Oracle Financials Cloud: Financials
Reporting
Student Guide
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Contents
1
Oracle Financials Cloud: Financials Reporting Overview
Course Objectives 1-2
Lesson Objectives 1-3
Course Schedule 1-4
Oracle Cloud Implementation Resources 1-6
Oracle Help Center: docs.oracle.com 1-8
Video Subject Areas on the Oracle Help Center 1-9
Cloud Application Services Pages 1-10
Getting Started in Oracle Cloud Applications 1-11
Navigation 1-12
Welcome Springboard 1-13
Favorites and Recent Items 1-14
General Accounting Dashboard 1-15
Work Areas 1-16
User Interface: Invoices Work Area 1-17
Search Panel Overview 1-18
Reports and Analytics Panel 1-19
The Financials User Experience 1-20
The Page Layout 1-21
Icons 1-22
Practice 1-1 Overview: Getting Started in Oracle Cloud Applications 1-23
Subledger Infotiles Overview 1-24
Infolets Overview 1-25
The Financial Reporting Center Overview 1-26
Practice 1-2 Overview: Viewing a Financial Report from the Financial Reporting
Center 1-28
Other Reporting Tools Overview 1-29
Practice 1-3 Overview: Viewing an Oracle Transactional BI Report from Reports and
Analytics 1-30
The Vision Corporation Story 1-31
Vision Corporation Structure Diagram 1-32
Vision Corporation Chart of Accounts Summary 1-33
Summary 1-34
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Using Infolets and Account Groups
Objectives 2-2
Infolets Overview 2-3
Infolet Repository 2-4
General Accounting Infolets 2-5
Budgetary Control Infolets 2-9
Cash Management Infolets 2-10
Custom Infolets Overview 2-11
Practice 2-1 Overview: Using Infolets 2-12
Account Groups Overview 2-13
Viewing Account Groups in the General Accounting Infolets 2-14
Defining Account Groups: Header Section 2-15
Accounts Section 2-17
Practice 2-2 Overview: Setting up the General Accounting Expense Infolet for All
Users Demonstration 2-18
Practice 2-3 Overview: Setting up the General Accounting Expense Infolet for Your
User 2-19
Summary 2-20
3
Using the Financial Reporting Center
Objectives 3-2
The Financial Reporting Center with General Ledger Overview 3-3
Access to the Financial Reporting Center 3-5
The General Ledger Import Process 3-6
Oracle General Ledger Balances Cube Overview 3-7
Dimension Values in Reporting 3-8
Dimensions 3-9
Default Values 3-11
Dimension Values and Defaults 3-12
Viewing Account Groups from the Financial Reporting Center 3-15
Sunburst Tool 3-16
Sunburst Icons 3-17
Sunburst Options 3-18
Practice 3-1 Overview: Viewing an Account Group from the Financial Reporting
Center 3-19
Smart View Overview 3-20
Smart View Tools 3-21
Smart View Components 3-22
Dimensions and Members 3-23
Selecting Members from the Member Selector 3-24
Selecting Members from the POV Toolbar 3-25
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Selecting Members Using Cell-Based POV 3-26
Selecting Members by Entering Members in Free-Form Mode 3-27
Ad Hoc Analysis 3-28
Functions 3-29
Practice 3-2 Overview: Creating an Ad Hoc Analysis in Smart View 3-31
Query Designer 3-32
Downloading Smart View Reports from the Financial Reporting Center 3-33
Practice 3-3 Overview: Defining a Report with the Query Designer in Smart View 3-34
Viewing Financial Reports from the Financial Reporting Center 3-35
Live Reports and Published Snapshot Reports 3-36
Creating Financial Reports 3-37
Financial Reporting Studio Overview 3-38
Installing and Configuring the Financial Reporting Studio 3-39
Report Designer 3-40
Report Designer’s Standard Toolbar 3-41
Financial Reporting Studio Components 3-42
Designer Toolbar 3-44
Grids 3-45
Practice 3-4 Overview: Defining a Grid 3-46
Defining Formulas 3-47
Available Formulas 3-48
Practice 3-5 Overview: Adding a Formula for Total Expenses 3-49
Using Functions: Range 3-50
Practice 3-6 Overview: Defining a Rolling 12-Period Column 3-51
User and Grid Point of View Dimensions 3-52
Selecting Members 3-53
Practice 3-7 Overview: Defining the Grid and User Point of View Dimensions 3-54
Property Sheet 3-55
Property Sheet Component Objects and Features 3-56
Practice 3-8 Overview: Setting Properties 3-57
Text Box Objects 3-58
Image Objects 3-59
Chart Objects 3-60
Formatting 3-61
Formatting Toolbar 3-62
Practice 3-9 Overview: Adding a Logo, Title and Chart 3-64
Reviewing a Report 3-65
Practice 3-10 Overview: Reviewing a Financial Report 3-66
Automatic Generation of Financial Reports and Account Groups 3-67
Automatic Generation of Reports and Account Groups Settings 3-68
Validating the Rapid Implementation Spreadsheet 3-69
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Rapid Implementation Spreadsheet Sample Reports Preview 3-70
Practice 3-11 Overview: Entering Data in the Rapid Implementation Spreadsheet and
Previewing Sample Financial Reports 3-72
Submitting the Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups Process 3-73
Specifying the Parent Account Value 3-75
Deriving a Period and Naming the Financial Reports 3-76
Report Type Generated and Location of the Saved Definition 3-77
Demonstration 3-12 Overview: Generating Financial Reports and Account Groups 3-78
Copying Account Group 3-79
Summary 3-80
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Using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence for Reporting in Financials
Objectives 4-2
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Overview 4-3
The Financial Reporting Center and Oracle Transactional BI 4-4
EPM Workspace 4-5
Accessing the BI Catalog 4-6
Browsing the Catalog: Oracle Transactional BI User Interface 4-7
Oracle Transactional BI Objects and Related Icons 4-8
Practice 4-1 Overview: Reviewing the Oracle Business Intelligence UI 4-9
Oracle Transactional BI Predefined Tools and Sample Reports 4-10
Subject Areas 4-11
Column Data Structure for Analytics 4-12
Subject Area Examples 4-13
Transactional Business Intelligence for Financials Overview New Features 4-14
Oracle Transactional BI Star Schemas 4-15
Sample Reports 4-16
Analyses 4-17
BI Composer Overview 4-18
Using the BI Composer 4-19
Practice 4-2 Overview: Using BI Composer 4-20
Oracle Transactional BI Answers 4-21
Analysis Editor 4-22
The Criteria Tab 4-23
The Criteria Tab: Using Column Properties 4-24
The Results Tab 4-25
Using the Results Tab 4-26
Analysis Properties 4-27
The Prompts Tab 4-28
Practice 4-3 Overview: Creating an Analysis, View, and View Selector 4-29
Dashboards Overview 4-30
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The Dashboard Builder 4-31
Creating Dashboards 4-32
Adding Dashboard Objects 4-33
Setting Properties 4-34
Dashboard Prompts 4-35
Elements of Dashboard Prompts 4-36
Practice 4-4 Overview: Creating a Dashboard and a Prompt 4-37
Scheduling an Analysis: Delivery Agents 4-38
Creating Agents 4-39
Practice 4-5 Overview: Scheduling an Analysis 4-41
BI Mobile App Designer 4-42
BI Mobile App Designer Features 4-43
Self-Service Authoring for Business Users 4-44
Practice 4-6 Overview: Using the BI Mobile App Designer 4-45
Custom Infolets Overview 4-46
Prerequisites for Creating Custom Infolets 4-47
Creating Custom Infolets 4-48
Practice 4-7 Overview: Creating a Sandbox Demonstration 4-49
Practice 4-8 Overview: Creating a Custom Infolet. 4-50
Summary 4-51
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Using Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher for Reporting in Financials
Objectives 5-2
Oracle BI Publisher Overview 5-3
Financial Reporting Center and Oracle BI Publisher 5-6
Practice 5-1 Viewing a BI Publisher Report from the Financial Reporting Center 5-7
Oracle BI Publisher Report Components 5-8
Data Sources 5-9
Data Models 5-10
Data Models and Sample Data 5-12
Practice 5-2 Overview: Downloading Sample Data 5-13
Configuring BI Publisher Reports 5-14
Option 1 5-15
Layout Editor Overview 5-16
Layout Editor Interface: Panel 5-17
Layout Editor Interface: Toolbars and Tabs 5-18
Page Layouts 5-19
Components 5-20
Properties 5-21
Practice 5-3 Overview: Using the Layout Editor 5-22
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Template Builder for Word 5-23
Template Builder Installation 5-24
Template Builder for Word Overview 5-25
Interface 5-26
Insert Menu 5-27
Tools Menu 5-28
Using the Template Builder for Word 5-29
Uploading the Template File to the Report Definition 5-30
Practice 5-4 Overview: Creating an RTF Template 5-31
Option 2 5-32
BI Publisher Customize Feature: Setups 5-33
Configuring a Predefined Report with a New Layout 5-34
Submitting a Customized Report from Scheduled Processes 5-35
Practice 5-5 Overview: Submitting a Configured Report from Scheduled Processes
Demonstration 5-36
Practice 5-6 Overview: Using the Customize Feature 5-37
Option 3 5-38
Editing an Existing Predefined Layout 5-39
Practice 5-7 Overview: Editing an Existing Predefined Layout 5-40
Option 4 5-41
Using the BI Publisher Report Wizard 5-42
Practice 5-8 Overview: Creating a Data Model and Report from a Spreadsheet 5-43
Summary 5-44
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Using Other Reporting Tools
Objectives 6-2
Other Reporting Tools Overview 6-3
General Accounting Dashboard Overview 6-4
Account Monitor 6-5
Practice 6-1 Overview: Using the Account Monitor 6-6
Account Inspector 6-7
Practice 6-2 Overview: Using the Account Inspector 6-8
Using the BI Catalog for Reporting in Financials 6-9
Using the EPM Workspace for Report Distribution 6-10
Using the Batch Scheduler 6-11
Practice 6-3 Overview: Scheduling a Financial Reporting Batch 6-12
Report Security 6-13
Scheduled Processes Page 6-15
Scheduling a New Process 6-16
Setting the Process Options 6-17
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Setting the Advanced Options 6-18
Submitting and Reviewing the Report 6-20
Summary 6-21
A Around the World of Reporting for Financials
Objectives A-2
Predefined Reports A-4
General Ledger A-5
GL BI Publisher Reports A-6
Practice A-1 Overview: Running a GL BI Publisher Report A-12
General Ledger Oracle Transactional BI Reports A-13
General Ledger Subject Areas A-14
Practice A-2 Overview: Running a General Ledger OTBI Report A-15
Intercompany A-16
Intercompany BI Publisher Reports: Reconciliation Reports A-17
Intercompany BI Publisher Reports A-18
Intercompany Oracle Transactional BI Reports A-19
Practice A-3 Overview: Running an Intercompany Transaction Summary Report A-20
Budgetary Control A-21
Budgetary Control BI Publisher Reports A-22
Budgetary Control Subject Areas A-25
Subledger Accounting A-26
Subledger Accounting Predefined Reports Overview A-27
Subledger Accounting BI Publisher Reports A-28
Subledger Accounting Subject Areas A-31
Practice A-4 Overview: Running a Subledger Accounting BI Publisher Report A-32
Accounting Hub A-33
Accounting Hub Reports A-34
Payables A-38
Payables BI Publisher Reports A-39
Payables Oracle Transactional BI Reports A-49
Payables Subject Areas A-54
Payables to Ledger Reconciliation Drill-down Scalability A-56
Payables to Ledger Reconciliation Report A-57
Practice A-5 Overview: Running a Payables Invoice Register Report A-58
Scanned Infotile for Payables Manager and Specialist A-59
Recent Infotile A-60
Holds Infotile A-61
Approval Infotile A-62
Prepayments and Payments Infotile A-63
Payments A-65
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Run Payments Disbursement Reports Automatically A-66
Run Payments Disbursement Reports Manually A-70
Payments Funds Capture Reports A-71
Run Payments Funds Capture Reports Automatically A-72
Run Payments Funds Capture Reports Manually A-76
Payments Subject Areas A-77
Assets A-78
Assets BI Publisher Reports A-79
Assets Subject Areas A-93
Practice A-6 Overview: Running an Asset BI Publisher Report A-94
Additions Infotile A-95
Detail Table for Additions Infotile A-96
Adjustments Infotile A-97
Transfer Infotile A-98
Retirements Infotile A-99
Depreciation Infotile A-101
Receivables A-102
Receivables BI Publisher Reports A-103
Receivables Oracle Fusion Transactional BI Reports A-113
Receivables Subject Areas A-115
Improved Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Drilldown Scalability A-119
Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Report Dashboard A-120
Setting Up for the Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Report A-121
Prepare Receivables to General Ledger Reconciliation Process A-122
Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Report: Security A-123
Practice A-7 Overview: Running a Receivables to GL Reconciliation Report A-124
Billing Work Area Infotiles A-125
Accounts Receivable Infotiles: Receipt Batches and Lockbox Exceptions A-127
Accounts Receivable Infotiles: Unapplied Receipts and Unapplied Credits A-129
Advanced Collections A-130
Collections BI Publisher Reports A-131
Practice A-8 Overview: Running an Advanced Collections BI Publisher Report A-132
Revenue Management Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Reports A-133
Revenue Management Subject Areas A-134
Cash Management A-135
Cash Management BI Publisher Reports A-136
Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence Reports A-137
Cash Management Subject Areas A-138
Practice A-9 Overview: Running a Cash to GL Reconciliation Report A-139
Tax Reporting Overview A-140
Tax Reporting Tools A-141
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Tax Reporting Ledger A-142
Tax Reports Based on the Tax Reporting Ledger A-143
Practice A-10 Overview: Running a Tax BI Publisher Report A-149
EMEA Reporting A-150
Additional Security Requirement for EMEA Reports A-151
Report for European Union A-152
Report for United Kingdom A-153
Reports for France A-154
Reports for Italy A-157
Reports for Spain A-167
Online VAT Reporting for Spain A-170
Investment Register A-171
Reports for Spain A-172
Reports for Germany A-175
Regional and Country-Specific New Features A-177
Withholding Tax Reporting for Argentina A-178
Withholding Tax Reporting for Chile A-179
Withholding Tax Reporting for Colombia A-181
Financials for EMEA A-182
Correction Documents for Poland A-183
Processing in Receivables A-184
Assigning the Security Privilege A-185
Jednolity Plik Kontrolny (JPK) Reporting for Poland A-186
JPK Accounting Books Extract for Poland A-187
JPK Bank Statements Extract for Poland A-188
JPK Invoices Listing for Poland A-189
JPK Sales and Purchase Registers for Poland A-190
Print Commercial Documents for Poland A-192
Viewing Execution Report A-193
Tax Point Date Adjustment Feature A-194
Processing in Receivables A-195
Processing in Payables A-196
Assign Security Privilege A-197
Practice A-11 Overview: Running a European Sales Listing Report A-198
APAC Reporting A-199
Additional Security Requirement for APAC Reports A-200
Additional Security Requirement for China Reports A-201
Reports for China A-202
Reports for Japan A-205
Reports for Singapore A-207
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LAD Reporting A-208
Reports for Mexico A-209
Summary A-211
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1
Oracle Financials Cloud: Financials Reporting
Overview
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Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
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Understand how to navigate the applications.
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Understand the account groups and Infolets.
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Explore the Financial Reporting Center.
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Use financial business intelligence tools and reports.
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Run various types of subledger financial reports.
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Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
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Discuss the course schedule and approach.
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Locate course resources.
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Navigate Oracle Cloud Applications.
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Understand the key features of reporting for financials.
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Explain the Vision story.
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Describe the Vision charts of accounts.
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Course Schedule
This course is designed to generally follow this agenda:
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Day One
– Oracle Financials Reporting Overview and Navigation
– Account Groups and Infolets
– Financial Reporting Center for General Ledger
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Day Two
– Financial Reporting Center for General Ledger
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Course Schedule
This course is designed to generally follow this agenda:
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Day Three
– Financial Reporting Center for Oracle Transactional BI
– Financial Reporting Center for Oracle BI Publisher
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Day Four
– Using Other Reporting Tools
– Around the World of Financial Reporting
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Oracle Cloud Implementation Resources
Classroom and Other Resources:
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Oracle Financials Cloud: Enterprise Structures and General Ledger Implementation
Student guide (This guide and its companion course)
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Oracle Cloud Applications Help in the Applications
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Oracle Fusion Technology Library on OTN
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My Oracle Support (MOS)
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Oracle Help Center
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Oracle Fusion Technology Library on OTN: (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/index.html)
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My Oracle Support (MOS): (https://support.oracle.com/) including this documents:
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Getting Started with Oracle Fusion Applications: Common Implementation, Article ID
1387777.1 on Oracle Support
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Oracle Fusion Applications: Financials Reporting (Document 1458904.1
Oracle Help Center: (http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financialscs_gs/index.html) including these
Oracle Financials Cloud books:
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Getting Started with Your Financials Cloud Implementation
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Implementing Enterprise Structures and General Ledger
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Using Common Features including Infolet Personalization topics
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Implementing Financials for Asia/Pacific
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Implementing Financials for EMEA
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Using Oracle Social Network
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Security Reference for Oracle Financials Cloud
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Creating Analytics and Reports
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Using Analytics and Reports
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Using Financials for Asia/Pacific
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Using Financials for EMEA
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Using General Ledger
Oracle Hyperion Books including:
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Calculation Manager Designer's Guide
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Data Relationship Management Administrator's Guide
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Data Relationship Management Oracle GL Integration Guide
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Data Relationship Management User's Guide
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Enterprise Performance Management Workspace Administrator's Guide
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Enterprise Performance Management Workspace User's Guide
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Financial Reporting Administrator's Guide
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Financial Reporting Studio User's Guide
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Financial Reporting Charting Guide
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Financial Reporting User's Guide
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Smart View for Office User's Guide
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Oracle Help Center: docs.oracle.com
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Navigate to: www.docs.oracle.com.
The screenshot shows the welcome page of the Oracle Help Center
Oracle Help Center is:
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Central hub for all documentation and tutorials.
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Organized by major product categories including Cloud, Applications, Middleware, and Database.
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Video Subject Areas on the Oracle Help Center
Link to the Video Area in Oracle Help Center
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Get Started with Oracle Applications Cloud
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Set Up Oracle Applications Cloud
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Get Started with Oracle Financials Cloud
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Use General Ledger
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Use Payables Invoice to Pay
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Use Receivables Credit to Cash
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Use Other Oracle Financials Cloud Products
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Use Oracle Social Network to Improve Collaboration
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Use Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence for Financials Cloud
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Link to the videos: http://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/financialscs_gs/financialscs_videos.htm
The Use General Ledger includes the following videos:
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Define a basic financial report.
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Add formulas to a financial report.
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Define range functions for a financial report.
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Add grid points of view for a financial report.
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Set the page and grid properties for a financial report.
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Add formatting and graphing to a financial report.
Note: New videos are constantly being added.
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Cloud Application Services Pages
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Navigate to: www.docs.oracle.com/Cloud.
The screenshot shows the Cloud Application Services Home page.
Consistent organization, content, and link format for Cloud service pages.
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Get Started
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Videos
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Books
Friendly task panel to use to change focus from Cloud to:
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Applications
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Middleware
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Database
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Other Documentation
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Getting Started in Oracle Cloud Applications
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Navigate to: Login > Welcome Springboard.
The screenshot shows the Welcome Springboard.
Oracle Cloud Applications are:
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Designed from the ground up, using the latest technology advances and incorporating best practices
gathered from thousands of customers.
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Completely open, service-enabled enterprise applications.
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Designed with features for the best-in-class user-interface designs and workflows that optimize
usability and deliver business value.
All functionality revolves around the Oracle Cloud Applications Welcome Springboard, which can be
personalized.
Note: The Welcome Springboard view changes based on your roles and privileges.
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Navigation
The user interface features include:
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Welcome Springboard
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Infolets
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Infotiles
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Panels
Example of Infolets
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > General Accounting Infolets.
The screenshot represents the General Accounting infolets.
Oracle’s focus on providing an exceptional user experience pervades the Oracle Applications Cloud.
Creating a compelling, pleasing user interface that provides only what you need right when you need it is of
the highest priority. Advantages include:
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Detailed list of all the work areas that you have access to using the improved navigator.
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Logical, related tasks organized into groups and displayed in a pre-determined order set by the
application.
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Ability to configure tasks to meet your business needs.
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Access to work areas and dashboards by clicking on the icons on the Welcome Springboard or from
the Navigator entries.
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Welcome Springboard
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Quick glance at your work-related conversations and announcements.
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Page control navigation located at the pages to access the Welcome Springboard and
the infolet pages.
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Navigator to access additional applications.
Page Control Dots
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard.
The screenshot is an example of the page control dots.
Improve efficiency and productivity of your workforce with the Welcome Springboard that is optimized for
tables and mobile devices. You can also:
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Use the page control dots that appears on the Welcome Springboard to switch between that page
and infolet pages.
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Use the icons on the Welcome Springboard to easily access relevant work areas and dashboards.
Alternatively, use the Navigator to access any additional applications.
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Take advantage of the fact that no additional steps are required to enable the Welcome Springboard.
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Maintain your personalization of the home page in earlier releases, which is preserved on My
Dashboard.
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Favorites and Recent Items
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > Select the Favorites and Recent Items icon.
The screenshot show the Favorites and Recent Items panel.
The Favorites and Recent Items menu enables you to return to flows that have been recently accessed,
usually within, but not limited to, a single session.
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General Accounting Dashboard
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Navigate to: General Accounting > General Accounting Dashboard.
The screenshot shows the General Accounting Dashboard.
Oracle Cloud dashboards provide:
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Information summaries: View of the big picture as well as prioritization.
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Information monitoring: Quick action and further exploration.
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Information containers: Multiple regions, dashboards, graphs, and other objects.
The General Accounting Dashboard:
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Is the main dashboard for Oracle General Ledger functionality.
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Contains the following sections:
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Account Monitor
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Intercompany Transactions
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Journals
Contains the following direct links:
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Journals
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Period Close
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Inquiry
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Planning, and Budgeting.
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Work Areas
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Navigate to: General Accounting > Period Close.
The screenshot depicts the Period Close work area.
A work area is a grouping of similar tasks. The Period Close work area includes tasks for opening and
closing accounting periods for Oracle General Ledger and subledgers.
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User Interface: Invoices Work Area
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Navigate to: Payables > Invoices
This screenshot shows the Payables Invoices work area.
The Invoices Work Area is divided into components. The slide shows an example of the main components
in the Oracle Cloud User Interface.
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Global Area: Contains links to help you navigate user interfaces, personalized links and tools, and
the name of the user who is signed in.
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Infotiles Area: Contains infotiles that provide a quick glance of key performance indicators and
expand for more details.
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Section: Contains the transaction or form that requires creation, editing, or review.
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Panel: An anchored component on the page that contains one or more vertical tabs to enable you to
search, run reports, and view integrated conversations in the context of the current task.
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Open the panel by clicking one of the panel tabs. The panel collapses by default.
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Use the slide-out panel to access features directly from any screen without leaving the
current application or navigating through different roles or hierarchies.
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Tasks Panel: View the tasks available for your user role.
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Search Panel Overview
Use the Search panel to perform local searches on the work area you are currently using.
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Navigate to: Payables > Invoices
The screenshot shows the Payables Invoices work area Search panel tab.
Use the Search panel to perform a local search based on the work area you are currently using. Click the
Search panel tab to expand the Search panel and perform a search.
For example, in the Invoices work area, you can quickly search for an invoice by invoice number, supplier or
party, or supplier site using the Search panel.
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Reports and Analytics Panel
Use the Reports and Analytics panel to run any reports and analytics available to your user
role.
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Navigate to: Payables > Invoices
The screenshot is an example of the Payables Invoices work area Reports and Analytics Panel tab.
Click the Reports and Analytics panel tab to expand the panel and select reports and analytics you want to
view.
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The Financials User Experience
The Financials user experience includes:
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Pleasing and uncluttered page layouts.
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An intelligent interactive user experience.
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Intuitive and simple icons.
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The Page Layout
All setup pages in Financials have the look and feel of the transaction pages. The pages
include:
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An effective and accessible work area on any device.
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At-a-glance views of your work-related conversations and announcements.
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Pagination control.
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Navigate to: General Accounting > Journals > Create Journal > Journal Lines.
The screenshot shows the Journal Lines Query by Example icon.
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Icons
To help you perform actions and functions directly on the page, the icons are intuitive and
simple. The shading of the icons are:
•
Dark grey: Enabled
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Light grey: Disabled
You can hover over an icon to see a tooltip describing the icon.
Enabled icon
Disabled icon
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Navigate to: General Accounting > Journals > Create Journal > Journal Lines.
The screenshot illustrates the enabled and disabled icons on the journal lines page.
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Practice 1-1 Overview: Getting Started in Oracle Cloud Applications
This practice covers the following topics:
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Running the session warmer scripts.
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Signing in to Oracle Cloud Applications.
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Exploring the Global Area.
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Signing out of Oracle Cloud Applications.
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Subledger Infotiles Overview
Use infotiles to:
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Obtain detailed information from a single page.
•
Orient yourself in intense, repetitive, and focused tasks.
Infotile
Select Tile
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Navigate to: Payables > Invoices.
The screenshot depicts the Payable Invoices infotiles.
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Use infotiles to scan information across areas of interest.
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Navigate among infotiles to have related details refreshed in the content area of the page.
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Glance to see what is going on and then click the Select Tile arrow to open and scan the details.
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Find infotiles on the Assets, Receivables, and Payables landing pages and the Billing or the
Expenses work areas.
Note: No additional steps are required to enable this feature.
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Infolets Overview
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Select the page control dot on the Welcome Springboard to view a specific infolet page.
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Use the dots to return to the Welcome Springboard.
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Use the arrow on the infolet to change views.
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Click on the Actions menu of the infolet.
Page Control Dots
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard
This screenshot show the General Accounting Infolets.
Use infolets to view information at a glance from different sources in an efficient and timely way directly from
the Welcome Springboard. You have the right information instead of just more data to sift through.
Mobile device support is available to take your work on the go enabling you to close your books quickly. You
can spot trends and exceptions to gain insights about your financial results in real-time.
Infolets are available for General Ledger, Intercompany, Budgetary Control, and Cash Management.
Note: You can only view those infolets that you have permission to access.
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The Financial Reporting Center Overview
The Financial Reporting Center is intended to be the primary user interface for financials
end users to access all seven report types.
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The graphic depicts the various reporting tools available for Cloud Financials.
You can access reports using various methods. However, the Financial Reporting Center gives access to
every type of report and is intended to be the primary user interface for financials end users and is tablet
and smartphone friendly.
Financial Reports are read from Shared > Custom > Financials and My Folders. All other report types can
be saved anywhere in the BI Catalog, however, any user created content should be in the Shared > Custom
folder. It is also possible to create sub-folders within the Shared > Custom > folder.
The seven types of reports that can be run from the Financial Reporting Center and other reporting tools
are:
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Financial Reports: Reports built off the Oracle Financial Reporting Studio using data in the Oracle
General Ledger Balances Cube. For example, company income statements and balance sheets.
These reports are mainly run by users in General Ledger.
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Account Groups and Sunburst: Used to monitor key accounts in General Ledger. When a user
creates an account group it becomes visible in the Financial Reporting Center with the Sunburst
visualization tool. The Sunburst visualization tool enables you to interact with your account balances
across various business dimensions in order to view balances from different perspectives. Account
groups are only used in General Ledger.
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Smart View Reports: A multi-dimensional pivot analysis tool combined with full Microsoft Office
functionality as an add-in. Smart View enables you to interactively analyze your balances and define
reports using a familiar spreadsheet environment. These queries are mainly for users in General
Ledger. One user can upload a query using Workspace and then from Financial Reporting Center
another user can download the query to their local drive for use.
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Oracle Transactional BI Analyses: These analyses and reports are built off of transactional tables
using Subject Areas. These reports can be run by users in General Ledger, Payables, Receivables,
Cash Management, Intercompany, and so on.
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Oracle Transactional BI Dashboards: Dashboards put all the information, functions and actions that
a business user needs to do their job in one place. Dashboards are built off Oracle Transactional BI
objects like analyses and reports. These reports can be run by users in General Ledger, Payables,
Receivables, Cash Management, Intercompany, and so on.
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Business Intelligence Publisher Reports: Most of these reports are predefined and must first be
submitted and resubmitted to see the latest data by the Oracle Enterprise Scheduler System (ESS)
through the Scheduled Processes navigation. These reports can be run by users in General Ledger,
Payables, Receivables, Cash Management, Intercompany, and so on.
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BI Mobile Apps: Mobile App Designer is an application that enables you to create multi-touch
information-driven applications with rich interaction, rich visualization, and rich media, for mobile
devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android phone, tablet, and more. These reports can be run by users
in General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Cash Management, Intercompany, and so on.
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Practice 1-2 Overview: Viewing a Financial Report from the Financial
Reporting Center
This practice covers the following topics:
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Navigating to the Financial Reporting Center.
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Running the Balance Sheet Report.
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Other Reporting Tools Overview
The six other Tools for Reporting in Financials are:
Other Reporting Tools
Report Type
General Accounting Dashboard
Account Groups
Account Inspector
Account Groups
Reports and Analytics
Oracle Transactional BI Objects
BI Catalog
All Report Types except BI Publisher Reports
EPM Workspace
Reports, Books, Snapshot Reports, Snapshot Books,
Financial Reporting Batches, and Batch Scheduler
Enterprise Scheduler System (ESS)
Oracle BI Publisher Reports
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The table lists the other reporting tools and the corresponding report type.
Even though the Financial Reporting Center is designed to be the main user interface for a financial end
user’s reporting needs, some users may choose to use any of the six other tools for reporting in financials
such as:
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General Accounting Dashboard: Provides access to Account Groups and uses the Account Monitor
to efficiently monitor and track key account balances in real-time.
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Account Inspector: Perform ad hoc queries from account groups, the Tasks panel tab, and from
financial reports through drill down to underlying journals and subledger transactions.
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Reports and Analytics: This other reporting tool has a panel that reflects the folder structure of the BI
Catalog. Users can access and run any Oracle Transactional BI analysis, report or dashboard. Users
cannot run Financial Reports or BI Publisher reports from this interface. This interface can be used
by all financials users.
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BI Catalog: A component of the Enterprise Performance Management Workspace where you can
run all report types except BI Publisher reports from here.
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EPM Workspace: Create Reports, Books, Snapshot Reports, Snapshot Books, Financial Reporting
Batches, and Batch Scheduler and schedule batches to automatically run and burst to email. The
Workspace is available from the Financial Reporting Center task.
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Enterprise Scheduler System (ESS): Only BI Publisher reports can be submitted from this interface.
Users access this interface by navigating to Tools > Scheduled Processes. Most financial users
have access to this interface to run standard reports for all the financial applications.
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Practice 1-3 Overview: Viewing an Oracle Transactional BI Report
from Reports and Analytics
This practice covers the following topics:
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Navigating to the Invoice Audit Listing.
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Running the Invoice Audit Listing.
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The Vision Corporation Story
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Vision Corporation’s product line includes high technology products.
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Vision Corporation is a multinational conglomerate that operates primarily in the United States (US) and the
United Kingdom (UK) producing servers, laptops, and notepads.
Vision Corporation has recently expanded their operations to France.
Vision Corporation has purchased an Oracle Financials Cloud Applications solution including Oracle
General Ledger and all of the Oracle subledgers.
Vision Corporation has 400 plus employees and revenue of $120 million.
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Vision Corporation Structure Diagram
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The graphic is a diagram of Vision Corporation’s structure.
Vision Corporation is a multinational conglomerate that operates primarily in the United States (US) and the
United Kingdom (UK). The product line includes high technology products. The company has two
distribution centers and four warehouses that share a common item master in the US, UK, and France. All
the US, UK, and France general and administrative costs are processed by the Shared Service Center
Corporate business unit.
Vision Corporation has three separate ledgers representing one or more legal entities:
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Vision North America Inc.
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Vision France Inc.
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Vision United Kingdom Ltd.
Vision Corporation consolidates results for its high-technology business across the enterprise in a corporate
consolidation ledger.
Each legal entity has a corresponding business unit. A Corporate BU processes all administrative, accounts
payable, procurement, accounts receivable, billing, and human resources functions.
Oracle University’s training instance has the following limitations:
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Due to space constraint, only some of the Vision Corporation entities are shown.
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This version of the demo environment does not include a shared service center. The one shown
here is for discussion purposes.
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This version of the demo environment has data loaded only for US1 LE1, US1 BU, and the UK.
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Vision Corporation Chart of Accounts Summary
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The graphic depicts the chart of accounts structure and shows the names of the segments and the default
values that are used by Vision Corporation's three primary ledgers.
Sample Accounts:
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Vision US
101.10.11200.000.000.000
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Vision France
311.30.101000.000.000.000 Capital Account
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Vision UK
303.30.1100.000.000.000
Cash Account
Cash Account
Note: Each segment of the sample accounts corresponds to the segments listed in the boxes above. For
example, 101.10.12190.000.000.000 stands for: Company 101, (Line of Business) 10, Account 11210, Cost
Center 000, Product 000, Intercompany 000.
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
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Discuss the course schedule and approach.
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Locate course resources.
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Navigate Oracle Cloud Applications.
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Understand the key features of reporting for financials.
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Explain the Vision story.
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Describe the Vision charts of accounts.
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2
Using Infolets and Account Groups
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
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Understand and use infolets.
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Describe and set up account groups.
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Understand how account groups work with infolets.
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Infolets Overview
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Select the page control dot on the Welcome Springboard to view a specific infolet page.
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Use the dots to return to the Welcome Springboard.
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Use the arrow in the lower corner of the infolet to change views.
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Click on the Actions menu of the infolet.
Page Control Dots
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > General Accounting Infolet.
The screenshot shows the General Accounting infolet.
Use infolets to view information at a glance from different sources in an efficient and timely way directly from
the Welcome Springboard. You have the right information instead of just more data to sift through.
Mobile device support is available to take your work on the go enabling you to close your books quickly. You
can spot trends and exceptions to gain insights about your financial results in real-time.
