EBS 122 Cum RCD FIN
EBS 122 Cum RCD FIN
EBS 122 Cum RCD FIN
Financials
Releases 12.1 and 12.2 (inclusive of 12.0.2 – 12.2.7)
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Table of Contents
1. Disclaimer 1
2. Introduction 2
2.1. Purpose of Document 2
3. New and Changed Features in Financials 3
3.1. Oracle Advanced Collections 3
3.1.1. Release 12.1.1 3
3.1.1.1. Customer Dispute Enhancement 3
3.1.1.2. Customer Level Bankruptcy 3
3.1.1.3. Status Assignment at Case and Contract Level 3
3.1.2. Release 12.1.2 3
3.1.2.1. Multiple Level Collections Strategy Management 3
3.1.3. Release 12.1.3 4
3.1.3.1. Staged Dunning 4
3.1.4. Release 12.2.3 4
3.1.4.1. Ability to place a hold on Collection Strategy 4
3.1.5. Release 12.2.4 4
3.1.5.1. Auto Reassignment of Work Items upon change in Collector 4
3.1.5.2. Metrics by Operating Unit 4
3.1.6. Release 12.2.6 4
3.1.6.1. Collect on Related Accounts 4
3.1.6.2. Strategy Actionable Work Items 4
3.2. Oracle Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) 5
3.2.1. Release 12.1.2 5
3.2.1.1. Purge Rejected Intercompany Batches from Interface Table 5
3.3. Oracle Assets 5
3.3.1. Release 12.1.3 5
3.3.1.1. Asset Impairment for Japan Tax Reform 2007 5
3.4. Oracle Cash Management 5
3.4.1. Release 12.1.1 5
3.4.1.1. International Bank Account Number (IBAN) Support 5
3.4.1.2. Bank Identifier Code (BIC) Support 6
3.4.1.3. Payment Group based Bank Statement Reconciliation 6
3.4.2. Release 12.1.2 6
3.4.2.1. Option to Override Country-Specific Validation for Bank Accounts 6
3.4.2.2. EDIFACT Bank Statement Format Update 6
3.4.2.3. Copy Bank Transaction Codes 6
3.4.2.4. Load Bank Statements for the Current Day 7
3.4.3. Release 12.1.3 7
3.4.3.1. Manual Entry in Cash Position 7
3.4.4. Release 12.2.5 7
3.4.4.1. CAMT.053 - Bank to Customer Statement Support 7
3.5. Oracle Credit Management 8
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3.5.1. Release 12.1.3 8
3.5.1.1. Configurable Analyst Assignment Rules 8
3.6. Oracle E-Business Tax 8
3.6.1. Release 12.2 8
3.6.1.1. Customer Tax Information Import 8
3.6.1.2. New Condition Set Operators for Tax Rules 8
3.6.2. Release 12.2.5 8
3.6.2.1. Initial and Recurring Data Load for Tax Content Partners 8
3.7. Oracle Environmental Accounting & Reporting 8
3.7.1. Release 12.1.3 8
3.7.1.1. Capture of Energy Usage and Environmental Data 8
3.7.1.2. Emission Sources, Scopes and Factors 9
3.7.1.3. Calculation and Classification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions 9
3.7.1.4. Environmental Ledger 9
3.7.1.5. Flexible Reporting and Organizational Structures 9
3.7.1.6. Pre-Built Analytics and Dashboard with Dynamic User Interaction 10
3.7.1.7. User-Defined Key Performance Indicators 10
3.7.1.8. Target and Threshold Definition 10
3.7.1.9. Using Web ADI to Import Setup Data 10
3.7.2. Release 12.2 11
3.7.2.1. Updated Carbon Disclosure Project Report 11
3.7.2.2. Enhanced Performance Dashboards 11
3.7.2.3. Enhanced Key Performance Indicators 11
3.7.3. Release 12.2.3 11
3.7.3.1. Water and Waste Dashboards 11
3.7.3.2. Carbon Permit Management 11
3.7.4. Release 12.2.4 12
3.7.4.1. Integration with Oracle Property Manager 12
3.7.4.2. Source and Item Unit of Measure Conversion 12
3.7.4.3. Organizations Targets for Emission, Energy and Usage 13
3.7.4.4. Enhanced Energy Dashboard 13
3.8. Oracle Financials Common Modules 13
3.8.1. Release 12.2 13
3.8.1.1. Scheduling of AP/AR Netting Batches 13
3.9. Oracle Financials for Americas 14
3.9.1. Release 12.2.3 14
3.9.1.1. Brazilian CFOP – Derivation and Defaulting 14
3.9.2. Release 12.2.4 14
3.9.2.1. NBS – Brazilian Nomenclature of Services, Intangibles and Others 14
3.10. Oracle Financials for EMEA 15
3.10.1. Release 12.0.3 15
3.10.1.1. Assets and Payments XML Publisher Report Extracts 15
3.10.2. Release 12.0.4 15
3.10.2.1. XML Publisher Report Extracts: Cash Management, General Ledger, Subledger Accounting, Receivables,
Bill Presentment, Payables, Regional Localization, and Financial Common Modules 15
3.10.2.2. United Kingdom Charges Value Add Tax (VAT) 15
3.10.3. Release 12.1.1 15
3.10.3.1. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Select EMEA Reports 15
3.10.3.2. Enhanced Statutory Report Extracts for Italy 15
3.10.4. Release 12.2.3 15
3.10.4.1. Enhance Tax Reporting 15
3.10.4.2. Italian Journal Ledger Report 16
3.10.5. Release 12.2.4 16
3.10.5.1. French File of Accounting Entries (FEC) 16
3.10.5.2. Italian Polyvalent Declaration 17
3.10.5.3. Norwegian GEI-S Report 17
3.10.5.4. New 2012 Portuguese Certification Requirements 18
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3.10.6. Release 12.2.5 18
3.10.6.1. Italian Business to Government (B2G) Electronic Invoicing 18
3.10.6.2. Spanish Business to Government (B2G) Electronic Invoicing 19
3.11. Oracle Financials for India 20
3.11.1. Release 12.0.3 20
3.11.1.1. Statutory Updates for India 20
3.11.2. Release 12.0.4 20
3.11.2.1. Statutory Updates for India 20
3.11.3. Release 12.1.1 20
3.11.3.1. Fringe Benefit Tax Support 20
3.11.3.2. Inclusive Tax Support 20
3.11.3.3. Retroactive Pricing Support 20
3.11.3.4. Payables Invoices Support for India 20
3.11.4. Release 12.1.2 21
3.11.4.1. Advanced Pricing Support for India 21
3.11.4.2. Tax Information on Purchase Order Workflow Notification for India 21
3.11.4.3. Reassessing Service Tax on Receipt of Foreign Payments for India 21
3.11.5. Release 12.1.3 21
3.11.5.1. Descriptive Flex Field (DFF) Support 21
3.11.5.2. Display of Value Added Tax (VAT) Invoice Number in Receivables Transaction Workbench for India21
3.11.5.3. General Ledger Journal Drill-Down Support 21
3.11.6. Release 12.2 21
3.11.6.1. Enhanced Bill of Entry Functionality 21
3.11.6.2. Tax Import to Receivables and Payables 22
3.11.7. Release 12.2.2 22
3.11.7.1. Re-architecture of TDS Changes and Code Integration Points 22
3.11.7.2. Performance Improvement for Creditors Ledger Reports 22
3.12. Oracle Financials Information Discovery 22
3.12.1. V6 22
3.12.1.1. Oracle Financials Information Discovery V6 for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 and 12.2 22
3.12.2. V7 23
3.12.2.1. Oracle Financials Information Discovery V7 for Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.3 and R12.2.6 23
3.13. Oracle General Ledger 24
3.13.1. Release 12.1.1 24
3.13.1.1. Enhanced Financial Statement Generator Reporting to Display Content Set Values 24
3.13.2. Release 12.1.2 24
3.13.2.1. Enhanced Financial Statement Generator Reporting to Support Drill-down for Non-Contiguous Account
Ranges 24
3.13.2.2. Streamlined Excel-based Financial Statement Publishing 24
3.13.3. Release 12.1.3 24
3.13.3.1. Synchronize Reversing Journals between Primary and Secondary Ledgers 24
3.13.3.2. Limit Accounts in Budget Wizard 24
3.13.4. Release 12.2 25
3.13.4.1. E-Business Suite General Ledger Integration with the Fusion Accounting Hub 25
3.13.4.2. Data Relationship Management (DRM) Integration with E-Business Suite 25
3.13.5. Release 12.2.4 25
3.13.5.1. WebADI Control Account Usage Restriction 25
3.13.5.2. Share Allocation Formula across Ledger Currencies 25
3.13.6. Release 12.2+ 25
3.13.6.1. Journal Approvals Integration with Oracle Approvals Management and Oracle Workflow 25
3.14. Oracle Internet Expenses 26
3.14.1. Release 12.1.2 26
3.14.1.1. Access Expense Attachments from Invoice 26
3.14.1.2. Support Receipts Required for Mileage Category 26
3.14.1.3. Archive and Purge of Expense Reports 26
3.14.1.4. Read-Only Access to Per Diem and Mileage Details in Audit 26
3.14.1.5. AMEX Loader Option to Not Load Payment Transactions 26
3.14.2. Release 12.1.3 26
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3.14.2.1. Expense Receipt Management Enhancements 26
3.14.2.2. Duplicate Expense Detection 27
3.14.2.3. Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone Application for Oracle Internet Expenses 27
3.15. Oracle Mobile Expenses for E-Business Suite 27
3.15.1. Release 4.0 27
3.15.1.1. Oracle Fusion Expenses Mobile Application 27
3.16. Oracle iReceivables 27
3.16.1. Release 12.2.3 27
3.16.1.1. Registration History and Payment Audit History 27
3.16.2. Release 12.2.6 28
3.16.2.1. End Date Bank Account without Payment Processing 28
3.17. Oracle iSetup 28
3.17.1. Release 12.0.3 28
3.17.1.1. iSetup APIs 28
3.18. Oracle Legal Entity Configurator 28
3.18.1. Release 12.1.3 28
3.18.1.1. Enhanced Legal Addresses 28
3.19. Oracle Loans 29
3.19.1. Release 12.1.2 29
3.19.1.1. Process Application Fees without Loan Approval 29
3.19.1.2. Ad-hoc Billing and Receipt Application 29
3.19.1.3. Loan Forgiveness 29
3.19.2. Release 12.1.3 29
3.19.2.1. Multiple Disbursements during Loan Servicing 29
3.19.3. Release 12.2.3 30
3.19.3.1. Support Changes in Repayment Frequency of Principal and Interest 30
3.19.4. Release 12.2.6 30
3.19.4.1. Project Account for Direct Loan Disbursement 30
3.19.4.2. Floating and Variable Interest Rates by Date 30
3.20. Oracle Payables 30
3.20.1. Release 12.1.1 30
3.20.1.1. Enhanced Withholding Tax Calculation for Brazil 30
3.20.1.2. Discount Calculation Enhancements 30
3.20.1.3. Subcontractor Management for Engineering and Construction 30
3.20.1.4. Supplier Dispute Processing 31
3.20.1.5. Third Party Payments 31
3.20.1.6. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Selected Payables Reports 31
3.20.2. Release 12.1.2 31
3.20.2.1. Replace Supplier Bank Accounts on Invoices 31
3.20.2.2. Change Taxes from Inclusive to Exclusive Online 31
3.20.3. Release 12.2.2 32
3.20.3.1. Workflow Transfer of Approval 32
3.20.4. Release 12.2.4 32
3.20.4.1. Parallel Approval of Supplier Invoices 32
3.21. Oracle Payments 32
3.21.1. Release 12.0.3 32
3.21.1.1. Master Card ‘S’ Record Compliance 32
3.21.1.2. Visa Compliance Table / Discover Qualification Table for FDC 32
3.21.1.3. Amex CAPN Enhancement 32
3.21.1.4. FDC Servlet Load Balancing 32
3.21.2. Release 12.0.6 33
3.21.2.1. Multiple Divisions per Settlement Batch Enhancement 33
3.21.2.2. Paymentech Certification 33
3.21.2.3. Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer Initiation Messages 33
3.21.3. Release 12.1.1 33
3.21.3.1. Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Support 33
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3.21.3.2. Paymentech Integration Certification 33
3.21.3.3. Positive Pay File with Additional Parameters 33
3.21.4. Release 12.1.2 34
3.21.4.1. PA-DSS for Credit Card Processing 34
3.21.5. Release 12.2 34
3.21.5.1. Payment Acknowledgement Import 34
