Recent Posts by Adriana Bacila

Web Applications Desktop Integration (WebAdi) is a powerful tool leveraging desktop applications to perform some of the Oracle EBS Tasks. Familiar desktop tools such as Excel can be used to create spreadsheets, enter or change existing data, then upload or propagate the changes to EBS. For General Ledger, WebAdi can help through usage of specific integrators to:  Upload Journals to Gl   Upload Budget Journals or change existing Budget balances directly   Upload Intercompany...

Since E-Business Suite 12.1 was released, very important fixes were delivered by Development to improve your experience with General Ledger or introduce solutions for reported issues that might affect critical business processes. Many patches are available. How to select those being relevant for your business?  RPC's (Recommended Patch Collections) make this choice easy! What are they? Collections of compact, reliable patches addressing issues that occur often and interfere with...

On July 2014 was published The Second Resolution of Modifications to the Mexican Fiscal Code establishing, among other regulations, that taxpayers required to keep accounting books and records must use electronic systems and accounting programs that would be able to generate the files in XML format. The mentioned provisions refer to:  Chart of Accounts Trial Balance Accounting Policies Need to meet these requirements regarding compliance and delivery of accounting information...

Posting is the main General Ledger process that updates the account balances for detail and summary accounts. As the program is submitted multiple times almost every day and the volume of data processed by this concurrent request is sometimes huge, getting a good performance for each run is crucial for having up-to-date balances available for reporting purposes at any moment.  After upgrading RDBMS to 11.2.0.4, Posting performance issues were reported due to a new optimizer...

General Ledger Reconciliation feature allows accounting users to reconcile transactions for accounts that should balance to zero, cross-referencing such transactions with each-other through reconciliation references. Either Manual or Automatic, using references from GL or Subledgers, including complete accounting code combinations or just the natural account segment value, when the balance for a group of transactions is zero the transactions are marked as reconciled.  What's...

Accounting Setup Manager is the central place where all accounting setup is defined and maintained. Collecting information related to your ledger and its configuration could be time-consuming while the ledger architecture is much more complex in Release 12 and multiple pages need to be accessed in order to gather a complete set of details.  Collect all this setup information in one diagnostic run! Find information related to:  Primary Ledger and its associated ledgers  Legal...

Audit Trails represent chronological recordings of event sequences and keep track of the users involved in specific processes, giving a clear view of all historical details for financial transactions. Details related to id's of the users creating or changing an accounting record are extremely relevant for auditing purposes.What was reported? A couple of bugs were discovered with Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) transfers with incorrect CREATED_BY id's for certain...

Intercompany transactions occur between two related legal entities or between groups in the same legal entity. In Release 12 of Oracle Applications these transactions are split into two different categories, INTERcompany and INTRAcompany. Intracompany transactions can also be generated within a ledger where there is no legal entity context. How Did This Work Before? For 'no legal entity context', only Intracompany journals could be balanced using a clearing balancing segment...

The need to report in additional currencies may occur at any time to satisfy legal, statutory or management supplementary reporting requirements. This is also a good option to be considered if you operate in countries with highly inflationary economies.In General Ledger this can be accomplished using Reporting Currencies - where the need is to simply maintain transactions in multiple currencies Secondary Ledgers - where the main purpose is to represent transactions in a...