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		<title>R12 &#8211; Advanced Collections &#8211; IEX</title>
		<link>http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/functional/advanced-collections/r12-advanced-collections-iex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IEX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upgrade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back to R12 – Upgrade Overview
In R12 &#8211; Oracle have removed all collections functionality from AR and thereby forced an upgrade to IEX hence this article will cover both existing and new IEX functionality.
First lesson is – it is difficult to mimic the 11i functionality of staged dunning using current R12.1.1 functionality however it looks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to <a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/functional/r12-upgrade/">R12 – Upgrade Overview</a></p>
<p>In R12 &#8211; Oracle have removed all collections functionality from AR and thereby forced an upgrade to IEX hence this article will cover both existing and new IEX functionality.</p>
<p>First lesson is – it is difficult to mimic the 11i functionality of staged dunning using current R12.1.1 functionality however it looks like a staged dunning functionality will be introduced in R12.1.3. Now you know.</p>
<p>The article will however not provide a full overview of IEX but only explain the basics to get you started with IEX after moving to R12. Beyond that &#8211; dig into the manual.</p>
<p>A small warning – with R12 UI is now all over the place:</p>
<ul>
<li>Implementation and super user: Mixed old forms, CRM screens and OAF </li>
<li>User: Forms and CRM screens. CRM screens are made with forms but have a different look and feel</li>
</ul>
<p>So be sure to plan for loads of user training and testing in addition to the implementation effort.</p>
<p>This article is WIP! Will also add screen dumps soon.</p>
<h3>Overview:</h3>
<ul>
<li>New Concepts (Levels, Scoring, Strategies and Dunning Plans) </li>
<li>Collectors Management (HR and Sales integration) </li>
<li>Collectors Assignment (Territory Management Integration) </li>
<li>Collectors Work Queue (Universal Work Queue – UWQ) </li>
<li>Collections Window (eBusiness Center) </li>
<li>Aging (AR Integration) </li>
<li>Activities (Payments,Promise to Pay,Disputes) </li>
</ul>
<h3>New Concepts (Levels, Scoring, Status, Strategies and Dunning Plans)</h3>
<h4>Levels</h4>
<p>Level defines the operational data level for collections. So the decision of delinquency will be made on this level. So if your level is account on customer could have one account being marked as delinquent and one being non-delinquent. Also correspondence will be made at this level including details of transactions. </p>
<p>So if you use delinquency level then if a customer has two concurrent delinquencies this customer will receive two separate dunning letters even if overdue on the same day.</p>
<p>In 11i delinquency management was normally conducted at account level thanks to the Account Details screen in the old collections workbench.</p>
<p>The following operational data levels can be chosen:</p>
<ul>
<li>Customer: Party/customer level </li>
<li>Account: Account level </li>
<li>Bill To: Bill To level </li>
<li>Delinquency: Transaction level </li>
</ul>
<p>The operational data level is set when you setup IEX using the Collections Questionnaire.</p>
<h4>Scoring</h4>
<p>Scoring is a new concept of rating a delinquency based on various factors. The scoring is done by the scoring engine which is run from the concurrent program:</p>
<p><em>IEX: Scoring Engine Harness</em></p>
<p>The scoring engine use scoring components for generating score amounts. Each score amount is mapped to a score value.</p>
<p>Typical score components could be:</p>
<ul>
<li>Amount due </li>
<li>Days overdue </li>
<li>Time as customer </li>
<li>Number of delinquent transactions </li>
<li>Annual sales amount </li>
</ul>
<p>The score engine values are normally within 0 to 100 and when using multiple scoring components these values will be summarised. The score values can be used with weighting if enabled.</p>
<p>For example if you have a score component returning the amount outstanding you would map this to a score value:</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="99"><strong>From</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="101"><strong>To</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="97"><strong>Score Value</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="98">-999999999</td>
<td valign="top" width="102">100</td>
<td valign="top" width="97">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="98">100.01</td>
<td valign="top" width="103">10000</td>
<td valign="top" width="97">10</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="98">10000.01</td>
<td valign="top" width="104">999999999</td>
<td valign="top" width="97">20</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>So if you a score component yielding amount due 5000 the score value would be 10 which would be added to any other score value.</p>
<p>The score component must always return a number within the range –999999999 to 999999999 and use 2 decimals precision.</p>
<p>The score component uses either an SQL select statement or a PL/SQL function. Using PL/SQL function enables you to use parameters. The SQL statement is easier to maintain especially if used with the custom database view.</p>
<h4>Status</h4>
<p>Status indicates if there is a delinquency for the current score value.</p>
<p>The status is determined by mapping score values to statuses.</p>
<p>Status is one of:</p>
<ul>
<li>Current </li>
<li>Pre-Delinquent </li>
<li>Delinquent </li>
</ul>
<p>So using the example above we could do the following mapping of score values:</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="99"><strong>From</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="101"><strong>To</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="112"><strong>Score Value</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="98">0</td>
<td valign="top" width="102">9.99</td>
<td valign="top" width="112">Current</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="98">10</td>
<td valign="top" width="103">19.99</td>
<td valign="top" width="112">Pre-delinquent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="98">20</td>
<td valign="top" width="104">100</td>
<td valign="top" width="112">Delinquent</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Status is updated when a scoring engine run as long as “Used to determine status” check box is set and “concurrent program” is set to:</p>
<p><em>IEX: Delinquencies Management</em></p>
<h4>Strategies</h4>
<p>A strategy is similar to a 11i dunning set but with the difference that a strategy is based on score values and the outcome is a work item which can be one of:</p>
<ul>
<li>Manual: phone call or review. This is visible as a task in the collectors work queue </li>
<li>Automatic: sending of email, fax or letter </li>
<li>Workflow: automated customised task </li>
</ul>
<p>The score values is generated by a score engine for strategies defined in similar way as the score engine for delinquency status determination.</p>
<p>The score value is mapped to a strategy:</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="99"><strong>From</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="101"><strong>To</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="112"><strong>Score Value</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="98">0</td>