3.21.6. Release 12.2.4 34
3.21.6.1. ISO 20022 Direct Debit 34
3.21.6.2. ISO 20022 Direct Debit - Multiple Mandates per Debtor Account 34
3.21.6.3. SEPA Credit Transfer - Exception Handling 34
3.21.6.4. International Bank Account Number (IBAN) Support 34
3.22. Oracle Public Service Financials International 35
3.22.1. Release 12.0.3 35
3.22.1.1. Uptake of Construction Industry Scheme and Dossier Functionality 35
3.22.2. Release 12.0.4 35
3.22.2.1. Extension of Oracle Financials Functionality 35
3.22.2.2. Inflation Account for Assets 35
3.22.3. Release 12.0.6 35
3.22.3.1. Contract Commitments Integration with Self Service Purchasing 35
3.22.4. Release 12.2 36
3.22.4.1. Construction Industry Scheme (CIS): Exclusion of Out of Scope Contract Invoices in Monthly Returns
Reporting 36
3.23. Oracle Receivables 36
3.23.1. Release 12.1.1 36
3.23.1.1. Cash Application Work Queue 36
3.23.1.2. Enhanced Line Level Cash Application 36
3.23.1.3. Enhanced Performance for High Volume Receivables Processing 36
3.23.1.4. Golden Tax Adaptor Enhancements for Mainland China 36
3.23.1.5. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Selected Receivables Reports 37
3.23.2. Release 12.1.2 37
3.23.2.1. Default Customer Bank Account Information on Unidentified Receipts 37
3.23.2.2. Enhanced Aging Report to Support Multi-Fund Accounts Receivables 37
3.23.3. Release 12.2.2 37
3.23.3.1. Review and Manage Accounting Exceptions during Period Close 37
3.23.3.2. Automate Auto Lockbox Processing 38
3.23.3.3. Assign Customers to Unidentified Receipts using API 38
3.23.3.4. Golden Tax Adaptor Enhancement for Mainland China 38
3.23.4. Release 12.2.4 38
3.23.4.1. Mask Tax Payer Identification and Tax Registration Number 38
3.23.4.2. Recognize Revenue Based on Fair Market Value with Fusion Revenue Management Integration 38
3.23.4.3. Support Querying and Consolidating for Golden Tax Transactions by Sale Order Number 39
3.23.5. Release 12.2.5 39
3.23.5.1. Split Golden Tax Transaction Line by Unit Price 39
3.23.5.2. Apply Receipts Automatically based on Match Score and Knapsack Method 39
3.23.6. Release 12.2.6 39
3.23.6.1. Multiple Tax Rates in One VAT Invoice 39
3.23.6.2. Support for Tax-Inclusive and Tax-Exclusive Business Cases 39
3.23.7. Release 12.2.7 39
3.23.7.1. Generate UBL 2.1 Electronic Invoice Document 39
3.24. Oracle Subledger Accounting 40
3.24.1. Release 12.0.3 40
3.24.1.1. Supporting References 40
3.24.2. Release 12.1.1 40
3.24.2.1. Historical Data Initialization for New Reporting Currencies and Secondary Ledgers 40
3.24.3. Release 12.1.2 40
3.24.3.1. Accounting Rules Detail Report and Enhanced Subledger Accounting Online Inquiry 40
3.24.3.2. Accounting Data On-Demand Upgrade by Subledger 41
3.24.4. Release 12.1.3 41
3.24.4.1. New Control Accounts Qualifier 41
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3.25. Oracle Treasury 41
3.25.1. Release 12.1.2 41
3.25.1.1. International Bank Account Number (IBAN) Support for Counterparty Bank Accounts 41
3.25.2. Release 12.1.3 41
3.25.2.1. Reconcile Treasury Transactions of all Deal Types 41
3.26. Oracle U.S. Federal Financials 42
3.26.1. Release 12.1.2 42
3.26.1.1. Enhanced Delinquency Processing 42
3.26.2. Release 12.1.3 42
3.26.2.1. Updates to Year-End Close Processing 42
3.26.2.2. Extract File Changes for Central Contractor Registration (CCR) 42
3.26.3. Release 12.2 42
3.26.3.1. Common Government-wide Accounting Classification (CGAC) Configuration 42
3.26.4. Release 12.2.3 43
3.26.4.1. Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS) Processing 43
3.26.4.2. Enhanced Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) Processing 43
3.26.5. Release 12.2.4 44
3.26.5.1. Capture of BETC, Trading Partner TAS, and Trading Partner BETC Attributes 44
3.26.5.2. Intra-governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) Enhancements 44
3.26.5.3. Payment Automation Manager (PAM) Interface Enhancements 44
3.26.5.4. Secure Payment System (SPS) Interface Enhancements 44
3.26.5.5. System for Award Management (SAM) Interface Enhancements 45
3.26.6. Release 12.2.5 45
3.26.6.1. U.S. Federal: Classification Transactions and Accountability (CTA) Interface 45
3.26.6.2. U.S. Federal: Payment Information Repository (PIR) Interface 46
3.26.7. Release 12.2.7 46
3.26.7.1. U.S. Federal: Capture of Award Financial Attributes for Data Act Reporting 46
3.27. Tax, Legal and Regulatory Updates 46
3.27.1. Overview 46
3.27.2. Release 12.0.3 47
3.27.2.1. China National Accounting Office (CNAO) Support 47
3.27.2.2. Japan: Depreciable Assets Tax Report 47
3.27.3. Release 12.0.4 47
3.27.3.1. United States: Form 1099 Legislative Updates 47
3.27.4. Release 12.1.1 47
3.27.4.1. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Support for Fiscal Book Generation and Electronic Invoice Integration 47
3.27.4.2. Japan: Asset Depreciation Enhancements for Japan Tax Reform Act of 2007 48
3.27.4.3. United Kingdom: Reverse Charge VAT 48
3.27.5. Release 12.1.2 49
3.27.5.1. Argentina: Turnover Tax Withholding/Perception Regimes 49
3.27.5.2. Brazil: Federal SPED Regulation - Accounting SPED 50
3.27.5.3. China: Golden Tax Adapter Enhancements 51
3.27.5.4. Italy: Annual VAT Extract 51
3.27.5.5. Italy: Annual Withholding Extract 51
3.27.5.6. Japan: Enhanced Support for Tax Reform 2007/2008 52
3.27.5.7. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 340 Informative Declaration 52
3.27.5.8. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 347 Domestic Transactions Turnover Report Changes 53
3.27.5.9. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 415 Canary Island Turnover Report Changes 53
3.27.5.10. Spain: Changes to Taxpayer ID Validation 53
3.27.5.11. United Kingdom: Support for Revaluations and Impairments per Statement of Recommended Practice for
United Kingdom Local Authority Accounting 54
3.27.5.12. U.S. Federal: New FACTS II Edit Checks and File Layout Changes 54
3.27.5.13. U.S. Federal: Enhanced Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Processing 54
3.27.5.14. Global: Support for Asset Impairment in Accordance with International Accounting Standard 36 54
3.27.5.15. Global: Year End Closing Process 55
3.27.6. Release 12.1.3 55
3.27.6.1. Argentina: Support for Argentina Simplified Regime (Monotributo) 55
3.27.6.2. Belgium: Annual VAT Report File Format v1.3 55
3.27.6.3. Brazil: Support for Brazilian Electronic Collection Document Process (DDA) 56
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3.27.6.4. China: Support for Version 2 of the China Accounting Software Data Interface Standard 56
3.27.6.5. India: Enhanced Value Added Tax (VAT) Functionality to Support Flexible Recovery Schedule for India
56
3.27.6.6. India: Value Added Tax (VAT) Statutory Accounting and Reporting for Non-Shippable Items 56
3.27.6.7. Israel: Israel VAT Report Enhancement 56
3.27.6.8. Israel: Withholding Tax File – 856 57
3.27.6.9. U.S. Federal: Extract File Changes for Central Contractor Registration (CCR) 57
3.27.6.10. U.S. Federal: Regulatory Updates to Statement of Budgetary Resources 58
3.27.6.11. U.S. Federal: Regulatory Updates to SF-133 Report 58
3.27.6.12. Global: European Community VAT Changes for 2010 58
3.27.7. Release 12.2 58
3.27.7.1. Brazil: Federal SPED Regulation – Accounting SPED Updates 58
3.27.7.2. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Electronic Invoice Layout Update (Manual 4.01) 59
3.27.7.3. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Support for PIS/COFINS (EFD-Digital Fiscal Bookkeeping) 59
3.27.7.4. Israel: Combined VAT File (Ichud Oskim) 60
3.27.7.5. Israel: Withholding Tax File – 856 (Legal Changes 2010) 60
3.27.7.6. Portugal: Billing Software Certification 60
3.27.7.7. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 349 ESL/EPL Changes 61
3.27.7.8. United Kingdom: Local Authority Revaluation and Impairment 61
3.27.7.9. U.S. Federal: New FACTS II Edits 61
3.27.8. Release 12.2.2 62
3.27.8.1. Belgium: Belgian VAT Annual Return Report Legal Changes 2012 62
3.27.8.2. China: China Accounting Software Data Interface Banking Standard 62
3.27.8.3. India: NSDL eTDS and eTCS Returns 63
3.27.8.4. India: TCS Product Impact Support 63
3.27.8.5. India: Service Tax Reverse Charge Mechanism 63
3.27.8.6. Russia: Enable Revaluation at Year End 63
3.27.8.7. United Kingdom: Modulus Check Validations for Bank Accounts in the United Kingdom 63
3.27.9. Release 12.2.3 64
3.27.9.1. Brazil: Resolution 13 – Import Content Attributes 64
3.27.10. Release 12.2.5 64
3.27.10.1. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED – Layout 2 64
3.27.10.2. Brazil: Brazilian Electronic Invoice NFe 3.10 64
3.27.10.3. Japan: Depreciation Adjustment for Declining-Balance Method in Corporate Tax Book 65
3.27.10.4. Mexico: Mexican Electronic Accounting - Chart of Accounts and Trial Balance - XML Files 65
3.27.10.5. Spain: Spanish Modelo 347 – Legal Changes 2014 66
3.27.10.6. United Kingdom: Local Authority: Impact of Salvage Value on Revaluation Reserve Amortization Basis
66
3.27.11. Release 12.2.6 67
3.27.11.1. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED - Layout 3 67
3.27.11.2. Brazil: Brazilian (NFe) - Technical Notes 2015.002 / 2015.003 67
3.27.11.3. Colombia: Foreign Taxpayer ID 68
3.27.11.4. Israel: Withholding Tax Reporting Changes 2015 68
3.27.11.5. Italy: Italian VAT Plafond - Letter of Intent Process Change 2015 69
3.27.11.6. Italy: Italian Polyvalent Declaration Changes 2016 69
3.27.11.7. Japan: Japan My Number Act - Japanese Depreciable Assets Tax Reports, 2016 70
3.27.11.8. Spain: Spanish Modelo 190 - Withholding Tax File Changes 2015 70
3.27.12. Release 12.2.7 70
3.27.12.1. Poland: Unified Audit File - Jedolity Plik Kontrolny (JPK) 70
4. New and Changed Features in Real Estate Management 71
4.1. Oracle Property Manager 71
4.1.1. Release 12.1.1 71
4.1.1.1. New Lease Statuses 71
4.1.1.2. Lease Extension Enhancements 71
4.1.1.3. Tenancy Extension and Contraction 71
4.1.1.4. Assignment Occupancy Percent Determined by Attribute on Tenancy 71
4.1.1.5. Multiple Schedules for Same Schedule Day 71
4.1.1.6. Prorating the Billing/Payment Amount based on a New Start Day Field 71
4.1.1.7. Breakpoint Flexibility 72
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4.1.1.8. Updating Breakpoints 72
4.1.1.9. Natural Breakpoint Enhancements 72
4.1.1.10. Early Termination of Agreement or Lease 72
4.1.1.11. Extension of Variable Rent Agreements 72
4.1.1.12. New Calculation Methods 72
