Features and Enhancements
1-2 Oracle Applications Product Update Notes
Enhancements
The following enhancements were added between Release 11 and Release 11i.
Accounting Cutoff Rules Accounting cutoff rules determine whether an accounting transaction can be entered and
translated in/for one of the "featured" subledgers. In Greece, for example, GL, AP, or AR
transactions must be posted to GL within 15 days of their GL date and inventory journal
entries must be posted to GL within 10 days. The Global Accounting Engine complies with
these rules by checking for cutoff rule violations. Cutoff rules are automatically enforced
during transaction capture and translation.
MRC Transaction Upgrade
Utilities
This feature is currently available to Oracle Financials for Greece users only. Cutoff rules are
maintained and used in Oracle Financials for Greece.
Inventory Account Setup Provide a flexible solution that accommodates MRC implementations for new and existing
customers. If you are an existing customer, you can continue the accounting life cycle of open
business transactions when you begin to use MRC. You run the Global Accounting Engine
Upgrade Utility to initialize the subledger account balances in your reporting sets of books.
You can use the View Transactions window to view the MRC-initialized balances and
transactions.
New documentation on setting up the Global Accounting Engine for inventory accounts has
been added to the Global Accounting Engine User’s Guide.
Enhancement Description
Integrated Event Category
Assignment
Event category assignment is integrated into the Subledger Setup window, which combines
the former Setup Subledgers window with the Translator Program window. You can now set
up your default posting parameters and assign your GL categories to your event types in one
step. In an MRC environment, you can also duplicate your category assignment from your
main set of books to your reporting set of books when you complete the setup for an
application for the first time.
Transfer to GL Program The Transfer to GL program supports Daily Summary — another way to transfer translated
accounting entries from your subledger to General Ledger. If you choose Daily Summary
when you set up your Posting Manager defaults in the Subledger Setup window, the Global
Accounting Engine sums all subledger entries with the same control account, currency, and
accounting period by GL date (1 batch, 1 header per GL date) and posts the sum to General
Ledger.
Legal Sequencing Program The Legal Sequencing program assigns unique accounting sequence numbers to accounting
entries in the Global Accounting Engine, and optionally in General Ledger, once the relevant
period has been closed in General Ledger.
From the Set of Book Setup Details window, you select the set of books that you want to set
Legal Sequencing and GL Sequencing for. You select if you want to submit the Legal
Sequencing program as a concurrent request, or if you want to automatically submit the
program when you close a General Ledger period. From this window, you also indicate if you
want the Global Accounting Engine to sequence both Global Accounting Engine and General
Ledger accounting entries.
Feature Description