<td valign="top" width="102">49.99</td>
<td valign="top" width="112">Soft Strategy</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="98">50</td>
<td valign="top" width="103">100</td>
<td valign="top" width="112">Hard Strategy</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The strategy will then map to a number of work items.</p>
<h4>Dunning Plans</h4>
<p>Dunning plans is a simplified version of strategies with the following limitations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Delinquency scoring engine and dunning plan scoring engine must to be the same </li>
<li>AR Aging Buckets are used for days overdue determination </li>
<li>Only one aging bucket can be used per dunning plan </li>
<li>The Aging Bucket Line is mapped to a score value range </li>
<li>Each mapped Aging Bucket Line yield a correspondence and optionally a call </li>
<li>Not all aging bucket lines has to be mapped to an activity </li>
</ul>
<p>This means the score values has to accommodate both delinquency status determination and aging bucket line determination.</p>
<p>Also it is not possible to have non-correspondence based activities without doing workarounds.</p>
<h3>Collectors Management (HRMS and CRM integration)</h3>
<p>In 11i you just needed to have a normal apps user and a collections use &#8211; now in R12 it has become a bit more complicated.</p>
<p>Now you also need to do the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Create HRMS Employee and assignment </li>
<li>Assign the HRMS Employee to your apps user </li>
<li>Create CRM resource by importing the employee into CRM </li>
<li>Assign the apps user to the CRM resource </li>
<li>Assign collections roles and group to the CRM resource </li>
</ul>
<p>For migrating from 11i to R12 you can create a resource for each collector defined in AR:</p>
<p><em>IEX: AR Collectors to Resource Collectors </em></p>
<p>That should help a little bit…</p>
<h3>Collectors Assignment (Territory Management Integration)</h3>
<p>WIP</p>
<p>In order to assign</p>
<p>IEX: Territory Assignment</p>
<h3>Collectors Work Queue (Universal Work Queue – UWQ)</h3>
<p>The collectors works queue is essentially the Universal Work Queue used by the CRM modules.</p>
<p>Strategy manual work items and dunning plan calls will show up i the collectors work queue.</p>
<p>The collectors work queue can be customised using EIU based profile options.</p>
<h3>Collections Window (eBusiness Center)</h3>
<p>The collections window is essentially the CRM eBusiness Center.</p>
<p>This window shows the customer and on the tabs it shows transactions, aging, correspondence and strategies if used.</p>
<h3>Activities</h3>
<p>In the Collections Window you can do the following activities:</p>
<ul>
<li>Take Payments </li>
<li>Take promise to pay </li>
<li>Create disputes </li>
<li>Send correspondence </li>
</ul>
<h4>Payments</h4>
<p>The following payments can be accepted in R12:</p>
<ul>
<li>Credit Card </li>
<li>Bank Transfer (direct debit) </li>
</ul>
<p>So no debit card payments.</p>
<p>Also bank transfer requires in most countries a signed agreement at beforehand so this really narrow it down to credit card payment only.</p>
<p>The credit card payment method must be setup in <a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/functional/payments/r12-payments-upgrade/">Payments – IBY</a>.</p>
<h4>Promise to Pay</h4>
<p>This is more to record the intention to pay.</p>
<p>The promise to pay will create an event in the UWQ then you run the following concurrent program:</p>
<p><em>IEX: Promise Reconciliation</em></p>
<h4>Correspondence</h4>
<p>WIP</p>
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		<title>R12.1 &#8211; Installation</title>
		<link>http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/technical/installation/installing-r12-1/</link>
		<comments>http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/technical/installation/installing-r12-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Enterprise Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R12.1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well having installed and worked with R12.0.4&#160; it very fast becomes clear that a new version is needed.
So I downloaded R12.1.1 from Oracle eDelivery. 40 files in excess of 45Gb to the joy of my ISP. 
NOTE until 20/11-2009 there was a corrupt file on eDelivery and it took me a while to convince Oracle [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well having installed and worked with R12.0.4&#160; it very fast becomes clear that a new version is needed.</p>
<p>So I downloaded R12.1.1 from Oracle eDelivery. 40 files in excess of 45Gb to the joy of my ISP. </p>
<p>NOTE until 20/11-2009 there was a corrupt file on eDelivery and it took me a while to convince Oracle that it was the case.</p>
<p>The sick file was: V15571-01_2of3.zip</p>
<p>However the file has been fixed after the above date but be sure to test your downloaded files anyway using <a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/technical/ziptest/">ziptest</a>.</p>
<p>Otherwise follow the procedure for <a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/technical/e-business-suite-1204-installation-draft/">R12 Installation</a>.</p>
<p>Some of the initial rapidwiz screen has changed though.</p>
<p>The Welcome screen is saying 12.1.1 – great:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screenshot1.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Screenshot-1" border="0" alt="Screenshot-1" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screenshot1_thumb.png" width="644" height="438" /></a> </p>
<p>Select express install:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screenshot2.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Screenshot-2" border="0" alt="Screenshot-2" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screenshot2_thumb.png" width="644" height="431" /></a> </p>
<p>Just click next on this one:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screenshot3.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Screenshot-3" border="0" alt="Screenshot-3" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screenshot3_thumb.png" width="644" height="430" /></a> </p>
<p>Update base directory:</p>
</p>
</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screenshot4.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="Screenshot-4" border="0" alt="Screenshot-4" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Screenshot4_thumb.png" width="644" height="434" /></a>&#160;</p>
<p>Before logging in you should compile the jsp pages – see how to <strong><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/technical/r12-managing/">Compile JSP</a></strong>.</p>
<p>And then it is business as usual like in R12.0.4</p>
<p>Also in you environment script – the one I call vis.sh change this:</p>
<p>from:    <br />TECHENV=/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/10.2.0/$CONTEXT_NAME.env     <br />to:     <br />TECHENV=/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0/$CONTEXT_NAME.env</p>
<p>Have fun…</p>
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		<title>Ziptest</title>
		<link>http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/technical/ziptest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Enterprise Linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WIN]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a couple of useful scripts to test downloaded files.
