FSAH and AGIS Intercompany Implementation thoughts

Written by David Haimes
As Intercompany transactions are very likely to cross systems they are a good candidate for integration in a ‘Hub’ of some sort.
In R12 the Financials Services Accounting Hub (FSAH) allows integration of third party systems to Oracle and is incredibly powerful and flexible.
Let’s use a simple example:
Company A and B both use [...]

Financials Sessions at Oracle Open World 2008

A lot of people are asking when various sessions are, readers of this blog are probably interested in Oracle EBS financials, Helle posted on Oracle Mix a couple of useful links. I recommend looking at this pdf which lists all the financials sessions including demogrounds, apps lounges, presentations etc.
My session is listed there, I [...]

Fixed Assests Intercompany in R12

Something I often forget to mention is the enhancement of Intercompany functionality in Fixed Assets (FA) that has been provided in R12. So here is my attempt to explain it, based on an old email discussion with the FA team, I wouldn’t describe myslef as an FA expert, but if there are any comments [...]

Intercompany Session at Oracle Open World

The content catalog is available so you can go and search for sessions.
There’s an Intercompany session (S299151), it is not scheduled yet and as I am one of the presenters I can tell you it definitely isn’t written yet, next week I’ll get started on that with my copresenter from strategy, Helle.  the details of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Legal Entity Configurator – Why?

In Oracle Ebusiness Suite 11i, the Legal Entity is tied closely to a set of books and operating Unit, so your Legal Structure has to be defined in the way you set up your apps partitions (OU, Set of Books etc.). In R12 financials breaks away from that with the introduction of the Legal [...]