Oracle Order To Cash Accounting - Made Easy
‘Author — Brijesh Bharat, PMP
| Introduction
This white paper will provide 9 comprehensive view and understanding of
accounting details for inventory and receivables transactions in an Order To
Cash scenario. The presentation will caplure complete accounting details in
every step of a standard Sales Order fe cycle. The explanation will be detailed
by fulfling 8 standard Sales Order by booking, shipping, closing and AR
Invoicing,
This paper wil highlight the folowing:
‘+ Explain the difference between the Inventory Cost and Selling Price of
an item
‘+ Accounting on the Inventory and Receivables sida
‘+ How to recognize Profit made on a Sale by Cost Profit Margin Analysis
Report
I, Businoss Background
When it comes to selling, it helps to have as much information about the account
distribulion as possible right from the invantory cost of a product to its billing
revenua. Most enterprises want to track the cost of products and profit made by
solling tho product. This plays a criteal role in the Profit and Loss Accounting to
determine a company's overall worth. Management accounting and reporting
based of product plays significant role to reduce ils cost and enhance ils
revenue effectively.
In Oracle E-Business suite, accounting segment values in the account
distrioutons are based on master and transaction type set up.
Following table ilustrates the logie of obtaining accounting segment values in an
(Order To Cash business case:
Accounting Source of Values
Wodule Name ransaction Type | Account Type | Soures of Values,
‘Oracle Inventory | Shipment J Cost of Sales | lem or Order type
‘Recount Invoice/Credit or | Revenue ‘Auto accountingy
Receivables Debit Mero transaction type
(race Order To Cosh ~Made Easy Brij Bharat, PMP Page tof 18Following table ilustrates Debit and Credit side of account in an Order To Gash
business case:
Debit/Credit Account on a Sale
ON THE COST SIDE ‘ON THE REVENUE SIDE
| (INCUR Cost) (REALIZE Revenue)
+ DR COGS (via Account + DR Receivables
Generator)
= GR Inv Valuation Account
> GR Revenue
Following table indicates various Order! Shipping functions and their results:
Anatomy of various OM/ Shipping functions.
Function
‘Ship Confirm
Trip Stop (NV and OM
Worktiow Background Process
‘Auto Invoice
Result
‘Closes the delivery
Updates the order ines to Shipped
> Updates the Order ines to Closed
| > Populate AR Interface Table
‘Genarato Invoice
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Page 20f 18Order To Cash Scenario with Cost and Revenue Accounting
4. An Item e.g. 510365 has 021-00000-30-0000-56 100-0000-0000000000-
(00000-00000 GOGS string under an Inventory! Shipping Org - DMD. Source of
Value for the COGS is assumed hare from the Inventory Item.
(Oracle Order To Cash —Made Easy Bij Bharat, PME Page 3 of 182. Assuming 510365 has a unit cost of $20.00 in the Org
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