4.1.1.13. New Partial Year Calculation Methods 72
4.1.1.14. Month-to-Month Roll Forward of Variable Rent Agreements 73
4.1.1.15. Enhancement to Cumulative Calculation Method 73
4.1.1.16. Allowances and Abatements 73
4.1.1.17. Carry Forward of Excess Abatement as Negative Rent 73
4.1.1.18. Constraints 73
4.1.1.19. Updating Volumes 74
4.1.1.20. Additional Frequency Attribute 74
4.1.1.21. Streamlining of Adjustments 74
4.1.1.22. Form Enhancements 74
4.1.1.23. Display of Calculation Results 74
4.1.1.24. Variable Rent Templates 74
4.1.1.25. Term Template Enhancements 74
4.1.1.26. Processing by Property 74
4.1.1.27. Improved Variable Rent Report 74
4.1.1.28. Early Termination of Rent Increase Agreements 75
4.1.1.29. Extension of Rent Increase Agreements 75
4.1.1.30. Month-to-Month Roll Forward 75
4.1.1.31. Index Multiplier 75
4.1.1.32. Proration 75
4.1.1.33. Term Length 75
4.1.1.34. Include/Exclude Option 75
4.1.1.35. Recurring Backbill Terms 75
4.1.1.36. Rent Increase Report 75
4.1.1.37. Create Operating Expense Agreement 75
4.1.1.38. Enter and Maintain Estimated Payment Terms 76
4.1.1.39. Reconciliation 76
4.1.1.40. Operating Expense Agreement Dashboard 77
4.1.2. Release 12.1.3+ 77
4.1.2.1. Business Event Workflow and Status Update 77
4.1.2.2. Lease and Terms APIs 77
4.1.2.3. Variable Rent and Breakpoint APIs 77
4.1.2.4. Index Rent APIs 77
4.1.2.5. Operating Expense Support for Advance Payments 77
4.1.2.6. Normalization Support for Multiple Amendments and Partial Periods 77
4.1.2.7. Variable Rent Agreement Invoice Date Derivation 78
4.1.2.8. GL Date Derived from Period Name 78
4.1.2.9. Rent Normalization for Mid-Month Proration 78
4.1.3. Release 12.2 78
4.1.3.1. Override Variable Rent Calculations Client Extensions 78
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1. Disclaimer
This Release Content Document (RCD) describes product features that are proposed for
the specified releases of the Oracle E-Business Suite. This document describes new or
changed functionality only. Existing functionality from prior releases is not described. It
is intended solely to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to the specified
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2. Introduction
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3. New and Changed Features in Financials
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0 via the standalone patch:
8522751:R12.IEX.A.
Collections managers are now able to plan and manage collections strategies that support
their unique business requirements where strategies must be executed at different
operating units, groups of customers or specific customers. Collections agents can view
strategies at different levels on their work queue and on the strategy tab. Delinquent
customers are managed at the business level most appropriate to their business model.
Additionally, background processes including collections and strategy management can
now be executed at different levels concurrently.
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3.1.3. Release 12.1.3
3.1.3.1. Staged Dunning
In addition to the Aged Dunning method that is based on a customer’s oldest aged
invoice, Collections organizations may now use Staged Dunning method. The Staged
Dunning method ensures the dunning notices set to a customer automatically incremented
based on the collection score and pre-defined number of days between letters being sent.
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completes the work item, post-wait, based on the amount received and associated rule
definition the system will skip or continue the next work item in the strategy.
Additionally, Strategy Templates and Work Item Templates can be defined for a specific
Operating Unit.
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3.4.1.2. Bank Identifier Code (BIC) Support
Bank Identifier Code (BIC) is a unique identification for bank branches. This code can
be 8 or 11 characters in length. Cash Management now validates the length of BIC when
recording bank branch details.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0.6 via the standalone patch:
7552541:R12.IBY.A.
3.4.1.3. Payment Group based Bank Statement Reconciliation
Oracle Cash Management now utilizes the new Payment Group Number attribute as an
optional matching criterion for manual and automated reconciliation of bank statements.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0.6 via the standalone patch:
7552541:R12.IBY.A.
• Support for non-numeric characters in bank balances. The opening and closing
balance amounts sent in the EDIFACT statements contain non-numeric
characters. The bank statement loader and import program is enhanced to
convert the non-numeric characters into numeric values.
• Support loading and importing the Record 05. The current seeded loader is
enhanced to handle the record type 05. This additional record is defined as part
of the EDIFACT standard and contains the contextual information of Record 04.
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A new concurrent program has been provided to copy the bank transaction codes from
one bank account to another bank account(s).
3.4.2.4. Load Bank Statements for the Current Day
In previous releases, users could only import bank statements and perform bank balance
maintenance for past dates. Users can now enter or import bank statements and perform
bank balance maintenance for the current date.
Oracle Cash Management contains the following features for supporting the use of
CAMT.053 Bank to Customer Statement messaging:
• Loading and processing of the CAMT.053 bank statement format
• Matching and automatic reconciliation of SEPA direct debit transactions
• Automatic reconciliation of bank statements with direct debit reversals and
returns.
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3.5. Oracle Credit Management
3.5.1. Release 12.1.3
3.5.1.1. Configurable Analyst Assignment Rules
In addition to the seeded assignment rules, Oracle Credit Management can now assign
credit analyst to case folders based on user-defined assignment rules and parameters.
This offers greater flexibility in addressing customer specific work load management
needs.
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with the native ERP system reduces environmental data management costs, leveraging
existing IT systems, minimizing organizational impacts and assuring rapid time to value.
3.7.1.2. Emission Sources, Scopes and Factors
An emission factor is the quantity of a greenhouse gas emitted per unit of energy (kg
CO2-e /GJ), fuel (kg CO2-e/t coal) or a similar measure. The EA&R application provides
the ability to define, change and update emission sources and factors, automatically
determining the correct transformation factors for each transaction. It also enables users
to select location specific energy and emission factors for environmental accounting of
transactions that are related to emission sources. It also enables setup of custom emission
factors. Emission transformation factors are stored and can readily be updated over time
with date effectiveness to manage the change of emissions factors and for recalculation
purposes.
Emission calculation techniques range from usage of emission factors to direct
monitoring. The most common techniques used for emission calculation are:
• Calculations based on the purchased quantities of commercial fuels, such as
natural gas and heating oil, using published emission factors. This method is used
for Scope 1 emissions.
• Calculations based on metered electricity consumption and supplier-specific,
local grid, or other published emission factors. This method is used for Scope 2
emissions.
• Calculations based on activity data such as fuel use or passenger miles and
published or third-party emission factors. This type of emissions is usually
classified as Scope 3 emissions.
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting allows you to update historical factors
using the GHG Sources window and provides the “Recalculate Emissions” concurrent
program to recalculate the emission and energy values based on the revised factors.
The solution enables complete audit trail for entries and updates reducing data assurance
costs.
3.7.1.3. Calculation and Classification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting provides the built-in mechanisms for
calculating emissions and classifying them as Scope 1, 2, or 3 using the Greenhouse Gas
Protocol guidelines published by the World Resources Institute. The Emissions
Calculation Engine uses the collected usage data to calculate the relevant emissions using
seeded formulas based on the energy and emission factors setup for the emission sources.
This enables organization to accurately communicate greenhouse gas emissions and other
environmental impacts to constituents including regulators, customers, shareholders and
employees.
3.7.1.4. Environmental Ledger
The Environmental Ledger stores all changes to the environmental transactions including
voiding, reversal, recalculation, and measurement criterion updating transactions. The
changing landscape of compliance mandates drives companies to provide more
comprehensive, transparent, accurate and auditable data. Oracle Environmental
Accounting and Reporting allows you to have a single source of truth assuring data
quality and auditability.
3.7.1.5. Flexible Reporting and Organizational Structures
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting enables the creation of Environmental
Organizations. An organization is defined as a single undertaking or an enterprise or any
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entity that performs activities or a series of activities that emit greenhouse gases and/or
produces, or consumes energy at a single site and is attributable to a single industry
sector. An organization can have multiple hierarchies for reporting, for example,
government reporting hierarchy, operational hierarchy, or legal structure hierarchy. In
addition an organization can be a division, company subsidiary, or operation (i.e.
facilities, plants). The integration with the native ERP enables leveraging existing
structures as well as specifying additional hierarchies for GHG Protocol and other
reporting guidelines, including the ability to define aggregation levels and to manage
acquisitions and divestitures.