This approach is recommended when downloading huge amounts of data like when downloading Oracle R12 installations files.
In addition to testing the downloaded files also be sure to use a download manager.
The basic zip test command is:
$ unzip –t –qq {zipfile}
I made a Linux script for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a couple of useful scripts to test downloaded files.</p>
<p>This approach is recommended when downloading huge amounts of data like when downloading Oracle R12 installations files.</p>
<p>In addition to testing the downloaded files also be sure to use a download manager.</p>
<p>The basic zip test command is:</p>
<p>$ unzip –t –qq {zipfile}</p>
<p>I made a Linux script for it named ziptest.sh:</p>
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<td valign="top" width="400"><font size="2" face="Courier New">#!/bin/bash            <br /># ziptest.sh             <br />SOURCE=/util/install/R12.1.1-32             <br />if [ -z &quot;$1&quot; ]             <br />then             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; name=&quot;*.zip&quot;             <br />else             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; name=&quot;$1.zip&quot;             <br />fi             <br />for zipfile in $SOURCE/$name             <br />do             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; unzip -t -qq $zipfile             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; if [ $? -eq 0 ]             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; then             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; echo -n &quot;.&quot;             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; else             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; echo &quot; &quot;             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; fi             <br />done             <br />echo &quot; &quot;</font></td>
</tr>
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<p>A similar script can be made for Windows names ziptest.cmd:</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="400"><font size="2" face="Courier New">@echo off            <br />rem ziptest.cmd {zipfilename}             <br />set zipdir=..\R12.1.1-32             <br />rem do all zip files unless arg received             <br />set zipfile=*.zip             <br />if [%1]==[] goto doit             <br />&#160;&#160; set zipfile=%1.zip             <br />:doit             <br />&#160;&#160; set target=%zipdir%\%zipfile%             <br />&#160;&#160; for %%a in ( %target% ) do call ziptest_call %%a</font></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>As command line programming in windows isn’t great we need to call a subprogram names ziptest_call:</p>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="400"><font size="2" face="Courier New">@echo off            <br />rem ziptest_call.cmd {zipfile}             <br />if [%1]==[] goto noarg             <br />if not exist %1 goto nofile             <br />:main             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; unzip –t –qq %1             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; if errorlevel 1 goto badfile             <br />goto xit             <br />:noarg             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; echo ARG missing – use only with ziptest.cmd             <br />goto xit             <br />:nofile             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; echo FILE %1 does not exist             <br />goto xit             <br />:badfile             <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; echo %1 BAD             <br />goto xit             <br />:xit</font></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>That should be it.</p>
<p>Be sure to update directory references for your own purpose.</p>
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		<title>R12 &#8211; General Ledger &#8211; GL</title>
		<link>http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/functional/generalledger/r12-general-ledger-gl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Ledger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upgrade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back to R12 – Upgrade Overview
Overview
In GL there has been a number of changes:

Terminology Changes

Set of Books (SOB) is now Ledgers 
Multiple Reporting Currencies (MRC) is now Reporting Currencies 
Global Intercompany System (GIS) is now Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) 


Obsolete

Global Accounting Engine (AX) replaced by Subledger Accounting 
MRC as a workaround – now fully [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to <a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/functional/r12-upgrade/">R12 – Upgrade Overview</a></p>
<h3>Overview</h3>
<p>In GL there has been a number of changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Terminology Changes
<ul>
<li>Set of Books (SOB) is now Ledgers </li>
<li>Multiple Reporting Currencies (MRC) is now Reporting Currencies </li>
<li>Global Intercompany System (GIS) is now Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Obsolete
<ul>
<li>Global Accounting Engine (AX) replaced by <a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/functional/subledger-accounting/r12-subledger-accounting/">Subledger Accounting</a> </li>
<li>MRC as a workaround – now fully integrated as Reporting Currencies </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Accounting Setup manager – New central management of legal entities and legers </li>
<li>Legal Entities – now really used </li>
<li>Ledgers – new name and setup for SOBs </li>
<li>Ledger sets – ledger grouping and security feature </li>
<li>Reporting Currencies – MRC has now been cleaned up and is better integrated</li>
<li>Period rates – now all daily rates and managed in same way</li>
<li>Revaluation and Translation – changed functionality </li>
<li>Journal Reconciliation </li>
<li>Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) – changed functionality </li>
</ul>
<h3>Accounting Setup Manager</h3>
<p>The new Accounting Setup Manager simplifies and centralizes accounting-related setup for common financial components that are shared across financial applications. From a central location, you can define your legal entities and their accounting context, such as the ledgers and reporting currencies that perform the accounting for your legal entities.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image25.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb25.png" width="644" height="470" /></a> </p>
<p>The setup steps are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Legal Entity </li>
<li>Primary Ledger </li>
<li>Reporting Currencies </li>
<li>Balancing Segment Value Assignments </li>
<li>Subledger Accounting Options </li>
<li>Operating Units </li>
<li>Intercompany Accounts </li>
