Running a global business means successfully addressing conflicting requirements in all facets of the enterprise. Fiscal operations offer no reprieve. The more successful or profitable your organization becomes the more complex and stringent the accounting requirements become – or so it seems. From evolving global accounting standards, to new internal control legislation, to sophisticated reporting and analysis requirements – accounting operations have a heavy load to lift.

1. SLA in Oracle R12 – Insight
Running a global business means successfully addressing conflicting requirements
in all facets of the enterprise. Fiscal operations offer no reprieve. The more
successful or profitable your organization becomes the more complex and stringent
the accounting requirements become – or so it seems. From evolving global
accounting standards, to new internal control legislation, to sophisticated reporting
and analysis requirements – accounting operations have a heavy load to lift.
R12’s accommodation of multiple ledgers in a single set of books enables smart
decision making by continuously and quickly providing key financial information
that is crucial to make important business decisions. The structure of the new sub
ledger accounting also allows for smoother processing and GL management as well
as secure but widely accessible data. For example, a single subledger transaction
can create multiple accounting representations in multiple currencies in the same
set of books.
Oracle Subledger Accounting addresses these diverse requirements with a complete
solution that allows you to:
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Lower costs with streamlined accounting processes
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Streamlined Period End close and Reconciliations
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User Configurable Accounting Rules
Accurate Accounting since SLA allows users to define, test and validate
accounting Rules
Meet diverse global accounting requirements and maintain internal
controls
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Enable Concurrent Compliance with Multiple Accounting Standards
Increase Transparency and Enable Complete Auditability
Access better information and provide better reporting
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Build a Better Foundation for Reporting and Analysis
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Report on User-Selected Attributes
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A transactional application that generates accounting impact
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Used to store detailed information not needed for a general ledger

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Subledgers post summarized activity to a general ledger periodically
to maintain centralized account balances for the company
Below are the key tables for SLA in R12
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XLA_AE_HEADERS xah
XLA_AE_LINES xal
XLA_EVENTS xae
XLA_TRANSACTION_ENTITIES xte
XLA_DISTRIBUTION_LINKS xdl
GL_IMPORT_REFERENCES gir

3. Subledger Accounting (SLA) – Business Case
Client’s Requirement: Revenue accounting entries needed to be updated with the
Geography code based on Bill to Customer country at the time of creating
accounting entries
As End Users, at Sub Ledger level will not have access to update the Geography
Codes it avoids the risk of wrong data entry. With this given situation an SLA Rule
will be defined to update Revenue Account with Geography Code at the time of
creating accounting as given below.

4. Define Country Codes
Map the ‘Bill To Customer Country to
the Country Codes Defined Above
Link the Journal Line Definition to
the Event Class “Invoice”
Attach the Rule defined to the
Revenue Accounting Journal Line Type
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