3.7.1.6. Pre-Built Analytics and Dashboard with Dynamic User Interaction
Pre-built Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) dashboards enable the
dynamic generation of reports providing insight into an organization’s emissions and
other environmental impacts. The dashboards provide information on energy usage,
emissions, key performance indicators (KPIs), activities and transactions. Users can view
graphical representations of the data; drill down into output of past, current, and projected
data; analyze historical trends; define variance thresholds and receive alerts; and publish
and distribute reports in multiple formats. The pre-built OBIEE reporting and analytics
dashboards also include the quantitative responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project
(CDP). OBIEE’s powerful and flexible framework allows for the quick creation of
reports for reporting schemes such as Climate Registry (USA), EPA 40 CFR Part 98 Rule
(USA), Carbon Reduction Commitment (UK), and National Greenhouse and Energy
Reporting Act (Australia). Measuring performance and setting targets allows
organizations to become more productive, profitable and sustainable by providing
powerful insights into high opportunity areas for emissions reductions, energy savings,
and cost savings. In addition, OBIEE allows users to quickly create custom user defined
reports.
3.7.1.7. User-Defined Key Performance Indicators
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting enables organizations to create and
modify standard and custom industry-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) to
measure performance and monitor key environmental metrics such as energy, waste, and
water. Users can normalize data to operational metrics and use a drag-and-drop
environment in OBIEE to create custom reports. Examples of these KPIs are energy
usage per square foot, water usage by employee, etc. Using these metrics organizations
can benchmark and affect behavioral change to reduce environmental impacts in the
relative context of the organization’s growth.
3.7.1.8. Target and Threshold Definition
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting enables organizations to establish a
baseline of its greenhouse gas emissions, energy usage, and other key environmental
indicators and set reductions targets. Graphical indicators on the Business Intelligence
dashboards illustrate to users on a timely basis whether the organization is performing
above, below, or in-line with the targets so that corrective actions can be taken as needed
to successfully execute on the organization’s sustainability initiatives.
3.7.1.9. Using Web ADI to Import Setup Data
Users are able to leverage the Web ADI framework in Oracle E-Business Suite to import
setup data into the Environmental Accounting & Reporting application. Data that can be
imported using this interface includes Sources, KPI Definitions, Targets, and
Organizations.
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3.7.2. Release 12.2
3.7.2.1. Updated Carbon Disclosure Project Report
One of the pre-built OBIEE reporting and analytics dashboards supported in EA&R
covers the quantitative responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The Carbon
Disclosure Project report has been enhanced to support additional questions under the
2011 guidelines. The dashboard can now display: emissions in metric tons, emission
factors applied for GHG calculations and their origin; breakdown of Scope 1 and Scope 2
emissions by activity; amount of fuel, electricity, heat, steam, and cooling in MWh
consumed by an organization during the reporting year; breakdown of fuel usage by fuel
type; year by year comparison of combined Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions; year by year
comparison of Scope 3 emissions by source; and gross combined Scope 1 and 2
emissions for the reporting year in metric tons CO2e per full time equivalent (FTE)
employee.
3.7.2.2. Enhanced Performance Dashboards
Pre-built Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) dashboards enable the
dynamic generation of reports providing insight into an organization’s emissions and
other environmental impacts. The dashboards provide information on energy usage,
emissions, key performance indicators (KPIs), activities and transactions. Users can view
graphical representations of the data; drill down into output of past, current, and projected
data; analyze historical trends; define variance thresholds and receive alerts; and publish
and distribute reports in multiple formats. In this release additional pre-built reports have
been added including the Scope 3 Emissions and Emissions by Organization Level
dashboards.
3.7.2.3. Enhanced Key Performance Indicators
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting enables organizations to create and
modify standard and custom industry-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) to
measure performance and monitor key environmental metrics such as energy, waste, and
water. Users can normalize data to operational metrics and use a drag-and-drop
environment in OBIEE to create custom reports. In the 12.2 release it is now possible to
set a threshold in the KPI Metrics history page highlighting to users whether the
organization is performing above, below or in-line with the targets so that corrective
actions can be taken as needed to successfully execute on the organization’s sustainability
initiatives.
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required to hold a number of permits (or carbon credits) equivalent to their emissions.
Typically, in carbon tax and emission trading schemes, significant penalties apply for not
surrendering the correct amount of permits by the compliance date. Companies need to
establish processes to actively manage trading of permits, such as funding purchases
when needed and understanding which permits can be used to meet their liabilities.
Oracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting (EA&R) helps these companies
calculate the correct number of carbon permits required for the specified reporting period.
The new Carbon Permit Management report tracks emission data by region / legislation
to show the number of carbon permits which must be surrendered to be complaint.
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• In most cases purchased electricity does not have an associated Item in the source
transactions (i.e. electricity is purchased in kWh) but there may be some cases
where electricity is purchased based on the use of an Item (e.g. the number of
gallons of diesel oil required to power a generator) requiring an additional
conversion.
This release enables the users to setup conversions specific to either Environmental
Sources or Items to address scenarios such as the ones described above. This UOM
conversion capability is above and beyond the standard unit of measure conversion
previously supported by the application.
The Source UOM conversion assumes higher precedence over the standard UOM
conversion in selecting the conversion factors at the time of emission calculation. For
conversions where there is a related Item the source UOM conversion assumes the higher
precedence over both the standard and Item UOM conversion when the emissions are
calculated.
3.7.4.3. Organizations Targets for Emission, Energy and Usage
Users now have the ability to set performance targets at the organizational level for
Energy, Emissions, and Usage for specific periods thus enabling organizations to drive
performance improvements on an ongoing basis. A new dashboard enables ongoing
visual comparison of the actual performance of the organization versus the targets that
have been set.
3.7.4.4. Enhanced Energy Dashboard
The existing energy dashboard has been enhanced to include four additional tabs,
namely: Summary, Energy by Scope, Energy by Source, and Energy by Organization
Type. The existing tab has been renamed to Energy by Organization.
The Summary tab now displays two reports: (i) Energy History displaying a graphical
representation of the history of the energy consumed by the organization and (ii) Energy
by Year showing the energy consumed by an organization for a specific period.
The Energy by Scope dashboard displays a graphical representation of the energy usage
of an organization by Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 as per the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
The Energy by Source page displays a graphical and tabular representation of the energy
consumed by the organization for each of the environmental sources.
The Energy by Organization Type dashboard presents reports showing the energy usage
broken down by the organizational levels based on the Organization Type.
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3.9. Oracle Financials for Americas
3.9.1. Release 12.2.3
3.9.1.1. Brazilian CFOP – Derivation and Defaulting
The CFOP (Fiscal Code of Operations and Services code is a 4-digit code defined by the
National Tributary System in Brazil.
CFOP contains information on the good’s origin as well as the type of operation, such as
sales, returns, stock transfers, or services.
As part of the Fiscal SPED and NF-e (electronic invoice), any transactions related to
Purchase, Sales and Transfer of Goods or Services are codified through the CFOP. This
code is reported on each line of the NF-e.
Oracle Brazilian Receivables has been modified to perform automatic derivation and
defaulting of CFOP codes from the setup onto the Receivables transaction lines.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
12.0.6 16799315:R12.JL.A 1571347.1
12.1.x 16799315:R12.JL.B 1571347.1
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3.10. Oracle Financials for EMEA
3.10.1. Release 12.0.3
3.10.1.1. Assets and Payments XML Publisher Report Extracts
Standard XML product extracts for Assets and Payments are now available to European
users to create standard and custom templates for statutory reports.
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Reverse charge (a.k.a. self-assessment) occurs when customers (i.e. purchasers), as
opposed to suppliers, are responsible for calculating, accounting for and paying taxes due
to tax authorities.
The EMEA VAT Reporting Entities Setup window and following reports have been
modified to support this reporting:
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including beginning of year journals, transfer pricing, income tax, and VAT data from all
modules that generate accounting entries.
The feature consists of:
• A new BI Publisher extract with the required eighteen data elements for the
FEC Audit File
• A custom BI publisher RTF template in the required French Ministry of
Finance DVNI specified format
• Opening balances are reported in the FEC files as the very first accounting
entry lines.
• Accounting Sequencing; journal line entries from GL and accounting line
entries from subledgers are sequenced in chronological order by
validation/posting date
• Changes to the ‘French GL Reports’ Request group; inclusion of the French
Accounting Entries Audit File concurrent program.
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Oracle Financials for Europe / Norwegian Government Reporting (GEI) enables
Norwegian State companies to generate and transmit the required S-Report to the
Ministry of Finance via the DFØ’s S-Report interface.
The feature provides:
• Compliance with legally required changes to the State Chart of Accounts
(COA)
• A new S-Report consisting of a preliminary S-Report in readable format
• XML file according to DFØ’s specific format and content requirements
• Removal of references to EDI translation
• Obsolescence of A-Report related programs.
This feature has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0.6 17944076:R12.JE.A 1617993.1
12.1.x 17944076:R12.JE.B 1617993.1
12.2.x 17944076:R12.JE.C 1617993.1
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This update addresses the following requirements:
• Enable Electronic Invoice Generation for B2G transactions
• Ensure the Electronic Invoice contains all mandatory and optional data elements
• Provide a data field to capture the Electronic Invoice Status
• Automatically update the Electronic Invoice Status when the invoice is generated
for the first time
• Provide an XML template in accordance to the XML layout defined by the
Italian authorities for B2G transactions.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0.x 19180014:R12.JE.A 1910728.1
12.1.x 19180014:R12.JE.B 1910728.1
12.2.x 19180014:R12.JE.C 1910728.1
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3.11. Oracle Financials for India
3.11.1. Release 12.0.3
3.11.1.1. Statutory Updates for India
Oracle Financials for India now provides the following to meet legal and statutory
requirements for India:
• “Tax Collected at Source” tax type
• Additional Tax Precedence capabilities
• Ability to change taxes on receipts
• Additional CVD tax types
• Ability to record Secondary and Higher Education Cess on tax types
• Ability to track and report Service Tax by Inventory Organization and
Service Type.
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3.11.4. Release 12.1.2
3.11.4.1. Advanced Pricing Support for India
Oracle Financials for India now allows users to calculate excise and VAT assessable
values based on the advanced price list. The advanced price list is based on the item
category. Users can associate a price list with an item category to determine assessable
values for all items classified under that category.
3.11.4.2. Tax Information on Purchase Order Workflow Notification for India
Oracle Financials for India now enables reporting and display of India taxes on
purchasing approval workflow notifications. India taxes are included in the following:
Additionally, users can modify the tax amount, precedence, vendor, and vendor site
information at the time of approval.