<li>Intercompany Balancing Rules </li>
<li>Sequencing </li>
<li>Secondary Ledgers </li>
</ul>
<p>Each of the setup steps is a number of sub screens where some are described later.</p>
<h3>Legal Entities</h3>
<p>Legal Entities part of Accounting Setup Manager now holds important information for both tax and VAT reporting.</p>
<h4>General</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image29.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb29.png" width="644" height="367" /></a> </p>
<h4>Registrations</h4>
<h4></h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image30.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb30.png" width="644" height="367" /></a> </p>
<p>This is where you would put in information for the Corporations Office</p>
<h4>Establishments</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image31.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb31.png" width="644" height="354" /></a> </p>
<p>List of all locations</p>
<h4>Balancing Segments</h4>
<p>This is a new important feature that the balancing segment now relates to the legal entity.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image32.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb32.png" width="644" height="354" /></a> </p>
<h3>Primary Ledger</h3>
<p>Ledgers are mostly the same as the old Set Of Books however the setup screens has changed a bit.</p>
<h4>Definition</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image26.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb26.png" width="644" height="469" /></a> </p>
<p>Nothing really new here except for the OFA screen.</p>
<h4>Options</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image27.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb27.png" width="644" height="469" /></a> </p>
<p>Similar to the old screens in a new wrapping.</p>
<p>Advanced Options</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image28.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb28.png" width="644" height="327" /></a> </p>
<p>Again similar to old days except for the new Journal Reconciliation option.</p>
<h3>Ledger Sets and Data Access Sets</h3>
<p>The <strong>Ledger Set</strong> is a great new feature which lets you manage multiple ledgers as one – a especially useful feature for faster closing. However the ledgers must share the following information:</p>
<ul>
<li>Chart of accounts </li>
<li>Calendar/period type combination </li>
</ul>
<p>You can open/close periods for multiple ledgers at once, run recurring journals that update balances for multiple ledgers. So it goes way beyond report sets or cross COA FSG reports.</p>
<h4>Ledger Set</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image33.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb33.png" width="644" height="331" /></a> </p>
<p>Strange though – this is a non-OFA screen…having thought that all new features was pushed to OFA.</p>
<p>Similar to the Ledger Set the <strong>Data Access Set</strong> provides security at same level so ledgers must still share the following information:</p>
<ul>
<li>Chart of accounts </li>
<li>Calendar/period type combination </li>
</ul>
<p>The security can be at the following levels:</p>
<ul>
<li>Full Ledger – access to the whole COA </li>
<li>Balancing Segment Value – access to specific balancing segment values </li>
<li>Management Segment Value – access to specific management segment values </li>
</ul>
<p>Note the Management Segment is a new segment qualifier. If you what your cost centre to be secured and used in Data Access sets enable the Cost Centre segment as a Management Segment. Remember if your COA has been used there is a specific procedure for doing this to avoid corruption.</p>
<h4>Data Access Set</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image34.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb34.png" width="644" height="374" /></a> </p>
<p>The system always generate a Data Access Set with same name and full access for each:</p>
<ul>
<li>Primary Ledger </li>
<li>Secondary ledger </li>
<li>Ledger Set </li>
<li>Reporting Currency (also creates a Reporting Currency + Source Ledger Data Access Set) </li>
</ul>
<p>Data Access Set security can be combined with Segment Value Security Rules and will work as a logical AND so only where the two overlaps access will be allowed.</p>
<h3>Reporting Currencies</h3>
<p>The reporting currency definition is now comprised from the R11i options for reporting sets of books and the MRC profile options.</p>
<h3>Period Rates</h3>
<p>Period Rates Replaced by Daily Rates and all new OAF screens.</p>
<h4>Currency Rates Manager:</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/image_thumb.png" width="644" height="367" /></a> </p>
<h3>Revaluation and Translation</h3>
<p>Revaluation sets are now usable across ledgers that share a common chart of accounts. In some cases, you may need to enter the secondary tracking segment for revaluation sets involving a secondary tracking segment before running revaluations with upgraded templates.</p>
<p>General Ledger modifies revaluation templates to use corresponding daily rates for those that used period rates prior to the upgrade.</p>
<h3>Journal Reconciliation </h3>
<p>Journals can now be reconciled if an account has been marked as such.</p>
<p>The is a useful feature for clearing accounts or tax accounts which should balance to zero.</p>
<h4>Account Setup</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image38.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb38.png" width="644" height="430" /></a> </p>
<p>Note this is a cash clearing account which is a good candidate for journal reconciliation.</p>
<p>So in this case you would enable the segment qualifier “Reconcile” to “Yes”.</p>
<h4>Journal Entry</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image35.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb35.png" width="644" height="389" /></a> </p>
<p>Note the new “Reconciliation Reference” field. This is used both for automatic and manual reconciliation.</p>
<h4>Unreconciled Lines</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image36.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb36.png" width="644" height="444" /></a> </p>
<p>Search for unreconciled journal lines using the parameters above.</p>
<h4>Reconcile Journal</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image37.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb37.png" width="644" height="349" /></a> </p>
<p>No journals to reconcile here &#8211; but you see the point?</p>
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		<title>R12 &#8211; Receivables &#8211; AR</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Receivables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upgrade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back to R12 – Upgrade Overview
AR are now fully support new modules like E-Business Tax and Subledger Accounting.
