R12 Best Practices White Paper

I noticed today on Stephen Chan’s blog that this White Paper is available on metalink
Best Practices for Adopting Oracle E-Business Suite, Release 12 (Metalink Note 580299.1)
I haven’t reviewed the document yet, despite there being a section on AGIS. As soon as I resolve the problem I’m having with my metalink login I will [...]

What does that radio button do?

I try to be clever and/or funny by putting a cryptic title for my posts, I think it’s my attempt to make Financial Software sound fun, perky and exciting (which it is of course). Probably the real result is for some people to get here from google (or Yahoo - do they still do [...]

Financial Services Accounting Hub (FSAH)

Financial Services Accounting Hub or FSAH (pronounced F-saa apparently) is a great product and is not only for Financial Services companies either, I understand we’ll sell it to anyone.
From a (very) high level perspective it allows you to use Oracle SLA and GL to perform the accounting for third party applications. Companies the Financial [...]

AGIS Out of the Box

When I was about 10 years old I got a new electric train set for Christmas, but before I got to play with it I had to pinch a plug from one of my siblings toys and fit the only available (and dangerously mismatched) fuse in it. Then I had to read a [...]

Intercompany Invoicing in AGIS

One of the key features introduced with the new Advanced Global Intercompany (AGIS) in R12 of Oracle E-Business Suite is the ability to create documentation for Intercompany transactions. The correct documentation is required in many countries for Intercompany trading, this essentially means I need to provide a Receivables Invoice for the Legal Entity Providing [...]

Using BIP for Interactive Reconciliation Reports

Written by Bidisha Silveira
I’m going to give a little more detail on how the Interactive Financial reports David described here were put together. In 4 simple steps (with pictures!)
Step 1:
The Reconciliation Data Extract background program is submitted which collects all the data and generates an xml file
Step 2:
To view the reconciliation data we use [...]

Defining Intracompany Balancing Rules

Written by Rohit Kathuria and David Haimes
In order to take advantage of the automatic Intercompany balancing during GL posting and SLA Accounting you first need to define the accounts you want us to use.
Intercompany and Intracompany Accounts in R12 are defined in two different Set Up Pages, the Intracompany Balancing Rules are what we [...]

New Grant based Security in AGIS

 
Managing a large number of responsibilities can become a complex, time consuming and expensive activity. It is also very frustrating for users if they have to constantly switch responsibility if they have a number of roles, this is a big issue in 11i Global Intercompany System as you could only have one Balancing Segment [...]

Why do I need another period ?

In R12 we introduced AGIS periods that control the transactions entered in AGIS, this is a feature that is often misunderstood. The usual question is - Why do I want another period? I’ll give some ideas why you might want one, but if you decide you don’t need one, don’t worry we made [...]

Intercompany Reconciliation Reports just got Interactive

In R12 the Advanced Global Intercompany System was introduced and one of the main goals was to make the reconciliation process more efficient. Intercompany is often the top barrier to a fast period close, because you have to be sure you eliminated it all to zero, so your parent company does not report a [...]