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3.11.6.2. Tax Import to Receivables and Payables
Users now have the ability to import legacy application computed taxes or use Oracle
Financials for India to calculate taxes for receivables and payables transactions on
import.
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Three additional pages are provided for casual users such as Customer Service
Representatives and Collection Agents, who can also greatly benefit from this solution.
Two out of three pages target the needs of internal organization personnel who require a
clear understanding of receivables-related information. In addition to the Outstanding
Receivables Overview page, casual users can leverage the Disputes Overview page to
review outstanding disputes, evaluate disputes reasons to take appropriate action. The
third page targets the needs of an enterprise’s external users - its customers, empowering
them to reconcile their own accounts, avail of discounts, and take action without having
to engage enterprise personnel, therefore enhancing efficiency and reducing costs.
Three pages are provided with Oracle Financials Information Discovery for Oracle
Payables. The Supplier Balance Management page offers superior navigation and
discovery capabilities through critical statistics on open invoices, allowing users to obtain
a better understanding of the current status of supplier balances, review specific
transactions and pay suppliers in an efficient manner. The Holds Management page
provides high visibility into invoices held, the reason for hold as well the aging
information of such invoices. Based on this key information, Payables department can
take actions to resolve all disputes faster, thus greatly improving supplier relationships.
With the help of Discount Opportunity page, Payables departments can streamline cash
flow and effectively manage working capital by taking timely discounts.
Four pages are provided with the Oracle Financials Information Discovery for Oracle
Assets. The Asset Cost page offers superior navigation and discovery capabilities into all
financial transactions affecting asset values and provides reconciliation of asset cost and
accumulated depreciation in Oracle Assets to balances in Oracle General Ledger. Graphs
enable drill-down to data, which is dynamically updated as you narrow your search,
enabling you to take action to resolve discrepancies, correctly categorize assets and
analyze root causes of inaccuracies. The Asset Aging page offers insight into remaining
life of your assets with easy overview of asset cost, accumulated depreciation and net
book value and offers actionable links to submit a work request in Oracle Enterprise
Asset Management, to create a new purchase requisition in Oracle Procurement or to
retire an asset in Oracle Assets. The Asset Location page tracks fixed assets across all
locations and give the opportunity to explore assignments to employees to detect
discrepancies in cost center assignments and provide actionable links to execute asset
transfers and assignments in Oracle Assets in order to resolve missing assignments or
misallocated resources. The Mass Transactions page offers insight into pending
transactions such as mass additions, mass reclassifications, mass revaluations and mass
transfers. It provides actionable links to Oracle Assets for the asset accountant to ensure
all pending transactions are processed on time in order to close asset books with
confidence.
3.12.2. V7
3.12.2.1. Oracle Financials Information Discovery V7 for Oracle E-Business Suite
R12.1.3 and R12.2.6
Oracle Financials Information Discovery for Oracle Assets has been enhanced to include
two new pages, namely ‘Asset Reconciliation’ and ‘Sub-ledger Additions Pipeline’. In
the Account Reconciliation page you can view account balance reconciliations and
quickly identify any discrepancies between sub-ledger accounting balances for Oracle
Assets and Oracle General Ledger balances for asset cost, CIP cost, asset clearing, CIP
clearing account, and Accumulated Depreciation. The Sub-ledger Additions Pipeline
page enables you to get an early estimate of any transactions in Oracle Payables and
Oracle Projects, which are tracked as assets but not yet transferred to Oracle Assets, to
assess the significance to your asset base.
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In addition to the original full asset load into Oracle Financials Information Discovery
tables, further capability has been added to enable you to load mass transactions
incrementally into Oracle Financials Information Discovery.
The Budget Wizard now allows users to use low and high values for one or more
segments in the account range.
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3.13.4. Release 12.2
3.13.4.1. E-Business Suite General Ledger Integration with the Fusion Accounting Hub
E-Business Suite (EBS) General Ledger integration with the Fusion Accounting Hub
allows users to take advantage of new Fusion General Ledger capabilities, such as
embedded Essbase integration with real-time analytics.
Using the Fusion General Ledger for financial reporting has several advantages:
This integration includes a program that creates and transfers Fusion journals to record
EBS period balances, and the ability to drill-down from Fusion to EBS. When balances
are transferred, it is possible to apply mappings to update EBS General Ledger period
and/or the account values.
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New attributes from Oracle General Ledger have been seeded in Oracle Approvals
Management to enable configuration of flexible journal approval rules for enterprises to
address governance, control, and compliance needs.
Oracle Workflow integrates with Oracle Approvals Management and Oracle General
Ledger to route the notifications to the appropriate set of approvers for review, and to
enable action to be taken to approve or reject a journal. Once the approver has responded
the status is sent from Oracle Workflow to Oracle General Ledger and is reflected in the
approval status of the journal.
The approval process can be defined to run sequentially or in parallel to multiple
approvers, and define if first responder wins, or if all approvers must approve.
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3.14.2.2. Duplicate Expense Detection
Duplicate Expense Detection Rules are now available to detect duplicate expense claims
aiding customers in decreasing administration costs by ensuring only reimbursement of
valid expense claims.
3.14.2.3. Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone Application for Oracle Internet Expenses
Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone application is now enabled for Oracle Internet Expenses
release 12.1.3 and above. The Oracle Fusion Expenses iPhone application empowers you
to quickly capture your expenses as they are incurred. The iPhone application provides
the following capabilities:
• Enter expenses in multiple ways: Create expense lines from receipt images and
calendar entries, create lines with quick entry or manual entry
• Add attendees from calendar events and address book and create new attendees
• Charge to projects and cost centers
• Flag policy violations and receipt requirements
• Submit expense reports
• Sync reference data automatically
• Enter expenses in connected or offline mode
• Approve expense reports.
Oracle iReceivables now provides a Setup Checklist page to perform setup steps and
streamline the user registration process. Two new tasks, Registration History and
Payment Audit History are available on the Setup Checklist page to manage the
registration and payment processes.
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Administrators can now monitor customer registration requests and aid their customers in
completing the registration process by searching, viewing and releasing the hold on the
account request received.
Customer service representatives can use the Payment Audit History to search and review
the status of payments made by customers through iReceivables enabling them to provide
accurate payment status information to their customers.
3.16.2. Release 12.2.6
3.16.2.1. End Date Bank Account without Payment Processing
Customers now have the ability to end date bank accounts without processing a payment
against that account, and without restricting end dates to a future date.
Users can manage Credit Cards and Bank Accounts at Account or Site levels without an
Invoice or processing the payment flow.
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3.19. Oracle Loans
3.19.1. Release 12.1.2
3.19.1.1. Process Application Fees without Loan Approval
Loan application fee is a fee charged to process an application for a loan, such as a home
mortgage from a lender or mortgage broker. Loan application fees are charged to cover
some of the costs involved in processing the application including credit checks, property
appraisals and basic administrative costs. Such fees are often non-refundable regardless
of the outcome of the application review and are charged upfront.
Previously, in order for any loan fee to be processed, the loan application had to be
approved. This new feature allows processing and accounting for loan fees before the
loan gets approved or rejected.
The fees now can be charged manually on an ad hoc basis or automatically based on a
certain event in the loan application lifecycle (loan origination, loan activation, loan
submission for approval).
3.19.1.2. Ad-hoc Billing and Receipt Application
Borrowers receive their loan repayment bills when an automated process determines that
the next installment is due. This new feature allows users to manually select the next
installment and create a customer bill on an ad hoc basis. Users now also have an option
to create a loan without a schedule of installments and bill customers manually on an ad
hoc basis.
In addition, the process of applying customer payments to loans has been streamlined by
providing users an option to perform receipt application within the loan transaction
context, without the need to switch to Receivables.
A new system profile option (LNS: Allow to Bill and Apply from UI) has been
introduced to control user’s access to this feature.
3.19.1.3. Loan Forgiveness
The Loan Forgiveness feature allows users to create and manage loan forgiveness option
loan programs. By populating a Receivables Activity in the new system option Loan
Forgiveness Adjustment: Activity Name, loan forgiveness is enabled or disabled for the
loan products within the organization.
Loan forgiveness is applied at the individual loan level as a percentage of the loan
installment amount and can be modified throughout the loan’s duration. Loan
forgiveness details are visible for each individual loan via the Servicing Center:
Overview: Summary window. During billing, the forgiven amount is displayed and
accounted for as an adjustment on the customer invoice.
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stage. Managers can also modify the outstanding amount of receivables or adjust the
receivables amount based on the payment terms.
This feature has also been back-ported to 12.1 via the standalone patches:
7573972:R12.LNS.B and 7573972:R12.LNS.C.
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authorizations have been recorded within Oracle Project Accounting or Oracle
Purchasing.
3.20.1.4. Supplier Dispute Processing
Supplier invoices may be short paid to expedite dispute settlements. The Payables
Invoice Workbench has been enhanced to capture the invoice amount originally claimed
by the supplier and the reason for short payment.
3.20.1.5. Third Party Payments
Suppliers can specify a related trading partner to be paid on their behalf. The payments
made on behalf of suppliers to other trading partners are termed as third party payments.
Oracle Payables has been enhanced to record third party relationships and to process third
party payments. Withholding and 1099 processing continue to occur for invoicing
suppliers.
3.20.1.6. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Selected Payables Reports
The following Oracle Payables reports have been re-written utilizing the Business
Intelligence Publisher (BIP) tool. BIP based reports offer greater flexibility to end users
in changing report layouts and formats:
• Withholding Tax by Invoice Report
• Bills Payable Maturity Date Report
• Discounts Available Report
• Payment Audit by Voucher Number
• Prepayments Status Report.
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3.20.3. Release 12.2.2
3.20.3.1. Workflow Transfer of Approval
Workflow Transfer of Approval is now available in Oracle Payables. Users can transfer
approval ownership of an invoice effectively changing the approval hierarchy to another
user verses delegation where the users give authority to respond to notifications while
still retaining ownership.
This update has also been back-ported to the following release:
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versions, the FDC North servlet could not be load balanced due to the use of a text file
(BatchGenMap.txt) for processing purposes and the inability for a text file to be shared
concurrently by two processes due to the risk of overwriting data. In this release, the data
required to process FDC batch queries can now be derived from the Payments data model
eliminating the use of the BatchGenMap text file. As a result, load balancing of the FDC
North servlet is now possible.
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3.21.4. Release 12.1.2
3.21.4.1. PA-DSS for Credit Card Processing
To ensure all payment type applications that interact with payment cards meet consistent
security standards, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council
encourages and in some cases mandates that merchants use only PA-DSS (Payment
Application Data Security Standards) certified payment application software.
Certification applies to software applications that store, process, or transmit payment
cardholder data as part of an authorization or settlement process. This certification
reassures users that Oracle Payments is properly handling and securing sensitive payment
card information. Certification includes proper adherence with industry accepted data
storage guidelines, encryption algorithms, secured coding practices, and secured
transmission standards.