Overview:

Integration with E-Business Tax 
Integration with Subledger Accounting 
Centralized Banks and Bank Accounts Definitions 
Integration with Payments for Funds Capture 
Balance Forward Billing 
Late Charges Enhancements 
Customer UI Redesign 
Process Changes 

Integration with E-Business Tax

Release 12 introduces Oracle [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back to <a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/functional/r12-upgrade/">R12 – Upgrade Overview</a></p>
<p>AR are now fully support new modules like E-Business Tax and Subledger Accounting.</p>
<h3>Overview:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Integration with E-Business Tax </li>
<li>Integration with Subledger Accounting </li>
<li>Centralized Banks and Bank Accounts Definitions </li>
<li>Integration with Payments for Funds Capture </li>
<li>Balance Forward Billing </li>
<li>Late Charges Enhancements </li>
<li>Customer UI Redesign </li>
<li>Process Changes </li>
</ul>
<h3>Integration with E-Business Tax</h3>
<ul>
<p>Release 12 introduces Oracle E-Business Tax to manage tax across the E-Business Suite. During the upgrade, system and customer options used to control tax calculation and tax code defaulting are migrated from Oracle Receivables into Oracle E-Business Tax entities. See E-Business Tax in this appendix for further details.</p>
</ul>
<h3>Integration with Subledger Accounting</h3>
<ul>
<p>Release 12 introduces Subledger Accounting for managing accounting across subledger transactions. Receivables no longer creates any accounting entries. Existing Receivables accounting options and setups remain and affect the generation of accounting distributions in the Receivables data model. However, the accounting distributions are now simply one of many sources for generation of final accounting in the Subledger Accounting module.</p>
</ul>
<h3>Centralized Banks and Bank Accounts Definitions</h3>
<ul>
<p>In Release 12, all internal banks and bank accounts you had defined for your operations are automatically migrated to the central Cash Management entities. Remittance bank accounts are owned by a legal entity rather than by an operating unit.</p>
</ul>
<h3>Integration with Payments for Funds Capture</h3>
<ul>
<p>Release 12 introduces Oracle Payments, which is used by Oracle Receivables for processing funds capture. See Payments in this appendix for further details.</p>
</ul>
<h3>Balance Forward Billing</h3>
<ul>
<p>Release 12 enhances the Release 11i Consolidated Billing Invoices functionality to include more flexible billing cycles, to consolidate invoices at site or account level, and to present Balance Forward Bills using the user-configurable Bill Presentment Architecture.</p>
</ul>
<h3>Late Charges Enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<p>Release 12 enhances the Receivables Late Charges feature to incorporate the Global Interest Invoice setups, charge calculation logic, and charge generation processes. Charges for delinquent payments can now be generated as adjustments, debit memos, or interest invoices. The Interest Invoice Global Descriptive Flexfield is obsolete.</p>
</ul>
<h3>Customer UI Redesign</h3>
<ul>
<p>Release 12 introduces a new HTML user interface for entering and maintaining customer data. See the Oracle Receivables User Guide for further details.</p>
</ul>
<h3>Process Changes</h3>
<ul>
<p>The following features are obsolete in Release 12:</p>
<p>Collections Workbench – The Oracle Advanced Collections module delivers similar functionality. See the Collections Migration white paper and the Oracle Advanced Collections User Guide for further details.</p>
<p>Trade Accounting – Similar functionality is delivered by integration with the Oracle Trade Management module. Trade Management integration is available in Release 11i.</p>
<p>Bill of Exchange – This functionality has been replaced with the Bills Receivable feature. Bills Receivables is available in Release 11i.</p>
</ul>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-Business Suite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer 8]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Install Java JRE 1.5.0.13 as usual as the download from the Apps server to IE8 would not work – and just install the version required by default so you might need a different version
Then add your Apps server to IE8 security settings:
 
Lower the security setting to medium-low for Trusted Sites:
 

Allow pop-ups from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First Install Java JRE 1.5.0.13 as usual as the download from the Apps server to IE8 would not work – and just install the version required by default so you might need a different version</p>
<p>Then add your Apps server to IE8 security settings:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image33.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb36.png" width="393" height="346" /></a> </p>
<p>Lower the security setting to medium-low for Trusted Sites:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image34.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb37.png" width="393" height="503" /></a> </p>
</p>
<p>Allow pop-ups from the Apps server:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image35.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb38.png" width="394" height="428" /></a> </p>
<p>When you start the application for the first time you may get one or more warnings like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image36.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb39.png" width="398" height="201" /></a> </p>
<p>Just keep clicking run and it should work.</p>
<p>Note IE8 is not yet supported by Oracle.</p>
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		<title>R12 &#8211; E-Business Tax &#8211; ZX</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-Business Tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-Business Tax]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle E-Business Tax covers “standard” procure to pay and order to cash transaction taxes, with the exception of withholding taxes and those taxes handled by the Latin Tax Engine solution.
In general the limited per module 11i setup has been changed to become a proper self-contained tax engine. With that however comes complexity to the extent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oracle E-Business Tax covers “standard” procure to pay and order to cash transaction taxes, with the exception of withholding taxes and those taxes handled by the Latin Tax Engine solution.</p>
<p>In general the limited per module 11i setup has been changed to become a proper self-contained tax engine. With that however comes complexity to the extent that E-Business Tax almost can be regarded as a module in itself.</p>
<p>Hopefully some best practices can be applied here so over time we will have a good template of standard solutions depending on type of business and geographical region.</p>
<p>E-Business tax fully use the TCA and legal entity data model so all involved parties in tax reporting must be defined in TCA – like HM Revenue and Customs – and your reporting business unit must be defined as a legal entity too.</p>
<p>E-Business Tax also introduces many new concepts like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Tax Authority: organisation responsible for collecting taxes </li>
<li>First Party Legal Entity: your organisations that have taxable transactions </li>
<li>First Party Legal Establishment: your organisation having tax registration in order to report and settle taxes </li>
<li>Tax Regime: Name of an area of tax like VAT in the UK </li>