Infolets are available for General Ledger, Intercompany, Budgetary Control, and Cash Management.
Note: You can only view those infolets that you have permission to access.
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Infolet Repository
The Infolet Repository displays the infolets available for each infolet dashboard.
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > General Accounting Infolets dot.
The screenshot shows the General Accounting infolets Infolets Repository icon.
The infolet repository displays the available set of infolets available based on your access privileges.
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Click the Infolet Repository icon in the upper right hand corner or the page, then select or deselect
the infolets you want to use and drag and drop infolets in the order that you want them displayed.
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Click the Actions menu in the upper right hand to view a list of actions that can be performed for that
infolet. The list varies by infolet. For example, actions:
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View the last updated date on when process ran.
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Run extracts.
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Refresh the view.
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Edit title and enable views
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Hide the infolet
Use infolets to aggregate key information for a specific area, for example, your sales pipeline,
employee turnover, or other business transactions.
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General Accounting Infolets
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Tracking the financial close process with:
– Close Calendar
– Open Subledgers
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Managing day to day operations with:
– Journals
– IC (Intercompany) Transactions
– Allocations (Unallocated Costs)
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > General Accounting Infolet.
The screenshot shows the General Accounting infolet.
Tracking the financial close process with:
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Close Calendar:
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Shows the ledger and accounting period referred to by all the General Accounting Infolets on
the page.
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Shows where you are in your close cycle for that accounting period.
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Enables you to change the ledger or specify an override for the accounting period assigned
by the application by navigating to Setting and Actions menu > Set Preferences.
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Has a positive value if the number of days are past the accounting period. For example, the
positive number of 64 in the image above, shows that you are 64 days beyond the end date
of the 12-15 accounting period which ended on Dec 31, 2015.
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Has a negative number to show the count down until the end of the accounting period.
Open Subledgers: Displays the subledgers that are still open for the accounting period based on the
period status for each module.
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Managing day to day operations with
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Journals: Based on user defined thresholds, it provides a quick overview that shows:
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How many journals are outstanding for the accounting period.
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The total amount of all outstanding transactions including journals that are unposted and
incomplete, pending approval, or in an error status.
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IC (Intercompany) Transactions: Displays the total amount and batch count of all transactions that
have not completed the intercompany transaction flow.
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Allocations (Unallocated Costs): Identifies the residuals amounts from allocations and provides
insight into remaining account details, balances, and activities. This infolet requires a user defined
account group.
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The colored portion of the circle shows the number of accounts that have been fully
allocated.
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The uncolored portion indicates the number of allocations that still have balances.
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The amount in the middle indicates the remaining allocation balance.
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General Accounting Infolets
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Monitoring reconciliations with:
– IC (Intercompany) Reconciliation
– AP Reconciliation
– AR Reconciliation
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Assessing financial performance with:
– Revenues
– Expenses
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > General Accounting Infolet.
The screenshot shows the General Accounting infolet.
Control your account reconciliations between your subledgers and general ledger, and between your
intercompany payables and receivables by monitoring reconciliations with:
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IC (Intercompany) Reconciliation:
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Speeds up intercompany reconciliation by highlighting variances between amounts due from
providers and receivers.
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Provides drill down to the report detailing the transactions that are not in balance.
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AP Reconciliation: Obtains an immediate calculation of the variance between your payable
subledger balance compared to what is shown in the general ledger.
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AR Reconciliation: Obtains an immediate calculation of the variance between your receivable
subledger balance compared to what is shown in the general ledger.
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Note: Both the AP and AR Reconciliation infolets include extra options on the Actions menu
that enables you to run the intercompany extracts and refresh the view.
Feature a quick click that opens a waterfall chart with more detail on the variances when you click
anywhere on the infolet. The chart:
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Explains the differences by identifying the classes of variance and the expected magnitude in
each of these reconciled items.
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Has green bars that represent a variance that is additive, which means you add the variance
to the subledger balance to match to the GL balance.
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Has red bars that indicate a decrease.
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Provides hover over controls that show you the precise amount and walk you through the
reconciliation itself.
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Provides a link to enable you to view a summary reconciliation report. You can drill down into
the actual transactions from within the reconciliation report.
Assessing financial performance with:
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Revenues: This infolet requires a user defined account group.
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Enables you to assess your financial performance by obtaining an instant view of your
revenue and expense performance.
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Highlights the best and worst performing revenue accounts determined by the results for the
period ended.
Expenses: This infolet requires a user defined account group.
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Identifies the expense account with the most unfavorable variance between results for the
current period and a target or baseline,
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amount shown is the variance between the current balance of the account compared to its
target. A variance percentage with a performance indicator arrow is also displayed.
Note: This course covers defining account groups for infolets later in this lesson.
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Budgetary Control Infolets
The infolets for Budgetary Control enables better budget decision-making with improved
insight. Use account groups to define:
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Five Budget Consumed infolets.
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Five Funds Available infolets.
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > General Accounting Infolet.
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Cash Management Infolets
5 available infolets:
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Cash Balance
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At Risk
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5 Day Forecast
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Unreconciled
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Missing Statements
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > Cash Management Infolets Dot.
This screenshot shows the Cash Management infolets.
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Cash Balance: Gives you visibility into your overall cash balance across all of your accounts. The
currency in which the amount displayed is configurable and is indicated by the symbol. All the
balances used on the infolets are the last known balances reported on the bank statements, where
the last known balance is the balance code defined on the setup page.
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At Risk: You can set a target balance for each bank account to indicate the desired minimum
balance to maintain for the account. Bank accounts which fail to meet their target balance are
highlighted on the At Risk infolet. The expanded view shows the top five bank accounts in
descending order of variance highlighting the accounts which are most at risk. The blue portion of a
bar on the graph represents the current balance and the red portion represents the deficit for the
bank account. The currency used on the graph is the reporting currency specified on the setup page.
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5 Day Forecast: Displays a bar graph that represents the forecast of the overall cash balances for
the next 5 days.
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Unreconciled: Compares the total month-to-date unreconciled statement line amount against the
system transaction amount.
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Missing Statements: The Missing Statements infolet shows the number of bank accounts that are
missing a bank statement. A bank account is included in the count on this infolet when the difference
between the last known bank statement date and the current date is more than the threshold
specified on the setup page.
You can drill down from any of the infolets to the Cash Balances page where you can initiate transactions to
address any issues you notice.
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Custom Infolets Overview
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Monitor performance with user configurable interactive dashboards based on user
defined Oracle Transactional BI reports.
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Drill from dashboards to detailed reports.
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > Custom Infolets Dot.
The screenshot shows a user-defined Balance Sheet infolet.
Monitor performance with interactive dashboards based upon balances and supplemental information such
as targets and performance goals using highly configurable Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence
reports.
Drill from performance measures to details to investigate and analyze performance variations.
Creating Oracle Transactional BI reports based infolets are covered in another lesson.
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Practice 2-1 Overview: Using Infolets
This practice covers the following topics:
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Selecting your Data Access Set.
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Exploring the various General Accounting infolets.
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Account Groups Overview
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Account groups are easy-to-use reporting components that save queries on account
balances requiring regular monitoring.
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The output from your rules can be displayed in:
– The Financial Reporting Center
– The Account Monitor
– General Accounting Infolets
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The graphic is an example of a travel expense Account Group.
With Account Groups, you define tolerance rules to create self-monitoring accounts. Tolerance rules are set
using criteria comparing two balances. The comparison looks for an increase or decrease that is above or
below a percentage or constant amount threshold. When the criteria is met, the output can be displayed in:
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The Financial Reporting Center: The results are viewed in either a table or the Sunburst feature.
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Account Monitor: From the General Accounting Dashboard.
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General Accounting Infolets: Can be viewed on either the Allocation, Expenses or Revenue General
Accounting Infolets.
Additional features for Account Groups include the ability to:
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Share your account group with other users.
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Use the account group interchangeably for all ledgers that belong to the same balances cube
containing the option to dynamically derive the ledger for the query.
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Label each account group row with a short name that is easily recognizable in the infolet details.
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Support for additional comparison options including Not Equal and Equal.
Note: This course covers using account groups in the Financial Reporting Center and the Account Monitor
in subsequent lessons.
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Viewing Account Groups in the General Accounting Infolets
Automatically Available
Included with
Shipped Job Roles
Setup
Needed
Revenues
Yes
Financial Analyst
General Accountant
General Accounting Manager
Yes
Expenses
Yes
Financial Analyst
General Accountant
General Accounting Manager
Yes
Allocations
Yes
Financial Analyst
General Accountant
General Accounting Manager
Yes
Infolet
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The table details the three infolets that can display an account group, if it is automatically available, what job
roles include the infolets, and if any setup is needed.
With the General Accounting Infolets you can display the account group results for revenue, expense, and
allocation information. Before the account group-based infolets are set up, a link appears on the infolet that
is used to open the setup page. For example, the link that appears on the Expenses infolet says: Set up
Expense Accounts.
You can also setup the account groups from the Account Monitor in the General Accounting Dashboard.
The infolet names are derived from the account group names. You can override the name for your infolet
using Edit Title > View on the Action menu. You can give each account group row a short name that is
displayed in infolet details.
The signage display options are applied to the Account Monitor display. Define the signage options by
clicking on the down arrow next to your user name > select the: Setting and Actions menu > Set
Preferences For the infolets, the signage is already set to show:
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Revenue amounts as a positive when the balances are a credit (CR).
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Expense accounts as a positive when the balances are a debit (DR).
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Defining Account Groups: Header Section
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Navigate to: General Accounting > General Accounting Dashboard > View > Account Groups > Create.
The screenshot shows the Create Account Group header.
The account group mechanism provides an easy-to-use and highly configurable tool to determine what is
displayed in the Revenues, Expenses and Allocations infolets.
In the header section, specify these elements:
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Name and Description: Provide a meaningful name and description. If being used on an infolet, the
infolet name is derived from the account group name.
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Display in: This determines where the account group is viewed. The choices are:
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Account Monitor: The account group is visible in the financial reporting center and the
account monitor.
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Allocations: The account group is in the allocations infolet, the financial reporting center, and
the account monitor.
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Expenses: The account group is visible in the expenses infolet, the financial reporting center
and the account monitor.
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Revenue: The account group is visible in the revenue infolet, the financial reporting center
and the account monitor.
Set as Default: Because more than one account group is allowed, one account group must be the
default for each Display In type. The financial reporting center and the account monitor can view
more than one account group. The infolets can display only the one default account group.
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Dynamically Derive Ledger: A account group can be based only on one chart of accounts. The best
practice is to have the same chart of accounts across ledgers, and then you can potentially use the
same account group across your ledgers. If you do not want to use an account for all ledgers, add
the specific ledger to each account group row. If you check this option when setting up the account
group:
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The application selects the ledger for you based on your selected data access set and
ledger.
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The ledger column in the account group row is not displayed.
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Time Option: To specify the target to evaluate the current performance against. The choices are
Accounting Period, Quarter or Year.
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Comparison Option: This determines the balance type used by the account group. The comparison
options are based on the Time Option chosen. You can select a budget, forecast, or prior
performance. Some of the choices are Budget PTD, QTD, or YTD, Previous Period, Prior Year PTD,
QTD, or YTD.
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Scenario: If the Budget Comparison Option is chosen, you must provide the budget scenario. The
choices are budget or forecast.
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Access:
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Private: Only the user that created the account group can access the account group in
infolets, the financial reporting center, and the account monitor.
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Public: This enables any user with proper security privileges to view the account group in
infolets, the financial reporting center, and the account monitor. Note: Only one infolet
account group can be public. If another user creates a new public account group it replaces
the first one created. Also, if a public account group exists and a user creates their own
default private infolet account group, their new private account group infolet overrides the
Public infolet account group just for that user.
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Shared: This enables the creator of the account group to select which users can access.
After choosing the Shared Access, navigate to View > Manage to add the users to the
account group.
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Accounts Section
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Navigate to: General Accounting > General Accounting Dashboard > View > Account Groups > Create.
The screenshot shows the Create Account Group Accounts section.
Every account group can have more than one account to monitor. You can use the same accounts on more
than one account group. For example, you might want to monitor five travel expense accounts two different
ways. One to compare current period to previous period and the other one to compare current period to
budget. This would require two different account groups using the same five accounts but different header
definitions.
The Account section contains:
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Account: This is an account combination based on a chart of accounts. The account can use either
parent values or detailed account values. If a parent value is used the user can drilldown to detail.
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Change and Threshold: You can choose:
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Always Display a change: No threshold is required because this option always displays the
difference.
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Only display when there is an Increase or Decrease by amount or percent: When chosen, a
threshold percent or amount is required.
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Not Equal: Required on the Allocations Infolet. The threshold must be set to 0 to enable the
infolet to display accounts that have not been fully allocated.
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Practice 2-2 Overview: Setting up the General Accounting Expense
Infolet for All Users Demonstration
This practice demonstrates the following topics:
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Creating an public account group for the Expenses infolet.
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Viewing the Expenses Infolet.
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Practice 2-3 Overview: Setting up the General Accounting Expense
Infolet for Your User
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Creating an private account group for the expense infolet.
•
Viewing the Expense Infolet.
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Summary
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
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Understand and use infolets.
•
Describe and set up account groups.
•
Understand how account groups work with infolets.
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3
Using the Financial Reporting Center
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
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Describe the Features of the Financial Reporting Center.
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Understand the GL Balances Cube.
•
View an account group and use the sunburst visualization tool from the Financial
Reporting Center.
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Analyze data in Smart View.
•
Create financial reports using the Financial Reporting Studio.
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The Financial Reporting Center with General Ledger Overview
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The graphic depicts the various reporting tools available for Cloud Financials.
The Financial Reporting Center is intended to be the primary user interface for General Ledger reporting.
The Financial Reporting Center:
•
Offers state-of-the-art reporting and analytics capabilities.
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Reports from the Oracle General Ledger Balances Cube (GL Balances Cube) for consistent, timely,
and accurate information for all users.
•
Retrieves results from the report objects and definitions stored in the Enterprise Performance
Management System Workspace, Fusion Edition (EPM Workspace) under the BI Catalog for
Financial Reports.
Financial Reports are read from Shared > Custom > Financials and My Folders. All other report types can
be saved anywhere in the BI Catalog, however, any custom content should be in the Shared > Custom
folder. It is also possible to create sub-folders within the Shared > Custom > folder.
Includes access to these types of reports:
•
Financial Reports: Reports built off the Oracle Financial Reporting Studio using data in the Oracle
General Ledger Balances Cube. For example, company income statements and balance sheets.
These reports are mainly run by users in General Ledger.
•
Account Groups and Sunburst: Used to monitor key accounts in General Ledger. When a user
creates an account group it becomes visible in the Financial Reporting Center with the Sunburst
visualization tool. The Sunburst visualization tool enables you to interact with your account balances
across various business dimensions in order to view balances from different perspectives. Account
groups are only used in General Ledger.
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•
Smart View Reports: A multi-dimensional pivot analysis tool combined with full Microsoft Office
functionality as an add-in. Smart View enables you to interactively analyze your balances and define
reports using a familiar spreadsheet environment. These queries are mainly for users in General
Ledger. One user can upload a query using Workspace and then from Financial Reporting Center
another user can download the query to their local drive for use.
•
Oracle Transactional BI Analyses: These analyses and reports are built off of transactional tables
using Subject Areas. These reports can be run by users in General Ledger, Payables, Receivables,
Cash Management, Intercompany, and so on.
•
Oracle Transactional BI Dashboards: Dashboards put all the information, functions and actions that
a business user needs to do their job in one place. Dashboards are built off Oracle Transactional BI
objects like analyses and reports. These reports can be run by users in General Ledger, Payables,
Receivables, Cash Management, Intercompany, and so on.
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Business Intelligence Publisher Reports: Most of these reports are predefined and must first be
submitted and resubmitted to see the latest data by the Oracle Enterprise Scheduler System (ESS)
through the Scheduled Processes navigation. These reports can be run by financials users.
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BI Mobile Apps: Mobile App Designer is an application that enables you to create multi-touch
information-driven applications with rich interaction, rich visualization, and rich media, for mobile
devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android phone, tablet, and more. These reports can be run by
financials users.
Note: The icons in the graph are used in the Financial Reporting Center to represent each type of report.
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Access to the Financial Reporting Center
The following user roles get access automatically:
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General Accounting Manager
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General Accountant
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Budget Manager
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Cash Manager
Users in the following applications must have the privileges added to their role:
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Accounts Payable
•
Accounts Receivable
•
Assets
•
Intercompany
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The General Ledger Import Process
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The General Ledger is the central repository for all financial information. Its primary purpose is to produce a
company’s financial reports. The graphic illustrates how subledger transactions with financial impact flow
from a subledger to the general ledger. It is a best practice that most of the journal entries originate in a
subledger.
The General Ledger import process begins with the subledgers completing a transaction.
The create accounting process looks for eligible transactions and sends the financial information to the
Oracle subledger accounting engine. The accounting engine transforms and validates the transactional
financial data into a journal with balanced debts and credits.
The newly created journals are then transferred to the GL Interface table.
The import process then moves the journals to the Oracle General Ledger journal entry tables (Batches,
Headers, and Lines.)
The posting process creates entries into the GL Balances Cube.
Financial Reports are then generated from the account balances in the GL Balances Cube.
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Oracle General Ledger Balances Cube Overview
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The graphic depicts the General Ledger four C’s and the GL Balances Cube.
Before creating financial statements or doing analysis on balances, it is useful to understand the Oracle
General Ledger Balances Cube (GL Balances Cube) and it’s dimensions.
The GL Balances Cube uses pre-aggregated balances. Unlike relational database systems with many
“narrow” tables, pre-aggregated data warehouses pre-join tables, creating fat tables with highly redundant
columns. This type of database pre-calculates totals to improve runtime performance.
A new standard balances cube is created automatically when an accounting configuration is submitted for a
primary or secondary ledger that uses a new unique combination of chart of accounts and calendar.
A new balances cube is also created when a secondary ledger is added to an existing accounting
configuration and uses a new unique combination of chart of accounts and calendar. The balances cubes
are named after the chart of accounts they contain.
The balances cube:
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Is automatically updated by the following general ledger processes: posting, open period, and
translation.
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Consists of a set of defining business entities called dimensions.
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Dimension Values in Reporting
You can derive different amounts to meet financial reporting requirements by using various
combinations of dimension members.
Dimensions are used in the following reporting tools and features:
•
Financial Reporting Studio
•
Smart View
•
Live reports
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Before a report or analysis can produce results, all the cube dimensions must have a value. The value can
be defined in the report definition or at the time of submission.
Both the Financial Reporting Studio and Smart View offer a member selector to define the dimension
member values within the report or analysis.
When running a live report, a dimension is either:
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Selected as an initial prompt.
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Selected while viewing the results.
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Dimensions
Dimension
Description
Accounting Period
Based upon the calendar of the ledger or ledger set. Report on
years, quarters, or periods. If the ledger tracks average daily
balances, this includes an option to select date.
Ledger or Ledger Set
Used to select a ledger for the reporting. Multiple ledgers may be
in the same cube if they share a common chart of accounts.
Chart of Accounts Segments
Each segment from the charts of accounts becomes a separate
dimension organized by hierarchy. A default hierarchy is provided
that includes all segment values.
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The table lists the Dimension names and descriptions.
The GL Balances Cube consists of a set of defining business entities called dimensions. Dimensions are
used when creating a report and in many cases when running a financial report.
The table details in this slide and the next show the dimensions that are available for creating financial
reports using multidimensional cubes.
Dimensions are predefined and new ones cannot be added.
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Dimensions
Dimension
Description
Scenario
Indicates whether the balances are actual, allocated, total for allocations,
encumbrance, budgeted, or forecast.
Balance Amount
Indicates whether the value is a debit or credit, and whether it is for the
beginning balance, period activity, or ending balance.
Amount Type
Indicates whether the amounts represent Base, Period to Date, Quarter to
Date, or Year to Date. If the ledger tracks average daily balances, the amount
type can be the period average base, period to date, or quarter to date.
Currency
Used to select the desired currency for the balances.
Currency Type
Used to select the currency type of the balances. Available options are
entered, converted, or total.
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The table lists the Dimension names and descriptions.
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Default Values
Many dimensions have default member values that can be used for a report or analysis.
However, the following dimensions require a selected member value:
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AccountingPeriod
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Ledger
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Scenario
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Currency
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As previously stated, before a report or analysis can produce results, all the cube dimensions must have a
member value. Oracle provides a default member value for many of the dimensions to simplify report writing
and submission.
However, AccountingPeriod, Ledger, Scenario, and Currency are defaulted with only a placeholder and
require that a member value be selected.
If a member value is not valid or not defined then a financial report or Smart View query returns #MISSING
instead of a balance.
The next several slides detail the dimensions, the possible values, if the default value is required to be
selected or what the default value is equivalent to and any additional information about the dimension. For
example, the Balance Amount dimension has a default value called Balance Amount which is equivalent to
the Ending Balance (net) member value.
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Dimension Values and Defaults
Dimension
Possible
Values
Accounting
Period
•
•
•
•
•
Ledger
Chart of
accounts
dimensions
Years
Quarters
Monthly
Weekly
Daily
Default Value
Additional Information
Must select a value
Without the Accounting Period, the financial
reports, Smart View queries, and Account
Inspector display #MISSING.
• Ledgers
• Ledger Sets
Must select a value
Without a Ledger or Ledger Set, the financial
reports, Smart View queries, and Account
Inspector display #MISSING.
None
Each segment has a
default account
hierarchy with detail
values.
A separate dimension for each segment of the
chart of accounts is used by the cube.
Hierarchies published to the GL Balances Cube
from the Publish Account Hierarchies process are
included.
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The table lists the Dimension names, the possible values, default value and any additional information.
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Dimension Values and Defaults
Dimension
Possible
Values
Default Value
Additional Information
Scenario
• Actual
• Budget
• Forecast
Must select a
value
Additional scenario values of Budget, Forecast Q1, and
Forecast Q2 may be added to the Accounting Scenario value
set. These additional values are published to every cube.
Amount Type
•
•
•
•
Amount Type,
which is the
equivalent of
Base
Base is necessary because this is the value used to store all
balances posted at the lowest level.
PTD, QTD, and YTD are calculated values.
Currency
All ISO currencies
Must select a
value
Without a currency, the financial reports, Smart View
queries, or allocation display #MISSING.
Base
PTD
QTD
YTD
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The table lists the Dimension names, the possible values, default value and any additional information.
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Dimension Values and Defaults
Dimension
Possible Values
Balance Amount
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Currency Type
• Total
• Entered
• Converted From
Balance Amount
Beginning Balance Dr
Beginning Balance Cr
Beginning Balance (net)
Period Activity Dr
Period Activity Cr
Period Activity (net)
Ending Balance Dr
Ending Balance Cr
Ending Balance (net)
Default Value
Additional
Information
Balance Amount,
which is equivalent
to the Ending
Balance (net)
None
Currency Type,
which is the
equivalent of Total
None
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The table lists the Dimension names, the possible values, default value and any additional information.
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Viewing Account Groups from the Financial Reporting Center
Account Group results can be viewed:
•
As a table
•
In the Sunburst tool
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Search for the name of an account group.
The screenshot shows a user-defined account group.
•
Use the Account Group drop-down list to select other account groups.
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Change the Accounting Period in the drop-down list to compare results.
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Select Show/Hide Segments to add or remove segments from the table view.
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Select View as Sunburst to see the account group data in a graphical interface.
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Sunburst Tool
The Sunburst visualization tool enables you to interact with your account balances across
various business dimensions in order to view balances from different perspectives.
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Search for the name of an account group > View as Sunburst.
The screenshot shows the sunburst visualization of an account group.
For example, you can view quarterly regional sales and identify sales trends that are visually represented by
size and color to indicate whether that region's sales increased or decreased over the quarter.
•
Each Sunburst ring represents a different segment of the accounting flexfield.
•
The order of the rings is displayed on the control panel on the right.
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The controls can also be used to change which segments are displayed in the Sunburst.
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Sunburst Icons
Use the icons to drill into and out of various segments.
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Move Ring Toward Center
•
Move Ring Away from Center
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Keep Only
•
Remove Only
•
Zoom In
•
Zoom Out
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The Sunburst consists of colored concentric circles and the interactive controls and legends in the panel of
the Sunburst.
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Each node, slice, or wedge represents a breakdown of the balances by the parent or child segment
values included in the account group.
•
The width of the node represents the relative contribution of each segment value balance to the total.
•
The Sunburst emphasizes the most important contributors because they occupy more space.
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Sunburst Options
Use the options on the right to further analyze the account
group data.
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Account Group selection drop-down list
•
Accounting Period drop-down list
•
Segment drop-down list
•
Move and position arrows
•
Colors selection boxes and thresholds
•
Other Thresholds
•
Reset
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Search for the name of an account group > View as Sunburst.
The screenshot shows the available options of the sunburst.
•
The color of the nodes represents a comparison with the previous period or budget. By default:
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Green implies increased revenue or decreased costs.
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Red implies decreased revenue or increased costs.
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Yellow represents little or no change.
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The colors and color thresholds can be changed using controls in the panel.
•
Contributions that are small relative to the total revenue and that result in very narrow nodes are
grouped into the Other node.
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The Other threshold, by default 2% of the circumference of the Sunburst, can be changed using
controls in the right hand panel.
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Practice 3-1 Overview: Viewing an Account Group from the Financial
Reporting Center
This practice covers the following topics:
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Viewing you account group from the Financial Reporting Center.
•
Editing account group segments.
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Reviewing the results in the Sunburst tool.
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Smart View Overview
Smart View provides the ability to create and refresh spreadsheets to use real-time account
balance information. You can use Smart View to:
•
Perform ad hoc multidimensional pivot analysis with full spreadsheet functionality.
•
Drill down from any parent value to the next parent or child value.
•
Perform drill down from any child value to detail balances, journal lines, and subledger
transactions.
•
Analyze actual, budget, and forecast information.
•
Increase visibility with charts and graphs.
•
Apply date effective hierarchies to past, present, or future hierarchies to change the
financial data reported in your financial reports.
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Oracle Smart View provides common Word, PowerPoint, and Excel interfaces designed specifically for
Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, and
Oracle General Ledger. Using Smart View, you can view, import, manipulate, distribute, and share data in
Excel, Word, and PowerPoint interfaces. Smart View is a comprehensive tool for accessing and integrating
Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence, and General Ledger content from Microsoft
Office products.
Smart View is a multi-dimensional pivot analysis tool combined with full Microsoft Office functionality as an
add-in. Smart View enables you to interactively analyze your balances and define basic financial reports
using a familiar spreadsheet environment.
These queries are mainly for users in General Ledger. One user can upload a query using Workspace and
then from Financial Reporting Center another user can download the query to their local drive for use.
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Smart View Tools
With Smart View you can create:
•
Ad Hoc Analyses
•
Financial Reports Using the Query Designer
•
Smart Queries
•
Smart Slices
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Using the various Smart View tools, you can create:
•
Ad Hoc Analysis: Retrieve and analyze data by selecting members, using functions, and performing
a variety of operations, including formatting, to design your reports.
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Query Designer: You can design the layout of a report by selecting dimensions, members, and
attributes for rows, columns, and the POV from one interface. You can use the Query Designer to
create a query from a blank connected worksheet, which uses the default report as a starting point,
or extract a query from a saved report.
•
Smart Queries: You create a Smart Query by defining one or more sets of members from the
dimensions in an application. To each member set, you can define and apply composite filters to
further refine the data to be returned by the Smart Query. Using these sets and their filters, you can
create a highly complex query by defining unions, complements, and intersections of data from the
different sets.
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Smart Slices: A reusable perspective of a data source. It can be composed of a single member, a
combination of single members, filters, or combination of single members and filters in any order.
These components serve as boundaries to the data that users can view and work with in the Smart
Slice. Any operation that can be done in Oracle Smart View for Office can be done within the
confines of a Smart Slice.
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Smart View Components
The basic components of Oracle Smart
View for Office, from which you connect to
your data source and access Smart View
functionality, are:
•
Ribbons
•
The Smart View Panel
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Navigate to: Excel > Panel > Shared Connections > Log in > Oracle Essbase.
You access Smart View functionality in Office applications through ribbon commands.
The Smart View ribbon, which contains commands for common Smart View operations is always present.
When you connect to a data source, the corresponding data source ribbon is also displayed. Each ribbon
displays only the commands supported for that data source and mode. In the example, the Oracle Essbase
data source was selected so the Essbase ribbon becomes visible.
Note: This course uses Excel for all the examples and practices.
From the Smart View Panel, you can manage data source connections, access data, and task lists, and
create reports.
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Dimensions and Members
•
Dimensions are data categories used to organize business data for retrieval and
preservation of values.
•
Members usually contain hierarchies of related members grouped within them.
•
You can derive different amounts to meet financial reporting requirements by using
various combinations of dimension members.
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Navigate to: Excel > Smart View Ribbon > Panel > Connect to a Data Source > Ad Hoc Analysis > Select
the AccountingPeriod cell > Essbase Ribbon > Member Selector.
The GL Balances Cube’s dimensions consist of a set of defining business entities. For example, a Year
dimension often includes members for each time period, such as quarters and months.
Before a report or analysis can produce results, all the cube dimensions must have a member. The member
can be defined in the report definition or at the time of submission.
You can select members for the grid from the:
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Member Selection dialog box available from the data source ribbon.
•
POV toolbar.
•
Cell-Based POV.
•
Cells directly by entering the member name using free-form mode.
The Member Selection dialog boxes may vary slightly depending on which method you choose. And not all
options are always available. You can select members for one dimension at a time.
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Selecting Members from the Member Selector
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Navigate to: Excel > Smart View Ribbon > Panel > Connect to a Data Source > Ad Hoc Analysis > Select
the AccountingPeriod cell > Essbase Ribbon > Member Selector.
To select a member, select the check box and use the Add arrow to add it to the select section. To choose a
child member, expand the parent or parents by clicking on the plus sign.
To remove a member, select the member and use the Remove arrow.
The default dimension name is always in the selected section the first time you use a dimension. You can
remove it when selecting a member.
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Selecting Members from the POV Toolbar
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Navigate to: Excel > Smart View Ribbon > Panel > Connect to a Data Source > Ad Hoc Analysis > Select
the AccountingPeriod cell > Essbase Ribbon > POV.
The POV is the default starting point for dimensions in a data source connection. From the POV toolbar, you
can select members and filters for the dimensions that you want to include in the grid and move members to
and from the grid. Each connection is associated with only one POV. However, the same connection to
different worksheets within a workbook may have different POVs.
To access to Select Member dialog box, click on the arrow next to the dimension and click on the three dots.
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Selecting Members Using Cell-Based POV
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Navigate to: Excel > Smart View Ribbon > Panel > Connect to a Data Source > Ad Hoc Analysis > Select
the AccountingPeriod cell > Essbase Ribbon > Deselect POV > Select Company cell.
You can select members directly from cells in the page dimension row of a grid rather than by using the
POV toolbar. The cell-based POV is available by clicking a page POV dimension cell, then selecting the
down arrow and selecting the ellipsis.
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Selecting Members by Entering Members in Free-Form Mode
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Navigate to: Excel > Smart View Ribbon > Panel > Connect to a Data Source > Ad Hoc Analysis > Select
the AccountingPeriod cell > Essbase Ribbon > Deselect POV > Select AccountingPeriod cell > Enter
member.
If you are familiar with the dimensions and members of your database, you can enter their names directly
into cells using free-form mode. You can use aliases from the alias table associated with the current grid in
free-form mode.
After connecting to a data source, you can enter member names as follows:
•
By entering a member name in a blank cell.
•
By replacing a member name in a cell with a different member from the same dimension.
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Ad Hoc Analysis
Use Smart View functionality with Excel spreadsheets to:
•
Retrieve and analyze data by selecting members.
•
Perform a variety of operations, including formatting and designing your reports.
•
Use functions.
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A Smart View analysis enables you to:
•
Drag dimensions to rows or columns.
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Perform multidimensional analysis, pivoting, and drill down.
•
Drill from any parent to the next parent level within Excel.
•
Drill to detail balances, journal lines, and subledger transactions.
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Utilize Excel’s built-in features including calculations and graphs.
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Save reports and queries offline, and then reconnect to live data by accessing the spreadsheet.
•
E-mail the spreadsheet to distribute reports.
•
Optionally upload to the Financial Reporting Center for others to use as a template.
Note: If you are familiar with the dimensions and members of your database, you can use a free-form mode
by typing dimension and member names directly into cells to design and create an ad hoc grid.
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Functions
•
Zooming In and Out.
•
Keeping Only and Removing Only.
•
Cascading Reports.
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Pivoting.
•
Drilling Through.
•
Formatting in Smart View and Excel.
•
Undoing.
•
Copying and Pasting Metadata.
•
Copying and Pasting with other Products.
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With Smart View you can perform the following functions:
•
Zooming In and Out: Zoom In expands a hierarchy dimension to the next level, all levels or the
bottom level. Zoom Out brings the dimension value back to the top level.
•
Keeping Only and Removing Only: After Zooming In you may click on one member and then click
Keep Only to remove all other members from the grid. After Zooming In you may click on Remove
Only to remove only that member.
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Cascading Reports: Cascading creates multiple reports from dimension values using the same grid
structure. You can cascade within the same worksheet or into a new worksheet. Each worksheet tab
is named for the dimension value.
•
Pivoting: You can pivot a dimension between rows and columns. When you pivot, the dimension
from the POV window is brought into the grid.
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Drilling Through: You can drill down to detail by choosing either Drill to Account Inspector or Drill to
Detail Balances.
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Formatting in Smart View and Excel: Use the Smart View formatting of cell styles to enable certain
features such as drill through and read only. Use Excel formatting for the all other report formats like
bolding, centering, number formatting and font formatting. After you format the report with excel
functionality you must click the Preserve Format from the Essbase ribbon. If you don’t, when you
refresh the analysis all excel formatting is lost.
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Undoing: Undoes Zoom In, Zoom Out, Keep Only, Remove Only and Refresh.
•
Copying and Pasting Metadata: When you copy from one spreadsheet to another the metadata like
Points of View, Alias tables, connection information and more are not copied. You must perform a
Metadata import also.
