tag’ transactions with values which may then be used in reporting – and for which SLA will maintain balances. For example if you do not use Oracle Projects, you might want to report some costs by project using this functionality.

If a ‘segment’ is not required for financial accounting and reporting, (i.e. solely for management reporting), consider capturing it purely within Subledger Accounting using this SLA Supporting Reference feature. There is a helpful example in the GL SIG’s SLA slides showing exactly how this can be set up and used for reporting.

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There is also a helpful Metalink Note providing detail on how Supporting References may be set up and used (Note 790978.1).

• Third Party account balances This functionality allows you to view and report account balances by customer and / or supplier.

• Replacement Accounts If these are used by your site, the values are substituted in SLA (not first in GL).

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End-User Impacts

Many end-users may not notice much change when moving from 11i to R12; to an AP or AR clerk, there may appear to be almost no impacts. We have identified the following key impacts:

• New and / or changed reports

• New and / or changed accounting inquiry windows

• Changed month-end procedures

• Changed Diagnostics procedures

The following section outlines each of these in turn.

Reports

SLA provides the following BI Publisher reports to take advantage of the centralised transaction data store and to assist with reconciliation.

• Journal Entries Report: Listing of sub-ledger journal entries

• Account Analysis: Listing of beginning and ending balances from GL with merge of subledger and GL details

• Open Account balances (a.k.a. Trial Balances): listing of open balances by third party

• Third Party Balances Report, balances by third party control account and third party

• Period Close Exceptions Report, listing of transactions, sub-ledger journal entries that have not yet been posted to GL

All reports are based on ‘fat’ extracts i.e. they contain additional non-displayed data which can be added via BI Publisher template modifications.

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Top Tip

We would strongly recommend that user testing includes the use of reports and inquiries for relevant business activities and especially that a full period close be completed during UAT. The objective is to ensure that the users can obtain the data they need from the new or changed reports. The changes may appear small, however in our experience an ‘apparently small’ change like the replacement of the Account Analysis with Payables details 11i report with the R12 Account Analysis (with sub-ledger details) report – can cause absolute havoc during the first month end after go-live! This is not something you want to replicate…

Inquiries

In the GL-SIG’s excellent presentation series, they covered the new SLA Inquiry pages very thoroughly and practically– and we recommend you consider a similar approach for your end-user


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. We all know that the SWAN interface is supposed to be so much more intuitive, however in our experience users still need some assistance to be able to use the Inquiry pages, for example:

• There is now an Inquiry page titled Accounting Events, end-users probably need to have this and the related “event” jargon translated for their Application’s context using some familiar examples (refer to the sidebar section on p. 5 above).

• Ensure users understand how to use the Add Another field to focus a query – and then to save personalisations. It is easy to do this once you’ve been shown how - but most end users do need to be shown. One helpful example using their business context is normally sufficient.

• If you have chosen to use Supporting References, make sure users understand how to use this functionality in their queries. Alternatively consider removing this page from their menu or at least explaining that it is not relevant to them.

• If your site wants to use Third Party Balance Inquiries, this should probably also be introduced to users in a similar manner.

• Drill Down from GL now also uses SLA pages, so your GL users will also need to understand how to use the SLA pages.

Top Tip

• Oracle now provide the ability to enter manual sub-ledger journals via a button on the SLA Journal Inquiry pages. This topic has sparked some concern, firstly that a data entry facility should be accessible from an inquiry page and secondly that incorrect use of this by-default-standard feature could lead to significant reconciliation problems at month-end. The recommendation is to remove this sub-function from all users who do not actually need it and to set clear guidelines for the acceptable use of SLA journals for those who may use it

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If you are considering using the manual SLA journal feature to represent accounting in legacy systems, you may wish to consider the use of the API which allows you to import such transactions into SLA rather than into the GL directly (via the GL interface).

The package is called XLA_JOURNAL_ENTRIES_PUB_PKG, with the following sub-functions

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Create_Journal_Entry_Header, page 12-5

Update_Journal_Entry_Header, page 12-12

Delete_Journal_Entry, page 12-18

Create_Journal_Entry_Line, page 12-21

Update_Journal_Entry_Line, page 12-29

Delete_Journal_Entry_Line, page 12-38

Complete_Journal_Entry, page 12-42

Reverse_Journal_Entry, page 12-47

Month-End Procedures

The impact of all transactions being passed through SLA as well as the use of new and / or changed reports and inquiry windows will impact on your month-end procedure. Oracle have provided an excellent document on this topic (Note 961285.1 - R12: Period-End Procedures for Oracle Financials E-Business Suite). We recommend you download and study this document during your upgrade or implementation.

Oracle position SLA as facilitating a smoother period close and easier reconciliation (cf Note 986783.1), however, in our experience to date this is not always the users’ perception. As noted above we strongly recommend you include a complete period close in your UAT and not underestimate the impact of these changes.