<li>Tax Zone: Grouping of Tax Regimes </li>
<li>Tax Jurisdiction: The geographical boundary of a tax related to a tax regime </li>
<li>Tax: Defines name of a tax within a Tax Regime – like VAT </li>
<li>Tax Status: Level of taxes within a tax regime – like Standard, Reduced, Exempt and Zero </li>
<li>Tax Recovery Rate: Rate of a recoverable tax – like Full (100%) and None (0%) </li>
<li>Tax Rate: Rate of tax applied to an transaction – like Standard would have 14%, 17.5% and 15% depending on date </li>
<li>Tax Rule: Rule which is applied to a transaction to provide for the tax calculation for:
<ul>
<li>Determine Place of Supply: Determine the location for transaction </li>
<li>Determine Tax Applicability: Determine what taxes apply to a transaction </li>
<li>Determine Tax Registration: Determine tax registration number for the transaction </li>
<li>Determine Tax Status: Determine the level of tax applicable </li>
<li>Determine Tax Rate: Determine the rate based on the tax level </li>
<li>Determine Taxable Basis: Determine the amount taxable </li>
<li>Calculate Tax Amounts: Determine the tax amount </li>
<li>Determine Recovery Rate: Determine the recovery rate </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>So quite an expansion of the 11i definitions in one form having a single line of tax code and tax rate…</p>
<p>Anyway before doing a major setup exercise have a read of the note: in <b><a href="http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&amp;p_id=463001.1">Note 463001.1</a></b> &#8211; which may save you the setup for Europe.</p>
<h3>An example of UK VAT to follow:</h3>
<p>The section below is only tested on Vision – which is not a live system.</p>
<h3>Tax Regimes</h3>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image13.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb15.png" width="675" height="409" /></a></p>
<h4>Controls and Defaults</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image26.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb28.png" width="676" height="371" /></a></p>
<h4>Associations</h4>
<p>All first party legal entities and operating units must be associated with the tax regime they are subject to.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image27.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb29.png" width="681" height="374" /></a></p>
<h3>Party Tax Profiles</h3>
<h4>Tax Authority</h4>
<p>This is the organisation to whom you must report and settle taxes.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image15.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb17.png" width="679" height="305" /></a></p>
<h4>First Party Legal Entity</h4>
<p>This is a organisation that creates taxable transactions.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image16.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb18.png" width="673" height="408" /></a></p>
<h4>- Configuration Options</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image17.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb19.png" width="674" height="409" /></a></p>
<h4>First Party Legal Establishment</h4>
<p>This defines your organisation that reports and settles tax with the tax authority hence here you define you tax registration details.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image18.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb20.png" width="685" height="333" /></a></p>
<h4>- Tax Registration</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image19.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb21.png" width="671" height="415" /></a></p>
<h3>Taxes</h3>
<p>This is the name of the tax and how it is handled.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image20.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb22.png" width="674" height="409" /></a></p>
<h4>Controls and Defaults</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image21.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb23.png" width="672" height="408" /></a></p>
<h3>Tax Statuses</h3>
<p>These are names of tax levels so in the UK the STANDARD VAT is for all basic goods and services but a REDUCED rate is paid for fuel and power and ZERO would be paid for food and books. Do not put the actual rate in the name is you would in 11i as this will be defined in the Tax Rates section.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image22.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb24.png" width="677" height="411" /></a></p>
<h3>Tax Jurisdictions</h3>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image23.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb25.png" width="675" height="410" /></a></p>
<h3>Tax Recovery Rate</h3>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image24.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb26.png" width="672" height="408" /></a></p>
<h3>Tax Rate</h3>
<p>This is rate of a tax status like STANDARD VAT would have been 14%, 17.5% and 15% over time.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image25.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb27.png" width="670" height="406" /></a></p>
<h3>Country Defaults</h3>
<p>Setup the default tax configuration for a country.</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image28.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb30.png" width="673" height="419" /></a></p>
<h2>Tax Simulator</h2>
<p>Use this screen to simulate the tax setup without entering real transaction. This is very useful when changing the configuration on a live system.</p>
<p>Be sure to assign the “Oracle Tax Simulator” responsibility to the user and use this rather than using the menu on the home page of “Tax Administrator” – otherwise you will get this error:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image31.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb34.png" width="414" height="89" /></a></p>
<p>So from the “Oracle Tax Simulator” responsibility use:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image32.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb35.png" width="412" height="337" /></a></p>
<p>And you will see this:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image29.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb32.png" width="680" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>When clicking \Tools\View Tax Log:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image37.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb40.png" width="92" height="57" /></a></p>
<p>A concurrent job will be submitted. You may be get this error:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image38.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb41.png" width="372" height="122" /></a></p>
<p>However this is not any issue – just wait a bit and retry or just monitor the request in \View\Requests:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image30.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb33.png" width="682" height="145" /></a></p>
<p>This report will show how the tax was calculated.</p>
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		<title>R12 &#8211; Subledger Accounting &#8211; XLA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Subledger Accounting]]></category>
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Subledger Accounting is a new application that provides an accounting abstraction layer for subledgers &#8211; between subledger accounting events and GL journal entries. 
This functionality was in 11i placed in each of the subledgers implemented in different way resulting in different reconciliation processes for each of the subledgers.
