Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financials Cookbook [PDF]

Oracle EBS Financials Suite is a solution that provides out-of-the-box features to meet global financial reporting and tax requirements with one accounting, tax, banking, and payments model and makes it easy to operate shared services across businesses and regions. Have you ever wondered how the EBS Financials modules integrate with each other, and do you want to know how this is done quickly? If so, this book is for you. You may have read about what EBS financials does, but with this book on your work desk you will see how to do it.

The Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financials Cookbook will enable you to taste the core functionalities of the main modules using bite size recipes. Each recipe is organized in a way that will enable you to learn the core steps to perform in a key business scenario; it then dives deeper into concepts and scenarios.

Discover scenario-based recipes, designed to help you understand how the end-to-end processes within EBS R12 Financials modules are linked together, through touch points. With each chapter, this book develops a full business end-to-end scenario to cover the financial modules. You will start by creating items in Inventory, and then purchase items in Procurement. Then you will move on to entering supplier invoices and paying them in Payables and creating and managing assets.

See how items are sold and shipped to customers in Order Management, and how funds are received from customer in Receivables. Manage cash and transfer transactions to General Ledger, and then close periods.

Quickly master EBS R12 Financials best practices - an ideal quick demo of how it works.


Who this book is for?

This book is for EBS Financials specialists who want a broader understanding of particular areas of the financials modules. Businesses can use this book to identify key functionalities of the financial modules, and very quickly demonstrate a pilot to obtain the core requirements.

If you are a Business Analyst, Functional Consultant, Technical Consultant, Project Sponsor, Project Manager, Project Team Member, System Accountant or Solution Designer, Testing Team Member, Training Team Member or Support Team Member, then this book is for you.

This book assumes that you have basic navigation skills and you understand the key Oracle EBS terminology, novice EBS professionals will also gain from the expert content of this book.


What you will learn from this book?

* Create inventory items and define item controls
* Raise and approve requisitions for inventory and non-inventory items, create suppliers, purchase orders, receiving items and purchasing accounting transactions
* Process different types of invoices for PO and non-PO invoices, payments to suppliers, and payables accounting transactions
* Manage asset transactions from addition to retirement, including depreciating assets and assets accounting transactions
* Create customers and manage sales orders, including shipping, pricing, and creating invoices
* Manage the receivables process from billing to collection, including revenue accounting
* Handle cash, create bank accounts, reconcile bank accounts, and create cash forecasts
* Administer the general ledger, accounting setup, sub-ledger accounting, e-business tax, and create journals.
* Close periods for sub-ledgers, reconcile transactions, and run financial reports

Yemi Onigbode has over a decade of experience in ERP systems development and maintenance. He has progressed from the early days of the IBM mainframe-based systems to the present day of web-based distributed systems. He has worked with large multinational consulting firms including Oracle Corporation, Accenture, Deloitte, Fujitsu Consulting, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and CSC.

Yemi is a hybrid techno-functional expert. He is a hands-on Project Manager, Business Architect and Instructor, specialized mainly in Financials, Human Resources, and Supply Chain models. He has assisted a number of businesses to find solutions to complex business issues using various technologies.

Yemi is also a keen believer in self-development and research; he is at par with the current developments in the IT and communications industry. He is currently developing and implementing e-business solutions for large and medium sized companies, fully integrating their business applications with the Internet and providing a totally integrated solution. He has been developing in Java since 1996 and implementing Oracle Applications since 1997.

Yemi is an Oracle Financials Certified Trainer, Sun Certified Instructor, and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics. Yemi is also a technical writer on Accountancy and IT issues, and presents at Accounting and IT seminars. He also motivates and mentors young adults on career management and planning. In his spare time Yemi loves to write and play musical instruments.