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Copying and Pasting from other Products: You can copy data from Excel and paste it into Word or
PowerPoint. The data you copy and paste is dynamic between the Microsoft Office applications. If
you paste data into a Word document and save it in a different format, such as .htm or .mht, you
cannot refresh the data in these other formats. Excel formatting is preserved when data is pasted
into Word and PowerPoint.
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Practice 3-2 Overview: Creating an Ad Hoc Analysis in Smart View
This practice covers the following topics:
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Configuring Smart View to connect to Oracle Cloud Applications.
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Creating an ad hoc analysis.
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Zooming in and out.
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Keeping only.
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Cascading based on the company dimension.
•
Pivoting the US Primary Ledger from the column to the row.
•
Drilling through to detail balances.
•
Formatting the analysis.
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Query Designer
Create financial reports such as Income Statements and Balance Sheets for internal use.
Use Smart View functionality with Excel spreadsheets to:
•
Retrieve and analyze data by selecting members.
•
Perform a variety of operations, including formatting, graphing and drilling through.
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The Smart View Query Designer is a tool that is used to create basic financial reports such as Income
Statements and Balance Sheets. The reports designed in Smart View are recommended to only be used
internally. Boardroom ready financial reports should be defined through the Financial Reporting Studio.
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Downloading Smart View Reports from the Financial Reporting
Center
Users can upload their Smart View Reports to make them available for other users to
download and use.
Smart View is:
•
Microsoft Office based reporting
•
Optionally available for upload through Workspace for other users to download from the
Financial Reporting Center.
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Smart View is a multidimensional pivot analysis tool combined with full Excel functionality. Smart View is a
Microsoft Office add-in that must be loaded to each client.
Users need to download the installation files in Workspace from Navigator > Financial Reporting Center >
Open Workspace for Financial Reports > Tools > Install > Smart View. Alternatively, download Smart View
from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/epm/downloads/smart-view-1112x-1594693.html. You
can install Smart View only on Windows operating systems. Once Smart View is installed, it must be
configured to connect to Oracle Cloud Applications. Obtain the Smart View Shared Connections URL
information from the Workspace URL.
Smart View has two main tools:
•
Ad hoc Analysis: Enables you to interactively analyze balances.
•
Financial Reports: Define reports like income statements and balance sheets using a familiar
spreadsheet environment.
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Practice 3-3 Overview: Defining a Report with the Query Designer in
Smart View
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Using the query designer to create an income statement.
•
Formatting a report: Adding a logo, title and number formatting.
•
Adding a line chart for expenses.
•
Uploading the Smart View report to enable it for download from the Financial Reporting
Center.
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Viewing Financial Reports from the Financial Reporting Center
Financial Reports are:
•
Balance Sheets
•
Income Statements
•
Cash Flow Statements
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Search for Balance Sheet > Open > OK.
The screenshot is an example of a Financial Report.
You should use the Financial Reporting Center to access and run all of your financial reports.
In Oracle Financials Cloud, financial reports are any reports designed or created in the Hyperion Financial
Reporting Studio, Fusion Edition.
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Live Reports and Published Snapshot Reports
Boardroom-Ready Financial Reports
•
Supports multiple output options including PDF, HTML, and Excel.
•
Live reports are interactive and the data can be refreshed dynamically.
•
Published snapshot reports have static data.
•
Ability to expand parent values to view the next level of the hierarchy within the reports.
•
Drill down to underlying journals and subledger transactions.
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Run boardroom-ready financial reports displayed in a web page, PDF document or excel spreadsheet with
embedded charts and graphs.
The two types of financial reports that can be run from the Financial Reporting Center are:
•
Live Reports: Are interactive and a user can change the user point of view or report parameters and
instantly refresh the results.
•
Published Snapshot Reports: Are static and cannot be refreshed with new data. They are literally a
snapshot in time.
On both types of reports, users can expand on any parent to the next parent level and keep drilling down
through multiple levels of your hierarchy.
You can drill down to detail balances or use the account inspector to see the journal lines, and subledger
transactions.
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Creating Financial Reports
•
Design traditional financial report formats such as balance sheets, profit and loss
statements, and cash flow reports.
•
Design nontraditional reports for financial or analytic data that include text and graphics.
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Note
•
The material presented in this lesson is an introduction to creating reports.
•
More information can be found in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio User's Guide or by
taking one of these Oracle University courses: Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting for Essbase and
Planning or Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting for Financial Management.
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Financial Reporting Studio Overview
Financial Reporting Studio enables report authors to use a graphical report layout with
report components, such as text boxes, grids, images, and charts, to design reports.
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The Financial Reporting Studio is a client based financial report definition tool that:
•
Uses drag and drop functionality to create a grid to design the rows, columns and pages of the
financial report.
•
Has additional report components such as text boxes, images, and charts that may be included on a
report.
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Contains grids and other objects that are reusable across multiple reports.
•
Uses the GL Balances Cube dimensions on either rows, columns, pages, or Point of Views (POV).
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Allows rows and columns that can be either data, formulas, or text.
•
Can include calculations or mathematical functions.
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Installing and Configuring the Financial Reporting Studio
Financial Reporting Studio is client-based software.
Download the installation files from Workspace by navigating to: Financial Reporting Center
> Click on the Tasks panel drawer > Open Workspace for Financial Reporting. Once
Workspace is launched, click Tools > Install > Financial Reporting Studio.
After completing the installation, obtain financial reporting server information from your
system administrator to connect from the local client to the Oracle Cloud instance.
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Note: For more information on configuring Financial Reporting Studio client for users, see Oracle Hyperion
Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide for Oracle Hyperion
Enterprise Performance Management. Especially the following topics:
•
Installing Financial Reporting Studio and Financial Reporting Print Server.
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Configuring the Financial Reporting Print Server.
•
Administrative Information for Financial Reporting.
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Report Designer
Use the Report Designer to:
•
Create and edit reports.
•
Select toolbar buttons or menu commands to add report components to the report
palette.
•
Do standard formatting.
•
Preview your report in print preview, PDF or HTML.
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After logging into the Financial Reporting Studio, the report designer opens and is used to create new
reports or open an existing report definition to edit it.
The report designer has the toolbar and menu commands needed to create or edit reports. The toolbar
includes all the components of the report and all the standard formatting functions.
The report designer creates a report palette where all the components are placed.
The report designer also enables you to preview the report in print preview, PDF, or HTML.
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Report Designer’s Standard Toolbar
The Standard toolbar contains shortcuts to standard features.
Button
Description
New Report
Opens a report palette
Open
Opens the dialog box to select an existing report
Save
Saves a report or object in the repository
Repository
Opens the repository
Print
Opens the print dialog box
Print Preview
Displays the active report in the print preview window
Web Preview
Displays the active report in a web browser
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The table lists the Standard toolbar buttons and corresponding descriptions.
You can use the View menu to display or hide the Standard toolbar.
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Financial Reporting Studio Components
Component
Description
Header
An area where you can display text on each page of a report. You can add other report objects to a
header.
Text Box
A report object that can contain text, or functions that retrieve data such as report setting, data
values, point of (POV) values, or dimension members.
Grid
A report object in which retrieves data in the rows, columns, and page axes.
Chart
A report object that displays data from a specified grid. Charts are graphical representations of the
data in a grid.
Image
A report object that contains a graphic or an image file, which can be included in the following
formats: .gif, .jpg, .ico, cur, and .bmp. You can add images to the body of the report or to a header
or footer. Note: (.bmp) images greatly increases the size of your report and may affect
performance.
Footer
An area where you can display text on each printed page of a report. You can also add images to a
footer.
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The table lists the components and descriptions of the Financial Reporting Studio tool.
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Financial Reporting Studio Components
Component
Description
Row
A horizontal display of information in a gird. A row can contain text, data, or derived data
from a calculation. You can format individual rows in girds.
Column
A vertical display of information in a grid. A column can contain text, data, of derived data
from a calculation. You can format individual columns in girds.
Page
The third intersecting reference on a grid report object. A page repeats the data on the row
and column over multiple members of additional dimensions. You can define members on
a page or show different views of data without rerunning the report.
Cell
An intersection of a row, column, page, and POV for a grid. Note: You can format individual
cells in a grid.
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The table lists the components and descriptions of the Financial Reporting Studio tool.
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Designer Toolbar
The Designer toolbar contains shortcuts to report objects.
Button
Description
New Grid
Inserts a new grid on the report palette
Text Box
Inserts a text box on the report palette
Image
Inserts an image on the report palette
Chart
Inserts a chart on the report palette
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The table lists the Designer toolbar buttons and corresponding descriptions.
You can use the View menu to display or hide the Designer toolbar.
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Grids
Grids are the foundation for a financial report and extract data from the GL Balances Cube.
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The graphic illustrates a grid.
A grid is the foundation for a financial report. It is a graphical representation of components extract the data
from the GL balances cube. When you add a grid to the report palette, you are required login and connect to
a GL balances cube. The four basic components on a grid are:
•
Point of View Dimensions: You select which Point of View (POV) dimension to include on the rows,
columns, and pages. All the dimensions in the GL balances cube are in a POV. A POV is either at
the grid or user level. The difference between grid POV and user POV is discussed later in this
chapter.
•
Rows: For most financial reports rows usually are defined with account numbers, so you could select
the Account dimension where an account number would be the member. You would then select
which account numbers go on each row.
•
Columns: For most financial reports columns are usually defined with periods, so you could select
the Accounting Period dimension.
•
Pages: A common selection for page dimension is the balancing segment or company. Note: If more
than one company is selected as a value, a page per company is displayed.
With grids you can also:
•
Include more than one grid on the report palette to create one report extracting data from more than
one data source.
•
Use an existing grid to reuse the preformatted design.
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Select the members of the dimensions.
•
Use formulas, functions and text to define the grid content.
•
Hide a grid.
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Practice 3-4 Overview: Defining a Grid
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Defining a new income statement report and grid.
•
Selecting the point of view dimensions for the grid.
•
Selecting account dimension members.
•
Saving a report.
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Defining Formulas
The formula bar:
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Is centrally located below the tool bar and resembles the formula bar in Excel.
•
Enables dynamic selection of functions from a drop-down list.
•
Contains a field for the entry of formulas.
•
Permits defining, editing, and deleting of formulas in a cell’s column, or row.
•
Validates the syntax of the formula.
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Available Formulas
From the Formula drop-down, you
can choose:
• IfThen()
• Sum()
• Max()
• Truncate()
•
Abs()
• Min()
• Variance()
•
Averageaverage()
• MOD()
• VariancePercent()
•
AverageA()
• PercentOFTotal()
•
Cell[row.col]
• Pi()
•
Column[]
• Product()
•
Count()
• Random()
•
CountA()
• Rank()
•
Difference()
• Round()
•
Eval()
• Row()
• Sort()
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For example, use the Sum() formula to calculate total expenses. The syntax for the formula includes the row
numbers to be summed up.
If the rows are contiguous the following syntax is allowed: Sum([3:5]). The rows 3, 4 and 5 are included in
the calculation.
If the rows are not contiguous, for example, Subtotals, or you need to sum up Total Revenue and Total
Expenses, then the following syntax would be used: Sum([1],[6]).
Note: For more details on the available formulas see the Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio User's
Guide.
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Practice 3-5 Overview: Adding a Formula for Total Expenses
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Adding a formula for total expenses.
•
Validating the formula syntax.
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Using Functions: Range
When using the range function, you must:
•
Define the StartMember.
•
Specify the Offset number.
•
Define the EndMember.
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Functions can be used on a dimension if a specific member value is not used. Functions give more flexibility
to the report for returning the desired data. Since this is only an Introduction to the Financial Reporting
Studio more information can be found in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio User's Guide or by
taking one of these Oracle University courses: Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting for Essbase and
Planning or Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting for Financial Management.
The range function is useful for creating multiple columns or rows of data with one initial setup. For example,
your company requires a rolling 12 Period Income Statement. Use the range function on the Column
AccountingPeriod dimension to achieve this. When using the Range Function, you must:
•
Define the StartMember.
•
Specify the Offset Number.
•
Define the EndMember.
For this example, the StartMember would use another function called RelativeMember. The
RelativeMember would be defined as Current Point of View. Next, you would need to specify the Offset. The
Offset can be a positive or negative number. If you used -11 then the first column on the report would
display 12 periods back from the Current Point of View. The Current Point of View is the period the report is
targeting. For example, If you want to see a report from Jan-14 through Dec-14 with Dec-14 as the “Current
Point of View” you would need to define the EndMember or the last column in the range as Current Point of
View.
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Practice 3-6 Overview: Defining a Rolling 12-Period Column
This practice covers using the range function to create a rolling12-period column.
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User and Grid Point of View Dimensions
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Studio > New Report > New Grid.
The screenshot is an example of the user and grid point of view.
As mentioned before, all remaining dimensions are represented either in the grid POV or the user POV. This
means if a dimension is in the grid POV then the members selected only apply to that one grid. Dimension
members in the user POV apply to all grids on the report. In the screen shot above, notice that the
AccountingPeriod dimension is in both the grid POV and the user POV. However, on the grid POV the
member value is User Point of View for AccountingPeriod. That member value makes the AccoutingPeriod
visible on the user POV. So notice the member selected for AccoutingPeriod on the user POV is 12-14. This
means all grids on the report return results
for 12-14.
All dimensions are on the grid either on a Row, Column, Page or the grid POV. Dimensions are visible only
on the user POV bar if they meet the following conditions:
•
Dimensions not currently defined on a row, a column, or a page.
•
Dimensions on a row, a column, or a page that are flagged for the Current POV like the
AccoutingPeriod dimension above.
•
Dimensions without a member selected on a grid POV. The system defaults the User Point of View.
Also notice on the screenshot above that the Ledger dimension is on the Grid POV with a member Value of
Us Primary Ledger. Therefore, that dimension is not visible on the User POV. It has been defined at the Grid
level.
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Selecting Members
Use the Select Members dialog box to select members:
•
Member Value
•
Prompt
•
Same As
•
Current Point of View
•
User Point of View
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The following choices are available when selecting a member for a dimension:
•
Member Value: The specific value or values stored in the GL Balances Cube. For example, the
member value for the Account Dimension would be an account number.
•
Prompt: At runtime, the user must select a member or members for the report to run. The report itself
can contain a default member which the user can accept or change. Prompt also enables the report
writer to filter the dimension members from which the user can select when running the report.
•
Same As: Creates a column or row member selection with the same member selection setting as
another column or row.
•
Current Point of View: Acts as a variable that employs the POV to specify the member of a
dimension when the report is run.
•
User Point of View: Defaults on the dimension when no member is selected. After the report is
generated, the parameters can be modified by the end user.
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Practice 3-7 Overview: Defining the Grid and User Point of View
Dimensions
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Defining the grid and user point of view dimension values.
•
Setting up the grid point of view.
•
Setting up a prompt for a point of view dimension.
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Property Sheet
Use the Property Sheet to set various options for a report component:
•
Grid
•
Page
•
Heading Row
•
Chart
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Use the Property Sheet to set various options for the currently selected report component.
The property sheet features change based on the report object selected and are unique to the selected
report object. Several objects are available depending on the type of report component selected.
By default, property sheets are displayed on the right side of the designer. You can hide the property sheet
window.
•
To hide a property sheet that is displayed, deselect View menu > Property Sheet.
•
To display a properties sheet that is hidden, select View menu > Property Sheet.
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Property Sheet Component Objects and Features
Object
Features
Grid
General: Database Connection; Headings for Member Labels; Autosizing; Drill Through;
Suppression: Suppress If Zero, If Missing and If Error; Text Options for Zero Values, No Data
and Error.
Page
Member Labels: Member Name, Alias: Default or Both, Heading Height, Page Printing
Positioning.
Heading Row
Headings Member labels: Member Name, Alias: Default or Both, Allow Expansion, Auto
Calculation.
Chart
A report object that displays data from a specified grid. Charts are graphical representations
of the data in a grid.
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The table is just a small sampling of the available objects and associated features. More information can be
found in the Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio User's Guide or by taking one of these Oracle
University courses: Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting for Essbase and Planning or Oracle Hyperion
Financial Reporting for Financial Management.
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Practice 3-8 Overview: Setting Properties
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Setting the Grid Properties.
•
Setting the Page Properties.
•
Setting the Heading Row Properties.
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Text Box Objects
Text box objects enable you to:
•
Enter text or text functions.
•
Move, resize, or reposition the text box.
•
Set the border, shading, and positioning.
•
Store them in the repository.
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Text box objects can contain text or text functions. For example, you can enter a label, a description, or a
function that retrieves the current date in a text box. You can also copy text from a word editor.
You can add text boxes to the header, footer, and body of the report.
A text box object can be saved in the repository and then be used on numerous reports. For example, you
can use the same text box on all of your Balance Sheet reports to ensure consistency across all companies.
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Image Objects
Adding Images:
•
Insert images to the header, footer, and body of a report.
•
Supports multiple graphic formats.
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Images are report objects that contain graphics. You can add images to the header, footer, and body of the
report. You can then resize, and position as needed.
You can include the following image formats in a report:
•
Bitmaps: BMP and DIB
•
Graphic Interchange Format: GIF
•
Joint Photographic Experts Groups: JPEG and JPG
•
Icon: ICO and CUR
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Chart Objects
A chart is a graphical representation of report data from a grid on a report. Chart
functionality:
•
Retrieves data dynamically.
•
Contains chart type and data content.
•
Defines and formats the components of a chart.
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A Chart object is a graphical representation of report data from a grid that can illustrate trends and
tendencies or highlight differences and improvements.
Charts retrieve data dynamically so if data in the grid changes the chart is updated automatically.
You can design the following types of charts:
•
Bar: Displays as many as fifty data sets, with any number of values assigned to each data set.
•
Line: Displays as many as fifty data sets, with automatic, uniform spacing along the X axis.
The chart formatting enables you to:
•
Provide legend and axis information such as labels, font, background color, and orientation.
•
Use formatting options specific to a chart type, such as bar width for a bar chart.
•
Provide horizontal and vertical positioning of a chart on a report.
•
Hide the controlling grid to display only the chart in your report.
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Formatting
Formatting enables you specify how the following report components appear in your reports:
•
Grids
•
Text Boxes
•
Images
•
Charts
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Formatting enables you to specify how grids, text boxes, images, and charts appear in your reports.
You may specify formatting like, font, font size, bolding, italicizing, underlining, color, justifying, and so on.
The correct sequence in formatting a report is to first format the grid, then apply different formatting to rows
and columns, and then apply specific cell or conditional formatting.
The formatting you apply affects the printed and online report presentations.
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Formatting Toolbar
Button
Description
Bold
Bold the selected text
Italics
Italicize the selected text
Underline
Underline the selected text
Left Justify
Aligns the selected text to the left
Center
Aligns the selected text in the center
Right Justify
Aligns the selected text to the right
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The table lists the available buttons and descriptions of the Report Designer’s formatting toolbar.
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Formatting Toolbar
Button
Description
Decrease Indent
Decrease the indent of the selected text
Increase Indent
Increase the indent of the selected text
Font
Format the font, the size, color, and so on
Font Condition
Add a condition formula to a font
Paint
Applies the format of a selected cell or cell range to a target cell or cell range.
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The table lists the available buttons and descriptions of the Report Designer’s formatting toolbar.
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Practice 3-9 Overview: Adding a Logo, Title and Chart
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Adding a logo.
•
Inserting a title.
•
Adding and formatting a chart.
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Reviewing a Report
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The graphic illustrates the difference between live reports and snapshot reports.
You can preview the reports from the Financial Reporting Studio. Use the preview to ensure the report is
correct before making it available in Workspace.
When the report is saved to Workspace it must be saved as one of these two types:
•
Live: A dynamic and interactive type of report. The user may select certain dimension values either
through a prompt or by clicking on the dimension after the report has run. The data refreshes every
time the report is run or printed.
•
Snapshot: Reports that contain data retrieved at the time the report is saved as a snapshot. The data
in a snapshot report remains the same; changes in the database since the snapshot was last saved
are not reflected when it is previewed or printed. The user cannot select any dimension values.
Once the report is saved in Shared Folders in Workspace it can be made available to users to run from the
Financial Reporting Center. If the report is designed with prompts, those prompts are displayed when you
preview or run the report. You must respond to the prompt and provide the requested information by
selecting members from the prompt list.
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Practice 3-10 Overview: Reviewing a Financial Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Previewing a report in the Financial Reporting Studio.
•
Making edits if necessary.
•
Opening the report Workspace.
•
Drilling down to detail balances.
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Automatic Generation of Financial Reports and Account Groups
•
An individual set of Financial Reporting reports is generated for each ledger that is
defined within that Rapid Implementation accounting configuration.
•
Reports Generated include:
Rolling Monthly
Income Statement
Trial Balances by
Ledger Currency
Income Statement
Consolidated Income
Statement
Rolling Quarterly
Income Statement
Trial Balances by
Entered Currency
•
The process also generates three Account Groups:
– Revenues Infolet
– Expenses Infolet
– Close Monitor Summary Income Statement
Profit and Loss Statement
by Cost Center
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A new process called Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups generates a set of Financial Reports
and a set of account groups.
The three Account Groups include two for the infolets, Revenues and Expenses, and one for the Close
Monitor, Close Monitor Summary Income Statement.
A set of these three account groups is generated for the balances cube, to be shared among all the ledgers
that are part of that balances cube.
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Automatic Generation of Reports and Account Groups Settings
•
Tag the parent accounts that are your
highest level and comprehensive
revenue and operating expenses
accounts.
•
Optionally, assign the expanded
account type of Expenses - Top Cost
of Sales Parent Account if this is
applicable.
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In the Natural Accounts worksheet of the Rapid Implementation Enterprise Structure Setup spreadsheet,
you provide your natural account segment value set and account hierarchy along with account type tags for
the account values.
You also tag the parent accounts that are your highest level and comprehensive revenue and operating
expenses accounts.
Use the expanded account types of Revenue:
•
Top Revenue Parent Account and Expenses
•
Top Operating Expenses Account
Optionally, also assign the expanded account type of Expenses - Top Cost of Sales Parent Account if this is
applicable for your scenario.
The Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups process uses these parent accounts as the basis for
deriving the accounts that are referenced in the reports it creates.
The process:
•
Takes the immediate descendants of these parent accounts to define the rows of the reports.
•
Automatically generates a set of Financial Reporting reports and Account Groups according to the
accounting configuration defined in the Rapid Implementation spreadsheet after this is successfully
submitted.
Different variations of the Financial Reporting income statements are generated depending on whether both
the top operating expense and top cost of sales accounts are tagged.
If the optional top cost of sales account is provided, the income statements Financial Reporting reports also
include a gross margin section.
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Validating the Rapid Implementation Spreadsheet
•
Complete the Rapid Implementation
spreadsheet
•
Click the Validate button in the COA,
Calendar, and Ledger worksheet
•
If validation is successful you can
preview some samples of the reports
that will be generated.
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•
After completing the Rapid Implementation spreadsheet, click the Validate button in the COA,
Calendar, and Ledger worksheet.
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The validation will go through all the worksheets and check if there are missing or inappropriate
setups.
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The preview reports incorporate elements of the Rapid Implementation setup you have provided,
including derivation of the report rows based on the top parent revenue and expense account values
you have tagged.
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Rapid Implementation Spreadsheet Sample Reports Preview
•
Opportunity to validate your setups
•
Make modifications to your enterprise
structure setup
•
Validate the spreadsheet
•
Preview the revised sample reports as
many times as you need.
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In addition to previewing the reports that will be automatically generated, you can also validate whether you
have set up your natural accounts reporting hierarchy in a way that aligns to reporting needs because this is
reflected in the sample reports.
If the natural account hierarchy requires adjustments, you can make those corrections now before actually
creating the account hierarchies in the application because this only happens when you finally submit the
accounting configuration in the Rapid Implementation spreadsheet.
Validation Routine
•
The validation routine marks errors as actionable items in a Validation Report worksheet that it
dynamically generates for the workbook.
•
You can review these anomalies and make the corrections as indicated.
•
In the Field column, it notes the item that is an issue, and includes a text hyperlink. Click the
hyperlink to navigate to the appropriate field in the spreadsheet requiring an update.
Tips And Considerations
Use the sample completed Rapid Implementation Enterprise Structure Setup spreadsheet provided in the
Instructions worksheet in the workbook to familiarize yourself with the feature and see the resulting
accounting configuration and generated reports corresponding to the definition in the sample spreadsheet.
Key Resources
The Instructions worksheet in the Rapid Implementation Enterprise Structure spreadsheet contains
important information on how to use the spreadsheet and submit the accounting configuration.
It also provides information on how to create additional account hierarchies, or additional account hierarchy
versions. It describes the various business objects that are created as part of the accounting configuration,
including how they relate to one another.
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Recommendations and best practices are also included to help you optimize your Rapid Implementation
setup
Areas that require caution and special consideration when planning your setup are also noted in the
instructions to help you avoid pitfalls.
Role Information
You must have the following roles to submit the Rapid Implementation Enterprise Structure spreadsheet and
generate the Financial Reports and Account Groups: Application Implementation Consultant
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Practice 3-11 Overview: Entering Data in the Rapid Implementation
Spreadsheet and Previewing Sample Financial Reports
This practice covers the following topics:
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Entering data to create your chart of accounts, ledger, legal entity, and calendar.
•
Preview some sample reports that may be automatically generated.
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Submitting the Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups
Process
You can submit the process at any time to automatically create Financial Reporting reports
and Account Groups.
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Navigate to: More… > Tools > Scheduled Processes > Schedule New Process > Generate Financial
Reports and Account Groups.
To submit the Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups process:
Select the chart of accounts and accounting calendar which identifies the balances cube and ledgers for
which you wish to generate the reports.
Specify the top three parent revenue and expenses account values to base the generated reports.
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Revenue - Top Revenue Parent Account
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Expenses - Top Operating Expenses Account
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Expenses - Top Cost of Sales Parent Account (optional)
The Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups process uses these parent accounts as the basis for
deriving the accounts that are referenced in the reports it creates by taking the immediate descendants of
these parent accounts to define the rows of the reports.
The process generates a set of Financial Reporting reports and Account Groups for the selected balances
cube and its ledgers.
Depending on whether both the top operating expense and top cost of sales accounts are tagged, different
variations of the income statements are generated. If the optional top cost of sales account is provided, the
income statement reports also include a gross margin section.
When specifying each of the top parent account, you can pick the specific tree and tree version of the parent
account that you wish to base the generated reports. Use the Search feature to look for the specific parent
account by one or more criteria, using value, description, tree and tree version.
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Tips And Considerations
•
When specifying the top parent accounts to submit the Generate Financial Reports and Account
Groups process, you can pick a specific tree and tree version for each parent account.
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All three parent account values can be from different trees and tree versions, although ideally, you
would choose a common tree and tree version for all of them so that the hierarchy basis of all the
rows in the report is consistent.
•
The Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups process creates an initial set of Financial
Reporting reports for each ledger included in the request submission.
•
To prevent the unchecked proliferation of such Financial Reporting reports, unless the original
reports created were renamed or deleted, a resubmission of the report generation process will not
generate new Financial Reporting reports for the ledgers.
•
In contrast, for Account Groups, a new set is generated for the balances cube with each submission
of the report generation process.
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The Revenues and Expenses Account Groups created by the report generation program are
automatically set as the defaults for your Revenues and Expenses infolets in the General Accounting
Home Page if there is no existing Account Group already associated as their defaults.
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The Close Monitor Summary Income Statement, can be assigned to your ledger sets when you
complete the Close Monitor setup.
Role Information
You must have one of the following roles to submit the Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups
process:
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Financial Analyst
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General Accountant
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General Accounting Manager
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Financial Application Administrator
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Application Implementation Consultant
You must have one of the following roles to work directly with the account groups and Financial Reporting
reports created:
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Financial Analyst, General Accountant
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General Accounting Manager
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Specifying the Parent Account Value
•
Pick the specific tree and tree version of the parent account that you wish to base the
generated reports on.
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Use the Search feature to look for the specific parent account.
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Navigate to: More… > Tools > Scheduled Processes > Schedule New Process > Generate Financial
Reports and Account Groups.
When specifying each of the top parent account, you can pick the specific tree and tree version of the parent
account that you wish to base the generated reports on.
Use the Search feature to look for the specific parent account by one or more criteria, using value,
description, tree and tree version.
Note: If more than one ledger uses the selected Chart of Accounts, more than one tree is displayed using
the same values. In the screenshot, the V1 tree is used by the Corporate Ledger, V1B is used by US
Primary Ledger.
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Deriving a Period and Naming the Financial Reports
Period of the Reports: Prior Period.
Naming of the Reports:
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Period Name
•
Ledger Name
•
Type of Report
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Search.
To derive the period for the Financial Reports, the Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups process
uses the current period that the system date is in and generates the reports dated for the prior period. For
example, if you run the process on March 23, 2018 which is in period 03-18, then the reports generate for
period 02-18. Therefore, you can run this process every month during the period close process to generate
your income statements.
To name the Financial Reports, the process includes the:
•
Derived Period
•
Ledger Name
•
Type of Report
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Report Type Generated and Location of the Saved Definition
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Search > Select a Financial Report.
Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Tasks panel tab > Open Workspace for Financial Reporting >
Shared Folders > Custom > Financials.
The Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups creates all the reports a Live Reports. Therefore,
many of the report dimension values can be dynamically changed.
The reports are saved in the BI Catalog and can be edited using the Financial Reporting Studio.
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Demonstration 3-12 Overview: Generating Financial Reports and
Account Groups
This demonstration covers the following topics:
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Submitting the Generate Financial Reports and Account Groups process.
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Viewing a Financial Report the process generated.
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Viewing the account groups the process generated.
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Copying Account Group
•
Make a copy of an existing account
group.
•
Modify to satisfy a different reporting
requirement.
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Use the Copy Account Group feature to make a copy of an existing account group, which can then
be readily modified to satisfy a different reporting requirement by having another Account Group
variation.
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You can make a copy of any account group to which you have access, whether it is an Account
Group you own, an Account Group that is shared with you, or an Account Group that is public.
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You are marked as the owner of the copied Account Group. The default is set to Private Access but
you can change it to a different setting depending on your requirements.
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
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Describe the Features of the Financial Reporting Center.
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Understand the GL Balances Cube.
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View an account group and use the sunburst visualization tool from the Financial
Reporting Center.
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Analyze data in Smart View.
•
Create financial reports using the Financial Reporting Studio.
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4
Using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence
for Reporting in Financials
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
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Describe the components and key features of Oracle Transactional BI.
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Use BI Composer.
•
Use Oracle Transactional BI Answers to create and edit analyses, dashboards, and
views.
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Use the BI Mobile App Designer.
•
Create a Custom Infolet using Oracle Transactional BI objects.
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Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Overview
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The graphic illustrates the various Oracle Transactional BI tools and output types.
Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (Oracle Transactional BI) is a set of highly interactive reporting
tools providing strategic insight into a business answering questions that are critical to executives and
manages for making responsible business decisions. It reports directly from the transactional tables and the
GL Balances Cube and returns the results in real time thus eliminating the need for a data warehouse. You
can access your finished Analyses, Reports, and Dashboards from the Financial Reporting Center.
With Oracle Transactional BI developers and end users alike can create meaningful analyses and reports
eliminating the need for SQL skills and resulting in real time information using these tools:
•
BI Composer: Enables users to create analyses and reports using graphs, charts, and tables. BI
Composer is a simple-to-use-wizard.
•
BI Answers: Enables developers to create analyses and reports using graphs, charts, and tables. BI
Answers is a full functional analysis editor.
•
BI Mobile App Designer: Enables developers to create analyses and reports using graphs, charts,
and tables for use on mobile devices.
From the analyses and reports, developers can then create:
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Dashboards: Enables users to access analyses, reports, links and so on all in one place.
•
Custom Infolets: Enables users to monitor performance using dashboards or other Oracle
Transactional BI objects.
Oracle Transactional BI uses the Oracle BI Catalog which is the same one as used by the Financial
Reporting Center’s EPM Workspace thus unifying the look and feel for the end-user.
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The Financial Reporting Center and Oracle Transactional BI
From the Financial Reporting Center, you can access:
•
Analyses
•
Reports
•
Dashboards
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center.
The screenshot is an example of some reports available in the Financial Reporting Center.
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EPM Workspace
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System Workspace, Fusion Edition is
the Web user interface that is used to access:
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Oracle BI Catalog
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Allocation Manager
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Books and batches
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The Batch Scheduler
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Use the EPM Workspace to access:
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Oracle BI Catalog: For creating, editing, and storing all Oracle Transactional BI and BI Publisher
objects and organizing the objects into folders.
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Allocation Manager: To create, validate, deploy, and administer allocation rules and rule sets, which
are used to create allocations, recurring journal entries, formula journal entries and consolidation
elimination journal entries.
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Books and Batches: Group reports into books to view or print at the same time. Group reports and
books into batches to schedule.
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Batch Scheduler: Schedule batches to automatically run and to burst out to email.
Note: This course covers Books, Batches, and the batch scheduler in the Using Other Reporting Tools
lesson. For more information on the Allocation Manager you may take the Oracle Financials Cloud:
Enterprise Structures and General Ledger course.
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Accessing the BI Catalog
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > click on the Tasks panel drawer > Open Workspace for Financial
Reports > Navigate > Applications > BI Catalog.
The screenshots show how to navigate to the BI Catalog.
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Browsing the Catalog: Oracle Transactional BI User Interface
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse Catalog icon.
The screenshot shows the BI Catalog folders.
The Oracle Transactional BI user interface is called the BI Catalog. Here is where you create and save new
analyses, reports, dashboards and other BI objects.
Organized in a hierarchy with two top level folders. When you select a folder, the objects are listed in the
main panel of the Catalog. The two top folders are:
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My Folders: Available only to you. You should save analyses, dashboards, and reports that are not
to be shared with other users in this folder.
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Shared Folders: Available to all users, but users can access only the BI objects that their security
enables them to access.
The Tasks panel enables you to do basic functions like deleting, copying, getting properties and setting
permissions.
Links on the Catalog provide access to other Oracle Business Intelligence functions.
The Search text box enables you to find saved analyses, reports, dashboard and other BI objects.
