2. 2
General Ledger Overview
Oracle General Ledger is a comprehensive Financial Management solution that
dramatically enhances financial controls, data collection and financial reporting
throughout your enterprise.
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Agenda
• Process Overview
• Integration with Modules
• Key Functionality
Accounting Set Up Manager
Journals
Consolidation, Translation, Revaluation
• Security
• Open Interface
• Reports
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Integrating With External Systems
• You can integrate with external systems by using
published open interfaces.
• You can write import programs to import data from an
external system or from your previous accounting system.
• You can initiate a full account validation process during
import.
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Accounting Setup Manager
Legal Entities Ledgers
Operating Units
Inter Intra
Company
Accounting
Subledger
Accounting
Reporting
Currencies
Accounting
Reporting
Sequences
Accounting Setup
Manager
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Accounting Setup Manager Concepts
Main, record-keeping ledger
Defined by 4Cs:
› Chart of accounts
› Accounting calendar
› Primary currency
› Sub ledger Accounting
Method
Optional, additional
accounting representations of
your primary ledger
Can differ in one or more of
the following from the
primary ledger:
› Chart of accounts
› Accounting calendar
› Primary currency
› Subledger Accounting
Method
Primary Ledgers Secondary Ledgers
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Accounting Setup Manager Concepts
SLA
Transaction
Accounting
Subledger Transactions
SLA
Corporate Ledger
(Primary Ledger)
Local Statutory Ledger
(Secondary Ledger)
AP AR FA
Other
Subledgers
Legal Entity
Maintaining Multiple Accounting Representations with Secondary Ledgers
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If difference is
only currency,
If one or more of the following are different,
Accounting Setup Manager Concepts –
Reporting Currency
Use a Secondary Ledger
Currency
Corporate
Chart of accounts
Monthly
Calendar
Accounting
Method
US GAAP
Accrual
Use Reporting
Currencies
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Inquiry
Rollup Groups
• Define rollup groups to capture different summary levels for each Parent and Child Segments.
• Use Summary Accounts to view financial information at Summary Level
• Assign related parent values to rollup groups. Use Rollup groups when creating summary
accounts.
• No limit to number of levels.
• No limit to number of Entities on each level.
Rollup Group Rollup Group Level 1
Level 2
Rollup Group
Child Values
Level 2.1 Level 2.2
Child Child
Child
Child
Example
Total Assets
Fixed Assets Current Assets
Cash
Buildings
Land Bank
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Consolidation
C O N S O L I D A T E
Subsidiary 1
Set of Books
Subsidiary 2
Set of Books
Subsidiary 3
Set of Books
Parent
Set of Books
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Translation
• Translation and re-measurement
methods
• Period average and end rates
• historical rates
• Period to date and year to date
modes
• Translation method
KWD KWD
T R A N S L A T E
USD USD
KWD
USD
Functional Currency
Foreign Currency
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Security
Cross validation rules prevent the
combination of certain segment values in
the chart of accounts.
CROSS VALIDATION RULE
Security gives you the capability to
restrict the set of values a user can use
during data entry
SEGMENT SECURITY RULE
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Security
• Accounting Calendars
• Auto Allocations
• AutoPost Criteria Sets
• Auto Reversal Criteria Sets
• Budget Formulas
• Budget Organizations
• Chart of Accounts Mappings
• Consolidation Definitions
• Consolidation Sets
• Elimination Sets
• FSG Reports and
components
• Mass Allocation
• Mass Budgets
• Rate Types
• Recurring Journals
• Revaluations
• Transaction Calendars
• Control access to setup/reference
independently of data security
• Enable setup sharing across ledgers
and ledger sets
• Enable setup autonomy within multi-
legal entity ledgers
• Set up view, modify, and usage
privileges
DEFINITION ACCESS SET
Access multiple legal entities and ledgers
from a single GL responsibility
DATA ACCESS SET
Restrict the usage of Control Accounts in
manual Journal Entry
CONTROL ACCOUNTS
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Open Interface
To Import Journal lines from
peripheral systems and Oracle Sub
ledgers
GL_INTERFACE
To Import Budget Journals from
external sources
GL_BUDGET_INTERFACE
To Import Currency Exchange Rates
from external sources
GL_DAILY_RATES_INTERFACE
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Reports
• Financial Statement Generator
• Account Analysis
• Accounting Set Up Manager Post-Update
Diagnosis Report
• Consolidation Journals Report
• Journals Day Book
• Trail Balance
• Import Journals
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Financial Statement Generator
Rows
FSG Reports
columns
Sales
Returns
Net Sales
Row Set A
Row Set A
Row Set B
Row Set B
Income Company
statement
PTD YTD
3000 6200
1000 1200
2000 5000
Cash
Investments
receivables
Balance Sheet
YTD Last Y
3000 4200
1000 2200
3000 2000
column set
column set
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Q U E S T I O N S
Q U E S T I O N S
Q U E S T I O N S
Q U E S T I O N S
Q U E S T I O N S
Q U E S T I O N S
Q U E S T I O N S
Q U E S T I O N S
A N S W E R S
A N S W E R S
A N S W E R S
A N S W E R S
A N S W E R S
A N S W E R S
A N S W E R S
A N S W E R S