How the Introduction of SLA

can affect you

Jo Nash
Vatis Consulting Pty. Ltd.
16 August 2010
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Introduction
How Subledger Accounting changes the
picture
What happens with the accounting?
What will our journals look like?
What if we want changes?
Release 11i
General
Ledger
Purchasing Assets Receivables Payables
Internet
Expenses
Release 12
General
Ledger
Subledger
Accounting
Purchasing Payables Assets Receivables
Subledger Accounting
Rule-based accounting engine
Can map transactions to multiple ledgers
Different summarisation options
Replaces disparate setups in 11i
Applications that Use SLA
Payables Receivables Projects Assets
Costing
Process
Manufacturing
Payroll
Property
Manager
Loans
Lease
Management
Cash
Management
Intercompany
Under the Hood
What about the Accounting?
Same Different
What about the Journals?
Same Different
SLA Components
Application Accounting Definition
Journal Line Definition
Journal Line
Type
Account
Derivation Rule
Journal Entry
Description
Event Classes
Payables
Invoice
Payment
Prepayment
Refund
Receivables
Invoice
Receipt
Deposit
Assets
Capitalise
Adjustment
Depreciate
Reclass
Detail & Summary Posting
Accounting Options JLT - Summary JLT - Detail
Summarize by GL Date or
GL Period
Summarised at both
GL_JE_HEADERS and
GL_JE_LINES
Summarised at
GL_JE_HEADERS, detail
GL_JE_LINES
No Summarization Detailed at
GL_JE_HEADERS and
GL_JE_LINES

Detailed at
GL_JE_HEADERS and
GL_JE_LINES
What gets Upgraded?
Full Historic
Data
Property Manager
Loans
Payables
Global Accounting Engine
Current Fiscal
Year
Receivables
Assets
Projects
Costing (incl. PO & INV)
None
OPM
Public Sector/Federal
Top 5 Oracle Support Notes
1. R12 Subledger Accounting in Oracle Assets [ID 578313.1]
2. Release 12 (R12) - Impact of Subledger Accounting (SLA) on
General Ledger (Drilldown and Journal Import) [ID 434226.1]
3. SLA: A Technical Perspective of the AP to GL Reconciliation [ID
605707.1]
4. R12: Upgrade Considerations by Product (FINANCIALS) [ID
889733.1]
5. How to setup SLA to get same number of Journals Lines in GL as
Subledger Receivables ? [ID 579064.1]
Conclusion
Default accounting is the same
Create Accounting daily
Journals change if you post in detail
Many more changes are possible
Accounting: a collection of figures running
around looking for an argument
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