Early releases of R12 had considerable problems reconciling AP to GL and there are quite a few Metalink notes relating to this

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overcome. Possibly the best advice is to proceed with caution as SLA has been a substantial change and some teething issues are to be expected with this scale of change.

Top Tip


If you are using user-configured SLA rules, you should ensure that the users performing the reconciliation understand how the system is deriving the accounting values. For example if the user may see an Invoice Distribution displaying an account code of 01-100-7123, but an SLA rule may be substituting a different cost centre; understandably users may call this an error unless it is clear to them that this substitution is correct.

Diagnostics

To assist in resolving problems Oracle provide Diagnostic tools, which you may need if the Create Accounting process does not complete successfully

21. To enable the use of these Diagnostics you:

1. Set the profile option: SLA Enable Diagnostics to Yes (because of the performance overhead, this should only be enabled when required).

2. Submit the Create Accounting program which then also populates the diagnostic tables.

3. Submit the Transaction Objects Diagnostics concurrent request to view the diagnostic report.

4. Reset the profile option: SLA Enable Diagnostics to No

5. The System Administrator submits the Purge Transaction Objects Diagnostics concurrent request.

Other Topics

Before closing this paper we would like to mention one further topic which the scope of this paper has not allowed us to deal with but which you may wish to follow up through the references provided below:

Upgrade issues

An upgrade to R12 is non-trivial. Because of the changes introduced with SLA you will need to decide how much of your existing transaction data should be upgraded. You should also rehearse your reconciliation strategy during testing of your migration process.

To prepare you can read the reference manual Oracle Applications Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12 (part # B31566-01). There are also a number of helpful documents on Metalink, e.g. Note 604893.1 - R12: FAQ for the SLA Upgrade and we would also strongly recommend talking with other users who have upgraded to R12 to hear what they have learnt.

There is also a great deal more detail which we have not been able to cover in this paper, which we hope the Key References section will assist you with. Specifically we have not covered the following due to time constraints:

• Import / Export of SLAMS – useful both for migrating between instance and creating safety copies (cf Alyssa’s Transitioning from Account Generators slides 60-61)

• API to create journal entries i.e. XLA_JOURNAL_ENTRIES_PUB_PKG (e.g. for legacy systems) - briefly referred to above with manual reference and also refer to blog at http://www.oraclebusinessapps.com/

• Business Flows

• Pre- and Post-Accounting Programs

• Multi-Period Accounting, mapping sets and other configuration options

• Use of Profile Options: SLA: Accounting Methods Builder Context


Conclusion

Sub-Ledger accounting is a major architectural change introduced by Oracle in R12. It provides some major improvements, which are very welcome but like all change, it will require time and effort to absorb. We hope this paper helps you with that.

About the Presenters

Jeannie Dobney is an independent consultant with over a decade’s experience with the Oracle eBusiness Suite. She is based on the Sunshine Coast on the east coast of Australia and can be reached via email at [email protected]. You can download this and other papers she has written from her web-site: www.jdobney.com

Alyssa Johnson is a solution architect from Solution Beacon. Alyssa can be contacted by email at [email protected].

Key References

At the time of writing this paper, there were already some excellent presentations available to assist with understanding SLA. This is an overview of those we consider most valuable:

• The key resource is the SLA Implementation manual (Part # E13628-03), available from Oracle’s web-site (http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html). We recommend downloading the most recent version as this manual appears to have been improved as R12 has matured.

• Metalink also has many helpful notes (Knowledge path: Oracle E-Business Suite > Financial Management > Financials Common Applications > Subledger Accounting). Refer also to: - Note 396829.1 for a listing of Oracle Subledger Accounting Documentation Resources, R12. - Note 985539.1 - R12 SLA: Subledger Accounting Reference Articles (similar to Note 396829.1 but at a much more detailed / lower level) - Note 961285.1 for a detailed discussion of the R12 EBS Period Close process - Note 604893.1 - Important information on upgrading accounting detail - Note 793634.1 - Oracle Leasing and Finance Management SLA Guide useful even for those not interested in those Applications

• The OAUG’s GL SIG hosted a series of 3 presentations focused on SLA early in 2010 (authored by FMT and Oracle’s Rob Zwiebach). Refer to the Chair of the GL-SIG for availability of the slides.

• Alyssa Johnson from Solution Beacon has also presented 2 valuable papers: Oracle EBS Release 12 Subledger Accounting; What It Is, What It Does, How It Works (April 2008), and Transitioning from Account Generators to the R12 Subledger Accounting Engine (Collab 09)

• Melanie Cameron’s whitepaper for the OracleContractor’s network R12 SubLedger Accounting, this is an excellent in depth paper which will be of most interest to other consultants as it focuses on configuration

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As far as possible this paper has attempted to highlight the contribution from each of these rather than to cover the same material again.

Notes

1 Refer to the section of this paper listing Key Reference material as well as these end-notes which acknowledge

other material this paper references directly.