Oracle Payments customers benefit from the ongoing enhancements made to conform to
PA-DSS requirements. These PA-DSS enhancements are also available as standalone
patches to customers on Release 12.0 and 12.1.1.
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3.22. Oracle Public Service Financials International
3.22.1. Release 12.0.3
3.22.1.1. Uptake of Construction Industry Scheme and Dossier Functionality
Oracle Public Sector Financials International Dossier and Construction Industry Scheme
functionality is now available in Release 12.
• Dossier users can now define and execute Dossier processes for multiple ledgers
from a single user responsibility, and utilize data access sets to define the level of
data within ledgers that a user can view and/or modify.
• Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) users operating in a shared service
organization can now more efficiently generate and submit monthly returns for
subcontractors for multiple operating units without switching between user
responsibilities.
The following 11i Features have been replaced by standard Oracle functionality:
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3.22.4. Release 12.2
3.22.4.1. Construction Industry Scheme (CIS): Exclusion of Out of Scope Contract
Invoices in Monthly Returns Reporting
The Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) Monthly Returns Reporting now excludes out
of scope contract invoices. If the withholding tax field on all the distribution of a CIS
Supplier invoice is null, then the invoice is deemed out of scope and is now excluded
from the monthly returns reporting. This feature has also been back-ported to 12.0.x via
the standalone patch: 9000000:R12.IGI.B.
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Credit memo processing through Golden Tax Adaptor has been enhanced with the
following new features:
• Processing of on-account credit memos and credit memos referring to multiple
invoices
• China Tax Office notification number support for credit memos on Special VAT
Invoices
• Validation rules to prevent export of credit memos with duplicate or incorrectly
formatted notification numbers
3.23.1.5. Business Intelligence Publisher Support for Selected Receivables Reports
The following Oracle Receivable reports have been re-written utilizing the Business
Intelligence Publisher (BIP) tool. BIP based reports offer greater flexibility to end users
in changing report layouts and formats.
• AR Reconciliation Report
• Customer Open Balance Letter
• Incomplete Invoices Report
• Invoice Exception Report
• Receipt Analysis - Days Late.
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resolving the accounting exceptions is likely to delay the period close then the accounting
date of the accounting distributions that have exceptions should be swept to the next open
period. Pass manual journal entry in the General Ledger in the current period for the
receivable accounting distributions that are swept to the next period.
The new Receivables report is not only useful in creating the manual journal entry in the
General Ledger but will also act as a supporting document for audit. In the next open
period reverse the manual journal entry and resolve the accounting exceptions.
3.23.3.2. Automate Auto Lockbox Processing
Companies using the Lockbox service receive the data file containing receipt information
from the banks at frequent intervals for each bank account that receives payments. These
files are processed by the Auto Lockbox programs to import, validate, create and apply
receipts. Until now the lockbox processing programs had to be launched manually from
the UI for each data file. Receivables now allow these programs to be submitted as
standard concurrent requests using the standard Submit Request form.
To further improve productivity, a custom program can be created that scans for the
incoming files at regular intervals. When a file is received it can automatically submit the
Auto Lockbox programs to process the file.
3.23.3.3. Assign Customers to Unidentified Receipts using API
Receivables departments need to efficiently manage the cash application process to
reduce the manual efforts and at the same time improve the customer satisfaction. Timely
and accurate application of the unidentified customer cash receipts to the invoices paid is
important to provide a true picture of the customer account and the transaction status and
helps in improving customer satisfaction. An API is now available that can be used to
assign customers to the unidentified receipts.
3.23.3.4. Golden Tax Adaptor Enhancement for Mainland China
The Golden Tax Adaptor provides the following new features:
• Integration with Aisino Golden Tax system V7.20 on which one Golden Tax
transactions can map multiple VAT invoices
• VAT invoice types can be defaulted by customer taxpayer types, and user can
change the default VAT invoice type on receivable transaction level
• Allow to split transaction lines while unit price exceeds maximum VAT invoice
amount limit.
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revenue for the sales orders, service contracts and Accounts Receivable invoices in
Fusion Revenue Management and continue managing your billing in Accounts
Receivable.
Oracle Fusion Revenue Management streamlines the revenue compliance and recognition
process by allowing you to:
• Establish fair market value using: Vendor Specific Objective Evidence (VSOE),
Estimated Selling Price (ESP) or Third Party Evidence (TPE).
• Manage revenue compliance
• Automate revenue reallocation for multiple element arrangements based on fair
market value
• Configure revenue scheduling for complex revenue recognition and
• Analyze data with intelligent revenue recognition and compliance reporting.
3.23.4.3. Support Querying and Consolidating for Golden Tax Transactions by Sale
Order Number
The Golden Tax Adaptor now allows users the option to query and consolidate Golden
Tax transactions by sales order number within the Golden Tax Workbench simplifying
the process of finding and consolidating Golden Tax Transactions.
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with the standard Document Transfer Scheduling program. Use the seeded map
in the XML Gateway application or if required, customize the map for your
organization or country specific requirements.
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3.24.3.2. Accounting Data On-Demand Upgrade by Subledger
During the Release 12 upgrade process, customers can choose the time span for
converting historical accounting data to the new Subledger Accounting tables. There is
also a separate program that allows customers to extend the data conversion to older
accounting periods after the upgrade. This program runs for all subledgers at the same
time.
In this release, Oracle Subledger Accounting has enhanced this process by introducing a
new concurrent program Upgrade Historical Subledger Transaction Accounting that
allows the historical accounting data conversion be done independently for each
subledger.
Oracle Treasury now allows the use of Retail Term Money Market deal transactions
within the Oracle Cash Management Bank Statement reconciliation. With this
enhancement, users can view and use all treasury deal type transactions when reconciling
bank statements within Oracle Cash Management providing a single point for
reconciliation.
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3.26. Oracle U.S. Federal Financials
3.26.1. Release 12.1.2
3.26.1.1. Enhanced Delinquency Processing
Federal delinquency processing features have been enhanced to provide additional
configuration options including the ability to configure:
• Finance charges to be assessed on other finance charges
• Finance charges once for an installment invoice or on each installment for an
installment invoice
• The source of the distribution for finance charges (for example, from the original
invoice distribution or from the transaction type).
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Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
12.0.x 9307787:R12.FV.A 1277072.1
12.1.x 9307787:R12.FV.B 1277072.1
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3.26.5. Release 12.2.4
3.26.5.1. Capture of BETC, Trading Partner TAS, and Trading Partner BETC
Attributes
The Business Event Type Code (BETC), Trading Partner Treasury Account Symbol
(TAS), and Trading Partner BETC attributes have been added as attributes to the
following transactions at the distribution level:
• Purchase Orders
• Payable Invoices
• Project Agreements
• Receivables Transactions
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 16695227 1603099.1
12.0.x 14774455:R12.FV.A 1602631.1
12.1.x 14774455:R12.FV.B 1602631.1
12.2.3 14774455:R12.FV.C 1602631.1
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Reporter Only, Version 1.0. The new file format accommodates capture of the
componentized TAS and the BETC.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 17470471 1625197.1
12.0.x 17927956:R12.FV.A 1663941.1
12.1.x 17927956:R12.FV.B 1663941.1
12.2.3 17927956:R12.FV.C 1633941.1
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3.26.6.2. U.S. Federal: Payment Information Repository (PIR) Interface
Federal Financials has been enhanced with the following features in support of the
Payment Information Repository (PIR) Interface:
• The PIR Payment Process Request, a new concurrent process, was added to
create payment files for Non-Treasury Disbursing Office (NTDO) check
payments in the PIR Standard Report Format. The process also generates a PIR
Payment Report
• A PIR Payments Processing form was added to accommodate query of PIR
records and provide the ability to reverse PIR Batches for NTDO check payment
process requests that were previously processed by the PIR Payment Process
Request.
Patch Number My Oracle Support
Release
Knowledge Document
12.1.3 18898243:R12.FV.B 1925657.1
12.2.3 19806388:R12.FV.C 1925657.1
12.2.4 19806388:R12.FV.C 1925657.1
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3.27.2. Release 12.0.3
3.27.2.1. China National Accounting Office (CNAO) Support
The China Accounting Software Data Interface Standard (CNAO) is now available to
provide financial data export and cash flow statement functionality to comply with
Chinese legal requirements.
3.27.2.2. Japan: Depreciable Assets Tax Report
The Depreciable Assets Tax report is now available to address Japanese regional taxation
requirements. A user interface has been added to capture the additional Company and
Tax Authority level information required for the report.
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• Item Templates
Per Brazilian tax law, account receivable invoices can only be billed to a customer
after tax authority approval.
In this release, Oracle Financials for Latin America provides support for electronic
invoice integration for tax authority approval. The tax authority approval status is used to
control downstream business process such as invoice printing, collection, etc. for the
receivables invoice. In order to prevent billing customers with an invalid document
status, only receivable invoices with a status of Finalized or Contingency are processed.
Invoices with a status of Sent, Error, Cancelled, Rejected and Obsolete are placed on hold
until the electronic invoice status is updated to Finalized or Contingency.
3.27.4.2. Japan: Asset Depreciation Enhancements for Japan Tax Reform Act of 2007
In order to stimulate and promote economic growth, The Ministry of Finance for Japan
has announced new tax reforms. The reforms introduced new rules for calculating
depreciation on fixed assets effective April 1, 2007.
Oracle Assets provides the following new features to support the new tax reforms:
• New depreciation methods and rates for depreciable assets acquired on or after
April 1, 2007
• New rates are added to the Straight Line Method
• 250% Declining Balance Method
• Extension of Depreciation feature for calculation of extended depreciation for
eligible assets (depreciable asset acquired on or before March 31st, 2007 and
depreciated up to earlier 95% limit)
• Enhanced reporting for compliance
• Enhanced Mass Changes feature by adding Salvage value and Final Depreciable
limit parameters
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‘Seller of Goods’ to the ‘Buyer of Goods’ under certain conditions for domestic
transactions within the EU countries.
Oracle Financials now supports this new VAT regulation by identifying reverse charge
VAT transactions and ensuring that appropriate tax rules are applied. A Reversed Charge
Sales report is now available to list effected invoices. A standard message is printed on
all reverse charge sales invoices.
This update has also been back-ported to 12.0 via Oracle Financials Release Update Pack
5. For additional information, please refer to My Oracle Support Knowledge Document
565898.1.
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This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
In this release, Oracle Financials for Latin America provides new and enhanced
functionality to capture the required information, extract and format electronic
accounting books.
• Bookkeeping Type G
• Bookkeeping Type R
• Bookkeeping Type A
• Bookkeeping Type B
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• Contacts Information
The following programs have been introduced:
Users can consolidate multiple invoices for the same customer into a single VAT
invoice within limits as defined in the System Options.
