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Assigning Accounts

Assign accounts to a row or column to print monetary or statistical account balances. You assign accounts by entering one or more account ranges. Typically you assign accounts to rows. However, if you enter accounts for both rows and columns, FSG only reports on intersecting accounts. Note: If you assign accounts to a row or column, you cannot define a calculation for that same row or column. You can do one or the other, but not both. To assign accounts to a row or column: 1. From the Rows or Columns window, choose Account Assignments. 2. Select a mathematical Sign ( + or - ) to tell FSG whether to cumulatively add or subtract the balances for each account in the specified account range. To use this feature, each segment in the range must be defined with a display type of T (Total). See step 4 below. 3. Enter a range of accounts by specifying the Low and High accounts in the range. Additional Information: To specify just one account rather than a range, enter the same account as th...

Including Budgets, Encumbrances, and Currencies in an FSG Report

To include budgets, encumbrance types, and currencies in a report, your report definition must specify a row set or column set that has control values specified in the Balance Control options. When you use such row sets or column sets in a report definition, you assign the control values to specific budgets, encumbrances, or currencies. When you assign a Budget to a control value number, FSG automatically prints the appropriate budget amounts in the budget-related rows or columns that are assigned that control value number. For example, if you assigned the number 1 to a column with the PTD-Budget amount type and the number 3 to a column with the PTD-Encumbrance amount type, you must assign a budget to the control value number 1 and an encumbrance to the control value number 3. This same logic applies to currency types. Notes: You must assign the same budget, encumbrance type, or currency to intersecting row and column control values. You cannot enter currencies in the report definition...

Balance Control Options

Amount Type: Defines the types of values to include in a row or column. General Ledger provides numerous amount types, such as actual, end-of-day, average-to-date, budget, or encumbrance; or calculated amounts, such as variances, for single or multiple periods. The amount type is typically assigned to column definitions. Notes: If you enter a budget, encumbrance, or variance amount type, you should enter a Control Value to assign budgets and encumbrance types to the report definition. Amount Type, Period Offset, Control Value, and Currency must all share the same column or row. If you assign an amount type to a row or column, you must also assign an offset. Suggestion: Use the amount type, YTD-Actual (FY End) to report on fiscal year-end actual balances. Calculate the offset in relation to your accounting calendar and enter the offset value in the Balance Control Region (for example, -12 for a 12 period calendar). Label the column directly (for example, June-1999) instead of using the...

Using Financial Statement Generator

The simplest reports require only steps 2 and 5 to define the report and steps 6 and 7 to run it. As your report requirements become more complicated, you will also need to perform many of the optional steps. The Financial Statement Generator Report Building Process 1. Before you define a report in Financial Statement Generator, draft it on paper. This will help you plan your report's format and content and save you time later. 2 . Define row sets that specify the format and content of your report rows. Typical row sets include line items, accounts, and calculation rows for totals. 3. Define column sets that specify the format and content of your report columns. Typical column sets include headings, currency assignments, amount types, and calculation columns for totals. You can also define column sets graphically using the Column Set Builder. 4. Define any optional report objects you need for special format reports or report distribution. 5 . Define financial reports by com...

Entering Purchase Order Headers

To enter purchase order headers: 1. Navigate to the Purchase Orders window from the menu: i) by selecting the New PO button in the Find Purchase Orders window or any of its results windows ii) by selecting the Open button in any of the Find Purchase Order results windows iii) by selecting the Open button and then double-clicking the Open Documents icon in the Notifications Summary window when the current line is a purchase order if the PO: Display the AutoCreated Document profile option is set to Yes, Purchasing opens the Purchase Orders window when you have completed AutoCreation of a purchase order The upper part of the Purchase Orders window has the following display-only fields: Created - The system date is displayed as the creation date. Status - Possible order status values are: Incomplete - The order has not been approved. Approved - You have approved the order. You can print it and receive items against it. Requires Reapproval - You approved the order and then made chang...