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Oracle Transactional BI Objects and Related Icons
Folder
Analysis
Report
Dashboard
Dashboard Prompt
Data Model
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Each object in the BI Catalog is represented as an icon. The graphic lists the icons and which object they
represent. Each object is covered in this lesson and the lesson Using Oracle Business Intelligence
Publisher for Reporting in Financials.
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Practice 4-1 Overview: Reviewing the Oracle Business Intelligence
UI
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Exploring the Home and Catalog pages in the BI user interface.
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Using the Search engine.
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Oracle Transactional BI Predefined Tools and Sample Reports
Oracle Transactional BI consists of the following predefined tools and sample reports for
Oracle Cloud Financials:
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40 subject areas
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40 logical facts
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87 dimensions
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450 metrics
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18 sample reports
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Subject Areas
A subject area is a grouping of attributes
that are available to the report writer.
Subject areas have:
•
Folders
•
Columns
•
Names that correspond to the types of
information they contain.
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse Catalog icon > New > Analysis > Payables Invoices –
Transactions Real Time.
The screenshot is an example of the Payables Invoices – Transactions Real Time subject area.
A subject area is a grouping of attributes (tables and columns) that provides the view of the data used by the
report writer. Subject areas are based on star schemas.
Subject areas have:
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Folders: the highest level of each logical grouping. Each subject area has one fact folder and a
number of dimension folders. Fact folders contain attributes that can be measured, meaning that
they are numeric values like journal debit and credit amounts. Fact folders are usually at the end of
the list of folders and are usually named after the subject area. Dimension folders contain attribute
and hierarchical columns like journal name and accounting period. Some folders appear in more
than one subject area, such as Time. These are referred to as common folders or common
dimensions.
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Columns: Contain the individual pieces of data that an analysis returns. See the next slide for more
details.
Subject areas have names that correspond to the types of information they contain. All of the predefined
Financial Oracle Transactional BI subject areas are appended with the name Real Time. For example,
Payables Invoices – Transactions Real Time.
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Column Data Structure for Analytics
The business intelligence (BI) repository contains the metadata that defines which columns
you can include in analyses, and the source of that data. The repository is organized into
subject areas, which contain folders with the columns.
Column
Type
Description
Example
Icon for Column Type
Fact
Provides a measure of something, meaning that the
values are numbers.
Total
Blue ruler
Start Date
Blue column
Time, with
sublevels:
• Year
• Quarter
• Month
None
Attribute
Hierarchy
Represents a piece of information about a business
object, with values that are dates, IDs, or text.
Note: Attribute columns can be flexfield segments
imported into the BI repository.
Holds data values that are organized in a hierarchical
manner.
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The table lists the column type, description, example and icon for each column type.
The Three types of columns are:
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Measure Columns: Contain the data that is metric and can be added up or aggregated; usually an
amount or quantity. For example, invoice amounts.
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Attribute Columns: Contain any transactional data that is not measured or hierarchical. For example,
a supplier name.
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Hierarchy Columns: Hold data values that are organized into parent-child relationships. With
hierarchies, you can drill into the detail level of the data. An example is time, which has year, quarter,
and month.
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Subject Area Examples
The following table lists examples of subject areas by product.
Subject Area
Description
Fixed Assets – Asset Depreciation Real Time
Real time information on decrease in value of an asset due to
obsolescence or use.
Cash Management – Bank Statement
Balances Real Time
Real time information on bank balances.
Financials Common Module – Intercompany
Transactions Real Time
Real time information on intercompany transactions.
General Ledger – Transactional Balances
Real Time
Real time information on general ledger balances.
Payables – Transactions Real Time
Real time information on invoices.
Receivables – Transactions Real Time
Real time information on transaction header and transaction lines for
invoice, credit memos, and debit memos.
Subledger Accounting – Journals Real Time
Real time information on subledger transaction level journals.
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The table lists some examples of subject areas and their descriptions.
Note: More examples are listed in the Appendix: Around the World of Reporting in Financials.
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Transactional Business Intelligence for Financials Overview New
Features
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Replaced business unit views for improved performance
– To improve query performance in Financial subject areas, Business Unit views were
replaced with more optimized views.
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Subledger Accounting - Journals Real Time subject area enhancements
– The Payables Transaction Details folder in the Subledger Accounting - Journals Real
Time subject area has been synchronized with similar folders in the Payables subject
areas, for better usability.
– New columns added to Header Information, Reference Information and Tax
Information folders.
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Oracle Transactional BI Star Schemas
•
Designed for analysis and reporting.
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Data model that resembles a star.
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The graphic illustrates the Payables Transactions star schema.
A star schema is the table basis for all Oracle Transactional BI analyses and reports. Each star schema will
be used for the various Subject Areas used on an analysis or report.
The data model resembles a star and consists of one or more fact tables (the center) connected to multiple
dimension tables. This schema is very common in most relational databases.
Dimension tables are the tables outside the fact table and stores data to enhance the detail of the
transactions. The fact table contains foreign keys pointing to the dimension tables. For example, the supplier
tables are dimension tables of the payables transactions fact table to return supplier address information.
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Sample Reports
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Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Report
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Payables Invoice Audit Listing
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Cash Management: Bank Statement Analysis Report
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Intercompany Transaction Summary Report General Ledger
•
Account Analysis Report
•
General Journals Report
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Trial Balance
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These and other reports are listed in the lesson Around the World of Financial Reporting.
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Analyses
•
Are queries against an organization's transactional data that provides answers to
business questions.
•
You can use 2 different tools to create an analysis:
– BI Composer
– Oracle Transactional BI Answers
•
Analyses that you create are saved in the Oracle BI Catalog.
•
Analyses can be enhanced through features such as graphs, charts, tables, calculated
items and drilling down.
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An analysis is a query against an organization’s data that provides answers to business questions. For
example, which suppliers have not been paid or partially paid?
There are 2 different tools used to create an analysis:
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BI Composer: a user friendly tool designed for a functional end user to quickly create an ad hoc
analysis.
•
Oracle Transactional BI Answers: a tool designed for a business analyst or developer to create more
complex analyses and reports.
Analyses that you create are saved in the Oracle BI Catalog and can then be integrated into any Oracle
Business Intelligence dashboard.
Analyses can be enhanced through features such as graphs, charts, tables, calculated items and drilling
down.
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BI Composer Overview
BI Composer is a user-friendly wizard that enables you to quickly and easily create, edit, or
view analyses.
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Navigate to: More… > Tools > Reports and Analytics > Create.
The screenshot shows the new Reports and Analytics user interface.
The BI Composer is a user-friendly wizard that enables an end-user to quickly and easily create, edit or view
analyses. For more complex analyses a business analyst or developer should use the Analysis Editor tool
from Oracle Transactional BI Answers.
The wizard is the BI Composer train, which contains buttons for each step in the wizard.
The page also contains the Back, Next, Finish, and Cancel buttons.
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Using the BI Composer
When using the BI Composer you can:
•
Select Columns
•
Select Views
•
Edit Tables
•
Edit Graphs
•
Sort and Filter
•
Highlight
•
Save
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When using the BI Composer you can:
•
Select Columns: Select the columns from the subject area that are to appear in the analysis. If using
a Measured column you may also set Interaction. For example, to drill down to detail or navigate to
the transaction.
•
Select Views: Select the views that are to be included in the analysis, such as a title, table, bar
graph, and so on. You can also preview the results.
•
Edit Tables: Edit the layout of the table if you have included a table view. For example, you can
create prompts, use a column to section the analysis, and exclude certain columns from the table.
You can also preview the results.
•
Edit Graphs: Edit the properties and layout of the graph if you have included a graph view. For
example, you can create prompts, use a column to section the analysis, and exclude certain
columns from the graph. You can also preview the results.
•
Sort and Filter: Apply sorting and filters to the views. You can also preview the results.
•
Highlight: Apply conditional formatting to the table (if you have included a table view). You can also
preview the results.
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Save: Give a name or rename the analysis. You can also create new folders before saving.
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Practice 4-2 Overview: Using BI Composer
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Creating an analysis using BI Composer from the Reports and Analytics work area.
•
Using the Payables Invoices - Transactions Real Time subject area.
•
Listing the supplier name, number, site name, and address.
•
Running the analysis and generating an Excel file.
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Oracle Transactional BI Answers
Provides solutions to business questions through analyses and dashboards.
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BI Answers is the second analysis and report writing tool. It is designed to be used by business analysts and
developers to provide managers with solutions to business questions. You must have access to the BI
Catalog to use the tool unlike the BI Composer that requires access only to the Reports and Analytics page.
BI Answers:
•
Designs transactional and analytical business intelligence reports.
•
Provides an analysis editor which is a powerful interactive reporting tool.
•
Integrates into any Oracle Business Intelligence home page or Interactive Dashboard.
•
Permits results to be enhanced through charting, result layout, calculation, and drill-down features.
•
Provides the building blocks of Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards.
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Analysis Editor
With Analysis Editor you:
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Create ad hoc analyses.
•
Set the Criteria.
•
Modify the Results by inserting Views.
•
Create Prompts and Filters.
•
Use advanced features with HTML and SQL.
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > New > Analysis.
The screenshot shows the Criteria tab of an analysis.
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The Criteria Tab
The Criteria tab consists of:
•
Selecting columns.
•
Setting the sort order.
•
Editing Formulas.
•
Using column properties
•
Applying filters.
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After you have chosen the subject area or areas you want to work with you must set the criteria for the
analysis. The Criteria consists of:
•
Selecting Columns: The subject area provides all the Attribute and Measured columns that can be
used in the analysis. You simply drag the columns you want to include into the Selected Columns
area. This also sets the order in which the results are returned. You can re-order the columns if
needed.
Each column has an action menu to do the following:
•
Setting the Sort Order: You can choose Ascending or Descending on one or more columns.
•
Editing Formulas: Column formulas consist of Rank or Percentile functions.
•
Using Column Properties: See the next slide for details.
•
Applying Filters: You can choose from several operations like, Is equal to, Is not equal to, Greater
than, Less than, Is between, and so on.
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The Criteria Tab: Using Column Properties
The Column Properties consist of:
•
Style
•
Column Formatting.
•
Data Formatting.
•
Conditional Formatting
•
Interaction.
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Column Properties format each column and consist of:
•
Style: Includes font size and color, cell alignment and borders.
•
Column Formatting: You can choose to:
-
Hide the column: This is useful if you are using the column in a calculation and just want to
see the result.
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Create Custom Headings: You can create custom headings on both the folder and the
column for the subject area.
-
Use Value Suppression: If the result produces multiple rows for one value you can choose to
not repeat the value name for each row (Suppress) or to repeat the value for each row. For
example, on a Supplier Invoice analysis one supplier might have multiple invoices. You might
want to suppress the Supplier name from repeating on each row.
•
Data Formatting: To override the data's default display characteristics by specifying custom formats.
The options that display on this tab depend upon the data type (text, numeric, or date) of the column
or hierarchy level. For example, if the data type is numeric, then you can add the thousands
separator to the values.
•
Conditional Formatting: You specify a condition to affect the formatting of values based on certain
criteria. You can add a condition using the same operators as the filter.
•
Interaction: You can set interaction for the column heading or the value. The default is Drill. You can
change it to None or Action Links.
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The Results Tab
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse Catalog icon > New menu > Analysis > Select subject
area and columns > Results tab.
The screenshot shows the Results tab of an analysis.
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Using the Results Tab
Results tab compound layout’s features consists of:
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Adding Calculated Measured Columns
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Creating Prompts
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Creating Views
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Adding a View Selector
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Setting the Analysis Properties
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The Results tab opens up the Compound Layout which is initially sectioned into panes. The default panes
are the Title view and the Table view. The Compound Layout’s features consists of:
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Adding Calculated Measured Columns: Derived from other measured objects and created by using
formulas.
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Creating Prompts: A prompt enables the user to select a single value and then see the resulting data
for that value. Prompts can be setup in 2 different ways. One is in the Compound Layout the other is
an inline prompt in the Prompts tab. A prompt setup in the Compound Layout can be set for each
specific View. Each View in the Compound Layout can have different prompts. For example, on a
Payables Invoice analysis you could set up a prompt on the table view for supplier and on a graph
view supplier and invoice date. Setting up inline prompts using the prompts tab would affect all views
or the whole analysis.
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Creating Views: A view is simply the graphical way to display the results of the analysis. Use views
to look at the results of analyses in meaningful and intuitive ways. An analysis can have more than
one view for the same data. Examples of view are: Table, Pivot Table, Performance Tile, Treemap,
Trellis, Graph, Gauge, Funnel, and Map. As you add more views a new pane is created in the
Compound View. You can hide panes to maximize the space on the Compound Layout.
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Adding a View Selector: If an analysis has more than one view, you can add a view selector that
enables the user to select which view they want to use. The user can toggle between views.
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Setting the Analysis Properties: See the next slide for details.
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Analysis Properties
The Analysis Properties consist of:
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Results Display
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Interactions
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Data
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Analysis properties affect all views in the analysis and consist of three tabs:
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Results Display: Use this tab to specify how results that are returned are to be handled. The choices
are:
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No Results Settings: Use this box to select the type of message (default or custom) that is
displayed if no results are returned. If you choose custom then you must enter a Header and
a Message.
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View for Text Delivery: Use this box to manually control which compound layout is sent to a
particular destination.
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Interactions: Use this tab to specify which interactions are available when users right-click in a pivot
table, table or trellis view at runtime. The choices are: All Interactions, Drill, Move Columns, Sort
Columns, Add/Remove Values, Create/Edit/Remove Calculated Items, Display/Hide Sub-totals,
Display/Hide Running Sum, Include/Exclude Columns, and Hide Columns.
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Data: Use this tab to specify how data is to be handled. The components include:
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Include Null Values: Use this option to include null values when the entire row or column
contains all nulls. When this option is enabled, null values are not suppressed.
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Display of Columns Added in Criteria Tab: This specifies how to handle columns that are
added after views are created in the results tab. You can have the columns “Display in
existing and new views” or “Exclude from existing view, but display in new views.”
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Hierarchy Display: Use this component to control the placement of a member total for
hierarchical columns and for the placement of added members.
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The Prompts Tab
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Created and embedded at the analysis level not at the view level.
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Affects all views in the analysis.
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Requires a rerun of the analysis if you select a different prompt value.
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Can work independently from dashboard filter prompts, depending on how they are
configured.
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Setting up inline prompts from the prompts tab is the second way to create prompts. If you have more than
one view in the analysis, setting up an inline prompt from the prompts tab would affect all the views in the
analysis.
When a user selects a different prompt value the analysis would need to rerun to see the results. Whereas a
prompt setup in the Compound Layout can be dynamically refreshed.
If the analysis is used in a dashboard (to be covered later) a dashboard prompt can be defined that would
affect all analyses in the dashboard. However, you can configure an analysis prompt to work independently
of the dashboard prompt.
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Practice 4-3 Overview: Creating an Analysis, View, and View
Selector
This practice covers the following topics:
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Creating an analysis with a table view using the Analysis Editor.
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Selecting the criteria.
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Adding filters.
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Formatting a column using the condition format and style.
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Adding a calculated measure column.
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Creating prompts.
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Adding a graph view.
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Creating a view selector.
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Setting analysis properties.
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Using the view selector to see results.
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Dashboards Overview
Dashboards put all the information needed in one place.
They can include:
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Analyses
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Oracle Transactional BI Reports
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Scorecards
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Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
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Links to Financial Reports
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Dashboards put all the information, functions and actions that a business user needs to do their job in one
place. Dashboards are building using any Oracle Transactional BI object such as analyses, reports,
scorecards, KPI’s and so on. Oracle provides some predefined dashboards.
For example, a CEO might have a dashboard that the overview page shows a cash flow summary analyses
and a link to the cash flow report, a link to the balance sheet report, a total expenses trend analysis, an
expenses by category analysis, and the top 10 cost centers by expenses. And the on other pages the
dashboard shows more detail around the balance sheet, cash flow, budget vs. actuals, asset usage,
liquidity, financial structure, GL balances, and a trial balance.
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The Dashboard Builder
With the dashboard builder you can:
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Create new dashboards.
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Edit existing dashboards.
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Add dashboard objects.
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Set the dashboard and section properties.
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Save the dashboard in the BI Catalog.
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Creating Dashboards
When creating a dashboard you must decide the following:
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Name and description for the dashboard.
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The location for the dashboard.
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Whether you want to add content to the new dashboard now or later.
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > New > Dashboard.
The screenshot depicts the new dashboard page.
When you initially start a new dashboard you must provide a name and optionally a description.
You must also select where in the BI Publisher you want to save the dashboard. If you save the dashboard
in the Dashboards subfolder directly under Shared Folders > first-level subfolder, then the dashboard is
listed in the Dashboard menu in the global header.
If you save it in a Dashboards subfolder at any other level, such as Shared Folders > Sales > Eastern, then
it is not listed. If you choose a folder in the Dashboards subfolder directly under Shared Folders > first-level
subfolder in which no dashboards have been saved, then a new Dashboards folder is automatically created
in that folder in which to save the new dashboard. For example, if you choose a folder named Shared
Folders > Sales in which no dashboards have been saved, a new Dashboards folder is automatically
created and the Location entry changes to Shared Folders > Sales > Dashboards. A new Dashboards folder
is not automatically created if you choose a folder at any other level.
Finally you must decide rather to add content now or later (create an empty dashboard.)
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Adding Dashboard Objects
The Dashboard Builder enables you to add the following objects to a dashboard:
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Columns
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Sections
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Alert Sections
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Action Links
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Action Link Menus
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Links or Images
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Embedded Content
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Text
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Folders
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Dashboard Prompts
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The dashboard builder is the tool used to create or edit dashboards. Dashboards can be sophisticated and
personalized and the dashboard builder helps to achieve that. The dashboard builder provides the following
objects:
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Columns: Used to align content. Columns can be vertical or horizontal.
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Sections: Used within a column to provide the actual content. For example, you insert an analysis or
action link within a section. Sections are the framework for other dashboard objects to be embedded.
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Alert Sections: A specialized section reserved for alerts from agents.
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Action Links: When clicked runs an associated action.
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Action Link Menus: Lets users choose from a list of action links the correct action to be executed. For
example, an action might be to send an email.
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Links or Images: Embeds links or images to access other web pages, dashboards, applications, and
documents. For example, you might embed a map image that has links to country specific
information.
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Embedded Content: Any content that is displayed inside a frame as apposed to content that is
accessed by a link. Embedded content can be a spreadsheet, a web page, or a document.
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Text: Used to embed plain text or HTML.
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Folders: Used to give access to a BI Catalog folder. The user can then access the content of the
folder and run reports or analyses from the dashboard.
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Dashboard Prompts: To be detailed in a later slide.
Note: The predefined dashboards that display in the demo environment are Oracle Business Intelligence
Analytics and require a separate license.
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Setting Properties
Use properties to set the look and feel of the dashboard.
Properties can be set for the:
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Dashboard
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Column
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Section
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Dashboard properties include:
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Deleting, renaming and reordering pages.
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Style
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Page size
Column properties include:
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Horizontal and vertical alignment.
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Background color
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Border
Section Properties include:
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Conditions
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Permissions
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Format
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Rename
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Drill in Place
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Collapsible
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Show Section Header
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Show Section Title
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Dashboard Prompts
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Created and saved as a separate file.
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Can be used in multiple dashboards.
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Added as a section in the dashboard
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Determine values for all
columns/sections on a dashboard or a
page.
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > New > Dashboard Prompt.
The screenshot shows how to get to the Dashboard Prompt definition.
A Dashboard prompt is the third type of prompt available in Oracle Transactional BI. As previously learned
the other two types are Compound view prompts and inline prompts.
Dashboard prompts are created and saved as a separate file in the BI Catalog and can be used in multiple
dashboards. Whereas Compound and inline prompts are specific to a view or analysis.
Dashboard prompts are added to the dashboard as a separate section.
Dashboard prompts can be scoped to determine values for all the pages in a dashboard or be specific to a
single page in the dashboard.
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Elements of Dashboard Prompts
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Type
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Label and Description
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Operator
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User Input
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Options
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The elements of dashboard prompts determine how the prompt acts and is used. The elements include:
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Type: When you initially define a new prompt you must choose a type. The types are:
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Column Prompt: Enables users to select values to populate a column in a dashboard or
analysis.
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Variable Prompt: Enables the system to reference a variable. For example, you could have a
dashboard display the current user’s name.
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Image Prompt: Provides users with an image that contains sections or areas that they can
click to select a specific prompt value. For example: a map of the United States with sections
that represent North, South, East, and West sales divisions. A user could click on a section to
get a sales report for that section.
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Currency Prompt: Enables the user to change the currency type.
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Label and Description: A dashboard prompt may include more than one type of prompt represented
as a separate row in the definition screen. So you must give a label or name to each row.
Descriptions are optional.
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Operator: Available only for the Column prompt type. Operators include “is equal to / is in,” “is
greater than,” “is less than,” “is between,” and so on.
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User Input: This determines how the user selects from the list of values. The choices are: Text Field,
Choice List, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, and List Box.
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Options: The options vary depending the User Input chosen, but mainly the options determine
whether to include all column values or to limit the values and to require user input or not. Options
also determine the width and location of the check boxes or radio buttons.
Note: Inline prompts defined on the analysis Prompts tab are defined the just like dashboard prompts. They
are just not saved as a separate file.
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Practice 4-4 Overview: Creating a Dashboard and a Prompt
This practice covers the following topics:
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Creating a dashboard with two pages.
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Creating a dashboard prompt and editing analyses so they work with the prompt.
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Adding a dashboard prompt to the dashboard.
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Setting Dashboard properties.
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Viewing a dashboard.
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Scheduling an Analysis: Delivery Agents
Agents enable you to automate your business processes. You can use them to provide
event-driven alerting, scheduled content publishing, and conditional event-driven action
execution.
You can choose:
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A schedule that the Agent runs on.
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A data condition that determines what the Agent does.
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An analysis that can be distributed.
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Actions that can be automatically executed depending on whether the data condition is
met.
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Creating Agents
The agent editor has the following tabs:
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General
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Schedule
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Condition
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Delivery Content
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Recipients
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Destinations
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Actions
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You can open the agent editor by navigating to either Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > New >
Agent or Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > Select an Analysis or dashboard > More >
Schedule. To create an Agent use the following tabs:
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General: Specify the priority of the content that the agent is to deliver and how to generate the
delivery content (that is, what user to run the query as).
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Schedule: Specify whether the agent is to be run based on a schedule, how often it runs, and when
its running is to start and end.
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Condition: Specify whether the agent always delivers its content and executes its actions, or
conditionally delivers its content and executes its actions.
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Delivery Content: Specify the content to deliver with the agent, such as:
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An analysis
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A dashboard page or entire dashboard
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A briefing book.
Recipients: Specify who is to receive the delivery content of the agent and who is allowed to
subscribe to the agent. A recipient can be:
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Users
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Emails
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Catalog Groups & Application Roles
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All
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•
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Destinations: Specify where the content is to be delivered. User Destinations can be:
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Home Page and Dashboard
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Devices: Use an Active Delivery Profile or a combination of Specific Devices such as: Email,
Pager, Digital Phone, Handheld Device
Actions: Specify one or more actions to execute when the agent finishes.
After you have saved the agent, you can run the agent by clicking the Run Agent Now toolbar button. This is
helpful, for example, to test the agent.
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Practice 4-5 Overview: Scheduling an Analysis
This practice covers the following topics:
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Scheduling an analysis.
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Viewing the results.
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BI Mobile App Designer
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > Home > Create > Mobile Apps.
The screenshot is an example of a mobile app.
Mobile App Designer is an application that enables you to create multi-touch information-driven applications
with rich interaction, rich visualization, and rich media, for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android
phone, tablet, and more.
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The intuitive web-based Mobile App Designer editor anticipates common design patterns.
Effortlessly drag-and-drop your app components to pixel-perfect positioning while enjoying a full
scale of flexibility to meet your unique needs.
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While designing your apps you can preview them instantly on your target mobile device by scanning
a QR code. Or, even faster, view them in your PC browser using our web-based mobile simulator.
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BI Mobile App Designer Features
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Create interactive analytical applications for any mobile device and screen size.
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Drag and drop design interface.
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Build new applications with text, images, visual graphics, and tables.
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Touch and swipe gestures available for real-time interactive analysis.
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Scale to unlimited users without compromising security.
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Creating a mobile app with Mobile App Designer takes only a few clicks. Use the App Creation wizard to
select a device type and a data source from BI Subject Areas, BI Publisher Data Models or your Excel files,
and you have your first app.
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Self-Service Authoring for Business Users
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > Home > Create > Mobile Apps.
The screenshot shows a mobile app definition.
Fully integrated into Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE):
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Content stored in the BI Catalog.
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Mobile Application creation is accessed directly from the BI home page.
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Leverage the existing data models from OBIEE, BI Publisher, or highly structured Excel files.
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For more information, see:
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http://bimad.us.oracle.com
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http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/bi/bimad/mad/mad.html
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Fusion Middleware User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile App Designer:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52471_01/bi.1111/e54309/toc.htm
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Practice 4-6 Overview: Using the BI Mobile App Designer
This practice covers the following topics:
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Creating a tablet app.
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Adding a new page.
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Adding a table.
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Creating a filter.
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Formatting a table.
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Adding a chart bar graph.
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Formatting a chart.
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Previewing a BI Mobile App.
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Custom Infolets Overview
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Monitor performance with user configurable interactive dashboards based on user
defined Oracle Transactional BI reports.
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Drill from dashboards to detailed reports.
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > Custom Infolets Dot.
The screenshot shows the custom infolets page.
Monitor performance with interactive dashboards based upon balances and supplemental information such
as targets and performance goals using highly configurable Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence
reports.
Drill from performance measures to details to investigate and analyze performance deviations.
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Prerequisites for Creating Custom Infolets
Before you can create a custom infolet you must be in an active Sandbox.
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You must first enable infolets using the system options on the Structure page.
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You must then activate the Page Composer.
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Unlike other setups done through tasks and role security, create custom infolets by first storing them in an
active Sandbox.
You can either create a sandbox or select an existing sandbox, and designate it as an active sandbox. The
active sandbox holds the context for all the changes. The sandbox uses a database to store the actual
changes. After testing your changes, you can publish the sandbox, or deploy the flexfield, and the changes
are merged into the mainline metadata. Eventually, the sandbox is archived.
After activating a sandbox, if the page control dots aren't available on the home page, you can enable
infolets using the system options on the Structure page.
When you are ready to customize or create an infolet, you must also activate the Page Composer. To
activate the Page Composer navigate to: Your Username > Administration > Customize Pages… The Page
Composer provides the Infolet Repository with the Create Infolet function.
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Creating Custom Infolets
To create infolets you:
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Give it a title.
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Select the Views.
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Set the Dimensions.
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Add Content.
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Publish the Sandbox.
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Navigate to: Welcome Springboard > Custom Infolets> Infolet Repository > Create Infolet.
The screenshot illustrates creating an infolet’s view.
To create an infolet you define the following:
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Title: This title is displayed in the corner of the infolet.
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Select the Views: The choices are:
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Front View: What users initially see when first navigating to the infolet page.
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Back View: Enables a flip page to have another analysis to view.
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Expanded View: Opens another analysis directly in the Front View.
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Set the Dimension: You must set the size or dimension of each View you have enabled.
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Add Content: You add the BI Catalog content that displays the desired results.
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Publish the Sandbox: This process is performed to merge infolet data into the mainline metadata and
make them available in the application.
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Practice 4-7 Overview: Creating a Sandbox Demonstration
This demonstration covers creating a sandbox.
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Practice 4-8 Overview: Creating a Custom Infolet.
This practice covers the following topics:
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Creating a custom infolet using two Transactional BI analyses.
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Publishing a sandbox demonstration.
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
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Describe the components and key features of Oracle Transactional BI.
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Use BI Composer.
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Use Oracle Transactional BI Answers to create and edit analyses, dashboards, and
views.
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Use the BI Mobile App Designer.
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Create a Custom Infolet using Oracle Transactional BI objects.
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5
Using Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher for
Reporting in Financials
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
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Describe the components and key features of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.
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Understand the report configuration options.
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Create and edit report layouts using the Layout Editor.
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Define Templates using the Word Template Builder.
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Understand and use the BI Publisher Customize Feature.
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Create a new report using an Excel spreadsheet as the Data Source.
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Oracle BI Publisher Overview
Enterprise reporting solution for authoring, managing, and delivering electronically or
through print all of your highly formatted documents, such as:
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Operational reports
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Electronic funds transfer documents
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Government PDF forms
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Checks
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A scalable solution for delivering high-fidelity, pixel-perfect reports in multiple formats, for example, for tax
auditing and fulfilling country-specific statutory requirements.
Used to generate printable output that presents specific information from a predetermined template, for
example, for invoices, dunning letters, and other external-facing documents.
Used for generating high-volume operational reports and production runs.
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Oracle BI Publisher Overview
Oracle BI Publisher is available in two forms:
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Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise
– Comes as a standalone web application.
– Provides native security that can integrate with other types of security.
– Contains a separate reports repository.
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As part of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
– In the same repository as other BI objects such as analyses and dashboards.
– Available functionality similar to the standalone application.
– From within Oracle Cloud Applications, navigate to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition to
manage Oracle BI Publisher reports, for example, configure layout templates.
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Stand alone BI Publisher Enterprise is access by:
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Selecting Business Intelligence on the Login to Oracle Cloud page.
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Sign in with your user name and password.
As part of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition:
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Navigator > Tools > Reports and Analytics > Click the Browse Catalog button > Home tab to open
Business Intelligence. In the Catalog tab you can see examples of the following BI Publisher reports
under Shared Folders > Financials > Payables > Invoices:
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Import Payables Invoices
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Payables Invoice Register
Navigator > Scheduled Processes page to see these examples of BI Publisher reports:
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Asset Transaction History Report (FAS530): Lists all transactions performed on selected
assets. The report is sorted by asset number.
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Journals Report (GLJRNL): Provides journal activity for a given period or range of periods,
balancing segment value, currency, and range of account segment values.
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Oracle BI Publisher Overview
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The graphic illustrates the data sources, layout tools, output formats, and destinations of Oracle BI
Publisher.
Oracle BI Publisher provides many predefined reports for Oracle Cloud Financials. Predefined BI Publisher
reports for Oracle Cloud Financials are set up to be submitted as scheduled processes through the
Enterprise Scheduler System (ESS) in Oracle Cloud Applications. The Open link, therefore, is not available
by default for these reports in the BI Catalog.
Because it supports diverse document requirements with flexible configuration capabilities, developers can
use layout editors to edit exiting layouts or create new layouts.
BI Publisher uses a layout to produce results. A layout determines the details, the placement of data, and
the look and feel of the output results.
One BI Publisher report can support more than one layout enabling an end-user to obtain different results as
needed for the one or multiple data sources. Layouts generate high fidelity, pixel-perfect reports to PDF,
RTF, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and static HTML.
Also, at the time of submission, an end-user can choose to have the report produce multiple outputs using
different layouts at the same time. In other words, one submission can produce the same report in PDF and
another in HTML at the same time. Or one submission can produce one report using layout1 and another
using layout2 at the same time.
Because BI Publisher uses XML technology, the report output delivery supports multiple destination types,
including printers, faxes, e-mail and e-commerce.
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Financial Reporting Center and Oracle BI Publisher
Easily access reports initially run from Scheduled Processes.
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Navigate to: More…Tools > Scheduled Processes > Submit the Payables Invoice Register > Home >
Financial Reporting Center > Search for the Payables Invoice Register BI Publisher report.
The screenshots show how a BI Publisher report is available from the Financial Reporting Center.
After a user initially submits a BI Publisher report from Scheduled Processes (ESS) they can access the
report from the Financial Reporting Center. If the report is submitted again both the initial results and the
new results are available by selecting the date and time from the report’s History drop down.
The report is available in the Financial Reporting Center only for the user that initially submitted it.
Note: The Financial Reporting Center does not support the running of user created BI Publisher reports.
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Practice 5-1 Viewing a BI Publisher Report from the Financial
Reporting Center
This practice covers the following topics:
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Submitting the Payables Invoice Register report.
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Viewing the Payables Invoice Register from the Financial Reporting Center.
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Oracle BI Publisher Report Components
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The graphic illustrates the BI Publisher report components.
Administrators can configure and maintain the Oracle BI Publisher Server by performing tasks such as
creating data sources, setting up security, and configuring delivery destinations.
Oracle BI Publisher Report Components:
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Data Model: Separates the data, layout, and translation at design time.
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Layouts: Bring the data, layout, and translation components together at run time to generate the final
formatted and translated output.
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Translation: Provides flexibility, because a single data definition can support multiple layouts, and
multiple translations can be applied at run time to generate translated output.
The following is a list of catalog objects and corresponding object file extensions:
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Report (.xdoz)
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Data Model (.xdmz)
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Style Template (.xssz)
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Sub-template (.xsbz)
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Data Sources
Oracle BI Publisher can extract data from multiple data sources including:
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Any database or multiple databases.
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Any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
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Any extensible markup language (XML) web service.
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Any XML data server.
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Rich site summary (RSS) feeds.
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External files.
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Oracle BI Publisher uses a data source to create a data model. A data model is the basis for the report and
is used to create layouts for the report.
Data models can include multiple data sets from one or more data sources.
All predefined data models for Oracle Cloud Applications point to one of these standard data sources:
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ApplicationDB_FSCM
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ApplicationDB_HCM
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ApplicationDB_CRM
Note: Financials data models point to the ApplicationDB_FSCM data source.
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Data Models
A data model:
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Is an object that contains a set of instructions for BI Publisher to retrieve and structure
data for a report.
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Resides as a separate object in the BI Catalog.
Data Model Editor enables administrators and developers to:
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Create and edit data models.
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Query data.
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The first component required for Oracle BI Publisher reports is a data model based on a data source. Oracle
provides data models for Cloud Financials. A data model contains a set of instructions for BI Publisher to
retrieve and structure the data for the results of a report.
Data models reside as a separate object (file) in the BI Catalog.
Oracle provides a Data Model Editor for administrators and developers to:
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Create and Edit Data Models: Data models can be created from a wide range of data sources.