Subledger Accounting also [...]]]></description>
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<p>Subledger Accounting is a new application that provides an accounting abstraction layer for subledgers &#8211; between subledger accounting events and GL journal entries. </p>
<p>This functionality was in 11i placed in each of the subledgers implemented in different way resulting in different reconciliation processes for each of the subledgers.</p>
<p>Subledger Accounting also replaces the Global Accounting Engine (AX) which essentially in 11i was a add-on or workaround that bypassed the subledger accounting entries to provide a better audit trail and catered for special localization requirements for countries like Italy and Spain. </p>
<p>However the AX was only supported for some countries so in a global implementation you would have different reconciliation processes for the same application depending on the country was using AX or not.</p>
<p><strong>Global Accounting Engine module is therefore obsolete in R12.</strong></p>
<p>Subledger Accounting is now supported for all countries for the following modules:</p>
<ul>
<li>Assets&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Cash Management&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Contract Commitment&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Cost Management&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Federal Financials&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Financials Common Modules&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Loans&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Payables&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Payroll&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Process Manufacturing Financials </li>
<li>Projects&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Property Manager&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Purchasing&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Receivables&#160;&#160; </li>
<li>Trade Management </li>
</ul>
<p>Subledger Accounting streamlines the accounting and reconciliation process between any of the above subledgers and the GL.</p>
<p>Each of the subledgers interface to Subledger Accounting sending the accounting events and amounts and then Subledger Accounting translates this into accounting entries for GL based on accounting rules.</p>
<h3>Subledger Reporting and Reconciliation</h3>
<p>WIP</p>
<h3>Accounting Method Builder (AMB)</h3>
<p>WIP</p>
<h3>Accounting Setup</h3>
<p>Subledger Accounting setup screen are located as a sub-application General Ledger:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image5.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb5.png" width="351" height="282" /></a> </p>
<p>This will give you access to the Accounting Setup form:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image6.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb6.png" width="644" height="309" /></a> </p>
<p>As Subledger Accounting setup is always done in the context of the ledger you must first search for this.</p>
<p>Click “Update Accounting Options” and you will get the following form:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image7.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb7.png" width="644" height="375" /></a> </p>
<p>For “Subledger Accounting Options” click “Update”:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image8.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb8.png" width="644" height="375" /></a> </p>
<p>This provides you with a list of currently supported subledgers for which you can update either the Accounting Options or the System Options.</p>
<h4>System Options:</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image4.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb4.png" width="644" height="307" /></a> </p>
<p>This is most a technical tuning page and has no functional impact.</p>
<p>From the user guide:</p>
<p><em>You can define the processing unit size at the event class level to process a large      <br />number of items in one commit cycle. A processing unit is the number of       <br />transactions processed by the Create Accounting program in one commit cycle. The       <br />Create Accounting program processes the default processing unit size at the       <br />application level.</em></p>
<h4>Accounting Options:</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image2.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb2.png" width="644" height="307" /></a> </p>
<p>These options used to be in each individual application but are now moved to a common screen. Great!</p>
<p>A nice new feature is “Stop at Error Limit” – especially handy when designing a new chart of accounts.</p>
<p>Scroll down and you get:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image3.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb3.png" width="644" height="309" /></a> </p>
<p>The Journal Category – used to be specified in the subledger as well now much more ordered and can be customized for any application and any event.</p>
<h3>Technical</h3>
<p>Had a look at the tables in SQL Developer. It looks to me that Subledger Accounting has borrowed the AP concept of the AP_AE_… tables – now in XLA called XLA_AE_… tables.</p>
<p>Main tables are:</p>
<ul>
<li>XLA_AE_HEADERS – containing information about source application and accounting event</li>
<li>XLA_AE_LINES – containing multiple lines of information for each of the above events regarding the financial side of the transaction like DR/CR and CCID</li>
</ul>
<p>The new tables is also now segmented by LEDGER_ID rather than by ORG_ID as it was in 11i. This completely ties in with the new R12 architecture and is a great improvement.</p>
<p>XLA_AE_HEADERS example:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb.png" width="291" height="366" /></a></p>
<p>The XLA_AE_HEADERS relates to XLA_EVENT_TYPES:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image1.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb1.png" width="295" height="371" /></a> </p>
<p>So the entity id in XLA_AE_HEADERS is for AP_INVOICES validation event.</p>
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		<title>R12 &#8211; Payments &#8211; IBY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Payments]]></category>
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This is a completely new module to provide a central payment capture and disbursement facility.
Overview

New Concepts: Payment Processing Profile, Payment Request and Payment Instruction 
Payment disbursement functionality for Payables 
Credit card functionality for Advanced Collections and Receivables 
Bank account transfer functionality for Cash Management 
Secure storage and encryption of payment [...]]]></description>
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<p>This is a completely new module to provide a central payment capture and disbursement facility.</p>
<h3>Overview</h3>
<ul>
<li>New Concepts: Payment Processing Profile, Payment Request and Payment Instruction </li>
<li>Payment disbursement functionality for Payables </li>
<li>Credit card functionality for Advanced Collections and Receivables </li>
<li>Bank account transfer functionality for Cash Management </li>
<li>Secure storage and encryption of payment data including credit cards </li>
<li>Payment document formatting uses XML Publisher </li>
<li>Electronic transfer functionality built-in </li>
<li>Obsoletes iPayments </li>
</ul>
<h3>New Concepts</h3>
<p>A number of new concepts has been introduced but the main ones are:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Payment Process Profile</strong> – governs how a payments for documents payable having a specific payment method is processed </li>
<li><strong>Payment Request</strong> – one or more documents payable in a subledger requested to be paid </li>
<li><strong>Payment Instruction</strong> – payments for one or more documents payable having same Payment Process Profile ready to be printed or transferred to a bank </li>
</ul>
<p>In 11i &#8211; Payables would make all payments however in R12 this task is now split between the subledger and Payments:</p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="585">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="245"><strong>11i</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="338"><strong>R12</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="245">Payables: Select Document Payable</td>
<td valign="top" width="338">Payables: Select Document Payable</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="245">&#160;</td>
<td valign="top" width="338">Payables: Create Payment Request and Validate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="245">Payables: Build/Modify Payments</td>
<td valign="top" width="338">Payments: Create/Modify Payments</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="245">&#160;</td>
<td valign="top" width="338">Payments: Create Payment Instructions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="245">Payables: Format Payments</td>
<td valign="top" width="338">Payments: Extract or Format Payment Document</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="245">Payables: Print</td>
