Comments for David Haimes Oracle Intercompany Financials Blog

Comment on About Me by Dhwani

Dhwani — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:15:35 +0000

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Comment on R12 Intercompany Accounts Set Up by David Haimes

David Haimes — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:57:34 +0000

You do not need an Intercompany segment. AGIS and Intercompany balancing will work fine without an Intercompany segment, so no need to change your chart of accounts to use the functionality.

For a new chart of a accounts I would recommend an Intercompany segment as it will make reporting easier, but it is optional and Oracle Intercompany features do NOT require it.

Check out this post for a discussion on it

http://davidhaimes.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/intercompany-segments-and-vision-demo-data/

Comment on R12 Intercompany Accounts Set Up by Kirk

Kirk — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:32:54 +0000

David, is it possible to implement an intercompany solution withouth having to add a new segment to our accounting string? Everything I have read, says we need an intercompany balancing segment but we don’t have any extra segment available in our string. What would you suggest for a solution?

Thanks

Comment on New Intercompany features in R12 by Cornelia

Cornelia — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:45:12 +0000

I looked into the cross billing feature for R12 but couldn’t establish what it does or where I can find it (I’m not projects expert). In 11i
PA: Allow Cross-Charging in Multi-Org
If you have implemented multiple organization support, this profile indicates whether to allow users to charge expenditure items to projects in other operating units that share the same Business Group, PA Period Type, and Set of Books as the user’s operating unit.

Besides being able to do intercompany between 2 LE’s, we want to do intercompany at the detail level of timesheets and expenses. E.g. you allocate 10 hours to a project in Japan (different LE). Can AGIS be defined for such a low level for data entering?

Comment on New Intercompany features in R12 by Cornelia

Cornelia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:30:40 +0000

thanks for the info. I will for sure look into that!

Regards
cornelia

Comment on New Intercompany features in R12 by David Haimes

David Haimes — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:01:55 +0000

You might need to enable Intercompany Balancing for the ledger?

Comment on New Intercompany features in R12 by David Haimes

David Haimes — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:01:07 +0000

You should look at the cross project nilling feature set in Oracle Projects. This will generate invoices and has its own set up to determine what accounts are used giving a lot of flexibility.

Comment on New Intercompany features in R12 by Cornelia

Cornelia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:56:54 +0000

Thanks for the information. I understand how intercompany work between 2 LE’s. How does intercompany work when projects are the main driver? I would like to do an intercompany transaction between e.g. the US and Japan for Project XXX.

Comment on Can I assign an Operating Unit to Multiple Legal Entities? by 6561

6561 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:38:38 +0000

R12 can i change one operating unit from one ledger to other ledger and when i create invoice adn transaction it will be mapped and where will it reflect in the ledger 2 or one

Comment on R12 Intercompany Accounts Set Up by Ganesh

Ganesh — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:46:36 +0000

David,
I must say your site is very informative and great!!
A screen shot is an easy way to explain what you inteand to say. Your argument that the blog is not to replace the UG :) makes sense but then why the blog itself on a specific topic? guess it is to make a simple approach more understandable to ppl who are new to R12. Thus would make an request to add a screen shots if not too details to field level but an over and screen shot with the amout of knowledge you have would be of good help to all …

Comment on Intercompany Vs Intracompany by Elahe

Elahe — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:07:16 +0000

Dear friends

I have a problem in designing my ERP structure, I hope you guys can help me.
Problem is we have a customer that has 2 different ledgers with 2 different COA, So I have to define 2 LEs, 2 OUs and 2 COAs. But there is only 1 Bssiness Group.
As you know in BG group we can assign only one Cost Allocation FlexField. Now we don’t know which COA should be assigned to BG???
we need to run Payroll for both Ledgers from one Payroll system and should be able to see both COA in HR. but when we assign one of COA to BG we are not able to see the other one’s values.

I hope I could explain clearly and looking forward to your help.

Thanks in advance.
Elahe

Comment on Financial Services Accounting Hub(FSAH) is now called Financials Accounting Hub (FAH) by Sven van Leemput

Sven van Leemput — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:19:24 +0000

Hi Mark,

Yes SLA and FAH are being used simultaneously. They both use the exact same technology and tables meaning you don’t need to perform any special / additional steps in order to use them together compared to if you would be using either of them standalone.

There are seeded import/export concurrent programs – see page 131 of the Subledger Accounting Implementation Guide: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B34956_01/current/acrobat/120xlaig.pdf but if you are thinking of exporting rules from SLA to FAH then that’s not necessary because both the SLA and the FAH rules are by default sitting together in the same place.

Regards,
Sven

Comment on Can I assign an Operating Unit to Multiple Legal Entities? by Mary

Mary — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:15:15 +0000

Our Financial Director is concerned that the intercompany functionality selling/shipping org will not allow us to analyze our true intercompany sales and true intercompany COGS from customer sales and COGS. How can we determine customer profitability at the legal entity (Co. 01) P&L, if the intercompany transactions from the shipping org debits – COGS and the revenue transaction credits intercompany revenue account. He states that there is a mismatch between the intercompany revenue recorded at the shipping org will not have the corresponding intercompany COGS account recorded; The same holds true for the selling org where a debit is recorded to the intercompany COGS and the credit is record to Trade Revenue. How do you truly segregate intercompany revenue and intercompany COGS in one legal entity (shipping org)? I realize at the consolidate level the combination of all transactions from 01- LE -shipping org and 02 LE-selling org will determine allows us to determine intercompany revenue and intercompany COGS. We are using an intercompany segment in our COA in our R12.1 environment

Comment on Financial Services Accounting Hub(FSAH) is now called Financials Accounting Hub (FAH) by Mark Poriss

Mark Poriss — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:33:57 +0000

Hi David,

Have you seen instances where SLA and FAH have been used together ? Where EBIZ subledgers are flowing thru SLA, and external entities flow thru FAH ?

Are / is there a toolkit that you can take rules from SLA and export them to FAH ?

Mark

Comment on Useful Oracle Financials Resources by David Haimes

David Haimes — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:03:27 +0000

As far as I am aware, it is not available for download, I got my hard copy from Amazon

Comment on Useful Oracle Financials Resources by Jigar Shah

Jigar Shah — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:45:42 +0000

Is the Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Handbook, ebook available online? If yes, can you forward me the link from where can i download it?

Comment on About Me by Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:33:41 +0000

We are faced with a similar situation. Add to that on COA has company segment with 3 char and the only avail segment for the intercompany qualifier has 4 char ( and no GIS)

Thanks,
Oscar

Comment on Financial Services Accounting Hub(FSAH) is now called Financials Accounting Hub (FAH) by Nicki

Nicki — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:05:46 +0000

Brilliant idea. Thanks so much, I’ll try and update just for info.

Comment on Financial Services Accounting Hub(FSAH) is now called Financials Accounting Hub (FAH) by Sven van Leemput

Sven van Leemput — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:52:04 +0000

Hi Nicki,

Personally I’ve only seen xla_events being used, and not the GT table.
An alternative you could explore is to register a view as your Transaction Object.
In this view you join your source table with xla_entity_events_v (join on the source_id_… column(s)).
xla_entity_events_v already contains the event_id from xla_events so this way you avoid having to write back the event_id directly on the source table.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Sven

Comment on New Intercompany features in R12 by pcreddy

pcreddy — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:48:20 +0000

How can we leverage the SLA: Transaction Account Builder feature to generate the Bridge and Clearing House entries (based on the rules) from AGIS for Intercompany Transactions (Accross Ledgers)