Existing data models can be edited to include new data sets, properties or parameters. Data models
that are created or edited must be saved in the Bi Catalog Shared > Custom folder. This course does
not cover creating or editing data models. For more information you make take the Oracle BI
Publisher 11g R1: Fundamentals course.
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Query Data: Build SQL or Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) queries to extract data.
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Data Models
A Data Model contains:
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Data Structure
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Aggregate Data
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Modified Data
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Calculations
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Advanced Elements
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > Shared Folders > Financials > Payables
> Invoices > Data Models > Payables Invoice Register Data Model > Edit.
The screenshot depicts a data model.
A data model contains the following:
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Data Structure: Master-detail relationships between data sets to group data a multiple levels to
optimize document generation.
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Aggregate Data: Group-level totals and subtotals
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Modified Data: Data field names that are modified to conform to business terms and reporting
requirements.
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Calculations: Computed data values that are not stored in the underlying data sources that are
required for reporting.
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Advanced Elements: Parameters and lists of values, triggers and other advanced elements as
required by reports.
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Data Models and Sample Data
Before using the Layout Editor or Template Builder a Sample Data file must be available.
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A file must be attached to the Sample Data property.
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It is recommended that you attach a small, but representative set of sample data.
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Create Sample Data by:
– Generating a file during Data Model creation.
– Submitting a completed reported and downloading the XML file.
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Before using the BI Publisher Layout Editor or the Microsoft Word Template Builder a sample data file must
be available and attached to the Sample Data property page. It is recommended that you attach a small, but
representative set of sample data. Using a small sample file helps improve performance during the layout
design phase.
You can create a sample data file by:
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If the creation of Data Models is enabled, then a sample file can be created during the creation of the
Data Model.
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For existing Data Models, a sample file can be created by submitting the report and at completion
choosing the XML Data download icon in the Output section. It is recommended to use very narrow
parameters when submitting the report to ensure a small sample file.
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Practice 5-2 Overview: Downloading Sample Data
This practice covers the following topics:
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Running the Payables Invoice Register Report.
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Downloading and saving a sample file.
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Configuring BI Publisher Reports
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Oracle Cloud Financials Applications integrate with BI Publisher to provide the reporting
functionality needed for the Application.
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Most applications also provide predefined reports.
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Four Configuration Options are available.
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Oracle Cloud Financials applications integrate with BI Publisher to provide much of the reporting
functionality needed for the application. However, many companies have unique or specialized reporting
requirements that are not met by the predefined reports. To fulfill the reporting requirements, BI Publisher
offers four Configuration options. The term configure for BI Publisher reports means to create a new layout,
edit an existing layout on a predefined report, or create a whole new report. It is always a best practice not
to modify the original report because any modifications are overwritten when a patch is provided that
updates the original report. The four Configuration options are:
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Option 1: Creating a copy of a report from the BI Catalog.
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Option 2: Using the BI Publisher Customize Feature
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Option 3: Editing an Existing Predefined Layout.
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Option 4: Creating a New Report.
Note: Each option is covered in detail within this lesson.
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Option 1
Creating a Copy of a report from the BI Catalog.
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Create a new layout or edit an existing layout.
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Consideration: Will the report be available in Scheduled Processes?
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Tools available to create or edit the layout.
Original Report
Copy
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After copying the original report from the BI Catalog, you can then create a new layout or edit the existing
layout.
With this option, you must also consider whether the original report is to be executed by the Oracle
Enterprise Scheduler System (ESS) through the Scheduled Processes navigation. These processes are
typically coded with the BI Catalog path. Therefore, to enable them to execute your configured report, you
must also make additional configurations to the calling application code (not covered in this course) to point
to the configured copy of the report in the BI Catalog. However, by default the report can be run from
Reports and Analytics or from the BI Catalog.
No matter which of the four configuration options you choose BI Publisher provides several tools to create or
edit layouts. The two types of editors covered in this course are the:
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Online Layout Editor: Access through the BI Catalog to quickly create and edit layouts. It includes
access to the data sources, drag and drop capability, and standard formatting tools.
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Template Builder: Access using Microsoft Word from a desktop or laptop to quickly create templates
and edit layouts. It also includes access to the data sources and all standard Office formatting tools.
A template created in the Template Builder is the basis for a layout. After a template is uploaded into
the BI Publisher report definition, BI Publisher creates a layout from the template.
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Layout Editor Overview
With the Layout Editor, you can:
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Create and edit report layouts from within Oracle BI Publisher.
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Upload layout templates and style templates from other tools and sources.
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The Oracle BI Publisher Layout Editor enables you to create and edit report layouts from with Oracle BI
Publisher. The layout editor provides an intuitive interface for you to drag and drop common report
components to layouts and fully configure layouts from within your web browser including:
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Page Layout: Portrait or landscape, page and report headers and footers.
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Components: Grids, data tables, charts, pivot tables, lists, repeating sections, text items, gauges and
images.
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Standard Formats: Bolding, italics, centering, font style and so on.
From the Layout Editor you can also upload layouts and style sheet templates from other desktop tool such
as:
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Adobe Acrobat: Portable document format (PDF)
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Microsoft Word: Rich text format (RTF)
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Microsoft Excel: Spreadsheet format (XLS)
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Style Sheet: Extensible style sheet language (XSL)
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eText: Template
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Layout Editor Interface: Panel
The panel contains 3 sections:
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Data Source
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Components
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Properties
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse Catalog > Shared Folders > Financials > Payables >
Invoices > Edit Payables Invoice Register report > Add New Layout.
The screenshot shows a data source.
Data Source: Displays the data fields and structures of your data source. The data type for each field is
represented by an appropriate icon: number, date, or text.
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Use this pane to add data columns to your report.
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To insert a data element, select it from the Data Source pane and drag it to the component in the
layout.
Components: Consists of a list of layout components, such as table, chart, pivot table, and image that you
can insert into your layouts. You can also use the Insert menu to insert the layout components. Select the
component and then drag the element to the design area.
Properties: Which properties appear is determined by which component is selected. Properties can be color,
font, background, and border.
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Layout Editor Interface: Toolbars and Tabs
The toolbar area contains two sections:
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Static toolbar
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Dynamic tabs
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse Catalog > Shared Folders > Financials > Payables >
Invoices > Edit Payables Invoice Register report > Add New Layout.
The screenshot illustrates the Layout Editor’s toolbar and tabs.
The toolbar area contains two sections:
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Static Toolbar: The static toolbar is always available and contains common commands, such as
undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, create new, open save, save as and done.
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Dynamic tabs: The tabs contain context-sensitive menus. The Insert and Page Layout tabs are
always available. Additional dynamic tabs appear depending on the component selected. These
tabs, such as Layout Grid, Chart, and Image, show the most commonly used actions and commands
for the selected layout component. Each tab displays context-sensitive, ribbon-style menus.
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Page Layouts
The layout editor offers 4 basic templates with common layout structures and specific layout
components
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Portrait (Blank)
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Landscape (Blank)
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Header and Footer (Portrait)
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Header and Footer (Landscape)
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When you initially start the Layout Editor by clicking on the Add New Layout button you are asked to choose
one of the four basic templates to begin. Using prebuilt templates is a good idea because it encourages a
consistent look and feel for report layouts across the enterprise. It also saves report authoring time by
sharing common elements, such as headers and footers, which in turn results in faster report development
and increased productivity.
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Components
The layout editor panel and insert toolbar offers the following components:
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Grid Layout
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Data
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Repeating section Chart
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Text item
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Image
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Pivot Table
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Gauge
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When you have chosen a layout template, components are available either from the panel or the toolbar to
insert into the layout. After inserting a component a new dynamic tab appears for formatting options related
to that specific component. The components are as follows:
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Grid Layout: Provides a way to divide a layout into sections.
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Data Table: Enables you to insert data into a table structure. The data table is a standard table
structure that is commonly used in many layouts. It contains a header, data columns, and a total row.
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Repeating section: Enables you to create classic banded reports, as well as repeating pages or
sections for different data elements (such as Group Above/Outline).
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Chart: Enables you to graphically represent your data. The layout editor supports a variety of chart
types and styles.
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Text item: Enables you to enter free-form text in the layout.
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Image: Enables you to include a graphic in the layout. BI Publisher supports various static image
formats such as GIF, JPEG, PNG, or BMP; and it also supports dynamic image URLs.
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Pivot Table: Provides views of multidimensional data in tabular form. Pivot tables support multiple
measures, dimensions, and subtotals at all levels.
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Gauge: Depict a range of data values graphically. A gauge chart can be used to illustrate progress or
goals.
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Properties
The layout editor panel offers formatting properties such as:
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Font
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Appearance
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Data
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Misc
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The panel offers a properties section to format each component on the layout. The details of the properties
section varies depending on the component. For illustration, the following properties are available for the
Table component:
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Font: Includes color, family, style, size, weight, and text decoration.
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Appearance: Includes background color, bordering, padding, text alignment, text indent, vertical
alignment, and width.
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Data: Includes format masking, and formatting style.
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Misc: Enables you to include a URL.
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Practice 5-3 Overview: Using the Layout Editor
This practice covers the following topics:
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Copying a report and data model.
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Associating the copied report with the copied data model.
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Uploading sample data.
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Creating a layout template.
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Formatting a layout.
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Using properties formatting.
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Template Builder for Word
Template Builder is:
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An add-on to Microsoft Word (2000 or later) that simplifies Rich Text Format (RTF)
template creation for Oracle BI Publisher reports.
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Also known as Oracle BI Publisher Desktop.
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Template Builder Installation
Template Builder is downloaded from within Oracle BI Catalog or Oracle Business
Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
Prerequisites for installing Template Builder include the following:
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Microsoft Windows 2000 or later
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Microsoft Word 2003 or 2007 (preferred)
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Java SE Development Kit (JDK) 5 or later (This also includes Java Runtime Environment
[JRE]. JRE 1.6 or later is required.)
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Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1 or later
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Template Builder for Word Overview
Template Builder enables you to perform the following tasks:
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Insert data fields.
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Insert data-driven tables, forms, and charts.
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Use the many formatting features of your standard Microsoft Word application.
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Preview your template with sample XML data.
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Edit predefined or predifined layouts.
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Interface
After you install Template Builder successfully, you should see the BI Publisher ribbon when
you open the Word application.
The BI Publisher ribbon provides various options in these menus:
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Online
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Load Data
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Insert
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Preview
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Tools
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Options
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Navigate to: Microsoft Word > BI Publisher.
The screenshot shows the BI Publisher ribbon in Microsoft Word.
The BI Publisher ribbon provides all the options needed to create a template. The ribbon menus include:
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Online: You can connect directly to the BI Publisher Server to load your BI Publisher report data to
the Template Builder to use as sample data for designing layouts. You can also download an
existing template to modify.
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Load Data: If you are not directly connected to the BI Publisher Server, use one of these two
methods to access the fields of a data source:
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Sample Data: Enables you to load a sample XML file that contains all fields that you want to
insert into your template as a data source.
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XML Schema: Enables you to load an XML schema file (.xsd) that contains the fields
available in your report XML data. The XML schema has the advantage of being complete (a
sample XML file may not contain all the fields from the data source).
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Insert: See the next few slide for details.
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Preview: If you are using Sample data, when you select any of these output formats the Template
Builder merges the sample data into your RTF template and shows the output in the selected format.
Output formats include PDF, HTML, Excel, Excel2000, RTF, or PowerPoint.
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Tools: See detail on a slide after the Insert slides.
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Options: Contains basic template formatting affecting field labels, preview and the build. Also give
access to BI Publisher Template Builder help and versioning.
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Insert Menu
Use the Insert menu to add:
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Table/form
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Table Wizard
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Repeating Group
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Pivot Table
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Conditional Format
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Chart
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Conditional Section
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Field
•
All Fields
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Navigate to: Microsoft Word > BI Publisher > Insert.
The screenshot shows the BI Publisher Insert menu in Microsoft Word.
The Insert menu provides the major components that you can add to the RFT Template. They include:
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Table Wizard: Invoke the table wizard that guides you through the creation of tables used in typical
reports.
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Pivot Table: Drag the data elements to a pivot table structure from a data source.
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Chart: Insert charts that are supported by Oracle BI Publisher (native Microsoft Word charts not
recognized).
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Field: Select specific fields from your data source and insert them into your template.
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Table/Form: Insert data fields to be organized as a simple or nested table or as a form that is
repeated with different data. You can even organize all the data fields for the whole document before
inserting them.
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Repeating Group: Select or define a group of elements that you want repeated for each occurrence
of an element in the data.
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Conditional Format: Define simple conditional formats to apply to table rows or cells. You can define
formats to be applied to a table’s rows or cells based on a condition defined.
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Conditional Section: Insert a section into your template based on a conditional statement.
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All Fields: Insert all fields found in the XML data into your document. It also inserts processing
instructions that repeat a section, such as a table row, when the associated XML element is
repeated.
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Tools Menu
•
Field Browser
•
Validate Template
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Translation
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Export
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Navigate to: Microsoft Word > BI Publisher > Tools
The screenshot shows the BI Publisher Tools menu in Microsoft Word.
The tools menu is for advanced users and provides the following:
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Field Browser: Shows the BI commands behind each form field and enables you to edit them. Use
this tool to correct flawed RTF templates or to update multiple fields efficiently.
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Validate Template: The validation function checks the template for incorrect use of BI Publisher
commands and unsupported elements in the Word file.
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Translation: The translation options enable you to create XML Localization Interchange File Format
(XLIFF) translation files containing the boilerplate text from your template and perform other
translation tasks.
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Export: The export options enable you to convert the RTF template into an XSL-FO style sheet,
convert the Microsoft Word document to PDF, and more.
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Using the Template Builder for Word
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Use native Word features.
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Create tables.
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Edit Predefined Layouts.
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With the template builder for Word you can:
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Use Native Word Features: Standard formatting, adding headers and footers, inserting illustrations
(pictures, art, logos an so on), page breaks, text boxes, and so on.
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Create Tables: You must use the BI Publisher ribbon for components like tables that require the data
model fields. When inserting a table you can do the following:
•
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Drag and drop data fields: After selecting the data fields you can choose to drop a Single
Node (no children) or All Nodes (includes it’s children).
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Style: Choices are Table, Form (a list) or Free Form.
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Grouping: Enables the grouping data by a specific value. For example, you might want to
group invoices by supplier.
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Sorting: Choose which data to sort by, to sort ascending or descending and whether it is text
or number.
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Breaking: Whether to break a new page per element or new section per element.
Edit Predefined Layouts: You can copy an existing layout from the BI Catalog and perform some of
the following:
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Add or replace logos.
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Move a field or table.
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Perform standard formatting.
Note: For more details on using the template builder you may take the Oracle BI Publisher 11g R1:
Fundamentals course.
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Uploading the Template File to the Report Definition
After you finish working on an RTF template using Template Builder, you upload the
template file to the Oracle BI Publisher report definition.
BI Publisher creates a layout from the template.
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BI Publisher uses a layout to produce results. A template created in the Template Builder is the basis for a
layout. After a template is uploaded into the BI Publisher report definition, BI Publisher creates a layout from
the template.
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Practice 5-4 Overview: Creating an RTF Template
This practice covers the following topics:
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Uploading sample data.
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Inserting a header, a logo, and a data field.
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Inserting a table.
•
Changing the column names to common names.
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Uploading the template to the report definition.
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Option 2
Using the BI Publisher Customize Feature:
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Automatically Creates a Copy in Shared Folders > Custom folder.
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Automatically available in Scheduled Processes.
•
Removes code writing requirements.
•
Removes risk of overwriting by patches.
Customize
Copy
Original Report
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Using the BI Publisher Customize Feature:
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This options automatically creates a copy of the report in the Shared Folders > Custom folder.
Reports that are user configured must reside in the Custom folder hierarchy under Shared Folders.
This configured copy is linked internally to the original report. You can configure the custom copy of
the report, leaving the original report intact. The configured report still references the original data
model. The data model is not copied.
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Unlike Option 1, this configured report is automatically available through Scheduled Processes.
When users initiate a request to run the report, BI Publisher detects the configured version and runs
your configured version instead.
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Removes the requirement to edit calling processes or applications to execute the configured report.
Although you configured the copy, BI Publisher automatically sends all requests to run the original
report to the configured copy instead.
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Removes the risk of patches overwriting your configurations of predefined Oracle reports. Because
the data model referenced by the cconfigured report is the original data model, an Oracle patch that
updates the data model may impact the running of your configured report if the data structure is
changed. When an Oracle patch is applied that updates the original report, the configured report is
not updated in any way.
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BI Publisher Customize Feature: Setups
•
The Custom Folder must exist directly
under Shared Folders.
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BI Author Role required to create user
configured reports.
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Access to data models also required.
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Shared Folders
The screenshot shows the Custom folder under Shared Folders.
Before anyone can use the BI Publisher Customize feature the following setups are required:
•
A folder named Custom must exist directly under the Shared Folders. If the Custom folder is not
predefined by your application, an administrator can create it.
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A user must be assigned the BI Author role or a role with the oracle.bi.publisher.developReport
permission. The original report and the custom folder must have the following permissions:
•
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Original Report: Read and Run Publisher Report
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Custom Folder: Read and Write.
A user must have access to the data models and data source of the original report.
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Configuring a Predefined Report with a New Layout
The BI Publisher Customize Feature enables you to:
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Copy a predefined report.
•
Add a layout.
•
Edit a layout.
•
Delete a layout.
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The BI Publisher Customize feature is available only through the BI Enterprise Edition application. You
cannot configure a predefined report a from the BI Catalog edit feature.
With the Customize feature you can:
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Copy a Predefined Report: When you save, the application automatically creates a copy of the
folder and report in the Shared Folders > Custom folder with the same name as the predefined
report.
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Add a Layout: If you create new template, it may be uploaded into the copied report.
•
Edit a Layout: If you choose to edit the exiting layout, a new template is created and must be
uploaded after editing. If you navigate to the original predefined report and edit it, you are actually
editing the customized copy of the report.
•
Delete a Layout: If you upload a new template or an edited layout template you can delete the
original layout. Note: Because a report can have more than one layout, you may choose to keep the
original layout to give the end users more choices.
Note: Any changes made to the configured report are not overwritten if the predefined report is patched.
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Submitting a Customized Report from Scheduled Processes
Before you can submit a configured report it must:
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Be saved in the Shared Folders > Custom folder.
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Have the same name as the predefined report.
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Because the purpose of configuring a predefined report is to submit it for processing, the report must meet
the following requirements before it can be submitted:
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Saved in the Shared Folders > Custom Folder: The action of Save automatically saves the custom
report in the Shared Folders > Custom folders. When you Save As or Rename a predefined report, it
is not available for submission in Scheduled Processes.
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Have the Same Name: The name of the customized report in the Custom folder my have the
identical name as the original predefined report.
If the requirements are met, when you run the report in the Schedule Processes, the system automatically
uses the configured report and not the original predefined report.
Note: The Job History details reside under the predefined report and not under the custom copy.
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Practice 5-5 Overview: Submitting a Configured Report from
Scheduled Processes Demonstration
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Creating a saved copy of a predefined report in the Custom folder.
•
Uploading an RFT Template to configure the report.
•
Submitting the configured report from Scheduled Processes.
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Practice 5-6 Overview: Using the Customize Feature
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Creating a Saved As copy of a predefined report in a Custom Folder.
•
Uploading an RFT Template to customize the report.
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Option 3
Editing an Existing Predefined Layout.
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Creates a copy of the original layout
•
Defaults as an RTF file.
•
Uses the Word Template Builder.
•
Uploads to original report.
Edit
Original Report
Layout
Copy
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With this option you are not copying the report but creating a copy of the predefined layout that is defined
within the original report.
It defaults to a Rich Text Format (rtf) in order to use the Word Template Builder to make the edits. Use this
to make minor changes to the predefined report like the company logo.
After the edits are complete, upload the new template either replacing the predefined layout with the new
configured layout or add it to the report.
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Editing an Existing Predefined Layout
•
Change the logo.
•
Move or delete fields.
•
Add a sort order.
•
Change the formatting.
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When you have created a new rtf file from the original layout, you can perform any of the functions available
in the Word Template Builder such as:
•
Changing a logo: Many of the predefined report layouts have Oracle’s logo on the report. You should
change this to your company’s logo.
•
Moving or deleting fields: Some fields may not be in the location of the report that users prefer. Or
you might want to delete unnecessary fields.
•
Adding a sort order: You may choose to sort on a different field than the original layout defined. Or
you might want to sort descending rather than ascending.
•
Changing the formatting: You can change anything such as font type, style, color, size and so on. Or
change field background colors.
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Practice 5-7 Overview: Editing an Existing Predefined Layout
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Changing the logo and font size.
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Uploading the new layout into the predefined report.
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Option 4
Creating a New Report. You can create a new report from:
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An existing or configured data source.
•
Non-Oracle data sources.
Create
Data Source
Report
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You can create a whole new report from an existing or configured data source or create a new report from a
non-Oracle data source.
BI Publisher provides an easy to use wizard to walk you through each step.
You can also manually create the report using the Layout Editor.
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Using the BI Publisher Report Wizard
With the Wizard, you can:
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Select Data Source.
•
Select a Layout.
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Create a Chart
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Create a Table
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Save the Report.
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Navigate to: Tools > Reports and Analytics > Browse the Catalog > New > Report.
The screenshot shows the BI Publisher Report Wizard’s tasks train.
The BI Publisher Report Wizard walks you through the following steps:
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Select Data. You can choose to:
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Use Data Model
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Upload Spreadsheet
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Use Subject Area
Select Layout. You can choose:
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Page Options: Portrait or Landscape, and whether to include a Page Header and Footer.
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Layout: Table, Chart, Chart and Table, Pivot Table, Chart and Pivot Table, or Two Charts
and Table.
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Create Chart: Drop and drag data source columns to the Value, Label and Series axis.
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Create Table: Drop and drag data source columns in the order required for the table.
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Save Report. Which ever choice you choose, you are required to save the report in a folder. The
choices are:
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View Report: After saving, the report is displayed in a new tab.
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Customize Report Layout: After saving, you are taken to the Layout Editor to do more editing.
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Practice 5-8 Overview: Creating a Data Model and Report from a
Spreadsheet
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Creating a simple spreadsheet to use as a data source.
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Creating a data model
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Creating a report.
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
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Describe the components and key features of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.
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Understand the report configuration options.
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Create and edit report layouts using the Layout Editor.
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Define Templates using the Word Template Builder.
•
Understand and use the BI Publisher Customize Feature.
•
Create a new report using an Excel spreadsheet as the Data Source.
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6
Using Other Reporting Tools
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
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Understand how to use the General Accounting Dashboard for Reporting.
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Explain the Reports and Analytics tool.
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Discuss how to run reports from the BI Catalog.
•
Understand EPM Workspace books, batches and batch scheduler.
•
Explain the Enterprise Scheduler System.
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Other Reporting Tools Overview
The six other Tools for Reporting in Financials are:
Other Reporting Tools
Report Type
General Accounting Dashboard
Account Groups
Account Inspector
Account Groups
Reports and Analytics
Oracle Transactional BI Objects
BI Catalog
All Report Types except BI Publisher Reports
EPM Workspace
Reports, Books, Snapshot Reports, Snapshot Books,
Financial Reporting Batches, and Batch Scheduler
Enterprise Scheduler System (ESS)
Oracle BI Publisher Reports
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The table lists the other reporting tools and the corresponding report type.
Even though the Financial Reporting Center is designed to be the main user interface for a financial end
user’s reporting needs, some users may choose to use any of the six other tools for reporting in financials
such as:
•
General Accounting Dashboard: Provides access to Account Groups and uses the Account Monitor
to efficiently monitor and track key account balances in real-time.
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Account Inspector: Perform ad hoc queries from account groups and financial reports through drill
down to underlying journals and subledger transactions.
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Reports and Analytics: This other reporting tool has a panel that reflects the folder structure of the BI
Catalog. Users can access and run any Oracle Transactional BI analysis, report or dashboard. Users
cannot run Financial Reports or BI Publisher reports from this interface. This interface can be used
by all financials users.
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BI Catalog: A component of the Enterprise Performance Management Workspace where you can
run all report types. You cannot run BI Publisher reports from here.
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EPM Workspace: Create Reports, Books, Snapshot Reports, Snapshot Books, Financial Reporting
Batches, and Batch Scheduler and schedule batches to automatically run and burst to email.
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Enterprise Scheduler System (ESS): Only BI Publisher reports can be submitted from this interface.
Users access this interface by navigating to Tools > Scheduled Processes. Most financial users
have access to this interface to run standard reports for all the financial applications.
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General Accounting Dashboard Overview
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The graphic depicts the General Accounting Dashboard’s components.
The General Accounting Dashboard provides:
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Single point of entry for Account Inspector, and Account Monitor.
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Self-service reporting and analytics against real-time data and the ability to expand parent values to
view the next level in the hierarchy within the reports using pre-aggregated balances.
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Efficient monitoring, and tracking of key account balances in real-time with the Account Monitor.
•
Drill down to underlying journals and subledger transactions with the Account Inspector.
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Account Monitor
Financial analysts can create and view account groups.
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The graphic depicts a travel expenses account group.
The Account Monitor is the final tool for viewing account groups. The account monitor enables you to:
•
Create new account groups.
•
Monitor key account balances in real-time throughout the accounting period at every level of your
dimensions and hierarchies in Oracle General Ledger.
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React quickly to anomalies and influence future outcomes.
•
See alerts to account balances that exceed the thresholds you define.
•
Monitor favorable versus unfavorable changes in account balances and optionally Budget versus
Actual balances.
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Drill into views of balances for each child value that rolls up to a parent value.
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Practice 6-1 Overview: Using the Account Monitor
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Viewing your XXTravel Expenses account group from the account monitor.
•
Drilling down to detail on the Cost Center segment.
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Account Inspector
The Account Inspector can be used to do the following:
•
Perform ad hoc balance queries.
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Perform multi-dimensional analysis, slicing and dicing of information, and pivoting within
a web page.
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Specify your query criteria, such as your ledger and chart of accounts dimensions, and
then expand on any parent value to get a breakdown by each child value that rolls up to
the parent value.
•
Drag and drop the page-level dimensions to further slice and dice results for further
analysis.
•
Move dimensions from page to row or column to obtain different views
of your data.
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The Account Inspector works off the same GL Balances cube, which has pre-aggregated balances at every
level, so queries are in real time.
The live, pre-aggregated data enables you to change your query criteria and instantly refresh your results.
To save your query, export it to Excel.
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Practice 6-2 Overview: Using the Account Inspector
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Selecting one of your accounts in the Account Monitor.
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Drilling in with the Account Inspector.
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Dragging and dropping dimensions and values.
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Reviewing the changes.
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Using the BI Catalog for Reporting in Financials
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Tasks panel tab > Open Workspace for Financial Reporting >
Navigate > Applications > BI Catalog > Shared Folders > Financials > Payables > Invoices.
The screenshot shows how to open a dashboard from the BI Catalog.
You can open only Oracle Transactional BI analyses, reports, and dashboards while in the BI Catalog. Even
though you see Financial Reports and BI Publisher Reports, you cannot open them from the BI Catalog.
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Using the EPM Workspace for Report Distribution
The multiple ways to distribute reports are to:
•
Create Books and Batches
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Use the Batch Scheduler
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Export and Import
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Archive
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Tasks panel tab > Open Workspace for Financial Reporting >
Navigate > Applications > BI Catalog > File > New.
The screenshot shows the EPM Workspace.
Books: Contain sets of dynamic reports and group reports into books to view or print at the same time. You
cannot burst books. Reports are run for all specified member combinations.
Batches:
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Group reports or books into batches for processing or scheduling.
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Enable reports to be created, edited, and saved in EPM Workspace using the Batch Editor.
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Provide Batch Bursting options including E-mail and print.
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Using the Batch Scheduler
You can use Batch Scheduler Bursting capability to distribute reports automatically. Some of
the features are:
•
You can run reports for multiple dimension members.
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Create Published Snapshot reports from Live reports.
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You can e-mail reports as PDF attachments.
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Before you can schedule a batch of reports to run, you must first create a Batch and then create a Batch
Scheduler Job. The batch scheduler job has the following features and options:
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Name and Description.
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Start Time: Frequency, start and end time, start and end date. Frequency can be Now, Once, Daily,
Weekdays, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Semiannually, Annually and On Demand.
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Scheduled Batch Point of View.
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Bursting Options: you can run the batch for multiple members in the dimension. For example, you
can run the batch for multiple periods. Bursting can also email the reports as a zip PDF file.
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Destinations: You can save the snapshot in the BI Catalog repository or export as PDF or export as
HTML (web page) or export as a single file web page (MHTML).
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Email: You can email notifications to users if successful and if unsuccessful.
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Practice 6-3 Overview: Scheduling a Financial Reporting Batch
This practice covers the following topics:
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Scheduling a batch of reports.
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Using frequency of daily.
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E-mailing to Casey Brown.
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Creating a snapshot report.
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Reviewing your batch output.
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Report Security
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The two ways to secure reports are:
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Report Security: When a user adds a report in the repository, by default only that specific user and
administrator can access the report. Other users need to be assigned access by a specific role
before they can see the report.
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Folder Security: Alternatively, you can use folder security. You can create folders to organize reports
in the repository. Users with access to a folder can access all reports in the folder.
Note: In addition, data security is also enforced in the reports.
•
Users can view only account balances for segment values that they have access to through data
access set and segment value security.
•
Data Access Security and Segment Value Security can be used with reports. For more information,
see the topic Define Security in the Ledger lesson.
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Report Security
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Navigate to: Financial Reporting Center > Tasks panel tab > Open Workspace for Financial Reporting >
Navigate > Applications > BI Catalog > select a report > More > Permissions.
The screenshot shows how to set the permissions on a report.
When a user adds a report in the repository, by default, only that specific user and administrator can access
the object. Other users need to be assigned access before they can see the report through Roles and
Permissions. To view or edit the permission select the report > More > Permissions or select the report and
right click > Permissions.
The Permissions can be either:
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Full Control: You can open, modify, assign permissions and delete.
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Modify: You can open, modify and delete.
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Open: You can only view the report.
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No Access: To explicitly deny access to an object. This is used if a user has access to a folder and
you need to deny access to a specific report in that folder.
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Custom: This opens the Custom Permissions dialog where you can grant read, write, execute,
delete, and traverse.
Select “Apply permissions to sub-folders” to assign permissions to the folder’s subfolders but not the
individual objects within the folder.
Select “Apply permissions to items within folder” to assign permissions to folder’s individual objects but not
to the subfolders within the folder.
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Scheduled Processes Page
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Navigator to: Tools > Scheduled Processes > Schedule New Process > Search and select the report name.
The screenshot shows the Scheduled Processes page.
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Central location where you can submit, monitor, and view all BI Publisher reports.
•
BI Publisher reports are submitted as processes, which are based on Oracle Enterprise Scheduler
System executables called jobs that determine what options are available to you and what the
process can do. BI Publisher reports must be registered as jobs to be available for submission as a
process.
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A process can also be based on a job set, which contains multiple jobs to be included in one process
submission.
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Scheduling a New Process
To submit a job or job set:
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Search for the report.
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Provide the required and optional
parameters.
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Optionally set the Process Options.
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Optionally set the Advanced Options.
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Navigate to: Tools > Scheduled Processes > Search for the Payables Invoice Register.
The screenshot is an example of the parameters popup for the Payables Invoice Register.
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Setting the Process Options
You can set the process options to meet your country specific needs.
Process Options are user specific.
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Navigate to: Tools > Scheduled Processes > Search for the Payables Invoice Register > Process Options.
The screenshot shows the Process Options popup.
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Setting the Advanced Options
Advanced options include:
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Schedule
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Output
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Notification
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Navigate to: Tools > Scheduled Processes > Search for the Payables Invoice Register > Schedule tab.
The screenshot shows the Scheduling advanced option tab.
The advanced options are:
•
•
Schedule: Use this option to schedule to report to automatically run at the frequency needed by the
business. The default is As soon as possible. If you enable Using a schedule, the frequency choices
are:
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Once
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Hourly/Minute
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Daily
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Weekly
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Monthly
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Yearly
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Custom
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Use a Saved Schedule
Output: Use this option to:
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Select a different layout (if defined) than the default layout
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Select a different format than the default. The choices are: Data, HTML, PDF, RTF,
Powerpoint (*.pptx), Excel (*.xlsx), and CSV.
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Have the process produce more that one output in the same submission.
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Add a Destination: The choices are: Printer, E-Mail, and Fax.
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Notification: Use this option to create a notification to a specific recipient and if one or more of the
following conditions are met:
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All
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On Success
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On Warning
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On Error
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Submitting and Reviewing the Report
After the report is submitted, review the report from the Scheduled Processes Overview
page.
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Navigate to: Tools > Scheduled Processes > Search for the Payables Invoice Register > Parameters = US1
Business Unit > Submit.
The screenshot depicts the Overview page and the output link.
From the Overview page, you can:
•
Refresh the screen to monitor the status of the process. The status can be Succeeded, Error or
Warning.
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View the output. Highlight the report name and scroll down to see the document or documents that
the process produced.
•
View the results of processes that ran for the:
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Last hour
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Last 12 hours
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Last 24 hours
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Last 48 hours
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Last 72 hours
Reminder: Any report ran from Scheduled Processes can be viewed from the Financial Reporting Center.
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
•
Understand how to use the General Accounting Dashboard for Reporting.
•
Explain the Reports and Analytics tool.
•
Discuss how to run reports from the BI Catalog.
•
Understand EPM Workspace books, batches and batch scheduler.
•
Explain the Enterprise Scheduler System.
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A
Around the World of Reporting for Financials
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to use the reporting functionality in
the following modules:
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General Ledger
•
Intercompany
•
Budgetary Control
•
Subledger Accounting
•
Accounting Hub
•
Payables
•
Payments
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to use the reporting functionality in
the following modules:
•
Assets
•
Receivables
•
Collections
•
Cash Management
•
Tax
•
Global: EMEA, APAC and LAD
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Predefined Reports
Predefined reports cover all major Oracle Fusion applications. These reports are:
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Oracle Fusion Transactional BI analysis.
•
Oracle BI Publisher reports.
•
A few reports that exist as both types, for example, the Payables Invoice Register.
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General Ledger
Oracle General Ledger provides predefined reports that are used in the close process and to
verify setup of the accounting configuration.
