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General Ledger
Setup & Maintenance Part 1
Ledgers and Legal Entities
Mohammed Raouf
Ledger and Legal Entity Setups
Part 1
o Setting Up Legal Entities
o Setting Up Ledgers
o Reporting currency
Part 2
o Ledger Sets to Group Ledger Access
o Data Access Sets
o Security Rules
Setup | Financials | Accounting Setup Manager | Accounting Setups | Legal Entity tab | Create Legal Entity
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The EIN/TIN is utilized on 2 Select the TERRITORY
some reports, such as from the list of values,
1099 reporting. Selecting and enter the LEGAL
YES for the TRANSACTING ENTITY NAME. Assign an
ENTITY will allow ORGANIZATION NAME,
transactions in any which can be the same or
subledger to be created; different as the LEGAL
selecting NO identifies ENTITY NAME, and a
this as a Registration unique value for the
against another Legal LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER.
Entity in a specific region Creating the IDENTIFIER
and does not allow similar to the NAME,
transactions in EBS. where the spaces are
replaced with
underscores, will make
identification easier .
Enter the LEGAL
ADDRESS, either by
SELECTING an EXISTING
ADDRESS or CREATING a
NEW ADDRESS. Clicking SAVE AND ADD
Additional information DETAILS will allow
can be added for the information to be added
PLACE OF REGISTRATION, for REGISTRATIONS,
INCEPTION DATE of the ESTABLISHMENTS,
entity. NAICS 1997 CONTACT INFORMATION,
(North American Industry and INTERCOMPANY
Classification System), as EXCEPTIONS. The
well as a TYPE OF intercompany is required
COMPANY from the list of if you are using the
values. Advanced Global
Intercompany System
(AGIS), Later in Part 2.
Some Address Errors need
this Profile Option to be
Blank at the Site level.
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EBS will allow intercompany transactions
the Main Establishment can be between all Legal Entities, but this can be
modified from the default. restricted by updating the INTERCOMPANY
Establishment = the business or the Allows names and addresses EXCEPTION tab and clicking UPDATE to add
purpose, like educational /financial to be stored for reference. the name of the legal entity with which
establishment . intercompany transactions cannot be
performed.
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Setting Up Ledgers
Under the Accounting Setups tab, Ledgers are defined. Each Ledger will have Legal Entities, Journal Processing setups,
Reporting currencies, Balancing Segment Assignments, Subledger Accounting Options, Operating Units, and
Intercompany and Intracompany accounts and rules, as well as Sequencing setups. If any of the data in each of these
areas is different for a legal entity, a new, secondary Ledger can be set up to accommodate the differences.
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The
common
seeded is
Standard
Accrual
where the
owner is
Oracle,
Customized
SLA will be
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in detail
Defined in step 1+2, here you choose them
later.
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Let’s Create
Accounting
Options
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Selecting ADD BALANCING SEGMENT will allow values to be added to
this Legal Entity, at least one company (based on the values in a specific
Value Set), and doing so will restrict transactions in this legal entity to
only the added balancing segments. If this data is updated after the
legal entity or accounting setups are complete, ensure
the General Ledger Accounting Setup Program runs successfully.
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Net Closing R12.1.2
Balance and
Higher
A. Let the open new period close down all the income statement accounts and put the results in the retained
earnings in the same way it has always done. This also rolls the balance sheet accounts into the first period of the
new year like it does any other period.
B. Create a journal showing the movement of the income statement accounts into retained earnings or an account
of your choice. You can also create a journal for the balance sheet accounts showing what will be used as opening
balances next year. This is to fulfill a legal requirement in some countries specially France.
If you choose B then the option in the 'Net Closing Balance Journal' choice in the Accounting Setup Manager comes
into effect. This will close the balances either as a net figure to the closing journal (when ticked) or as Cr and Dr
figure to the closing journal (by default).
Functionality before this fix - closes the account by posting the debit sum in the credit and vice versa.
The Net closing flag was introduced to allow users to choose between closing balances by journalling out both the
Dr and the Cr balance or just the net balance on a code combination [ Retained Earnings ]. Detailed Later
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Turns on budgetary 3
controls, this setting is
used most often in
Government agencies,
where the expenses are
fixed for a given year This feature is most often used
based on the approved with VAT or clearing accounts.
budget and cannot be
exceeded.
Will require journal entries for all
The account where any budgets, will require journal entries for
out-of-balance all budgets, not just funded budgets.
encumbrance
transactions will be
posted. The company
segment of this account If you want to track average
will be overridden to balances for your ledger.
the balancing segment
on the out-of-balance will allow the updates to both
transaction. the standard and average
balances to be done
Assign to capture your independently. Basically, this
net income on the For calculating your average balances – in Step 2 feature allows you to create
average balances. standard journal entries and
average journal entries
independently in consolidated
books, it is only applicable for a
consolidated Ledger.
[Consolidation – Later]
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Review your work
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2 Reporting Currencies
Reporting currencies are additional currency representations of primary or secondary ledgers. Unlike secondary
ledgers, reporting currencies can only differ by currency from their source ledger and must share the same chart of
accounts, accounting calendar/period type combination, subledger accounting method, if used, and ledger
processing options. Reporting currencies can be used for supplementary reporting purposes, such as consolidation
or management reporting. They can also be used if you operate in countries with highly inflationary economies.
OR
After you finish your Ledger Options
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Balance Level: [primary and secondary ledgers] Using translation to convert the balances from
the ledger currency to the reporting currency, track your balances in more than one currency for
the balances only.
Detail / Journal Level: [primary and secondary ledgers] Each time you post a journal entry in the
associated primary or secondary
ledger, another journal is created and posted to the Journal level reporting currency within the
same journal batch.
Subledger Level: [primary ledgers only] creates the foreign currency transactions when the
subledger accounting is performed, They maintain a currency representation of the subledger
journals, journal entries, and balances.
EBS will use the rates defined under these types to complete the conversions.
Using this feature requires that the Rate Type selected is maintained at all times.
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