Purchase Order Types

Standard Purchase Orders You generally create standard purchase orders for one-time purchase of various items. You create standard purchase orders when you know the details of the goods or services you require, estimated costs, quantities, delivery schedules, and accounting distributions. If you use encumbrance accounting, the purchase order may be encumbered since the required information is known. Blanket Purchase Agreements You create blanket purchase agreements when you know the detail of the goods or services you plan to buy from a specific supplier in a period, but you do not yet know the detail of your delivery schedules. You can use blanket purchase agreements to specify negotiated prices for your items before actually purchasing them. Blanket Releases You can issue a blanket release against a blanket purchase agreement to place the actual order (as long as the release is within the blanket agreement effectivity dates). If you use encumbrance accounting, you can encumber each r...

Payment Terms

In the Payment Terms window, you define payment terms that you can assign to an invoice to automatically create scheduled payments when you submit Payables Invoice Validation for the invoice. You can define payment terms to create multiple scheduled payment lines and multiple levels of discounts. You can create an unlimited number of payment terms. Payment terms have one or more payment terms lines, each of which creates one scheduled payment. Each payment terms line and each corresponding scheduled payment has a due date or a discount date based on one of the following: i) a specific day of a month, such as the 15th of the month ii) a specific date, for example, March 15, 2002. iii) a number of days added to your terms date, such as 14 days after the terms date iv) a special calendar that specifies a due date for the period that includes the invoice terms date. Only due dates can be based on a special calendar. Discount dates cannot be based on a special calendar. Each payment term...

Payment Formats

Use the Payment Formats window to define the payment formats you need to define payment documents in the Banks window. You define payment formats for the four payment methods that Payables uses. You can define as many payment formats as you require for each payment method; however, each payment format must be unique for that payment method. You choose a Build Payments program, and a Format Payments program for each payment format. You can choose any payment program that you have defined in the Payment Programs window or any standard program Payables provides. You do not have to define a Separate Remittance Advice program for a payment format, because you can include the separate remittance advice program in your Format Payments program. Each Format Payments program provided by Payables includes a remittance advice program. You can, however, control how many invoices to include on your remittance advice. You can define a separate payment format for each of your payment currencies. If yo...

Application Utilities Lookups and Application Object Library Lookups

Maintain existing and define additional Lookups for your shared Lookup types. You can define up to 250 Lookups for each Lookup type. Each Lookup has a code and a meaning. For example, Lookup type YES_NO has a code Y with meaning Yes, and a code N with a meaning No. Note: In Releases 11.0 and earlier, there were two Lookup features, Special Lookups and Common Lookups. These two features have been merged into one. The new consolidated Lookups feature has Lookups maintained in this form. If you make changes to a Lookup, users must log out then log back on before your changes take effect. Lookups Block Type Query the type of your Lookup. You can define a maximum of 250 Lookups for a single type. User Name The user name is used by loader programs. Application Query the application associated with your Lookup type. Description If you use windows specialized for a particular Lookup type, the window uses this description in the window title. Access Level The access level restricts changes that...

Lookups

A lookup is any predefined value that was not defined in a setup window. Use the Oracle Payables Lookups window to review and maintain sets of values, or lookups, that you use in Payables. In some fields, you must select a value from a predefined lists of values. Sometimes the values on the list are items you have defined in a setup window, such as supplier names, payment terms, or tax codes. Other predefined sets of values are lookups, which you can view, and in some cases, update, in the Oracle Payables Lookups window. A lookup category is called a lookup type, and the allowable values for the lookup type are called lookup names. For example, names of invoice types, such as Standard, Prepayment, Debit Memo, and so on, are lookup names for the lookup type of Invoice Type. You can add lookup names to some lookup types. For lookup types that you can modify, you can define up to 250 lookup names. For example, you can define additional values for Source, which you specify when you import ...

Refunds

When a supplier or employee sends you a refund for an invoice payment you have made, you can record the refund in Payables. A refund closes out an outstanding credit balance, so you are actually making a negative payment for a credit balance. The credit balance can consist of the outstanding balance of any combination of the following documents, as long as the sum is negative and equals the refund amount: i-> Invoices ii-> Debit memos iii-> Credit memos Expense report Paying these documents with a refund records each document as paid, and gives you a complete supplier transaction history. For example, suppose you want to stop doing business with a supplier. You have an overall $100 credit balance with the supplier. The supplier sends you a $100 refund for the credit balance, which consists of a credit memo of $250 and an unpaid invoice of $150. You enter a $100 refund (a $100 negative payment), and apply it to the invoice and credit memo. After you apply the refund, the in...