Users can use an Alternate Name to enter, capture and print the customer and
bank information in Chinese on issued VAT invoices.
3. Sales discount
Users can export sales discount lines from the EBS Golden Tax Adaptor into the
Golden Tax system. Users can import credit memo data with merged discount
amounts back into Golden Tax Adaptor.
3.27.5.4. Italy: Annual VAT Extract
The Annual VAT declaration is a legal requirement in Italy. All Italian legal entities
must complete the Annual VAT declaration according to the specifications of the Italian
fiscal authority.
This release provides a standard extract which contains selected VAT details to assist
Italian customers to submit their Annual VAT declaration in their functional currency as
well as non-Italian customers to reconcile their VAT registers for their statutory reporting
needs.
3.27.5.5. Italy: Annual Withholding Extract
The Annual Withholding declaration is a legal requirement in Italy. All legal entities
must complete the fiscal template according to the specifications of the Italian fiscal
authority.
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This release provides a report that may be printed annually for each legal entity. The
report lists the withholding tax and the tax identification information related to partially
and fully paid payables transactions. This report is consistent with the information listed
on Italian Withholding Tax Letters.
3.27.5.6. Japan: Enhanced Support for Tax Reform 2007/2008
Japan’s Ministry of Finance announced new tax reforms for the calculation and reporting
of fixed asset depreciation.
Oracle Assets provides the following new features to support the Japanese tax reform
legislation:
1. Enhanced Legacy Data Migration for Japan Tax Reform
Prior 2007 Japan Tax Reform product enhancements allowed new assets added
into the system to be assigned the new depreciation methods. However,
customers also need the ability to easily assign existing assets to the new
mandated methods.
The following functionality enables users to migrate legacy assets:
This update has also been back-ported to 12.1.1 via the standalone patch:
8706842:R12.FA.B.
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accompanies the VAT Settlement ("Liquidación del IVA") and does not replace an
existing declaration ("Modelo"). This settlement can be performed monthly or annually.
In this release, a new file is available in accordance to the new legislation.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 8535502 1288794.1
12.0 8635531:R12.JE.A 1288812.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 8635531:R12.JE.B 1288812.1
3.27.5.8. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 347 Domestic Transactions Turnover Report
Changes
New guidelines include changes to the types of companies that are required to submit
Modelo 347. These guidelines were issued on December 30th, 2008, and are applicable
as of January 1st, 2009: Order EHA/3787/2008, of 29 of December, (BOE 30-diciembre-
2008). A series of updates and additional fields have been applied to the layout of
Modelo 347 report in accordance to the legislative requirements.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
3.27.5.9. Spain: VAT Legislation: Modelo 415 Canary Island Turnover Report Changes
Companies operating in the Canary Islands and subject to the Canary Islands Tax Regime
are required to submit an IGIC Modelo 415 file. A series of updates and additional fields
have been applied to the layout of Modelo 415 in accordance of the new legislative
requirements.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
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3.27.5.11. United Kingdom: Support for Revaluations and Impairments per Statement of
Recommended Practice for United Kingdom Local Authority Accounting
The Joint Committee for CIPFA/LASAAC published “A Statement of Recommended
Accounting Practice (SORP) 2006”. The SORP recommends how fixed assets owned by
UK Local Authorities are to be revalued starting from April 1, 2007.
Revaluation and impairment functionality in Oracle Assets now addresses the fixed asset
revaluation requirements as per SORP.
This update has also been back-ported to 12.1.1 via the standalone patch:
8706842:R12.FA.B.
3.27.5.12. U.S. Federal: New FACTS II Edit Checks and File Layout Changes
Closing Validation Edit 13 and Reclassification Edit 14 rules have been added as
configuration options for FACTS II processing in accordance with Treasury FMS
guidance. Additionally, the FACTS II Edit Check Detail Report has been modified to
include the status and supporting detail for these edits.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
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generates asset impairments and the appropriate General Ledger journals in accordance
with IAS 36 guidelines.
This update has also been back-ported to 12.1.1 via the standalone patch:
8706842:R12.FA.B.
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Release Patch Number
12.1.1/12.1.2 9480859:R12.JE.B
3.27.6.3. Brazil: Support for Brazilian Electronic Collection Document Process (DDA)
Effective October 2009, Oracle Financials for Latin America introduced two new
attributes in the Collection Document Window and in the Import Collection Documents
program to support the Brazilian Authorized Direct Debit (DDA) system:
• Collection Document Barcode: The Collection Document Barcode is required
for the Electronic File Transfer. This mandatory record speeds up the data entry
of manually collected documents and is now a required field in the Standard
Collection Document.
• Electronic Collection Document Flag: The Electronic Format (Y/N) flag
identifies if the respective collection document is electronic (Y) or standard (N).
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 8802352 1071872.1
12.0.5 9319746:R12.JL.A 987749.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 9319746:R12.JL.B 987749.1
3.27.6.4. China: Support for Version 2 of the China Accounting Software Data Interface
Standard
The China National Audit Office (CNAO) has defined a new version of their accounting
auditing filing standard, known as the China Accounting Software Data Interface
Standard. The new standard requires a number of XML-based reports, using data
primarily from the General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Assets, and Payroll
modules. It is currently required for state-owned enterprises and public sector
organizations.
3.27.6.5. India: Enhanced Value Added Tax (VAT) Functionality to Support Flexible
Recovery Schedule for India
Oracle Financials for India now provides the flexibility to use VAT recovery schedules
and percentages to derive the tax installments and dates to claim or recover VAT on
capital goods.
3.27.6.6. India: Value Added Tax (VAT) Statutory Accounting and Reporting for Non-
Shippable Items
Users can now have the ability to generate Value Added Tax Invoice Numbers, perform
VAT Repository updates, and account for VAT taxes for customer billable non-shippable
items on sales orders.
3.27.6.7. Israel: Israel VAT Report Enhancement
Effective January 2010, new legislation was introduced affecting companies issuing
periodic VAT declarations in Israel. The legislative changes include enhanced tax
reporting boxes for declared input and output taxes
• New electronic flat file format declaration related to 835
• Aggregated reporting of taxable sales transactions below the official published
limits
• Monthly percentage or amounts limits for tax reclaimed on Petty Cash
transactions
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• Mandatory declaration of export trade transactions (Rshimon Export).
The EMEA VAT Reporting Setup has been updated to capture monthly aggregation and
declaration limits for Israel.
The following Israeli reports have been enhanced to incorporate the legislative changes:
• Israeli VAT AR Detail Report
• Israeli VAT AP Detail Report
• Israeli VAT Summary Declaration to Tax Authorities
• Israeli VAT File Generation Related to 835.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0.6 9241039:R12.JE.A 981126.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 9241039:R12.JE.B 981126.1
3.27.6.9. U.S. Federal: Extract File Changes for Central Contractor Registration (CCR)
CCR processing has been enhanced to process the BPN extract v4.09 files. The extracts
contain additional NAICS information, as well as the Excluded Parties List System
(EPLS) status. The CCRXML request version number has been updated to 2.10. The
CCR Vendors pages have also been updated to display the additional information.
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3.27.6.10. U.S. Federal: Regulatory Updates to Statement of Budgetary Resources
The setup and concurrent process for the following Federal Financial Statements have
been modified to align with OMB Circular A-136 Revised (dated June 10, 2009) as well
as USSGL Fiscal Year 2010 crosswalk attributes:
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• Provide Create or Change Date identifier as required under register I100 (Cost
Center)
• Automatic defaulting of Taxpayer ID (i.e. CNPJ/CPF) when defining Third Party
Participants
• Generate digital transcript signature (register I151) for register I150 (periodic
balances) for the Bookkeeping Type B.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0 11653651.R12.JL.A 1299664.1
12.1.x 11653651.R12.JL.B 1299664.1
3.27.7.2. Brazil: Fiscal SPED – Electronic Invoice Layout Update (Manual 4.01)
The following attributes are generated and/or captured in order for Fiscal Partners to
communicate Electronic Invoices to Fiscal Authorities:
• Numeric Access Key Code generated by the Electronic Invoice Attributes
window
• Wagon and Ferry Identification captured at the Shipping Transaction and
Electronic Invoice Attributes window
• Industry Specific Attributes on Receivables Transaction Workbench and open
interface
• Additional Attributes for Multiple Towing Vehicles on Shipping Transactions,
Receivables Transaction Workbench and open interface.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 10215640
12.0 10184720:R12.JL.A 1185914.1
12.1.x 10184720.R12.JL.B 1185914.1
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12.0 11825724:R12.JL.A
12.1.x 11825724.R12.JL.B
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Release Patch Number My Oracle Support Knowledge
Document
11.5.10 10394365 1272898.1
12.0 11692550:R12.JE.A 1274628.1
12.1.x 11692550.R12.JE.B 1274628.1
• Report Layout
• Monthly reporting support
• New Transaction Key reporting
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
12.0 9860980:R12.JE.A 1145773.1
12.1.x 9860980.R12.JE.B 1145773.1
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4221/ 4251/4230/4233/4212 can only have balances for Treasury Account
Symbols with the Non-Federal Exception Allowed checkbox checked.
Additionally, the FACTS II Edit Check Detail Report has been modified to include the
status and supporting detail for the above edits.
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 11799569 1299711.1
12.0 11683152:R12.FV.A 1299711.1
12.1.1/12.1.2 11683152.R12.FV.B 1299711.1
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Accounting Software standard for State-owned Enterprise, Public Sectors, Ministries and
Their Administration Units and State-owned Commercial Bank.
The standard requires those entities could export their financial statements and
accounting data periodically by specific XML format.
China Accounting Software Data Interface Banking feature complies with the standard of
commercial bank portion to export the required financial statements and accounting
information from the General Ledger. The solution includes two components which are
shared information data export and general ledger data export.
3.27.8.3. India: NSDL eTDS and eTCS Returns
Oracle Financials for India now supports filing of eTDS and eTCS quarterly statutory
returns using the file validation utility 3.6 released by National Securities Depositories
Limited which are mandatory from October, 2012.
3.27.8.4. India: TCS Product Impact Support
Oracle Financials for India now supports Tax Collected at Source (TCS) sale of certain
minerals, cash sale of bullion and jewelry that are released as part of the budget changes
announced by the Federal Government of India in March, 2012.
3.27.8.5. India: Service Tax Reverse Charge Mechanism
Oracle Financials for India now supports, Reverse Charge on service tax where the
service tax is to be paid by the service receiver and not by the service provider, along
with partial payment of service tax service provider and service receiver.
3.27.8.6. Russia: Enable Revaluation at Year End
In December 2010, a new Russian legal requirement was announced mandating that in
2011 and later, asset revaluations are to be performed at year end and reflected in the
financial results of the year being closed. In compliance with this new requirement, the
Oracle Assets revaluation functionality has been extended to allow users to include the
current period depreciation in the accumulated depreciation being revalued.