•
Account Analysis Reports
•
Journal Reports
•
Trial Balance Reports
•
Reconciliation Reports
•
Chart of Accounts Reports
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GL BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
General Ledger Journal and
Balance Report
Retrieves information for the reports that require journal entries and account balances.
The account balances can be printed for selected levels of the hierarchy for actual,
encumbrance, or budget balance types.
General Ledger Journal
Entry Report
Provides general ledger journal activity optionally for a given period or date range, and
optionally other criteria including journal source, entered currency, and journal batch.
Flexible grouping and sorting options are provided at report submission.
General Ledger Trial
Balance Report
Lists detailed or summary actual account balances and activity by ledger, balancing
segment, and account segment. The report prints the value, description, and debit or
credit balance for the beginning and ending period, along with the debits and credits for
the period. The report can print income statement, balance sheet, or all balances for a
selected range of accounting code combinations.
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The table lists the title and description of reports.
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GL BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Account Analysis for Contra Account
Report
Lists contra account balances by natural account segment, primary balancing
segment and optionally a third segment for each journal entry. Lists the
subledger document number for transactions imported from subldegers.
Average Balance Audit Account Analysis
Report
Provides the detailed account activity that created the aggregate balances and
related average balances. Used to research how average balances are
calculated for an account. Displays daily average balance information for the
selected accounts for the specified date range.
General Ledger Account Details Report
Provides periodic journal activity for each general account to reconcile
beginning and ending account balances. Includes journal source, category,
name, description, reference, accounting date, and amount.
Journals Report
Provides journal activity details such as ledger, accounting date, posting date,
source, category, journal batch name, journal name, reference, line accounts,
line descriptions, and amounts. Subtotals are provided for each journal,
journal batch and source. It also includes reconciliation information for clearing
accounts.
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GL BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Journals Batch Summary Report
Provides posted journal batches details such as ledger, entered currency,
balancing segment value, category, source, batch name, and entered
amounts. Subtotals of entered amounts are provided for each category,
accounting period , and balancing segment value.
Journals Batch Summary Report
Provides posted journal batches details such as ledger, entered currency,
balancing segment value, category, source, batch name, and entered
amounts. Subtotals of entered amounts are provided for each category,
accounting period , and balancing segment value.
Journals Details Report
Provides detailed information on general ledger journals of the selected
posting status such as ledger, source, category, accounting date, line
accounts, line descriptions, and amounts.
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GL BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Journals Day Book Report
Provides posted journal details by accounting date such as ledger,
balancing segment value, source, category, subledger document
sequence, document number, line accounts, line descriptions, and
amounts. The journals are sorted by document number.
Trial Balance
Lists period debits, period credits, beginning, and ending account
balances summarized by natural account or account combination or
natural account plus another segment.
Trial Balance – Average Report
Lists ending account balances and period, quarter, and year average-todate balances on an accounting date for the selected accounts.
Chart of Accounts Mapping Rules
Report
Provides details of the segment and account rules defined for a specific
chart of accounts mapping considering the effective tree versions for the
selected date.
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GL BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Balancing Segment Value Assignment Report
Lists the assignment of primary balancing segment
values to legal entities and ledgers across accounting
setups to identify overlapping and unassigned
balancing segment values.
General Ledger and Subledger Accounting by Journal
Lines Report
Lists account balances or selected segment balances
with subledger journal details including entered
amounts, third-party name, journal source, journal
category, and reporting and accounting sequences.
Total number of debit and credit documents are also
listed.
Enterprise Structures Setup Report
Provides a detailed listing of the chart of accounts
structures, segments, values sets, ledgers, legal
entities, business units, segment values, and account
hierarchy information. The report can be scheduled to
run automatically at periodic intervals to track any
changes to the overall enterprise structures setup.
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GL BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Reconciled Transactions Report
Provides details of clearing accounts journal lines
that have been successfully reconciled by both
automatic and manual reconciliation processes.
Unreconciled Transactions Report
Lists all unreconciled clearing accounts journal lines
that have been rejected by either automatic or
manual reconciliation processes, as well as those
lines that have not yet been subjected to
reconciliation.
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Practice A-1 Overview: Running a GL BI Publisher Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Scheduling and submitting the Trial Balance report.
•
Viewing the Trial Balance report.
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General Ledger Oracle Transactional BI Reports
Title
Description
Account Analysis Report
Provides the beginning, periodic activity and ending balances for the selected
accounts and periods. Drill down on the periodic activity balance provides journal
details and transactions details including journal source, category, transaction number,
and event class. It also includes reconciliation information for clearing accounts.
General Journals Report
Provides the journals activity for the selected period. The content can be filtered by
ledger set, ledger, entered currency, approval status, date range, account, source,
category, journal batch, and batch status.
Trial Balance Report
Provides the beginning, periodic activity and ending balances summarized by
balancing segment, natural account, and cost center for the selected ledger,
accounting period, and currency.
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General Ledger Subject Areas
Title
Description
General Ledger – Balances Real Time
Real-time information on general ledger balances.
General Ledger – Journals Real Time
Real-time information on general ledger journals.
General Ledger – Period Status Real Time
Real-time information on general ledger period
statuses.
General Ledger – Transactional Balances Real Time
Real-time information on general ledger balances.
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Practice A-2 Overview: Running a General Ledger OTBI Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Running the Account Analysis report.
•
Viewing the Account Analysis report.
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Intercompany
Oracle Financials Common Module, Intercompany provides predefined reports that are used
in reviewing and reconciling transactions.
•
Intercompany Reconciliation Reports
•
Intercompany Transaction Summary Reports
•
Intercompany Account Details Reports
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Intercompany BI Publisher Reports: Reconciliation Reports
Three reports list the processing results of the Prepare Intercompany Reconciliation
Reporting Information process.
Title
Description
Intercompany Reconciliation
Period Summary Report
Information about the intercompany receivables and intercompany payables
accounts summarized by period.
Intercompany Reconciliation
Summary By Source Report
Information about the intercompany receivables and intercompany payables
accounts summarized by journal source. Drill down to detail.
Intercompany Reconciliation
Journal Lines Report
Information about journal lines posted to the intercompany receivables or
intercompany payables account. Drill down to detail.
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The reconciliation process generates the above reports and is dependent on the Prepare Intercompany
Reconciliation Reporting Information process for the report output.
The Prepare Intercompany Reconciliation report is submitted from the Scheduled Processes work area or
from the Intercompany work area by selecting the Intercompany Reconciliation task.
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Intercompany BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Intercompany Account Details Report
Generates information about accounting details of outbound
and inbound intercompany transactions. Outbound transaction
accounts include provider distribution and provider receivables
accounting. Inbound transaction accounts include receiver
distribution and payables accounting.
Intercompany Transaction Summary
Report
Lists the intercompany transactions based on the submission
selection criteria. Information includes provider organization,
receiver organization, batch, and transaction details.
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Intercompany Oracle Transactional BI Reports
Intercompany has one predefined Oracle Transactional BI report and subject area you can
use to create your own custom reports.
Report Title
Description
Intercompany Transaction
Summary Report
Provides information about intercompany transaction lines grouped by outbound
and inbound transactions. The report can be customized for one or more
intercompany organizations.
Subject Area
Financials Common Module - Intercompany Transactions
Real Time Subject Area
Description
Real-time information on intercompany transactions.
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Practice A-3 Overview: Running an Intercompany Transaction
Summary Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Running the Intercompany Transaction Summary report.
•
Viewing the Intercompany Transaction Summary report.
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Budgetary Control
Oracle Budgetary Control provides predefined reports that are used by the public sector and
commercial organizations to define and manage budgets and actual costs, and comply with
legal requirements.
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Budget Import Execution Report
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Budget Import Analysis Reports
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Budgetary Control Results Reports
•
Budgetary Control Exception Analysis Report
•
Budgetary Control Analysis Reports
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Budgetary Control BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Budget Import Execution Report
States the overall import result, and provides a statistical summary
of control budgets into which the budget data is successfully
imported; provides the detailed errors if the import fails.
Budget Import Analysis Report: Control
Budget Balance
Lists the control budgets, budget accounts, budget periods, and
amounts that are impacted by each imported budget line item.
Budget Import Analysis Report: Budget
Release for Consumption
Lists the budget release histories and future budget release
schedules for control budgets that do not allow their budget
amounts to be available for consumption until they are released.
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Budgetary Control BI Publisher Reports
Budgetary Control Results Reports
Title
Description
Budgetary Control
Results Report
Lists the impacted control budget, account, and period for a specific transaction as a
result of budgetary control validation.
Budgetary Control
Results for Batch Report
Lists the impacted control budget, account, and period for a group of transactions as
a result of budgetary control validation in a batch process.
Budgetary Control
Exception Analysis
Report
Lists the budgetary control failures by control budget period. The budget account,
transaction type, number, amount, and action are listed.
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Budgetary Control BI Publisher Reports
Budgetary Control Analysis Reports
Title
Description
Budgetary Control
Analysis - Funds
Available Trend Report
Lists fund budget and consumption balance for a specific control budget in a range of
periods. The budget, commitment, obligation, and expenditure balance by cost center
and account are also listed.
Budgetary Control
Analysis - View Funds
Available Report
Lists funds available by control budget account and period. Budget consumption from
transactions is listed along with the impacted commitment, obligation, and
expenditure, and funds available balances.
Budgetary Control
Analysis - Account
Activities Report
Lists control budget accounts by period with consumption and without consumption.
Account balance and transaction details are also listed.
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Budgetary Control Subject Areas
Oracle Budgetary Control has one predefined Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence
report, but you can create your own custom reports using the predefined Budgetary Control
subject areas:
Title
Description
Budgetary Control - Transactions Real Time
Real-time details of transactions and their impact on
budget balances for the ad hoc analysis of budget
consumption and funds available. The attributes include
requisition header, requisition lines, requisition project
information and requisition distribution amounts; purchase
order headcount, lines, distribution amounts; payable
invoice distribution information; and manual journals.
Budgetary Control - Balances Real Time
Available to report budget balances. Users can
report on budget, consumption, reservation category,
available fund balances and control budget details.
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Subledger Accounting
Oracle Subledger Accounting provides accounting reports for fiscal and internal control
purposes.
The reports are:
•
Comprehensive from a financial standpoint.
•
Include the best source of information for each type of journal entry.
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These reports can therefore be used in lieu of the General Ledger-based journals and account analysis
reports if you need to see detailed subledger journal entries as well as supporting transaction information.
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Subledger Accounting Predefined Reports Overview
Oracle Subledger Accounting provides predefined accounting reports for fiscal and internal
control purposes.
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Account Analysis Report
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Accounting Event Diagnostic Report
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Journal Entries Report
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Subledger Period Close Exceptions Report
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Third Party Balances Report
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Subledger Accounting Method Setups Report
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Create Accounting Execution Report
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Supporting References Report
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Multiperiod Accounting Execution Report
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Subledger Accounting BI Publisher Reports
The following benefits have been added to the Account Analysis and the Journal Entries
reports:
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Report extracts have been enhanced to include reconciliation information for clearing
accounts.
•
BIP templates can be customized to list the clearing account reconciliation details.
Title
Description
Account Analysis Report
Provides drill down information about the movement on a particular account for
a period or range of periods for posted journal entries.
Accounting Event Analysis Report
Shows the transaction data used in accounting. The data is collected when the
profile option SLA: Enable Diagnostics is set and the Create Accounting
process is run.
Journal Entities
Displays detailed information for subledger and general ledger journal entries;
groups report by ledger, journal source, journal category, and event class at
submission.
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Subledger Accounting BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Subledger Period Close
Exceptions Report
Lists all accounting events and journal entries that fail period close
validation. Reasons for failure include incomplete transactions, unprocessed
accounting events, invalid journal entries, and journal entries that have not
been transferred. Groups report by ledger, period, journal source, journal
category, and event class at submission.
Third-Party Balances Report
Displays subledger balance and account activity information for suppliers
and customers.
Subledger Accounting Method
Setups Report
Displays the accounting setups for a subledger application and accounting
method.
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Subledger Accounting BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Create Accounting Execution
Report
When you submit the Create Accounting process, the Create Accounting
Execution Report is submitted automatically if the Create Accounting
process completes with a success or warning status. The Create Accounting
process output contains a message with the Create Accounting Execution
Report request identifier. Use this request identifier to retrieve the execution
report output.
Multiperiod Accounting Execution
Report
When you submit the Create Multiperiod Accounting process, the Create
Multiperiod Accounting Execution Report is
submitted automatically if the Create Multiperiod Accounting process
completes with a success or warning status. The report
displays entries created by the Create Multiperiod Accounting process.
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Subledger Accounting Subject Areas
Subledger Accounting has no predefined Oracle Transactional BI reports. You can use one
of the two subject areas to create your own custom reports.
Use dimension folders for Sequences and Supporting Reference to report supporting
documents and supporting reference balances.
To simplify the subject area, code columns, such as balance type code and fund status
code, are hidden in the subject area. Instead customers can use related description columns
for these code columns for reporting.
Any existing reports that use these hidden code columns will continue to function. These
description columns have Double Column feature enabled that automatically supports
Multilanguage translation in string filtering.
Title
Description
Subledger Accounting – Journals Real Time
Real-time information on accounting detail journals.
Subledger Accounting – Supporting References
Real Time
Real-time information on subledger transaction supporting
reference details.
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Practice A-4 Overview: Running a Subledger Accounting BI
Publisher Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Submitting the Journal Entries report.
•
Viewing the Journal Entries report.
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Accounting Hub
Oracle Accounting Hub:
•
Provides the following set of accounting tools:
– Oracle General Ledger
– Oracle Financial Reporting
– Oracle Accounting Transformations (Subledger Accounting)
•
Provides accounting reports for third-party transactions and for both subledger and
general journal entries.
•
The reports are:
– Comprehensive from a financial standpoint.
– Include the best source of information for each type of journal entry.
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Accounting Hub Reports
Title
Description
Third-Party Balances Summary
Report
Displays information for each account of the third party and third-party site,
and account identification. This report is a tool for auditing third-party
accounts.
Third-Party Detail and Balances
Report
Provides third-party account balances and accounting activity details for a
period. You can review the accounting process details by third party and
audit third-party accounts in detail.
Third-Party Account Balance Report
Prints account and original third-party transactions impacting the account
during a particular period. The report is run to ensure that subledger and
general ledger balances reconcile, and to identify possible reasons for any
discrepancies.
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Accounting Hub Reports
Title
Description
General Ledger and Subledger
Account Analysis Report
Prints account balances by account with subledger journal details. The
report displays entered amounts, third-party information, sequences,
and total number of debit and credit documents.
General Ledger and Subledger
Accounting by Journal Lines Report
Lists account balances or selected segment balances with subledger
journal details, including entered amounts, third-party name, journal
source, journal category, and reporting and accounting sequences. Total
number of debit and credit documents is also listed.
Account Analysis by Legal Entity
Report
Prints account balances by accounting code combination and selected
segments with subledger journal details, including third-party information
and sequences. Flexible grouping and sorting options are provided at
submission.
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Accounting Hub Reports
Title
Description
Daily Journals Report
FAH
Lists subledger journal activity for a given period or date range, journal
source, entered currency, and journal batch. The report prints detailed
subledger journal lines prior to general ledger summarization. Third party
and transaction details are also listed for the journal lines.
Subledger Detail Journal Report FAH
Displays information about the posted general ledger journal batches that
originate from Oracle Receivables and Oracle Payables subledgers. The
report prints subledger details like transaction number, transaction date,
and transaction amount in entered and ledger currency.
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Accounting Hub Reports
Title
Journal Ledger Report
Description
Lists the accounting entries with subledger details like
transaction number, transaction date, and line
description, using flexible sorting options that are
provided at report submission. This report provides a
real audit trail between general ledger and subledgers
to satisfy legal and business requirements.
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Payables
Oracle Payables provides predefined reports and infotiles for the following areas:
•
Invoices
•
Payments
•
Payables to Ledger Reconciliation
•
Period Close
•
Prepayments
•
Income Tax and Withholding
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Some reports are defined as Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (Oracle BI Publisher) reports and
others are defined as Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence reports. The reports are secured by duty
roles.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Invoice Reports
Title
Description
Payables Invoice Aging Report
Lists unpaid invoices according to the specified aging periods.
Payables Invoice Register
Provides detailed information about invoices.
Payables Key Indicators Report
Generates reports with transaction activity and the current number of
suppliers, invoices, payments, and matching holds.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Invoice Reports
Title
Description
Payables Matched and Modified Receipts Report
Provides details of how an invoice, purchase order, or
receipt was matched.
Payables Matching Detail Report
Provides details of how an invoice is matched to a
purchase order or receipt.
Payables Matching Hold Detail Report
Provides detailed payables and purchasing
information for invoices with matching holds and
matching hold releases.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Invoice Reports
Title
Description
Import Payables Invoice
Creates Oracle Payables invoices from invoice data in
the open interface tables.
Validate Payables Invoices
Report for the process that checks the matching, tax,
period status, conversion rate, and distribution
information for invoices. The validation process also
checks the tolerance templates to determine if the
invoice fall within the defined tolerances and
automatically applies holds for exceptions.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Invoice Reports
Title
Supplier Balance Aging Report
Description
Generate an aging report on a suppliers balance
based on a specific date. The Supplier Balance
Aging report only considers the invoices that are
accounted in Payables and transferred to the General
Ledger. These balances will reconcile with the trial
balance report.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Payment Reports
Title
Description
Payables Cash Requirement Report
Forecasts immediate cash needs for invoice payments.
Payables Discounts Taken and Lost
Report
Identifies payments where a discount was taken and payments where a
discount was available, but not taken.
Payables Payment Register
Provides detailed information about payments.
Payables Selected Installments
Report
Lists all invoice installments selected in a payment process request to
help determine how well the selection criteria is selecting the right
invoices to pay.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Payment Reports
Title
Description
Payment Audit by Voucher Number
Report
Lists payments with assigned sequential voucher numbers.
Update Matured Bills Payable Status
Updates the status of matured bills payable from issued to negotiable.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Period Close Reports
Title
Description
Payables Open Items Revaluation
Report
Lists changes in the value of open items, such as unpaid invoices and
credit memos, due to conversion rate fluctuations.
Payables Period Close Exceptions
Report
Lists exceptions that prevent the Oracle Payables accounting period from
closing.
Payables Trial Balance Report
Lists and subtotals by supplier and liability account, all unpaid and partially
paid invoices that Oracle Payables transferred to the general ledger.
Payables Unaccounted Transactions
and Sweep Report
Lists invoices and payments that were not accounted for a period or date
range.
Prepayment Remittance Notice
Lists prepayments that were applied to supplier invoices.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Income Tax and Withholding Reports
Title
Description
US 1096 Report
Summarizes each United States1099 form type that is transmitted on paper, as
required by the United States Internal Revenue Service; generates the summary
on a preformatted Internal Revenue Service form.
US 1099 Electronic Media
Report
Generates summarized United States1099 information in electronic format, as
required by the United States Internal Revenue Service.
US 1099 Forms – Comma
Delimited Format
Reports the total United States 1099 miscellaneous tax type payments for 1099
suppliers in a comma delimited format.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Income Tax and Withholding Reports
Title
Description
US 1099 Invoice Exceptions Report
Lists paid invoice distributions with inaccurate or
missing United States 1099 income tax information.
US 1099 Payments Report
Lists payments made to United States 1099 reportable
suppliers.
US 1099 Report
Reports the total United States 1099 miscellaneous
payments for a particular 1099 supplier and generates
1099 forms for each tax reporting entity in an
organization.
US 1099 Supplier Exceptions Report
Lists suppliers with inaccurate or incomplete United
States 1099 income tax information.
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Payables BI Publisher Reports
Income Tax and Withholding Reports
Title
Description
Update and Report Income Tax Details
Report from the process that updates or reports
income tax type or income tax region fields on invoice
distributions that are used for United States 1099
reporting.
Payables Withholding Tax Letter
Creates a withholding tax letter to mail to a supplier on
a periodic basis. The letter contains a list of
withholdings made for a supplier summarized either by
tax type and tax rate, or by supplier site.
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Payables Oracle Transactional BI Reports
The Invoices folder includes the following reports:
Title
Description
Payables Credit Memo Matching Report
Lists credit memos and debit memos for suppliers, along with the
invoices to which the credit memos and debit memos are matched.
Payables Invoice Audit by Voucher Number
Listing
Lists invoices with assigned sequential voucher numbers.
Payables Invoice Audit Listing
Lists invoices for review and audit based on a specified amount for
a given supplier and range of invoice creation dates.
Payables Invoice Register
Provides detailed information about invoices.
Payables Negative Supplier Balance Report
Lists suppliers with negative balances, along with the invoices and
credit or debit memo transactions for the balance.
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Payables Oracle Transactional BI Reports
The Payments folder includes the following reports:
Title
Description
Payables Discounts Taken and
Lost Report
Identifies payments where a discount was taken and payments where a
discount was available, but not taken.
Payables Payment Register
Provides detailed information about payments.
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Payables Oracle Transactional BI Reports
The Payables to Ledger Reconciliation folder includes the following report:
Title
Payables to Ledger
Reconciliation Report
Description
Lists the journals posted to the general ledger for open payables balances to facilitate
the reconciliation of accounting and transactional data recorded in Oracle Payables and
Oracle Subledger Accounting.
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Payables Oracle Transactional BI Reports
The Period Close folder includes the following reports:
Title
Description
Payables Posted Invoice
Register
Lists accounting lines for invoices that have been transferred to the general
ledger.
Payables Posted Payment
Register
Lists accounting lines for payments that have been transferred to the general
ledger.
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Payables Oracle Transactional BI Reports
The Income Tax and Withholding folder includes the following reports:
Title
Description
Payables Withholding Tax by Tax
Authority Report
Lists withholdings for tax codes assigned to a tax authority.
Payables Withholding Tax Report
Lists withholdings for a supplier. The invoice view is used to review detailed
withholding tax information by invoice. The supplier view is used to review the
withholding information for a range of suppliers.
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Payables Subject Areas
Payables provides the following subject areas that you can use to create your own custom
reports.
Title
Description
Payables Invoices – Holds Real Time
Real-time information on holds applied to an invoice.
Payables Invoices – Installments Real Time
Real-time information on invoice payment installments.
Payables Invoices – Prepayment Applications
Real Time
Real-time distribution information for prepayments applied to
standard invoices.
Payables Invoices – Transactions Real Time
Real-time information on invoices.
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Payables Subject Areas
Title
Description
Payables Invoices – Trial Balance Real Time
Real-time information on posted invoices and
payments for reconciling the Payables balance with the
General Ledger balance.
Payables Invoices – Withholding Real Time
Real-time information on summarized tax amounts
withheld at the supplier site level.
Payables Payments – Disbursements Real Time
Real-time information on installments including
installment gross amount, amount paid, amount
remaining, and discount.
Payables Payments – Payment History Real Time
Real-time information on clearing and unclearing
history of payments.
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Payables to Ledger Reconciliation Drill-down Scalability
The Payables Reconciliation Difference
Details subfolder helps to report Payables
reconciliation differences to General Ledger.
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The Subledger Accounting – Payables Summary Real Time subject area improves the performance of the
GL reconciliation difference drill-downs to Payables.
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Payables to Ledger Reconciliation Report
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One consolidated action link rapidly displays the transactions causing the difference, helping to prevent data
mismatch between accounting summaries and difference drill-downs.
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Practice A-5 Overview: Running a Payables Invoice Register Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Running the Payables Invoice Register report.
•
Viewing the output.
•
Exporting the output in Excel format.
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Scanned Infotile for Payables Manager and Specialist
A Payables manager and Specialist can use the Scanned infotile to:
•
Control processing of pending scanned invoices.
•
Query an invoice to view the assignee.
•
Provide missing information to complete the invoice.
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As a payable manager or specialist, you can control the processing of scanned invoices that are pending in
the scanned invoices queue. Incomplete invoices that are pending action from a specialist are categorized
into the following aging buckets:
•
0 -7 days
•
8-14 days
•
15 plus days
You can query an invoice to view the assignee, and if required, you can take the appropriate action by
providing the missing information and completing the invoice.
In earlier releases, scanned invoices that are validated still displayed in the scanned invoices queue. Now,
only incomplete invoices requiring action from a specialist are displayed.
In the details table, you can:
•
Sort columns
•
Query a specific invoice using the Query by Example icon
•
Delete an incomplete scanned invoice
•
Drill down to the Edit Invoice page using the Invoice Number link
To delete duplicate invoices, select multiple invoices using the Ctrl key and then delete them together.
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Recent Infotile
•
Manage invoices created or updated within last seven days.
•
Review complete or incomplete invoices.
•
Validate or Post to Ledger to complete the invoice.
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The red slice in the chart indicates invoices that are Not Validated or Needs Revalidation (that is,
incomplete).
The blue slice indicates invoices that are Validated or Canceled (that is, complete).
The details table displays the incomplete invoices at the top.
To review and complete an invoice, use the Invoice Number link to drill down to the Edit Invoice page.
You can also:
•
Create a new invoice directly from the Recent information tile.
•
Select multiple incomplete invoices and validate them together or delete or cancel them
simultaneously.
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Holds Infotile
Use the Holds infotile to:
•
Identify invoices on hold for any reason.
•
Select a category to review the invoices and release the holds.
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Use the Holds infotile to quickly identify the number of invoices that have been placed on hold. Invoices are
grouped into three categories:
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Validation
•
Purchasing
•
Other
Select a category to review the invoices and quickly release the holds:
1.
Select the row containing the invoice you want to release.
2.
Click the Release button.
3.
Select a Release reason.
4.
Click OK.
Note: You can select multiple invoices and release the holds together. Only releasable holds can be
released directly from the landing page.
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Approval Infotile
Use the Approval infotile to review invoices that are:
•
Pending your approval.
•
Pending approval from others.
•
Rejected.
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Only accounts payable managers have access to the Approval infotile.
This information tile shows the default category of Pending, which has the invoices pending your approval.
In the Others category, managers with the Force Approve privilege can also force approve an invoice if the
Allow Force Approval option on the Manage Invoice Options page is enabled.
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Prepayments and Payments Infotile
Two payments infotiles are available:
•
Prepayments display how many
prepayments are available for
application.
•
Payments displays due in a week.
Query and make payments for
upcoming payments.
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Prepayments Infotile
Use the Prepayments infotile to:
•
Gain better visibility into supplier prepayments.
•
Determine how many prepayments are available for application.
•
Determine if an older prepayment has not been applied yet.
•
Ensure that a supplier is not overpaid.
Prepayments are grouped into the following aging buckets:
•
0-30 days
•
31-60 days
•
61 plus days
Payments Infotile
Use the Payments infotile to:
•
Streamline your payment process by managing the invoices due in a week.
•
Query and make payments for the installments coming due.
•
Avoid late payments.
•
Better plan your cash requirements.
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Only accounts payable managers have access to the Payments infotile.
To pay an installment follow these steps:
1.
Select the row with the installment.
2.
Click the Pay button.
3.
Enter the payment details in the dialog box.
4.
Submit the payment.
The total amount due in one week is refreshed every hour. So if you make a payment in the infotile, you may
not see the amount changed immediately.
If you have access to multiple ledgers using different ledger currencies, the Payment infotile is not
displayed.
Only payment information for multiple ledgers that share the same ledger currency displays.
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Payments
Oracle Payments provides predefined disbursements and funds capture reports.
These reports are:
•
Processes that result in a formatted file.
•
Formatted using a specific template in Oracle BI Publisher.
•
Manually generated, if opted, using the Scheduled Processes page.
•
Automatically generated, if opted, using setup entities.
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Note: All Payment Reports are Oracle BI Publisher. No Oracle Transactional BI reports exist in Oracle
Payments.
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Run Payments Disbursement Reports Automatically
The following tables list disbursement reports with their corresponding processes that
automatically run after you select specific options on the applicable page.
•
The applicable process is called internally.
•
Any required parameter values are known by Payments without your input or
intervention.
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Run Payments Disbursement Reports Automatically
Report
Disbursement
Accompanying Letter
Formats
Process
Payment File
Accompanying Letter
Description
Creates an accompanying
letter for a payment file that
your company either prints
and mails to the bank,
along with the payment file
on a disk, or manually
transmits to the bank,
along with the payment file.
Output
Document
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Run Payments Disbursement Reports Automatically
Report
Process
Description
Output
Disbursement Positive
Pay File Formats
Create Positive Pay File
Creates a document that you
transmit to your payment
system or bank to inform it of
payments made by check.
Document
Disbursement Separate
Remittance Advice
Formats
Send Separate Remittance
Advice
Creates notices that can be
faxed, e-mailed, or printed and
mailed to external payees; lists
the invoices electronically paid
to the payee’s bank account.
Document
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Report
Process
Description
Output
Disbursement Payment
File Register Formats
Payment File Register
Creates a report displaying the
contents of a payment file,
which your company keeps for
its records.
Document
Disbursement Payment
Process Request Status
Report Formats
Payment Process Request
Status Report
Creates a report that displays
the contents and status of a
payment process request,
which you review online or print.
Document
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Run Payments Disbursement Reports Manually
Disbursement reports can be run manually or automatically.
Manual reports are run from:
•
Payments page
•
Scheduled Processes page
To illustrate:
•
Click the Create Printed Payment Files link in the Tasks pane to open the Scheduled
Processes page.
•
Select the applicable parameters.
•
Submit the process, which results in printed checks.
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Payments Funds Capture Reports
Oracle Payments provides the following funds capture predefined reports:
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Funds Capture Accompanying Letter Formats
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Funds Capture Payer Notification Formats
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Run Payments Funds Capture Reports Automatically
An example of automatic submission of a funds capture report is the Formats tab on the
Create Funds Capture Process Profile page with the Automatically submit at settlement
check box selected in the Notification to Payer section.
•
Selection of this check box results in the automatic submission of the Funds Capture
Payer Notification Formats.
•
After the create settlement batches process is complete, Payments automatically
creates payment notifications that are sent to external payers to inform them that
payments have been made.
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Run Payments Funds Capture Reports Automatically
The following tables lists funds capture reports that are automatically submitted.
•
The applicable process is called internally, not by the user from a user interface.
•
Any required parameter values are known by Payments without user input.
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Run Payments Funds Capture Reports Automatically
Report
Funds Capture Payer
Notification Formats
Process
Send Receipt of Payment
Notifications
Description
Creates payment notifications
that can be faxed, e-mailed, or
printed and mailed to external
payers after the settlement or
settlement batch is
transmitted to inform them of
a funds capture transaction
that charges their credit card
or bank account.
Output
Document
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Report
Funds Capture
Accompanying Letter
Formats
Process
Description
Settlement Batch Accompanying
Letter
Creates an accompanying letter
for a direct debit settlement batch
file that your company either
prints and mails to the bank, or
manually transmits to the bank,
along with the settlement batch
file.
Output
Document
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Run Payments Funds Capture Reports Manually
Funds Capture reports can be run manually or automatically. Manual reports are run from
the Funds Capture page or from the Scheduled Processes page.
To illustrate:
1. Click the Create Settlement Batches link in the Tasks pane to open the Scheduled
Processes page.
2. Select the applicable parameters.
3. Submit the process, which results in settlement batches that are submitted to your
payment system or bank.
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Payments Subject Areas
Oracle Payments has no predefined Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence reports, but
you can create your own custom reports using the predelivered Payables subject areas that
reference payments:
Title
Description
Payables Payments – Disbursements Real Time
Real-time information on amount spent or expensed.
Payables Payments – Payment History Real Time
Real-time information on clearing and unclearing
history of payments.
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Assets
Oracle Assets provides predefined reports and Infotiles that are used for asset analysis,
transaction analysis, reconciliation, and tax reporting purposes.
•
Transaction Reports
•
Mass Additions Reports
•
Reconciliation Reports
•
Group Asset Reports
•
Reports for the United States
•
Reports for Japan
•
Other Reports
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Transaction Reports
Title
Description
Asset Additions Report
Lists all the assets added or capitalized during the specified periods. The report
is sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, asset type, asset
account, cost center, and reserve account.
Asset Additions by
Responsibility Report
Lists assets added or capitalized during the specified periods. Displays the
owner and location for each unit. Sorts and totals by balancing segment, asset
type, asset account, cost center, and reserve account.
Asset Retirements Report
Lists all the asset retirements performed during the specified periods. The
report is sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, asset type,
asset account, and cost center.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Asset Transfers Report
Lists all asset transfers performed during the specified period. The report is
sorted by asset number.
CIP Capitalization Report
Lists all the CIP assets capitalized during the specified periods. The report
is sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, CIP cost
account, cost center, and asset cost account.
Cost Adjustment Report
Lists all the asset cost adjustments made during the specified periods. The
report is sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, asset
type, asset cost account, and cost center.
Asset Category Change Report
Lists all the assets for which the asset category is changed during the
specified period. The report is sorted by and groups totals for each
balancing segment, asset account, and asset number.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Asset Transaction History Report
Lists all transactions performed on selected assets. The report is sorted by
asset number.
Asset Impairment Report
Lists the impact of impairment transactions. Displays cost, new net book
value, net selling price, value in use, and impairment loss amount for all the
impaired assets in the given book and depreciation period. The report is
sorted by asset number. The report shows totals for Current Net Book Value,
Net Selling Price, Values in Use, Impairment Loss, and New Net Book Value.
Asset Register Report
Provides cost-related details, current activity, and retirements for every asset
within the selected asset category. The report lists all transactions that impact
asset cost during the chosen period.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Additions by Source Report
Lists all the assets added or capitalized during the specified periods and
shows the details of associated invoice lines. Sorts and totals by source,
balancing segment, asset type, asset account, cost center, and asset
number.
Cost Adjustments by Source
Report
Lists all the asset cost adjustments made during the specified periods and
shows the details of associated invoice lines. Sorts and totals by source,
balancing segment, asset type, asset account, cost center, and asset
number.
Asset Leases Expense Report
Lists asset lease interest and expense amounts for the specified period. The
report is sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, expense
account, and cost center.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Mass Additions Reports
Title
Description
Create Mass Additions Report
Lists all invoice and discount lines processed by the last run of the Create
Mass Additions process. The report is sorted by and groups totals for each
foreign currency, balancing segment, asset clearing account, and cost center.
