About Me
I am a 10 year Veteran of Oracle Financial Applications Development, starting out in the UK and finding my way out to California in 2000. I am interested in technology both inside and outside of Oracle and am always thinking of how I can incorporate new ideas, technologies, methodologies or innovations into my work here at Oracle.
My current role is looking after the Intercompany and Legal Entity products in Oracle Financials and I was recently given ownership of the General Ledger product too. I have also worked on EMEA Globalizations, Federal and Public Sector Financials, XML Payments and a variety of projects on other products.
The primary focus of this blog is Intercompany and Oracle Financials, but I certainly reserve the right to post about anything I see that is interesting or potentially useful. If there are particular topics you would like me to cover than let me know.
You might also see me on twitter as dhaimes, or friendfeed as mrhaimes
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veteran? you make me feel old… LOL
David, i’m looking to talk to someone about working with Oracle and intercompany accounting with foreign currencies. Is there a way to contact you directly?
thanks,
dave
David
The stuff that explained the difference betwen inter-co and intra-co was wonderful.I am sure most of the organizations use them interchangeably.
Are you aware of any such blogs on Order management too?
Regards
Naveen
Hi Naveen,
Welcome to the blog, glad to have you on board.
I am not aware of any order management blogs. Might be worth posting the question to the Order Management OTN forum
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=119
somebody there will know of any OM related blogs that might be around.
Do you have any inputs/documents pertaining to changing the chart of accounts. We have been instructed to change the existing CoA to a new CoA. The approach we have adopted is: first classify the accounts as ‘changeable’ and ‘non-changeable’. The changeable accounts will be identified and a journal entry affecting the existing account and the new account will be passed. But we do not have an approach for the unchangeable accounts. Unchangeable accounts are those which have been defined during the setup/options level. It would be of great help if you could, with your vast experience, throw some light on this and suggest a better approach.
Thanks and Regards
Mahesh Adiga
Mahesh,
Is the requirement to change your chart of accounts and change al accounts in the system? Are you planning to use a new set of books for this?
No David. We are planning to use the existing CoA for this. Only the description ofr the accounts change. The major problem, as i mentioned earlier, is changing the account segment values for all those accounts done during the initial setups.
Thanks and Regards
Mahesh Adiga
Hi
We are implementing R12 and have ledger with monthly calendar. But at the same time finance wants to have weekly reporting. So the option we are thinking is to define secondary ledger with a weekly calendar. Would you suggest this approach or is there any other better way of doing this? Any implications of defining secondary legder just for weekly reporting?
Many Thanks.
Hi,
You could do that - the secondary ledger should be at balance level only to keep the data volumes and processing impact to a minimum.
You could also use GCS to move the balance data to another ledger.
See no reason why these would not work, but seems there has to be a better way to store a weekly balance of your accounts… let me ask around.
David,
Your an innovator, great blogg, i looking to down load the latest version of AIM , do you know the latest version would it require a password ? if so how can this be obtained .
Regards,
Patc
Patric
Sorry no idea where to get AIM or if it is free. Try metalink maybe.
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