Friday, 22 June 2012

General Ledger Setup Checklist with Tables details




 

Step No.
Required
Step
Reference
Step 1
Required
Define your chart of accounts. See: Defining Your Chart of Accounts.
Common Applications
Step1-1
Required
Defining Segments
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèFlexfeildsèKeyèSegments
 
Tables:
 
FND_ID_FLEX_STRUCTURES, FND_ID_FLEX_SEGMENTS
 
Views:
 
FND_ID_FLEX_STRUCTURES_VL
 
Description
 
 
 
Step1-2
Required
Defining Value Sets
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèFlexfeildsèValidationèSet
 
Tables:
 
FND_FLEX_VALUE_SETS
 
Views:
 
None
 
Description
 
 
 
Step1-3
Required
Defining Values
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèFlexfeildsèValidationèValues
 
Tables:
 
FND_FLEX_VALUE_SETS, FND_FLEX_VALUES
 
Views:
 
FND_FLEX_VALUES_VL
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 2
Optional
Define Cross-Validation Rules to prevent certain account combinations from being created.
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèFlexfeildsèKeyèRulesè
Define Cross Validation Rules
 
Tables:
 
FND_FLEX_VALIDATION_RULES, FND_FLEX_VALIDATION_RULE_LINES
 
Views:
 
FND_FLEX_VDATION_RULES_VL
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 3
Optional
Define a chart of accounts mapping to map two or more charts of accounts. The chart of accounts mapping is used by Accounting Setup Manager to complete the setup steps for secondary ledgers, and it is used by the Global Consolidation System (GCS) to consolidate data between ledgers.
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
 
 
Tables:
 
 
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 4
Optional
Define Your Descriptive Flexfields
See: Defining Descriptive Flexfields for General Ledger
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèFlexfeildsèDescriptiveèSegment
 
Tables:
 
FND_DESCR_FLEX_COLUMN_USAGES
 
Views:
 
FND_DESCR_FLEX_COL_USAGE_VL
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 5
Optional
If you want to use period types not installed with General Ledger, define your accounting period types.
See: Period Types
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèCalendars èTypesèDefine Period Types
 
Tables:
 
GL_PERIOD_TYPES
 
Views:
 
None
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 6
Required
Define your accounting calendar. Review the Calendar Validation report to note common setup errors.
See: Defining Calendars
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèCalendarsèAccounting èDefine Accounting Calendars
 
Tables:
 
GL_PERIOD_SETS, GL_PERIODS
 
Views:
 
GL_PERIODS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 7
Optional
If you plan to use average balance processing, define a transaction calendar and valid business days for that calendar.
The transaction calendar ensures that journals created in Oracle General Ledger and Oracle Subledger Accounting (SLA), if used, will be posted on valid business days.
See: Defining Transaction Calendars
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèCalendarsèTransactionèDefine Transaction Calendar
 
Tables:
 
GL_TRANSACTION_CALENDAR, GL_TRANSACTION_DATES
 
Views:
 
None
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 8
Required
Define the currency for your ledger. Also define or enable any reporting currencies you plan to use.
See: Oracle General Ledger User's Guide Defining Currencies, Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
Common Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèCurrenciesèDefineèDefine or enable currencies
 
Tables:
 
FND_CURRENCIES
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 9
Optional
Define conversion rate types and conversion rates, such as daily rates and historical rates.
See: Overview of Multi–Currency Accounting, Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
Common Financials
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèCurrenciesèCurrency Rate Manager
Urrience Rate
Tables:
 
GL_DAILY_RATES
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 10
Optional
Define additional journal entry sources. If you have enabled average balance processing, specify an Effective Date Rule for each journal source you define.
See: Journal Sources
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèJournalsèSourcesèDefine Journal Source
 
Tables:
 
GL_JE_SOURCES_TL
 
Views:
 
GL_JE_SOURCES
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 11
Optional
Define additional journal categories.
See: Journal Categories
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèJournalsèCategoryèDefine Journal  Categories
 
Tables:
 
GL_JE_CATEGORIES_TL
 
Views:
 
GL_JE_CATEGORIES
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 12
Optional
Define Journal Reversal criteria. See: Automatic Journal Reversal Overview, Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèJournalsèAutomatic Journal Reversal criteria
 
Tables:
 
GL_AUTOREVERSE_OPTIONS
 
Views:
 
GL_AUTOREVERSE_OPTIONS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 13
Required
Define an accounting setup using Accounting Setup Manager to combine legal entities, ledgers, reporting currencies, subledger accounting methods, and other setup information.
Before you can enter transactions and journal entries to ledgers, you must complete the ledger options for all ledgers assigned to an accounting setup and the accounting setup status must be complete.
See: Creating Accounting Setups Oracle Financials Implementation Guide
Define additional journal entry sources and categories. If you have enabled average balance processing, specify an Effective Date Rule for each journal source you define. See: Journal Sources and Journal Categories.
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèAccounting Setup ManagerèAccount Setup Manager
 
Tables:
 
GL_LEDGERS
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 14
Optional
Define Ledger Sets to group ledgers that share the same chart of accounts and accounting calendar/period type combination to take advantage of processing efficiencies, such as opening and closing periods across ledgers in a ledger set.
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèLedger Setsè Define Ledger Set
 
Tables:
 
None
 
Views:
 
GL_LEDGER_SETS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 15
Optional
Define data access sets to secure read and write access to ledgers, balancing segment values, and management segment values for one or more ledgers.
See: Data Access Sets
Public Sector Applications
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèData Access SetsèDefine Data Access Sets
 