It is generated when the Create Mass Additions process is run.
Delete Mass Additions Report
Lists all the mass addition lines in the Delete queue that are ready to be
processed by the Delete Mass Additions process.
Post Mass Additions Report
Lists all the asset additions and cost adjustments processed by the Post Mass
Additions process. The report is sorted by transaction type. It is generated
every time the Post Mass Additions process is run.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Reconciliation Reports
Title
Description
Cost Clearing
Reconciliation Report
Lists all the asset additions and cost adjustments performed during the specified
period for which accounting entries are created for cost clearing accounts. The
report is sorted by and groups totals for each transaction type, balancing segment,
and clearing account.
Cost Detail Report
Lists asset-level asset cost account balances for the specified periods. The report
is sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, asset cost account,
and cost center.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Cost Summary Report
Lists asset cost account summary balances for the specified periods. The report is
sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment and asset cost account.
Journal Entry Reserve
Ledger
Lists asset depreciation amounts for the specified period. The report is sorted by and
groups totals for each balancing segment, expense account, reserve account, and
cost center.
CIP Detail Report
Lists asset-level CIP cost account balances for the specified periods. The report is
sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, CIP cost account, and cost
center.
CIP Summary Report
Lists CIP cost account summary balances for the specified periods. The report is
sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment and CIP cost account.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Reserve Detail Report
Lists asset-level asset reserve account balances for the specified periods. The report is
sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, reserve account, and cost
center.
Reserve Summary
Report
Lists reserve account summary balances for the specified periods. The report is sorted
by and groups totals for each balancing segment and reserve account.
Revaluation Reserve
Detail Report
Lists asset revaluation reserve account balances for a specified period for an asset
level. The report is sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, asset cost
account, and cost center.
Revaluation Reserve
Summary Report
Lists asset-level revaluation reserve account balances for the specified periods. The
report is sorted by and groups totals for each balancing segment, reserve account, and
cost center.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Group Asset Reports
Title
Description
Group Asset Detail
Report
Lists the group and its member asset balances for the specified fiscal year and is used
to comply with Indian income tax requirements. The report is sorted by and groups
totals for each fiscal year and asset category.
Group Asset Listing
Lists the group asset balances for the specified fiscal year and is used to comply with
Canadian capital cost allowance requirements. The report is sorted by and groups
totals for each fiscal year and asset category.
Group Asset Summary
Report
Lists the group asset balances for the specified fiscal year and is used to comply with
Indian income tax requirements. The report is sorted by and prints totals for each
fiscal year and asset category.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Reports for the United States
Title
Description
Form 4562 Depreciation and
Amortization Report
Lists asset depreciation amounts for the specified fiscal year. This report is used for
US tax reporting, and is sorted by balancing segment, fiscal year added, depreciation
method, asset category, and asset number. The report also lists totals for each
category, method, fiscal year added, and balancing segment.
Form 4626 - AMT Detail
Report
Lists the difference in year-to-date depreciation between any tax book and an
alternative minimum tax (AMT) book through the period you select in detail. The report
is sorted by balancing segment, depreciation method, asset account, category, and
asset number. The report shows totals for each category, asset account, method, and
balancing segment.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Reports for the United States
Title
Description
Form 4626 - AMT
Summary Report
Lists the difference in year-to-date depreciation between any tax book and an
alternative minimum tax book through the period you select in detail. The report is
sorted by balancing segment, depreciation method, asset account, category, and
asset number. The report shows totals for each category, asset account, method, and
balancing segment.
Form 4797 - Gain From
Disposition of 1245
Property Report
Lists gain or loss amounts from sales of 1245 property held longer than the capital
gain threshold. The report is used for US tax reporting and shows only assets that
were sold. The report sorts by balancing segment into gains and losses, by asset
account, and by asset number. It also lists totals for gains or losses, and for each
distinct asset account and balancing segment.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Reports for the United States
Title
Description
Form 4797 - Gain From
Disposition of 1250
Property Report
Lists gain or loss amounts from sales of 1250 property held longer than the capital
gain threshold you entered for the book on the Create Book page. The report only
shows assets that were sold, so assets without proceeds of sale do not appear. The
report is sorted by balancing segment into gains and losses, by asset account, and by
asset number. The report shows totals for gains or losses, and for each asset account
and balancing segment.
Form 4797 - Sales or
Exchanges of Property
Report
Lists sales or exchanges of Property for the amounts for sales held longer than the
capital gain threshold you entered for the book on the Create Book page. The report is
sorted by balancing segment into gains and losses, property class, asset account, and
asset number. The report shows totals for gains or losses, and for each asset account,
property class, and balancing segment.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Other Reports
Title
Description
Property Tax Report
Lists the assets at a particular location as of the specified cutoff date. This information
is used for property tax forms. The report is sorted by and groups totals for each
balancing segment, location, asset account, and year acquired.
Hypothetical
Depreciation Analysis
Report
Lists depreciation projections for hypothetical assets based on the specified
depreciation parameters.
What-If Depreciation
Analysis Report
Lists depreciation projections for the selected assets based on the specified
depreciation parameters.
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Assets BI Publisher Reports
Other Reports
Title
Assets by Cash Generating Unit Report
Description
Lists all assets by cash generating unit. The report
extracts the details of all the asset impairment
transactions such as asset number, cash generating
unit, cost, net book value, accumulated impairment
reserve, and year-to-date impairments from Oracle
Assets.
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Assets Subject Areas
Oracle Assets has no predefined Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence reports, but you
can create your own custom reports using the predefined Assets subject areas:
Title
Description
Fixed Assets - Asset Transactions Real Time
Real-time information on the Fixed Assets transactions
such as Additions, Transfers, Adjustment,
Reinstatement, Retirement, and so on. Accounting
information on the transactions is also provided.
Fixed Assets - Asset Depreciation Real Time
Real-time information on decrease in value of an asset
due to obsolescence or use.
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Practice A-6 Overview: Running an Asset BI Publisher Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Running the Asset Additions report.
•
Viewing the Asset Additions report status and output.
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Additions Infotile
Quickly scan the asset addition information from payables invoices or projects.
Additions
Description
Incomplete
Review summary information of all incomplete addition lines.
Exceptions
Review the addition lines with warnings or errors.
Ready to Post
View the addition lines that are pending posting.
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In addition to the data coming from other subledgers, the Additions infotile also contains your conversion
data from your legacy system or any other third party additions. Any online additions that have not yet been
submitted are also included in the Additions Infotile.
Use the Incomplete count to review summary information of all incomplete addition lines requiring your
attention. This information includes the count of incomplete additions with missing asset category,
depreciation expense account and/or location, or even lines that are not yet set to the Post status.
Click the warning icon on the left of the addition line to see the recommended action. Any online additions
that have not yet been submitted are also included in the Incomplete Count.
Use the Exceptions count for timely review of addition lines with warnings or errors. This enables you to
resolve the exceptions in a timely manner.
Use the Ready to Post count to view the addition lines that are pending posting. After posting, these lines
are created as assets.
Prepare All launches a spreadsheet so you can quickly fill out the required information, and even post these
lines to create assets. You can also deal with any posting exceptions or errors on the landing page.
Note: By default and based on context, some columns are hidden. Use the View menu to show, hide or
reorder columns.
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Detail Table for Additions Infotile
The Details table for the Additions Infotile contains the following functions:
Function
Description
View
View and prepare addition lines, correct errors and Exceptions
Prepare All
Launches a spreadsheet enabling you to quickly fill out the required
information
Merge
Merge the addition lines to create an asset, or split one addition line to
create multiple assets.
Add to Asset
Add an addition line to an existing asset.
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Use the Details table for the Additions Infotile detail table to view and prepare addition lines, correct errors
and exceptions.
Prepare All launches, a spreadsheet enabling you to quickly fill out the required information and even post
these lines to create assets. You can also deal with any posting exceptions or errors on the landing page.
You can merge the addition lines to create an asset, or split one addition line to create multiple assets. You
can also add an addition line to an existing asset using the Add to Asset action.
Note: By default and based on context, some columns are hidden. Use the View menu to show, hide or
reorder columns.
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Adjustments Infotile
View and prepare the incomplete mass adjustment transactions.
Adjustments
Infotile
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Use the Adjustments Infotile to view and prepare the incomplete mass adjustment transactions including,
but not limited to, cost adjustments, book adjustments, reclassifications, revaluations, impairments,
suspension and continuation of depreciation, and so on.
You can complete the adjustment transactions from the corresponding detail table.
•
Prepare Button: Click to complete your adjustment transactions in the spreadsheet.
•
Transaction Type Link: Click to adjust each asset individually by clicking on the.
•
Information Icon: View the former details by clicking on the icon to the left of each Asset Number
Note: You may have to reorder the columns to see the Transaction Group for your mass transactions.
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Transfer Infotile
•
View the incomplete mass transfers.
•
Use the corresponding detail table to prepare the transfer transactions for finalization.
Transfer Infotile
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Use the Adjustments Infotile to view and prepare the incomplete mass adjustment transactions including,
but not limited to, cost adjustments, book adjustments, reclassifications, revaluations, impairments,
suspension and continuation of depreciation, and so on.
You can complete the transfer transactions from the corresponding detail table.
•
Prepare Button: Click to complete your transfer transactions in the spreadsheet.
•
Transfer Link: Click to complete the transfer of transactions in the spreadsheet.
•
Information Icon: View the old assignments by clicking on the icon to the left of each Asset Number
•
Blue Dot: Click to retrieve specific information about the old depreciation expense account.
Note: You may have to reorder the columns to see the Transaction Group for your mass transactions.
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Retirements Infotile
Review all of your pending retirement transactions.
The Details table for the Retirement Infotile contains the following functions:
Function
Description
Incomplete Count
Review summary information for all of your incomplete retirement
transactions including your mass retirements.
Exceptions Count
View all retirements with warnings or errors for a quick and timely
resolution.
Ready to Post Count
View the retirements that are pending posting.
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Retirements Infotile
Use the corresponding Retirements detail table to view all the information regarding the
retirement cost, proceeds, and other details.
•
Prepare the lines online or in the spreadsheet.
•
Post the lines to finalize your retirement transaction.
Prepare and
Post
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Depreciation Infotile
Use the Depreciation Infotile to:
•
Calculate depreciation and close your period for the Fixed Asset Subledger.
•
View the counts of completed additions and retirements.
Depreciation
Infotile
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You can also use the Depreciation Infotile to drill down to view the details of the completed additions and
retirements.
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Receivables
Oracle Fusion Receivables provides predefined reports and infotiles that are used for
analyzing customer transactions, receipts, and outstanding customer balances, and
reconciling accounts receivable balances to the general ledger balances.
•
Bill Presentment Templates
•
Accounting Reports
•
Billing Reports
•
Receivables Balances Reports
•
Bills Receivable Reports
•
Reconciliation Report
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The reports are defined as both Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher reports and Oracle Fusion
Transactional Business Intelligence reports.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Bill Presentment Templates
Title
Description
Print Invoices Template
Layout for printing invoices; includes information about the customer, due date, line
amount, tax amount, and outstanding balance.
Print Credit Memos
Template
Layout for printing credit memos; includes information about the customer, application
date, line amount, and total amount applied.
Print Debit Memos
Template
Layout for printing debit memos; includes information about the customer, due date,
line amount, and outstanding balance.
Print Chargebacks
Template
Layout for printing chargebacks; includes information about the customer, due date,
line amount, and outstanding balance.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Bill Presentment Templates
Title
Description
Print Summary Balance
Forward Bills Template
Layout for printing balance forward bills in summary mode; includes information on
the beginning balance, summary information of current customer billing activity, and
ending balance for the billing cycle.
Print Detailed Balance
Forward Bills Template
Layout for printing balance forward bills in detail mode; includes information on the
beginning balance, details of current customer billing activity, and ending balance for
the billing cycle.
Print Bills Receivable
Template
Layout for printing bills receivable; includes information about the customer drawee,
drawee contact, creation date, transactions assigned to the bill, and total bill amount.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Accounting Reports
Title
Description
Bad Debt Provision
Report
Provides information for reviewing bad debt exposure and provisioning based on
percent collectible assigned to the customer.
Invoices Posted to
Suspense Report
Lists all transactions that have revenue amounts posted to suspense accounts as a
result of running the Import AutoInvoice process.
Potential Reconciling
Items Report
Indicates journal items that may potentially post to incorrect general ledger accounts.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Billing Reports
Title
Description
Billing History Report
Provides a summarized history of transactions and activity against them by customer
site for a specified date range.
Transaction Details
Report
Provides for review detailed information about invoices, credit memos, debit memos,
and chargebacks.
Import AutoInvoice
Execution Report
Report for the program that imports transactions from other source systems into
Receivables; includes information about successful and rejected transactions by
transaction type, customer, transaction number, and transaction date.
Print Adjustments Report
Prints information about adjustments associated with specified transactions and
customers by business unit, adjustment number, and transaction number.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Receivables Balances Reports
Title
Description
Bank Risk Report
Provides information for reviewing receipts that are currently at risk with a
remittance bank or clearing house.
Customer Account Status Report
Provides a list of customer open items and the total balance due based on
customer account status for a specified ledger currency.
Customer Balances Revaluation
Report
Reflects the difference between the original customer balance and
revaluated balance for manually adjusting the general ledger.
Document Number Audit Report
Lists document numbers assigned to transactions, adjustments, and
receipts to help identify missing document numbers.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Automatic Receipt Creation and
Remittance Execution Report
Report for the program that creates automatic receipts and receipt
remittances in a batch; includes information about automatically generated
receipts, remitted receipts, and data validation errors by batch.
Clear Receipts Automatically
Execution Report
Report for the program that clears receipts automatically; includes
information about the clearing of customer receipts by remittance bank
account, receipt number, and customer.
Create Customer Statements
Execution Report
Report for the program that generates customer statements; prints customer
billing information in a format presentable to the customer; includes
information on invoices, debit memos, chargebacks, payments, on-account
credits, credit memos, adjustments, and past due information.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Process Receipts Through
Lockbox Execution Report
Report for the program that creates receipts transmitted by banks for
payments made through lockbox; includes information on lockbox receipts and
data validation errors for each transmission from the bank.
Create Late Charges Batch
Report
Lists late charges that were calculated as draft or final, and is generated by the
Create Late Charges Batch process or as a standalone report.
Receivables Projected Gains
and Losses Report
Compares the revalued amount of foreign currency transactions with the
entered amount and prints the projected unrealized gain or loss.
Receipts Days Late Analysis
Report
Provides the cost of customer late payment trends by calculating weighted
average days late.
Create Automatic Receipt Writeoffs Execution Report
Prints details of the write-off of unapplied amounts on selected receipts.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Receivables Aging by General
Ledger Account Report
Displays information about outstanding receivables by general ledger
account as of a specific date.
Receivables Open Items
Revaluation Report
Determines the amount needed to manually adjust general ledger account
balances to reflect the difference between the original and revalued
customer open items.
Generate Late Charges Report
Prints information on late charges for transactions that are overdue or
have late payments by batch name.
Recognize Revenue Execution
Report
Report for the program that recognizes revenue and creates revenue
distributions for transactions that use invoicing and revenue scheduling
rules.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Reversal Status Report
Provides information about the status of automatic receipt reversals
processed for a settlement batch; includes the receipt date, receipt
number, receipt amount, reversal reason code, and a description of
automatic receipt reversals that were unsuccessful.
Receipts Awaiting Remittance
Report
Lists manual and automatic receipts awaiting remittance to the bank.
Receipts Awaiting Bank Clearance
Report
Lists receipts waiting to be cleared by the remittance bank; includes
information about the remittance bank account name, remittance batch
date, maturity date, receipt number, and receipt amount by business unit
and currency.
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Receivables BI Publisher Reports
Bills Receivable Reports
Title
Description
Automatic Bills Receivable
Remittance Execution Report
Report for the program that creates a bills receivable remittance from bills
receivable; provides the details of bills receivable remitted to the bank to
initiate collection from customers.
Automatic Bills Receivable
Transactions Batch Report
Report for the program that creates bills receivable from transactions; lists
the transactions assigned to each bill receivable.
Close Matured Bills Receivable
Execution Report
Report for the program that creates and applies receipts for standard
remitted bills receivable, and applies receipts and eliminates risk on bills
receivable factored with recourse; lists the changes to each bill receivable
and shows all receipts that were cleared by the program run.
Print Bills Receivable Report
Prints bills receivable either individually, belonging to a bills receivable batch,
or belonging to a bills receivable remittance batch.
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Receivables Oracle Fusion Transactional BI Reports
Title
Description
Adjustment Register
Provides information about approved adjustments that
affect customer transaction balances.
Applied Receipts Register
Provides information about receipt applications that
affect customer balances.
Receivables to General Ledger Reconciliation Report
Provides information and tools for the reconciliation of
receivables data to the general ledger.
Transaction Register
Provides information for reviewing customer
transactions.
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Receivables Oracle Fusion Transactional BI Reports
Title
Description
Customer Listing Report
Provides general customer information, as well as
details of each customer account, address, contact,
and bank account.
Unapplied Receipts Register
Provides information for reviewing detailed information
about customer unidentified, on-account, and
unapplied payments.
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Receivables Subject Areas
You can create your own custom reports using the predelivered Receivables subject areas:
Title
Description
Receivables – Adjustments Real Time
Real-time information about transaction adjustments,
including approval information and the associated
distributions and accounting details.
Receivables – Credit Memo Applications Real Time
Real-time information about the application of credit
memos to both debit items and receipts, including the
associated distributions and accounting details.
Receivables – Credit Memo Requests Real Time
Real-time information about credit memo requests,
including the current status.
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Receivables Subject Areas
Title
Description
Receivables – Miscellaneous Receipts Real Time
Real-time information about miscellaneous receipts,
such as non-customer related receipts, credit card
refunds, and credit card chargebacks, including the
associated distributions, accounting details, and
remittance bank information.
Receivables – Payment Schedules Real Time
Real-time information about payment schedules for
transactions, including installment information.
Receivables – Receipt Conversion Rate Adjustments
Real Time
Real-time information about receipt conversion rates,
including exchange gain and loss amounts. Use
together with attributes from Standard Receipt
Application Details Real Time subject area for a
complete analysis of the affected receipts.
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Receivables Subject Areas
Title
Description
Receivables – Receipt Details Real Time
Real-time lifecycle information about customer receipts,
including status and associated dates, distributions, and
accounting details.
Receivables – Revenue Adjustments Real Time
Real-time information about revenue adjustments,
including associated distributions and accounting details.
Receivables – Standard Receipts Application Details Real
Time
Real-time information about customer receipts, including
manual receipts, receipts uploaded from a spreadsheet,
and receipts imported through a lockbox, and the
associated distributions, accounting, and remittance bank
information.
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Receivables Subject Areas
Title
Description
Receivables – Transactions Real Time
Real-time information about transaction headers and
lines for invoices, credit memos, debit memos, and
chargebacks, including tax, freight, sales credits, and
the associated distributions and accounting.
Receivables – Customer Real Time
Real-time information about customer data, including
profile settings for payment and billing management,
customer address and contact information, and
customer account relationships.
Receivables – Customer Tax Profile Real Time
Real-time information about the calculation of taxes
on Receivables transactions belonging to the
customer.
Receivables – Customer Account Site Tax Profile
Real Time
Real-time information about the calculation of taxes
on Receivables transactions belonging to the
customer account site.
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Improved Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Drilldown Scalability
The Receivables Reconciliation Difference
Details sub-folder has been added to report
Receivables reconciliation differences to
General Ledger.
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Navigate to: Reports and Analytics > New > Analysis > Subledger Accounting – Receivables Summary
Reconciliation Real Time.
Tables are added to improve the performance of the GL reconciliation difference drill-downs to Receivables.
One consolidated action link rapidly displays the transactions causing the differences, helping to prevent
data mismatch between accounting summaries and differences drill-downs.
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Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Report Dashboard
The dashboard prompt has been changed. Action links for differences have been
consolidated into one action link.
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Navigate to: Receivables > Accounts Receivables > Task panel tab > Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation.
Use the one action link to drill to:
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Invoices Differences Detail
•
Adjustment Differences Detail
•
Bills Receivable Difference
•
Bill Receivable Application Difference
•
Applied Receipts Difference Detail
•
Unapplied and Unidentified Differences Detail
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Setting Up for the Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Report
Before running the Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Report, make sure that you have
completed the setups necessary for the kind of reconciliation you intend to perform.
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Business Unit Reconciliation versus Ledger Reconciliation
If you implicitly map primary balancing segment values to your business unit:
•
Reconcile based on business unit.
•
This enables employees from different business units to balance their respective organization
activity.
•
Your setup in Oracle Fusion Receivables should be such that the default accounting assigned to
activities for the business unit is the primary balancing segment value that you intend to use.
If you do not implicitly map primary balancing segment values to business unit:
•
Reconcile based on ledger.
•
Provide access to all business units associated with the ledger to perform a thorough reconciliation.
Assigning the Financial Category
•
Assign the financial category of Accounts Receivable to all of the receivables natural account values
that you want to include in the reconciliation process.
•
This is a required setup task for Receivables to General Ledger reconciliation.
•
Perform this task under the Manage Chart of Accounts Value Sets task.
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Prepare Receivables to General Ledger Reconciliation Process
•
Run the Prepare Receivables to General Ledger Reconciliation Process.
•
Drill down to detail.
•
Set accounting period status.
•
Ensure subsequent accounting period is open.
•
Other steps.
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Run the Prepare Receivables to General Ledger Reconciliation process to select data for the
Summary section of the Receivables to General Ledger Reconciliation Report.
•
All subprocesses must run successfully in order to see the most current Summary report.
•
You can run the reconciliation report only after all subprocesses have run successfully
•
Drill down in the Receivables to General Ledger Reconciliation Report to see real-time details that
make up balances from the summary report.
•
Set the accounting period status to Closed or Close Pending before running the extract to prevent
additional activity from being added to the period after the extract has run. This guarantees that the
summary balances for each type of activity agree with the drilldown detail.
•
Ensure that the subsequent accounting period is open, so that business operations continue during
the reconciliation process.
•
Reopen the period if adjusting entries need to be added, and limit access to that period to prevent
entries relating to other accounting periods.
•
Optionally select values from any of the segments of the accounting flexfield, depending on what
accounts are to be reconciled.
•
Do not select any natural account values, if you are reconciling everything. The report automatically
selects data for all Receivables accounts that have the Financial Category of Accounts Receivable
assigned.
•
Select the range of balancing segment values implicitly mapped to your business unit, if you are
reconciling by business unit.
•
Select the range of Intercompany accounts, if you are reconciling Intercompany activity. These
accounts must have the Financial Category of Accounts Receivable assigned.
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Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation Report: Security
•
Security rules in your setup may restrict you from seeing data from certain business
units or segment values.
•
Ensure that appropriate security is given to users for all business units and accounting
flexfield segment values that each user is responsible for reconciling.
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Practice A-7 Overview: Running a Receivables to GL Reconciliation
Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Submitting the Prepare Receivables to General Ledger Reconciliation process.
•
Submitting the Receivables to Ledger Reconciliation report from the Receivables
dashboard.
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Billing Work Area Infotiles
Review your current receivables transaction data and gain comprehensive control and
visibility into your billing department using these four infotiles:
•
Incomplete provides summary information
for all incomplete transactions.
•
Approval identifies any adjustments
pending your approval.
•
Research displays information about
adjustments pending research.
•
Review the counts of AutoInvoice
exception rows to resolve exceptions
in a timely manner.
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Incomplete Infotile
Use the Incomplete Infotile to review summary information of all incomplete transactions. This information
includes the count of incomplete transactions with a transaction date within the past 10 days, and a
separate count of incomplete transactions with a transaction date older than 10 days. The corresponding
detail table lets you complete transactions, delete unwanted transactions, or drill down to view transaction
details.
Approval Infotile
Use the Approval Infotile to review information about adjustments pending your approval. This information
includes:
•
Count of adjustments pending approval with an adjustment date within the current accounting period.
•
Count of adjustments pending approval with an adjustment date in previous accounting periods.
Use the corresponding detail table to approve adjustments, reject adjustments, request more information, or
drill down to view adjustment details.
Research Infotile
Use the Research Infotile to review the information about adjustments pending research. This information
includes the count of adjustments pending research with an:
•
Adjustment date within the current accounting period
•
Adjustment date in previous accounting periods.
The corresponding detail table lets you resubmit an adjustment after research or you can drill down to view
adjustment details.
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Import Exceptions Infotile
Use the Import Exceptions Infotile to review the counts of AutoInvoice exception rows. The rows are
summarized by:
•
Transaction source
•
Creation date
•
Currency
This information helps you to resolve exceptions in a timely manner.
Clicking on the Number of Exceptions link launches the AutoInvoice Error Correction spreadsheet, an Excel
spreadsheet with Fusion Desktop Integration enabled. The spreadsheet lists all of the exceptions from the
Import AutoInvoice process, for review and correction. After you complete the spreadsheet, you can upload
the corrected rows and resubmit them for AutoInvoice processing from the Excel spreadsheet.
You can also use the Import Transactions button to submit the AutoInvoice process.
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Accounts Receivable Infotiles: Receipt Batches and Lockbox
Exceptions
Prioritize your work with at-a-glance reviews of your current receivables data, conveniently
summarized into four infotiles.
•
Receipt Batches provides summary information
for all receipt batches. The detail table provides
separate information on each receipt batch.
•
Lockbox Exceptions summarizes information
for lockbox transmission files with errors and for
receipts pending creation in each transmission file.
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You can efficiently prioritize your work with at-a-glance reviews of your current receivables data,
conveniently summarized into four infotiles.
The summary information on each infotile appears in the corresponding detail table for review.
Take immediate action on pending items, or drill down to individual pages for more complex activities.
Receipt Batches Infotile
Use the Receipt Batches Infotile to review summary information for all receipt batches requiring your
attention, including:
•
Manual receipt
•
Lockbox
•
Automatic Receipt
The corresponding detail table provides separate information on each receipt batch with the following
statuses:
•
Out of Balance
•
Ready to Post
•
Pending Approval
•
Pending Confirmation
You can also use the detail table to sort columns and filter specific batches with Query by Example (QBE).
Additionally, you can use the action buttons on data in the table, or drill down for more details.
Optionally drill down using the Batch Number link to review the batch and take action.
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Lockbox Exceptions Infotile
Use the Lockbox Exceptions Infotile to review summary information for the number of lockbox transmission
files with errors and the number of receipts pending creation in each transmission file.
The number of receipts pending creation due to lockbox transmission errors helps you determine the critical
exceptions. Drill down on transmission errors using the Transmission Name link. This launches the Error
Correction spreadsheet, an Excel spreadsheet with Fusion Desktop Integration enabled. The spreadsheet
contains rows with exceptions for your review and update. After completed, you can upload the corrected
rows and resubmit for Lockbox processing from the Excel spreadsheet.
To launch the Lockbox Error Correction spreadsheet successfully, you need to download and install Fusion
Desktop Integrator and perform the required configuration in Microsoft Excel. If you are upgrading, Oracle
recommends uninstalling the previous version of Fusion Desktop Integrator and installing the updated
version.
For additional information refer to Oracle ADF Desktop Integration (www.oracle.com/technetwork/developertools/adf/overview/ index.html).
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Accounts Receivable Infotiles: Unapplied Receipts and Unapplied
Credits
•
Unapplied Receipts summarizes receipt
counts of your open receipts displayed
in graphical representation and
categorized into three date-range
buckets.
•
Unapplied Credits summarizes credit
memo counts of your open receipts
displayed in graphical representation
and categorized into three date-range
buckets.
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Unapplied Receipts
•
Use the Unapplied Receipts Infotile to review summarized receipt counts of your open receipts
displayed in graphical representation and categorized into three date-range buckets:
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0 to 6 days old
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7 to 10 days old
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Greater than10 days
•
Click on a specific date range bar on the graph, and the detail table filters the receipt data
accordingly.
•
The detail table also shows the count of application recommendations that were automatically
generated for the receipt. Use a Receipt Number link to navigate to the Manage Receipt page to
review and apply the receipt.
•
Use the Reassign Receipts button on the work area to reassign receipts to another Receivables
specialist.
•
Review on-account receipts using the Unapplied Receipts Register (select Reports and Analytics
from the Navigator).
Unapplied Credits
•
•
Use the Unapplied Credits Infotile to review summarized credit memo counts of your open credit
volumes displayed in graphical representation and categorized into three date-range buckets:
-
0 to 6 days
-
7-10 days
-
Greater than 10 days.
Use a Transaction Number link to navigate to the Apply Credit Memo page to review and apply the
credit memo.
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Advanced Collections
Oracle Fusion Advanced Collections provides delivered reports that are used in viewing your
aging information. The reports are defined as Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher reports.
•
Collections Aging 4 Bucket Report
•
Aging by Common Currency
•
Collections Aging by Collector 7 Bucket Report
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Collections BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Collections Aging 4 Bucket Report
Identifies customer’s open transaction information based on
four bucket aging method.
Aging By Common Currency
Identifies customer’s open transaction information based on the
seven bucket aging method.
Collections Aging by Collector 7 Bucket
Report
Identifies customer’s open transaction information by collector
using the seven bucket aging method.
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•
Aging By Common Currency
•
Collections Aging 4 Bucket Report
•
Collections Aging by Collector 7 Bucket Report
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Practice A-8 Overview: Running an Advanced Collections BI
Publisher Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Submitting the Collections Aging – 4 Bucket report.
•
Viewing the Collections Aging – 4 Bucket report in various output formats.
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Revenue Management Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence
Reports
Title
Revenue Contract Account Activities
Report
Description
Provides data extracted from Oracle Revenue Management Cloud
and Oracle Subledger Accounting. The data is used to report
revenue contract account activities, which are used for financial
analysis.
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Revenue Management Subject Areas
Title
Description
Revenue Management - Customer Contracts Real Time
Real-time information on accounting contracts,
performance obligations, and promised details.
Revenue Management - Standalone Selling Price Real
Time
Real-time information on standalone selling prices.
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Cash Management
Oracle Fusion Cash Management provides predefined reports that are used in the bank
statement processing and reconciliation.
•
Bank Statement Report
•
Cash to General Ledger Reconciliation Report
•
Cash in Transit Report
•
Bank Statement Analysis Report
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Cash Management BI Publisher Reports
Title
Description
Bank Statement Report
Extracts balance and transaction information for a specific bank
statement.
Cash to General Ledger Reconciliation
Report
Extracts cash management and general ledger accounting and
transactional data for reconciling cash management to the general
ledger.
Cash in Transit Report
The report lists all transactions remitted to the bank but not yet
cleared for a specific bank account. This excludes all voided and
reversed transactions with a reversal date on as prior to the As of
Date.
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Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence Reports
Title
Bank Statement Analysis Report
Description
Displays bank statements and analyzes balance and transaction
details.
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Cash Management Subject Areas
Oracle Fusion Cash Management provides only one predefined Oracle Fusion Transactional
Business Intelligent report. However, you can create your own custom reports using the
following predelivered Cash Management subject areas:
Title
Description
Cash Management – Bank Statement Balances Real
Time
Real-time information on bank statement balances.
Cash Management – Bank Statement Line Charges
Real Time
Real-time information on bank statement line charges.
Cash Management – Bank Statements Real Time
Real-time information on bank statements.
Cash Management – External Cash Transactions
Real Time
Real-time information on external transactions generated from
the bank statement, statement reconciliation, or manual entry.
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Practice A-9 Overview: Running a Cash to GL Reconciliation Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Submitting the Cash to General Ledger Reconciliation Report.
•
Viewing the Cash to General Ledger Reconciliation Report.
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Tax Reporting Overview
Oracle Fusion Tax provides you with operational, business, and reconciliation reports for tax
activity associated with buying and selling goods and services through Oracle Fusion
Payables and Oracle Fusion Receivables.
You can:
•
Produce reports and returns to meet tax reporting requirements for specific countries
and those required for reconciliation and audit of tax calculated on transactions.
•
Generate registers with comprehensive information of transactions with tax impact to
use as a basis for creating tax reports required by tax authorities and meeting the
internal reporting needs of the organization.
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Tax reports include the following features:
•
Flexible reporting levels, such as ledger, legal entity, and tax registration number.
•
Reporting currency for handling reporting in currencies other than the primary currency of the ledger.
•
Flexible reporting date range, such as tax point dates, accounting dates, and transaction dates.
•
Tax reporting types and tax reporting codes to group transaction tax details.
•
Tax register, interim tax register, non recoverable tax register.
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Tax Reporting Tools
Oracle Fusion Tax reporting:
•
Provides Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher reporting data models on which you can
prepare custom and specialized tax reports.
•
Has no predefined Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence reports or subject
areas.
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Tax Reporting Ledger
The Tax Reporting Ledger is a single solution for complex global tax reporting requirements
on sales and purchases.
When you submit a job to run a tax report, the Tax Reporting Ledger extracts tax-related
transactions and accounting details from the following sources based on the parameters you
specify:
•
Oracle Fusion Receivables
•
Oracle Fusion Payables
•
Oracle Fusion Tax Repository
Each time you run a tax report, the tax report uses the Tax Reporting Ledger to find and
retrieve transactions and their tax information.
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Tax Reports Based on the Tax Reporting Ledger
Title
Tax Register
Description
Identifies total tax amounts by tax type, tax class, and company from transactions
created in Oracle Fusion Receivables and Oracle Fusion Tax Repository.
The report includes deferred tax accounting information and all transactions for which
tax accounting is defined. Report data is grouped by tax registers: tax register and no
recoverable tax register. The reported data is ordered by transaction number, customer
name, or customer account number. Data can be printed in detail or summary format.
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Tax Reports Based on the Tax Reporting Ledger
Title
Description
Financial Tax
Register
Prints tax and accounting information created from transactions entered in Oracle Fusion
Receivables, Oracle Fusion Payables, and Oracle Fusion Tax Repository.
The report lists input tax data, output tax data, or both input and output tax data. The
data is grouped into registers: tax register and no recoverable tax register.
Tax Reconciliation
Report
Lists the taxable and tax amounts, by tax account, for all Oracle Fusion Receivables and
Oracle Fusion Tax Repository transactions for a given period.