2 In fact (according to http://www.oracleappshub.com/release12/subledger-accounting/sub-ledger-accounting-

technical-perspective/) there are more than 2,100 objects that have been added to the E-Business Suite database

due to SLA, as can be seen by running the following query:

select object_type,count(*) from dba_objects


where object_namelike '%XLA%'

group by object_type;

Sanjit Anand’s blog (link above) also includes a helpful diagram of the basic SLA tables and how the Create

Accounting process works.

3 Whilst strictly speaking there is no separate responsibility to access SLA, one could argue that the Cost

Management SLA responsibility disproves this…

If you are interested in accounting generated from Inventory and Receiving transactions (i.e. by Cost

Management), there are some excellent resources specifically for this.

A good starting place would be Doug Volz’ website: http://www.volzconsulting.com/resources.html - and

Herve Yu’s SLA presentation may also be helpful, it can be found at

http://discretesig.oaug.org/member/DiscreteSIG_Jun09_Costing_SLA.pdf.

Metalink Note 985539.1: R12 SLA: Subledger Accounting Reference Articles also has a section listing Metalink

notes specifically related to Cost Management.

4 For those seeking a more sophisticated understanding, we would recommend the diagram (and related text) on

p.11 of Metalink Note 793634.1 Oracle Leasing and Finance Management SLA Guide

5 Create Accounting parameters are as follows (they vary slightly by sub-ledger):

Parameter Description

Ledger / Book etc Select the Ledger, Asset Book etc for which you are posting.

Process Category You can focus the process on just one process category if you wish e.g. just

invoices from Payables or just Asset Additions from FA.

End Date Enter the final date though which you wish to process transactions e.g. the last

day of the current month.

Accounting Mode If required run the process in Draft mode simply to validate the accounting

outcomes. The process can then be re-run it in Final mode to process the sub-

ledger accounting.

Errors only Select Yes to identify only those transactions that have resulted in errors

Report Possible values are Detail, Summary or No Report

The Subledger Accounting Program Report generated at the conclusion of the

Create Accounting process, lists the following:

- Successful events and the subledger journal entries created for those events

- Errors for failed events

Summary mode provides a summary of events processed and detailed

information about their errors.

Detail mode provides details of subledger journal entries generated from the

processing of completed events and a detailed error report.

Transfer to GL This parameter is only available in Final mode, it creates a GL journal from the

accounting entries

Post in GL Selecting Yes will post the journal created by the previous step

GL Batch Name This field allows you to name your GL journal batch.

Include User Trans.

identifiers

Controls whether the report displays user identifiers' names and values. Defaults

to No but may be worth changing the default to Yes as this may make linking of

the journals back to the source user easier.

6 See FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG January 27, 2010, and

slide 17 ff of FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG January 20, 2010.

7 Refer also pp.32 ff of Melanie Cameron’s SLA paper for a detailed discussion of summarisation options; R12

SubLedger Accounting by Melanie Cameron; available on request from www.oraclecontractors.com


8 From Edward Charity’s OAUG conference paper From AutoAccounting/Account Generator to Subledger

Accounting in Oracle Projects (cf www.pmsc-llc.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/echarityoaug08.pdf)

9 Metalink Note 578313.1 - White Paper – Subledger Accounting Setup for Oracle Assets provides an excellent

overview of default SLA configuration for Assets, it’s a great starting point for understanding and / or

customising it.

10 Refer Metalink Note 986783.1 The Business Benefits of Oracle Subledger Accounting

11 From FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG January 27, 2010

12 Paper available from Doug Volz’ website: http://www.volzconsulting.com/resources.html - alternatively the

example can also be found in Herve Yu’s SLA presentation that can be found at

http://discretesig.oaug.org/member/DiscreteSIG_Jun09_Costing_SLA.pdf.

13 P. 31 ff from FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG January 20, 2010

14 From FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG January 27, 2010 (pp. 8 ff)

15 Slide 21 ff in FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG Feb 3, 2010

16 This simplified listing is from FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG Feb 3, 2010 (pp.

40 ff).

17 Slide 51 ff of FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG January 27, 2010 and slide 12 ff

from Feb 3,2010 Presentation

18 If you are interested in manual SLA journals refer also to the blog entry on this topic at

http://www.oraclebusinessapps.com/

19 Further information on the API can be found in the Financial Services Accounting Hub Implementation Guide

(you don’t have to have licensed this product to use this pkg). Reference Chapter 12: Manual Subledger Journal

Entries API

20 For example Note 758531.1 - R12 : Initial Steps to Troubleshoot Accounts Payable Trial Balance and

General Ledger Reconciliation Issues.

21 Refer to slides 49 ff of FMT & Rob Zwiebach’s Introduction to SLA for the GL SIG Feb 3, 2010

and to Metalink Note 414094.1 - Diagnostic Framework Overview for Subledger Accounting

22 R12 SubLedger Accounting byMelanie Cameron; available on request from www.oraclecontractors.com

sub ledger accounting deep drive

Documents

rob zwiebachs introduction

doug volz website

oracle ebusiness suite

accounting methods builder

key references section

sla enable diagnostics

cost centre

accounting method