Tables:
 
GL_ACCESS_SETS
 
Views:
 
GL_ACCESS_SETS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 16
Required
Assign a ledger to the profile option GL Ledger Name for each Oracle subledger. This profile option controls the ledger chart of accounts that each subledger will use for transaction processing.
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
System Administratorè Profile èSystem è Profile Name  è GL Ledger Name
 
Tables:
 
FND_PROFILE_OPTIONS
 
Views:
 
FND_PROFILE_OPTIONS_VL
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 17
Required
Assign a data access set to the profile option GL: Data Access Set for each General Ledger responsibility.
See: Data Access Sets
See: Setting General Ledger Profile Options, Oracle General Ledger Reference Guide
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
System Administratorè Profile èSystem è Profile Name  è GL: Data Access Set
 
Tables:
 
FND_PROFILE_OPTIONS
 
Views:
 
FND_PROFILE_OPTIONS_VL
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 18
Optional
Define Definition Access Sets and assign them to responsibilities. Once you begin securing your definitions, you can assign the Definition Access Sets assigned to your responsibilities.
See: Definition Access Sets
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèDefinition Access Sets èDefine/Assign
 
Tables:
 
 
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 19
Optional
Define account combinations that can be used for data entry if you did not enable Dynamic Insertion for your chart of accounts structure.
See: Defining Accounts
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèAccountsèCombinations
 
Tables:
 
GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS
 
Views:
 
GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 20
Optional
Define and assign document sequences.
See: Defining Document Sequences
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèSequencesèDocumentèDefine/Assign
 
Tables:
 
FND_DOCUMENT_SEQUENCES, FND_DOC_SEQUENCE_ASSIGNMENTS
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 21
Optional
Define Your Employees. (Oracle Human Resources Management System User’s Guide)
See: Entering a New Employee
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
Human ResourcesèPeopleèEnter & Maintainè
 
Tables:
 
PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F
 
Views:
 
PER_PEOPLE_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 22
Optional
Setup Journal Approval.
See: Setting Up Journal Approval
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General LedgerèSetupèEmployeesèLimitsèDefine Employee Journal Authorization Limits
 
Tables:
 
GL_AUTHORIZATION_LIMITS
 
Views:
 
GL_AUTHORIZATION_LIMITS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 23
Optional
Define one or more of the following optional accounts:
  1. Suspense accounts. See: Suspense Accounts
  2. Statistical Units of Measure.
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèAccountsè Suspense èDefine Suspense Accounts
 
Tables:
 
GL_SUSPENSE_ACCOUNTS
 
Views:
 
GL_SUSPENSE_ACCOUNTS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 24
Required
Define transaction codes if you use Public Sector General Ledger.
See: Setting Up Transaction Codes
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
 
 
Tables:
 
 
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 25
Optional
Create summary accounts.
See: Defining Summary Accounts
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèAccountsèSummary è Define Summary Accounts
 
Tables:
 
GL_SUMMARY_TEMPLATES
 
Views:
 
GL_SUMMARY_TEMPLATES_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 26
Optional
Set up Automatic Tax Calculation if you do not have Oracle Receivables and Oracle Payables installed.
See: Setting Up Automatic Tax Calculation
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
 
 
Tables:
 
 
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 27
Optional
Define your automatic posting criteria.
See: Posting Journal Batches Automatically, Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General LedgerèSetupèJournalèAuto PostèDefine Auto Post Criteria
 
Tables:
 
GL_AUTOMATIC_POSTING_SETS
 
Views:
 
GL_AUTOMATIC_POSTING_SETS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 28
Optional
Define encumbrance types.
See: Defining Encumbrance Types, Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetup èJournal èEncumbrancesèDefine Encumbrance Type
 
Tables:
 
 
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 29
Optional
Set up Budgets.
See: Defining Budgets, Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
Oracle General Ledger
Navigation:
 
General LedgerèBudgetèDefine Budget
 
Tables:
 
GL_BUDGETS
 
Views:
 
GL_BUDGETS_V
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 30
Optional
If you enabled budgetary control, define one or more budgetary control groups.
See: Creating a Budgetary Control Group, Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
 
Navigation:
 
General LedgerèBudgetsèDefine ControlsèDefine Budgetary Control  groups
 
Tables:
 
GL_BC_OPTIONS
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 31
Optional
Define Security Rules.
See: Defining Security Rules
 
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèFinancialsèFlexfeildsèKeyèSecurityèDefine/Assign
 
Tables:
 
FND_FLEX_VALUE_RULES, FND_FLEX_VALUE_RULE_LINES
 
Views:
 
FND_FLEX_VALUE_RULES_VL
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 32
Required
Set your General Ledger profile options.
See: Setting General Ledger Profile Options, Oracle General Ledger Reference Guide
Navigation:
 
System Administratorè Profile èSystem è Profile Name
 
Tables:
 
FND_PROFILE_OPTIONS
 
Views:
 
FND_PROFILE_OPTIONS_VL
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 33
Required
Open an accounting period.
See: Opening and Closing Accounting Periods
 
Navigation:
 
General Ledger èSetupèOpen/CloseèOpen and Close periods
 
Tables:
 
GL_PERIODS
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description
 
 
 
Step 34
Optional
Set up the Global Consolidation System (GCS).
See: Global Consolidation System, Oracle General Ledger User's Guide
 
Navigation:
 
 
 
Tables:
 
 
 
Views:
 
 
 
Description