It generates subtotals by document class and tax account, and includes the flexfield filter
parameter based on the account. The reported data can be printed in summary or detail
format.
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Tax Reports Based on the Tax Reporting Ledger
Title
Description
Tax Reconciliation by
Taxable Account
Report
Lists taxable transaction information created in Oracle Fusion Payables, Oracle Fusion
Receivables, and Oracle Fusion Tax Repository.
It generates subtotals by tax account and tax rate code, and includes the flexfield filter
parameter based on the account.
Tax Audit Trail Report
Identifies detail tax and invoice information created and posted in Oracle Fusion Payables
and Oracle Fusion Tax Repository.
The total amounts for each tax rate code are listed in entered currency and ledger
currency. Two report layouts are available: Invoice and Tax Code.
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Tax Reports Based on the Tax Reporting Ledger
Title
Description
Interim Tax Register
Identifies detailed and summary information of unpaid or partially paid receivables
transactions that have tax liability created at the payment date.
The report prints customer details, transaction tax-related details, and the tax totals by
tax rate code.
Yearly Tax Report
Prints tax and taxable amount information for input and output taxes for all final reported
tax periods within the year. The report can be printed in detail or summary format.
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Tax Reports Based on the Tax Reporting Ledger
Title
Description
Tax Allocations Listing
Report
Lists transactions within a tax period and the tax boxes that the transactions are
allocated to. It enables you to list transactions within a specific document number range.
The report lists tax-related information and tax boxes assigned to recoverable and no
recoverable amounts.
Before running this report, run the Tax Reporting Selection Process, which is based on
the Tax Reporting Ledger and Tax Allocation Process.
Tax Allocation
Exception Report
Lists the transactions that are not allocated to any tax box in the most recent run of the
Tax Allocation Process. It provides tax-related information for each transaction line.
Before running this report, run the Tax Reporting Selection Process, which is based on
the Tax Reporting Ledger and Tax Allocation Process.
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Tax Reports Based on the Tax Reporting Ledger
Title
Description
Tax Box Return
Preparation Report
Lists taxable transactions by tax boxes. Taxable amounts and tax amounts are grouped
by tax box numbers. Use the report as a basis for preparation of tax returns.
Before running this report, run the Tax Reporting Selection Process, which is based on
the Tax Reporting Ledger.
Payables Tax
Reconciliation with
General Ledger
Report
Reconciles tax transaction information for Oracle Fusion Payables with account
balances in Oracle Fusion General Ledger.
Sales Tax Report
Identifies taxable, exempt, and tax amounts for invoices entered in Oracle Fusion
Receivables and Oracle Fusion Tax Repository. Data is printed and grouped by tax
jurisdiction.
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Practice A-10 Overview: Running a Tax BI Publisher Report
This practice covers the following topics:
•
Running the Tax Register process.
•
Viewing the Tax Register process status and output.
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EMEA Reporting
Oracle Fusion Financials for EMEA provides:
•
Predefined operational, business, and reconciliation reports to meet country-specific
reporting needs.
•
Reporting data models to prepare custom and specialized reports.
•
Predefined reports for:
– European Union
– United Kingdom
– France
– Italy
– Spain
– Germany
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Additional Security Requirement for EMEA Reports
Assign the following duty role to your enterprise job roles or users before using any EMEA
specific features.
Duty Role
EMEA Financial Reporting
Role Code
ORA_JE_EMEA_FINANCIAL_REPORTING_DUTY
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Report for European Union
Title
European Sales Listing Report
Description
Declares the information related to services that are rendered within the
European Union to VAT-registered customers in other European Union
member states.
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Report for United Kingdom
Title
Description
Reverse Charge Sales Listing
Report for UK
Lists the UK sales transactions that are created in Oracle Fusion Receivables. It
lists transactions for high value electronic goods that are subjected to the Reverse
Tax Charge and reported to HRMC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs).
Reported data is grouped by customers.
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Reports for France
VAT and DAS2 Reports
Title
Description
Deductible VAT Declaration
Report for France
Title
Lists the deductible VAT amount and totals of invoices for France that are
entered in Oracle Fusion Payables. The reported data is grouped by VAT
deductibility rule, tax rate, and account number.
Description
DAS2 Contractor Letters Report
for France
Generates letters to all contractors in France whose income is reported in
the DAS2 extract file for the current year. It lists income tax amounts from
Oracle Fusion Payables grouped by income tax type for France.
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Reports for France
Title
Description
DAS2 Extract File Report for
France
Generates the DAS2 electronic file for France that is submitted to the tax
authorities in a predefined format.
DAS2 Type 210 Updates Report
for France
Generates a list of all changes to data related to DAS2 reporting for France
that are made since the last run of the verification report.
DAS2 Verification Extract for
France
Generates DAS2 information for contractors in France and related income
tax information from data entered in Oracle Fusion Payables. It extracts
information into the DAS2 temporary tables and automatically submits the
DAS2 Verification Extract Execution Report for France.
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Reports for France
Audit Report
Title
Description
Audit Report for France
Use the Audit Report for France process to create an electronic audit file. This
electronic audit file along with journals must comply with the Generally
Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in France.
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Reports for Italy
VAT Reports
Title
Description
Declarable Input VAT Register for Italy
Lists the tax declarable activities including payments of the invoices
with deferred tax. The report lists supplier details and recoverable and
no recoverable taxable and tax amounts grouped by tax rate code.
Declarable Output VAT Register for
Italy
Lists the tax declarable activities including receipts of the invoices with
deferred tax, adjustments, and bills receivables. The report prints
customer details and transaction tax-related details grouped by tax rate
code.
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Reports for Italy
Title
Description
Payable Sales VAT Register for Self
Invoices, Inter-EU Invoices, and VAT for
Italy
Lists the tax declarable activities including receipts of the invoices with
deferred tax, adjustments, and bills receivables.
Purchase VAT Register for Italy
Identifies all Italian invoices that are assigned to the document sequence
name for the VAT register name selected and have accounting dates
within the period range being reported.
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Reports for Italy
Title
Description
Receivables Sales VAT Register for
Italy
Identifies all sales invoices for Italy that are assigned to the document
sequence name of the selected VAT register name and have
accounting dates within the period range being reported. The report
prints and groups invoices by tax rate code.
VAT Liquidation Report for Italy
Identifies a summary of the VAT amounts by tax code for each VAT
type and VAT register for the selected period. It also includes the
consumption per exemption limit group and the available limit at the
beginning and end of the month. The transactional tax data is grouped
by Declarable Output VAT Register and Declarable Input VAT Register.
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Reports for Italy
VAT reports for Italy are based on the Tax Reporting Processes.
Run the:
•
Selecting Transactions for Tax Reporting process before running the reports.
•
Finalize Transaction Tax Reporting process once after you have finally reported the
transactions.
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Reports for Italy
Intra-EU Reports
Title
Description
European Purchase Listing of Services
for Italy
Lists all Intra-EU payables transactions for services. The report prints
invoice details specific for Italy such as service mode, service code,
and protocol number.
European Sales Listing of Services for
Italy
Lists all Intra-EU receivables transactions for services. The report prints
invoice details specific for Italy such as service mode, service code,
and protocol number.
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Reports for Italy
•
Intra-EU reports for Italy are based on the Turnover Reporting Processes.
•
Run the Select Transactions for Turnover Reporting process in:
– Preliminary mode before you run the report.
– Final mode after you have generated the electronic files and finally reported the
transactions.
•
Run the Finalize Transactions for Turnover Reporting process after you have finally
reported transactions. The process:
– Records the declaration details of all finalized transactions.
– Marks the reported transactions with the declaration number received from the tax
authority.
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Reports for Italy
Withholding Reports
Title
Description
Yearly Withholding Tax Report for Italy
Shows annual taxes withheld by first-party legal entities, for the supplier
for the year selected. The report data can be printed or grouped by
supplier name, supplier taxpayer ID, or supplier tax registration number.
Withholding Tax Letters for Italy
Identifies letters sent to suppliers in Italy that confirm tax amounts that
are withheld on purchase invoices that are partially or fully paid within a
calendar year. Letters can be printed for a specific supplier or for all
suppliers that have tax withheld.
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Reports for Italy
Letter of Intent Reports
Title
Description
Exemption Letter Report for Italy
Produces an exemption letter for each exempt supplier in Italy,
instructing them not to include VAT on invoices that they submit .
Subledger Letter of Intent Register
Lists all exemption letters issued to suppliers or received by
customers in Italy within a given period range.
Letter of Intent Receivables Invoice
Register
Lists details about Receivables transactions issued with a Letter of
Intent for a given calendar year. It provides letter of intent details like
protocol number, allocation type, amount, and effective dates.
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Reports for Italy
Exemption Reports
Title
Supplier Exemption Limit Consumption
Report for Italy
Description
Lists the details of suppliers eligible for exemption in Italy and their
monthly consumption of assigned exemption limit. It lists consumption
details of all the suppliers, or a specific supplier. Details include all
invoices exempted during a calendar period.
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Reports for Italy
Trading Partner Declaration
Title
Trading Partner Declaration for Italy
Description
Use the Trading Partner Declaration for Italy to generate an electronic
file and audit report that supports the trading partner declarations and
reporting requirements of the Italian Revenue Agency (IRA).
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Reports for Spain
VAT Reports
Title
Description
Input VAT Journal for Spain
Identifies detail and summary information about tax on invoices and
expense reports for Spain entered in Oracle Fusion Payables. Data is
reported by register type: recoverable tax register and no recoverable
tax register. The transactions can be selected based on tax reporting
type and tax reporting code.
Output VAT Journal for Spain
Identifies detail and summary information about tax on transactions
created for Spain that are entered in Oracle Fusion Receivables. Data
is reported by register type: tax register and no recoverable tax register.
The transactions can be selected based on tax reporting type and tax
reporting code.
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Reports for Spain
Title
Description
VAT Inter-EU Invoice Journal for
Spain
Identifies detail and summary information on invoices received in
Spain from suppliers located in any European Union member state.
Invoices are entered and posted in Oracle Fusion Payables and have
offset or self-assessed tax distributions. The transactions can be
selected based on tax reporting type and tax reporting code.
VAT Inter-EU Invoice Format for Spain
Lists details of the same invoices that appear on the Spanish VAT
Inter-EU Invoices Journal report. The transactions can be selected
based on tax reporting type and tax reporting code.
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Reports for Spain
VAT reports for Spain are based on the Tax Reporting Processes.
Run the:
•
Selecting Transactions for Tax Reporting process before running the reports.
•
Finalize Transaction Tax Reporting process once after you have finally reported the
transactions.
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Online VAT Reporting for Spain
Spanish companies, with an annual turnover of more than 6 million Euros, can now use the
Online VAT Reporting for Spain to electronically deliver VAT registers to the Spanish Tax
Authorities.
•
Use Online VAT Register Reporting Confirmation for Spain process to reflect the
acceptance status on the financial documents reported to the Tax Authorities.
•
Corrected financial documents can be resubmitted Effective January 1, 2017
•
From July 1, 2017 transactions must be reported within four days of reception or
issuance date.
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The Online VAT Reporting for Spain solution provides the following components to support this legal
requirement:
•
Additional fields, which are specific to Online VAT Reporting for Spain, must contain the mandatory
reporting information.
•
Process that extracts transactional details and creates an XML file in a predefined format.
•
Process that updates the transaction reporting status based on the confirmation message received
from the Spanish Tax Authority.
Online VAT Register Reporting for Spain process creates xml file for the following registers:
•
Issued Invoices Register
•
Received Invoices Register
•
Selected Intra-EU Transactions Register
•
Payments Register
•
Receipt Collections Register
Online VAT Register Reporting Confirmation for Spain updates transactions with the response message
details.
Annual Online VAT Register Reporting for Spain process creates an xml file for the following register:
•
Cash Collection Register
Annual Online VAT Response for Spain updates customer accounts and sites that were reported to the Tax
Authority with the corresponding confirmation information.
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Investment Register
Online VAT Reporting for Spain process:
Invoices
Transaction Status R- Ready
M – Modified
O – On hold
D – Direct reporting
Annual/Online
New invoices:
Communication
Type: Addition
VAT Reporting for Spain
Already reported invoices
Communication
Type: Modification
Tax Authority
Validation
Tax Authority Status
A - Accepted
AE – Accepted with Error
R - Rejected
Annual/Online VAT Register
Reporting Confirmation for Spain
Response Messages
A – Accepted
AE – Accepted with Error
R – Rejected
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Annual Online VAT Investment Goods Register Reporting for Spain process creates XML file for the
Investment Goods Register.
Steps to Enable: There are not steps required to enable this feature.
Role Information: EMEA Financial Reporting duty role.
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Reports for Spain
Modelo Reports
Title
Description
Modelo Verification Report for Spain
Lists all payables invoices and receivables transactions that are reported
in the Modelo 340, 347, 349, or 415 declarations. The report prints data
based on the selected legal entity, period range, source, and Modelo
name. For receivables cash receipts, only receipts above the entered
minimum cash amount are reported.
Modelo Electronic File Generation for
Spain
Prepares electronic file for Modelo 340, 347, 349, or 415 declarations in a
legally predefined format.
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Reports for Spain
Modelo reports for Spain are based on Turnover Reporting Processes.
Run the Select Transactions for Turnover Reporting process in:
•
Preliminary mode before you run the report.
•
Final mode after you have generated the electronic files and finally reported transactions
on Modelo reports.
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Reports for Spain
Withholding Reports
Title
Description
Withholding Tax Report for Spain
Identifies summary or detail withholding tax information for Spain by
invoice and withholding tax code. The report prints information for a
selected legal entity, and optionally for a specific supplier.
Withholding Tax Magnetic Format for
Spain
Lists withholding tax transactions for the selected legal entity and tax
year in a flat file format in the predefined layout.
Withholding Tax Extract Report for
Spain
Extracts withholding tax transactions for Spain and stores them in an
interface table to be used to report withholding tax transactions. The
report selects information for a specific legal entity, and optionally for a
specific supplier.
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Reports for Germany
Subledger and Accounting Reports
Title
Description
Z4 Report for Germany
Lists all incoming and outgoing payments done through a foreign bank.
Z5A Reconciliation Report for
Germany
Shows the sum of all outstanding receivables and liabilities of goods
and services traded with foreign suppliers or customers.
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Reports for Germany
Title
Journal Details Report for Germany
Description
Provides posted general ledger journal activity for a given period or
date range and optionally other criteria including journal source,
entered currency and journal batch. Flexible grouping and sorting
options are provided at report submission.
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Regional and Country-Specific New Features
New features are included in:
•
Financials for the Americas
– Argentina
– Chile
– Colombia
•
Financials for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
– Poland
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Withholding Tax Reporting for Argentina
The following new withholding tax reports comply with fiscal reporting requirements in
Argentina.
•
Purchase Withholding File for Argentina
•
Purchase Withholding Certificate for Argentina
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Purchase Withholding File for Argentina
•
This report electronically reports federal, zonal, and provincial withholding tax information into
various AFIP applications that run under SIAP.
•
Run the report monthly before import the file into the correct AFIP application, if required. After the
flat files are imported, the AFIP applications produce all required information, including flat files, and
can also generate tax reports for control purposes.
•
The Argentine Payables Withholding Flat File has three formats, each for different jurisdictions:
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Federal - For VAT and Income withholding taxes
-
Zonal - For RS and SUSS withholding taxes
-
Provincial - For Turnover tax withholding taxes
Purchase Withholding
•
Use this report to generate supplier withholding certificates.
•
The withholding certificate is a legal document that you send to the supplier as a proof of withheld
taxes on payments. The report produces one certificate per payment for each withholding tax type,
province (if applicable), withholding category, and zone (if applicable).
•
The certificate contains standard information and information specific to the withholding tax type.
•
The system generates a unique certificate number by withholding type and province.
Steps to Enable
Select the Financials offering to enable Argentina in the Regional Localizations offering option
•
Navigate to Setup and Maintenance > Setup: Financials > Change Configuration > Click Features >
Enable Argentina under Regional Localization.
•
Assign the LAD Financial Reporting duty role to users to access these reports.
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Withholding Tax Reporting for Chile
The following new withholding tax reports comply with fiscal reporting requirements in Chile.
Purchase
Withholding
Certificate for
Chile
Purchase
Withholding
Certificate
Summary Report
for Chile
Purchase
Withholding of
Fees Ledger
Report
Withholding Tax
Reports for Chile
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Purchase Withholding of Fees Ledger Report for Chile
•
The Chilean Purchase Withholding of Fees Ledger report (Libro de Retencion de Honorarios) details
all the invoices paid during a particular period on which amounts were withheld.
•
Use this report to show tax authorities that you withheld taxes for invoices subject to withholding tax.
•
The report includes only invoices subject to withholding.
Purchase Withholding Certificate for Chile
•
In Chile, you must send your suppliers withholding tax certificates to certify that you withheld taxes
from the professional service fees and participation amounts you paid the suppliers.
•
The withholding tax certificates show both the gross invoice amounts and the tax withheld for each
month in the tax year.
•
If a supplier had only professional service fees in a particular tax year, you must send the supplier a
Fees Certificate.
•
If a supplier had both professional service fees and participation, you must send the supplier a Fees
and Participation Certificate.
•
Use this report to print both kinds of withholding tax certificates.
•
The document type assigned to the invoices from each supplier is used to determine which
withholding certificate to print for the supplier.
Purchase Withholding Certificate Summary Report for Chile
•
Use this report to review summarized information about each supplier for whom you generated an
official certificate.
•
For each certificate, the report shows the certificate number, the supplier, the last date the certificate
was printed, the taxable amounts for professional service fees, and participation if applicable, and
the amount of tax withheld.
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Steps to Enable: Assign the LAD Financial Reporting duty role to users to access these reports.
Tips: You can modify the predefined report formats to meet implementation-specific requirements or to
comply with changes to local regulations.
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Withholding Tax Reporting for Colombia
The following new withholding tax reports comply with fiscal reporting requirements in
Colombia:
•
Purchase Withholding Report for Colombia
•
Purchase Withholding Certificate for Colombia
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Purchase Withholding Report for Columbia
•
Use this report for managerial and auditing purposes. The report details tax withholding information
for a taxable period. It can report on any tax withholding type. The report shows the document
number, withholding accounting date, taxable base amount, and withholding amount by tax
withholding type, accounting flexfield and supplier.
•
The VAT Withholding Tax details also include the VAT amount. Totals for the supplier, accounting
flexfield and tax withholding type are calculated.
Purchase Withholding Certificate for Columbia
•
Use this report to print supplier withholding certificates. For each withholding tax type, you provide
withholding certificates for each supplier where you withheld taxes. The certificates are normally
printed annually to cover all withholding taxes for a tax year; however, you can print this report for
any supplier for any period.
•
The withholding certificate has the same general format for each of the withholding tax types,
including the taxable period, company information, supplier information, city where the tax was
withheld, and the city where the withholding tax was paid.
•
Withholding information includes the taxable base amount and withheld amount for each concept.
The VAT withholding certificate includes additional information for each concept, such as the VAT
amount and the reported tax rate for the tax code.
Steps to Enable: Assign the LAD Financial Reporting duty role to users for access to these reports.
Tip: You can modify the predefined report formats to meet implementation-specific requirements or to
comply with changes to local regulations.
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Financials for EMEA
•
New features for Poland include:
•
Correction Documents for Poland feature
– Processing in Receivables
•
Jednolity Plik Kontrolny (JPK) Reporting for Poland
– JPK Accounting Books Extract for Poland
– JPK Bank Statements Extract for Poland
– JPK Invoices listing for Poland
– Sales and Purchase Registers for Poland
•
Print Commercial Documents for Poland
– Reviewing Execution Report
•
Tax Point Date Adjustment in Receivables and Payables
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Correction Documents for Poland
The Corrections Documents for Poland feature help to comply with Polish legal
requirements
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Navigate to: Tools > Scheduled Processes > Schedule New Process > Correction Documents for Poland
Any correction to a Value Added Tax (VAT) Invoice must be done using a Correction Document.
A correction invoice is a separate value-added tax (VAT) document, which contains the changes to a
transaction that has already been issued to a customer.
In Scheduled Processes, select the Correction Documents for Poland process.
Choose the transaction you need to correct and enter the correction information. You can apply a whole
price adjustment to make a full reversal of the invoice, apply a discount to all the invoice lines, or create a
copy of the original invoice for making manual corrections in the Review/Edit Transaction pages.
Steps to Enable
•
Define Receivables transaction sources for correction documents. A specific transaction source for
processing correction documents must be defined.
•
Define Receivables transaction types for correction documents. A specific transaction type for
correction documents is required, ensuring that the correction documents can contain both positive
and negative lines.
•
Define Receivables transaction types for regular transactions. For each transaction type for which
correction documents are created, update the Regional Information Correction Invoice Transaction
Source and Transaction Type that must be used for that transaction type.
•
Define descriptive flexfields for Receivables AutoInvoice. Define specific segments for use when
importing the Correction Invoice using Receivables AutoInvoice.
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Processing in Receivables
•
Submit Correction Documents for Poland process.
•
AutoInvoice process executes automatically and creates the correction invoice.
•
In the Review/Edit Transaction pages, complete the transaction and add the document
fiscal classification.
•
Make any additional corrections to the correction document before issuing the correction
document to the customer.
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Assigning the Security Privilege
Using Oracle Identity Management, assign the security privilege Create Correction Invoice
for Poland to the role for your Accounts Receivable Manager.
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Tip: Complete all solution related setup for Receivables before using the Correction Documents for Poland
feature.
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Jednolity Plik Kontrolny (JPK) Reporting for Poland
•
Legally defined electronic format (XML) for electronic submission to the tax authorities
•
Generates outputs for:
– Sales and Purchase VAT Registers
– Standard Audit File for Tax (SAFT) for Poland
•
Includes report for the JPK Sales and Purchase Register information
•
Includes four different extracts
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JPK includes the following extracts:
•
JPK Accounting Books Extract for Poland
•
JPK Bank Statements Extract for Poland
•
JPK Invoices Listing for Poland
•
JPK Sales and Purchase Registers for Poland
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JPK Accounting Books Extract for Poland
Process parameter screen for executing the JPK Accounting Books Extract for Poland:
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This process generates a JPK audit file for the accounting information with the following structure :
•
Section Header Information (PL: Naglowek)
•
Reporting Legal Entity Identification Details (Podmiot1)
•
General Ledger Trial Balance (ZoiS) (PL: Zestawienie Obrotów i Sald)
•
General Ledger Journals (Dziennik) (PL: Dziennik Ksiegi Glownej), General Ledger Journals Control
Totals (DziennikCtr) (PL: Sumy Kontrolne dla Dziennika Ksiegi Glownej)
•
General Ledger and Subledger Account Analysis (KontoZapis) (PL: Zapisy na kontach Ksiegi
Glownej I Ksiegi Pomocniczych), General Ledger and Subledger Account Analysis Control Totals
(KontoZapisCtrl) (PL: Sumy kontrolne dla tabeli KontoZapis)
The data for the Accounting Books extract is selected based on the accounting periods.
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JPK Bank Statements Extract for Poland
•
This process generates the JPK file with Bank statements line information in predefined
XML format.
•
This is the parameter screen for executing the JPK Bank Statements Extract for Poland:
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JPK Invoices Listing for Poland
•
Generates the JPK file with Invoice listing information (called JPK-FA) in predefined XML
format.
•
This is the parameter screen for executing the JPK Invoice Listing for Poland:
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The XML file contains VAT Invoice details with dates between parameters From Date and To Date. You
decide which date is the basis for selection: Transaction Date, Accounting Date or Tax Point Date.
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JPK Sales and Purchase Registers for Poland
•
Generates the JPK file with Sales and
Purchase registers (called JPK_VAT) in
predefined XML
format.
•
Includes invoices selected for a chosen
period using Tax Point Date, assigned
to each invoice and its lines.
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The process generates the JPK file for:
•
Sales Register
•
Purchase Register
•
Sales and Purchase Registers
The report displays in PDF format the transactions reportable in the selected period, based on data extract
from the JPK Sales and Purchase VAT Registers for Poland file, with required details and summarization.
Steps to Enable
Create a duty role and assign the following privilege to it:
•
Privilege JPK Extracts for Poland (JE_CREATE_JPK_EXTRACTS_FOR_POLAND_PRIV).
•
Attach this Duty Role to a Job role.
•
Attach the Job Role to a User.
Tips: Complete all solution related setup for:
•
Enterprise Structure
•
Accounting Configuration Document Sequences
•
Accounting and Reporting Sequences
•
Common Options for Payables and Receivables
•
Receivables System Options
•
Customers and Suppliers
•
Tax Profiles for Parties
Set up the Tax Box Allocation Rules to allow the assignment of the correct Box/Field Numbers to each
Transaction/Invoice line, as required by Tax Reporting. You must first ensure that the Tax Determining
Factor Sets are properly defined.
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During Transaction and Invoices entry, remember to assign proper First Party Tax Registration Number in
each VAT Invoice header:
•
In Receivables: Show More > Miscellaneous
•
In Payables: Show More > Tax
If your Tax Allocation Rules require Fiscal Classification information for appropriate VAT document
allocation, enter this information in each document that is allocated and reported in the VAT Registers.
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Print Commercial Documents for Poland
•
Select Receivables transactions you want to print, using Poland specific templates.
•
Parameters define the transaction source and add filters to identify particular
transactions
•
Print transactions in draft or final mode.
•
Control currency type for amounts.
•
Use the BI Publisher tool to define user layouts provided they are registered with Print
Commercial Documents for EMEA.
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Printing Process
The printing process completes using these steps:
The program determines the layout to use for each document being printed according to the following logic:
•
Checks the Print Template parameter to see if you asked for a particular layout.
•
Determines the layout assigned to the Document Fiscal Classification when the Print Template
parameter is blank.
•
Looks for the value in the Regional Information segment Print Template, set on the Receivables
Transaction Types when no layout is assigned to the Document Fiscal Classification.
The actual printing process is launched as Print Commercial Documents Child Process.
The Process Execution Report is generated.
Printing in Draft or Final Mode
•
Draft mode is used to verify that the data is complete and correct before final printing. Once they are
printed in Final mode, the Print status field of the printed transactions changes to Printed and these
are no longer available for printing in Final mode.
•
After an Invoice prints in Final mode, the you can print a copy of this output, marked as Duplicate by
selecting the attachment of the printed invoice from the Edit/Manage Receivables Transactions
page.
•
You can also control the currency type to be used for the amounts. The selection provided is for
Entered or Ledger Currency.
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Viewing Execution Report
•
Includes all transactions that
are extracted for printing.
•
Completes a two step
validation process.
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•
This report includes all transactions that are extracted to be printed based on the filters provided in
the related parameters.
•
The report validates the association between Document Fiscal Classification / Document Subtype
and the template used for the Invoice print process.
•
It also validates document fiscal information, including third party name, document number, and
transaction date for the selected transactions.
Steps to Enable:
•
Attach the Duty Role EMEA Financial Reporting (ORA_JE_EMEA_FINANCIAL_REPORTING) to a
Job Role
•
Attach this Job Role to a user
Tips: Complete all solution related setup for Receivables and Correction Invoices before using the Print
Commercial Documents feature.
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Tax Point Date Adjustment Feature
•
Changes the tax point date of a Payables or Receivables transaction
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Reports the transaction in a period different from initial period defined by your tax
configuration.
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Use the Tax Point Date Adjustment feature in Poland to change the tax point date of a Payables or
Receivables transaction, and report the transaction in a period different from the one initially defined
by your tax configuration.
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Adjust the tax point date of Receivables and Payables transactions at header and/or line level.
Note: If you adjust the tax point date of transactions already reported, you may need to resubmit the Tax
reports for the impacted tax periods and issue separate Correction Documents to reflect the changes.
Tip: Complete all solution related setup for Payables and Receivables before using the Tax Point Date
Adjustment feature.
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Processing in Receivables
Receivables transactions:
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Adjust tax point date at header or
line level.
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Require a tax point basis
of Invoice, and a status of
Completed.
Adjusting Tax
Point Date at
Header Level
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Adjustments at header level update the tax point date on the tax lines of all transaction lines where
the adjusted tax point date on the transaction line is null.
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Adjustments at line level update the tax point date of the tax lines for just that transaction line.
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After changing the tax point date in the Review and Edit Transaction pages, submit the Process Tax
Point Date Adjustments process.
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Processing in Payables
Receivables transactions:
•
Adjust tax point date at header
or line level.
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Require a tax point basis of
Invoice, and a status of
Validated.
Adjusting Tax
Point Date at
Line Level
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•
Adjustments at header level update the tax point date on the tax lines of all transaction lines where
the adjusted tax point date on the transaction line is null.
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Adjustments at line level update the tax point date of the tax lines for just that transaction line.
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After changing the tax point date in the Create and Edit Invoice pages, submit the Process Tax Point
Date Adjustments process.
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Assign Security Privilege
In Oracle Identity Management, assign the privilege Run Tax Point Date Adjustment
Process to your Tax Manager role.
Find the
Privilege
Add the
Privilege to
Tax Manager
Role
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Tip: Complete all solution related setup for Payables and Receivables before using the Tax Point Date
Adjustment feature.
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Practice A-11 Overview: Running a European Sales Listing Report
This practice covers the following topics:
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Submitting the European Sales Listing Report.
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Viewing the European Sales Listing Report.
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APAC Reporting
Oracle Fusion Financials for Asia/Pacific provides:
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Predefined operational, business, and reconciliation reports to meet country-specific
reporting needs.
•
Reporting data models to prepare custom and specialized reports.
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Predefined reports for:
– China
– Japan
– Singapore
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Additional Security Requirement for APAC Reports
Assign the following duty role to your enterprise job roles or users before using any APAC
specific features.
Duty Role
APAC Financial Reporting
Role Code
ORA_JA_APAC_FINANCIAL_REPORTING_DUTY
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Additional Security Requirement for China Reports
Assign the following duty role to your enterprise job roles or users before using any APAC
specific features.
Duty Role
Role Code
Enterprise Financial and Employee Data Export for China
CNAO
Enterprise Financial Data Export Management for China
Golden Tax Management for China
GTA
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Reports for China
Golden Tax Adaptor Reports
Title
Description
Transactions Transfer Report for China
Lists the transfer results of Receivables transactions to the Golden Tax
Adaptor.
Golden Tax Transaction Consolidation
Detail Report for China
Lists detailed consolidated information on parent Golden Tax
transactions and related child Golden Tax transactions.
Import VAT Invoices for China
Imports VAT invoices from the Aisino Golden Tax System and maps the
invoice data to the corresponding Golden Tax transactions at both the
header level and the line level.
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Reports for China
Title
Description
VAT Invoices Mapping Report for China
Lists the mapping relationship between the original Receivables
transactions and completed VAT invoices from the Aisino Golden Tax
System.
Golden Tax Discrepancy Report for
China
Lists all header and line level discrepancies between the original
Receivables transactions, the Golden Tax transactions created during
the transfer process, and the completed VAT invoices imported from the
Aisino Golden Tax System.
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Reports for China
Subledger Report
Title
General Ledger Journal and Subledger
Transaction Mapping Report
Description
Lists the mapping relationship between the General Ledger Journals
and source subledger transactions details.
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Reports for Japan
Title
Description
Japanese Depreciable Assets Tax Summary
Report
Lists the summary of Japanese depreciable asset information
by location as of January 1 for the selected fiscal year.
Japanese Addition or All Asset Detail by Asset
Type Report 132 Characters
Lists the Japanese depreciable assets in detail by asset type
in a 132 character-wide format.
Japanese Addition or All Asset Detail by Asset
Type Report 180 Characters
Lists the Japanese depreciable assets in detail by asset type
in a 180 character-wide format.
Japanese Detail by Asset Type (Decrease
Assets) Report
Lists the Japanese depreciable assets in detail by the asset
type of Decrease Assets between January 2 of the prior year
and January 1 of the selected fiscal year.
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Reports for Japan
Title
Japan Payment Register with Bank Charges
Report
Description
Lists payments with calculated bank charges. This report is
used to review the amount of bank charges deducted from a
payment.
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Reports for Singapore
Title
Description
Input Tax Gain and Loss Report for
Singapore
Produces the details on tax gain or loss on transactions for Singapore
entered in foreign currencies in Oracle Fusion Payables. The report
lists data for a specific supplier or all suppliers. The report data is
grouped by tax rate code and supplier.
Output Tax Gain and Loss Report for
Singapore
Produces the details or tax gain loss on transactions for Singapore
entered in foreign currencies in Oracle Fusion Receivables. The
report lists data for a specific customer or all customers. The report
data is grouped by tax rate code and customer.
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LAD Reporting
Oracle Fusion Financials for the Latin America provides:
•
Predefined operational, business, and reconciliation reports to meet country-specific
reporting needs.
•
Reporting data models to prepare custom and specialized reports.
•
Predefined reports for:
– Mexico
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Reports for Mexico
Title
Chart of Accounts for Mexico
Description
Generates the chart of accounts mapping report to comply with the
electronic accounting legislation enforced by the fiscal authorities in
Mexico. Fiscal authorities in Mexico publish the official chart of
accounts that all companies use to report accounting information. This
referential chart of accounts assigns a code to each account, and a
level to identify parent-child relationships for reporting purposes.
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Reports for Mexico
Title
Description
Trial Balance Report for Mexico
Provides a summary of initial balances, sum of total transactions for the
period, and final balances for each account reported in the Chart of
Accounts for Mexico report. Accounts related to assets, liabilities,
equity, and results of operations (revenues, costs and expenses) are all
included.
Journals for Mexico
Provides information on all transactions that are accounted and posted
in different subledgers. The report also provides information related to
electronic invoices generated for sales or received from suppliers for
purchases.
Auxiliary Report for Mexico
Displays beginning and ending balance, as well as the daily journals
entries posted to that account during the period. The report helps you
with an in-depth analysis of all accounting entries for a given account in
a given period.
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Summary
In this lesson, you should has learned to use the reporting functionality in the following
modules:
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General Ledger
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Intercompany
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Budgetary Control
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Subledger Accounting
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Accounting Hub
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Payables
•
Payments
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Summary
In this lesson, you should has learned to use the reporting functionality in the following
modules:
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Assets
•
Receivables
•
Collections
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Cash Management
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Tax
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Global: EMEA, APAC and LAD
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