<td valign="top" width="338">Payments: Transmit or Print</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="245">Payables: Confirm</td>
<td valign="top" width="338">Payments: Confirm Printed Cheques</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The subledger – in this case Payables – select documents payable and create a Payment Request for Payments. After this point Payments takes over and perform the remaining tasks.</p>
<p>New steps are the Payment Request and the Payment Instruction creation.</p>
<p><strong>Payment Process Profile</strong> is assigned during Create Payment Request.</p>
<p><strong>Payment Request</strong> acts as an interface between the subledger and Payments. So the Payment Requests are a ledger of <em>Payments needed</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Payment Instruction</strong> acts as a internal representation of a physical payment or cheque print file. So the Payment Instruction is the ledger of <em>Payments made</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Confirm </strong>is changed so now only pre-numbered cheques needs to be confirmed. For other types of payments they will automatically be confirmed in accordance to the <em>Payment Profile</em> which is default at Format Payment time.</p>
<h3>Payment Disbursements</h3>
<p>All payment disbursements are now performed by the Payments module. This means that the Payables module like any other subledger sends a payment request to the Payments module. Payments will then create payment instructions based on the payment request.</p>
<p>Payment Workbench:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image2.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb2.png" width="622" height="352" /></a></p>
<p>As payment instructions can now be combined across organisations the concept of a payment batch has changed – now there is payment requests and payment instructions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Payment Request: One or more documents selected to be paid </li>
<li>Payment Instruction: One or more payment requests having same payment profile </li>
</ul>
<p>Payment Request form:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image3.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb3.png" width="630" height="356" /></a></p>
<p>In 11i &#8211; one payment batch was one collection of invoices to be paid by one payment method in one file however in R12 the 1:1 relationship has gone and one payment request can be split into multiple payment instructions and multiple payment requests can be combined into one payment instruction if using same payment profile. One payment instruction would then result in one payment file or transfer.</p>
<p>11i logical data model:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb.png" width="361" height="107" /></a></p>
<p>R12 logical data model:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image1.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image_thumb1.png" width="551" height="77" /></a></p>
<p>The R12 payment profile can be defaulted on the payment request however Oracle Payments will have the final say of which payment profile is being used. The payment process does not always have to be a two step process however in that case the payment profile must be specified at time of payment request.</p>
<p>The ability of combining multiple payment requests into a single payment instruction will significantly reduce number of bank transfers and therefore reduce payment costs especially in larger organisations.</p>
<h3>Credit Cards</h3>
<p>Mostly used for small business and retail &#8211; so parked for now.</p>
<h3>Bank Account Transfers</h3>
<p>WIP</p>
<h3>Security</h3>
<p>WIP</p>
<h3>Payment Document Formatting</h3>
<p>WIP</p>
<h3>Electronic Transfer</h3>
<p>WIP</p>
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		<title>R12 &#8211; Cash Management &#8211; CE</title>
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The new centralized bank account model provides a single point for defining and managing internal bank accounts for Oracle Payables, Oracle Receivables, Oracle Payroll, Oracle Cash Management, and Oracle Treasury.
Biggest change in cash management is for the users as many screens are now as OAF forms:
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<p>The new centralized bank account model provides a single point for defining and managing internal bank accounts for Oracle Payables, Oracle Receivables, Oracle Payroll, Oracle Cash Management, and Oracle Treasury.</p>
<p>Biggest change in cash management is for the users as many screens are now as OAF forms:</p>
<p>Screens has been converted into OAF forms owned by CE but can still be called from AP:</p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/image15.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/image_thumb14.png" width="191" height="129" /></a></p>
<p>Other changes are logical data model changes and was long overdue so a welcome change.</p>
<h3>Overview</h3>
<ul>
<li>Banks and Branches now managed by Cash Management and data stored in the TCA data model</li>
<li>Bank Accounts now managed by Cash Management and data is segmented by legal entity so accounts can be shared across organisations</li>
<li>Payment Document Sequence Numbers is now defined by bank account</li>
</ul>
<h3>Bank and Bank Branches</h3>
<p>Banks and branches are now defined in the Oracle Trading Community Architecture (TCA). This makes sense as the organisational model of a bank and its branches is no different from any other business having a party and some sites.</p>
<h4>Banks and Bank Branches:</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image11.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb11.png" width="644" height="386" /></a> </p>
<h4>Update Bank:</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image12.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb12.png" width="644" height="386" /></a> </p>
<p>Note this form actually edits a party in TCA.</p>
<h4>Update Branch</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image13.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb13.png" width="644" height="386" /></a> </p>
<h4>Bank Branch Addresses</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image14.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb14.png" width="644" height="386" /></a> </p>
<h4>Branch Contacts</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image15.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb15.png" width="644" height="386" /></a> </p>
<h3>Bank Accounts</h3>
<p>A single legal entity is granted ownership of each internal bank account, and one or more organizations are granted usage rights. In addition&#160; bank accounts can be accessed by multiple operating units, but are owned by a single legal entity.</p>
<p>Example of an internal bank account below.</p>
<h4>Bank Accounts – Owner and Use</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image16.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb16.png" width="644" height="358" /></a> </p>
<p>Note the new Bank Account Owner field. Great feature.</p>
<h4>Bank Accounts &#8211; Account Information</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image17.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb17.png" width="644" height="438" /></a> </p>
<h4>Bank Accounts &#8211; Account Controls</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image18.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb18.png" width="644" height="411" /></a> </p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image19.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb19.png" width="644" height="411" /></a> </p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image20.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb20.png" width="644" height="358" /></a> </p>
<p>Yes &#8211; this IS one page. In 11i this was handled by tabs but this concept is not used in R12 OAF.</p>
<h4>Bank Accounts – Account Access</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image21.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb21.png" width="644" height="358" /></a> </p>
<p>This is new as well&#160; &#8211; where you can control what organisations has what access per account.</p>
<h4>Bank Accounts – Create Contact</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image22.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb22.png" width="644" height="358" /></a> </p>
<h3>Payment Document Sequence Numbers</h3>
<p>These are now handled by Cash Management at bank account level using a Payment Document Category on the Payment Document. The Payment Document Category is created as usual when defining sequential numbering.</p>
<h4>Payment Documents</h4>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image23.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb23.png" width="644" height="367" /></a> </p>
<p><a href="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image24.png"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://ltd.kentw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/image_thumb24.png" width="644" height="294" /></a> </p>
<p>Note the new functionality for managing cheque books.</p>
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