3.27.8.7. United Kingdom: Modulus Check Validations for Bank Accounts in the United
Kingdom
The existing account number validations for United Kingdom domestic bank accounts
only check the length of the account number. These validations are performed during the
entry and update of bank accounts.
With this release the account number validations for United Kingdom are enhanced to
include a modulus check validation along with the length checks.
To enable the modulus checks, a new concurrent program – "Load UK Domestic
Account Validations Data" – has been provided to load the modulus validation data from
text files that are provided and periodically updated by VocaLink Ltd. This includes:
• Modulus Weights Table Data
• Sorting Code Substitution Data.
This update has also been back-ported to 12.1.x via the standalone patch:
16511168:R12.CE.B.
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3.27.9. Release 12.2.3
3.27.9.1. Brazil: Resolution 13 – Import Content Attributes
Oracle Financials for Brazil has been changed to capture additional information required
as part of the Federal Senate Resolution 13/2012, and subsequent Agreement 38/2013.
The solution provided will let users:
• Define new Item Origin codes
• Assign the new Item Origin Codes to inventory items and item templates
• Manually enter and/or import Item Origin Codes at Order Entry lines, Memo
Lines and Transaction lines
• Associate the newly introduced Import Content related attributes to inventory
items and item templates
• Enter/Update the Import Content related attributes at Transaction Line level
(defaulted from inventory item).
This update has also been back-ported to the following releases:
Release Patch Number My Oracle Support
Knowledge Document
11.5.10 16665395 1571019.1
12.0.6 16665388:R12.JL.A 1571019.1
12.1.x 16665388:R12.JL.B 1571019.1
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• Definition of tax related attributes such as ICMS Deferred Rate, ICMS Deferred
Amount and ICMS Exemption Reason
• Enter and/or modify reporting information at Sales Orders level
• Enter and/or modify reporting information at Electronic Invoice Attributes
window
• Enter and/or modify reporting information at Electronic Invoice Line Attributes
window, including Import Control and Export Control reporting attributes.
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• Define Rollup Groups, Summary Accounts and maintain account balances at
those levels
• Define multiple configuration scenarios (via the Mexican Electronic Accounting
Configuration window) used as the main input criteria to generate the Chart of
Accounts and Trial Balance reports
• Map Company´s Primary Chart of Account with SAT´s Chart of Account
• Generate the Mexican Chart of Accounts - XML File (CATALOGO) as per
Configuration setup, as many times required
• Generate the Mexican Trial Balance - XML File (BALANZA) as per
Configuration setup, as required.
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Historic Net Book Value the relationship between the Salvage Value, Historic Net Book
Value, and Revaluation Reserve Balance must be maintained to ensure the revaluation
reserve amortization does not exceed the Historic Net Book Value on the asset.
As a result, when performing salvage value adjustments on a previously revalued asset,
Oracle assets will determine and adjust the revaluation reserve amortization basis as
necessary to ensure the Revaluation Reserve Balance does not exceed the Historic Net
Book Value on the asset.
3.27.11. Release 12.2.6
3.27.11.1. Brazil: Brazilian Accounting SPED - Layout 3
In March 2015, the Federal Revenue Agency of Brazil (RFB) released the ECD Layout 3
Guidance Manual of the Digital Accounting Bookkeeping - "ECD" (SPED Accounting).
The Brazilian Accounting SPED Data Extract Program has been updated to generate the
new and modified Bookkeeping Types and Registers, in accordance with the new
guidelines as follows:
• New Bookkeeping Type ´S´
• Addition of New Registers
• 0035 - SCP Identification
• J935 - Identification of Independent Auditors
• Existing Register Changes
• 0000 - Flat File Opening and Company Identification
• I010 - Accounting Bookkeeping Identification
• I015 - Summary accounting bookkeeping identification related to auxiliary
bookkeeping
• I030 - Opening Term
• I051- Referential Chart of Accounts
• J930 - Bookkeeping Signatories Identification.
• SEFAZ defined values for the IPI code according to the legal framework,
including the IPI exemption code related to the Olympics 2016. Also it was set a
new ICMS Exemption Reason related to the Olympics 2016
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• New ICMS tax calculation rules
• New field: ICMS calculation basis of the recipient State
• New field: ICMS Internal rate of the recipient State
• New field: ICMS Interstate rate (The ship from and ship to locations are in
different states)
• New field: Provisional percentage to be applied on the value of the ICMS for
sharing between the two states
• New field: Sharing ICMS value due to the recipient State
• New field: Sharing ICMS value due to the sender State
• New field: new field to inform the Identification Code of Tax Replacement
(CEST).
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12.2.x 13599326:R12.JE.C 1438397.1
3.27.11.5. Italy: Italian VAT Plafond - Letter of Intent Process Change 2015
From February 2015, the ‘Letter of Intent’ process, which is a subset of the VAT Plafond
process, was modified as follows:
• Per supplier, the exporter is to create an electronic file according to the technical
specifications defined by the Italian Revenue Agency
• The file is to be transmitted electronically to the Italian Revenue Agency
• Per electronic file received, the Italian Revenue Agency sends by email a receipt
assigning the pertinent transmission protocol number per ‘Letter of Intent’
• Exporter is required to send a receipt and paper ‘Letter of Intent’ to the supplier.
The paper ‘Letter of Intent’ is to be printed according to the pre-defined format
defined by the Italian Revenue Agency
The following modifications have been made to address the new changes:
• Allows identification of the VAT Plafond Type (i.e. Fixed or Mobile)
• Ability to enter newly required data elements for a given Letter of Intent
• Ability to amend Letters of Intent
• Generation of Letter of Intent in Electronic format as per legal specifications
• Generation of Letter of Intent in pre-defined paper format.
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3.27.11.7. Japan: Japan My Number Act - Japanese Depreciable Assets Tax Reports,
2016
In May 2013, the Japanese government passed the "My Number Act". The act requires
Japanese Individuals and Companies be assigned unique numbers to track income, social
security, taxes and anti-disaster measures. A new field, "Personal Number or Corporate
Number" has been added to the Company Information for the Japanese Depreciable
Assets Tax Reports Setup of Oracle Assets to capture this unique number. The Oracle
Business Intelligence Publisher report template for the Japanese Depreciable Assets Tax
Summary Reports has been modified to display the unique number.
3.27.11.8. Spain: Spanish Modelo 190 - Withholding Tax File Changes 2015
Effective January 1, 2016 and retroactive to January 1, 2015, changes to the Spanish
Modelo 190 Withholding reporting content and format commenced.
The Spanish Modelo 190 Withholding File which is supplied by all companies
withholding amounts in Spain from payments to employees, professionals and
autonomous workers was modified to reflect the new requirements.
The following reports and programs have been modified in support of the new formatting
and data requirements:
• Spanish Operations Spanish Withholding Tax Data Extract (190)
• Spanish Withholding Tax Magnetic Format (Modelo 190).
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4.1.1.7. Breakpoint Flexibility
Complete flexibility in setting up line items and breakpoint definitions has been
introduced. With this feature, users can:
• Set up complex agreements with changes to breakpoints, rates, breakpoint types,
line items, etc., occurring on any date, any number of times over the span of the
lease.
• Enter line item and breakpoint details with any start and end date, not restricted
to sales year start and end dates.
4.1.1.8. Updating Breakpoints
Users can now change breakpoint definitions at any time, regardless of whether variable
rent has been calculated and approved. To respond to amendments or to correct data,
users can change most parts of a variable rent agreement. If the changes affect rent that
has been approved, the application will create adjusting terms.
4.1.1.9. Natural Breakpoint Enhancements
When the terms that form the basis for a natural breakpoint change, whether because of a
rent increase or because a user added or ended a term, the system now automatically
recalculates the natural breakpoints. The user can recalculate the variable rent; and if the
changes affect rent that has been approved, the application will create adjusting terms.
Users now select terms to form the basis for natural breakpoints using a new attribute on
the term, allowing complete control over which terms are to be included.
Users can now have rent increases, selectively, included in the natural breakpoint basis as
the increases are assessed.
4.1.1.10. Early Termination of Agreement or Lease
The user can now end variable rent agreements as of any date, either directly or by
terminating a lease. The system will perform any recalculations necessary if variable rent
has already been paid for affected periods and will create adjusting and/or reversing
terms.
4.1.1.11. Extension of Variable Rent Agreements
The user can now extend the length of variable rent agreements, or have the system
extend the agreement automatically when a lease is extended. The user also chooses
whether to have the system automatically extend the latest breakpoint definitions when
the agreement is extended or to manually enter the breakpoint definition detail for the
extension period.
4.1.1.12. New Calculation Methods
Two new calculation methods have been introduced for Variable Rent.
• Year-to-Date. The system determines overage by comparing the cumulative
breakpoint with the cumulative sales (or other volume).
• True Up. The system calculates variable rent periodically through the year with a
non-cumulative method and then does a True Up calculation at the end of the
year (or other appropriate period).
4.1.1.13. New Partial Year Calculation Methods
Several new methods (in addition to the existing Standard Proration) have been
introduced to calculate variable rent in partial years at the beginning or end of an
agreement.
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• First Year. A partial first year variable rent is calculated based on the first 12
months of sales, effectively using some sales from the second year as proxy for
the missing months in the first year. The resulting rent is prorated based on the
actual length of the first partial year.
• Last Year. This is the equivalent of the First Year method, applied to partial last
years.
• First Year / Last Year. If this Partial Year Method is selected, both the First Year
and Last Year methods will be applied.
• Combined Year with Breakpoint Proration. The first partial year is combined
with the second year. For cumulative and year-to-date methods, breakpoints and
volumes continue to accumulate for more than 12 months. The breakpoints are
effectively ‘annualized’ because the period of breakpoint accumulation matches
the period of volume accumulation.
• Combined Year without Breakpoint Proration. The first partial year is combined
with the second year. A blended annual breakpoint is calculated for the
combined period, converted to a 12-month value. This is used as the basis for
breakpoints for all methods. Since the combined year is longer than 12 months,
and the sales are accumulated for that longer period, the breakpoint accumulation
is not matched to the volume accumulation and the breakpoint is not, in effect,
annualized.
• No Proration. The breakpoints are used as entered, without proration. There is
no interaction or combination between values in the first partial year and the
second year.
4.1.1.14. Month-to-Month Roll Forward of Variable Rent Agreements
If a lease is in Month-to-Month status, the user can choose to automatically extend the
variable rent agreement with each monthly roll-forward of the Month-to-Month
extension.
4.1.1.15. Enhancement to Cumulative Calculation Method
When the overage rate for calculation of variable rent changes mid-year, accumulation of
volume recommences. Breakpoints are prorated to the length of the ‘cumulative cycle’
determined by sales year end dates or rate changes.
4.1.1.16. Allowances and Abatements
There are a number of enhancements related to allowances and abatements. Users can:
• Create multiple allowances with effective dates.
• Specify whether allowances or abatements are to be applied first.
• Select terms for recurring abatement at the time that agreements are created.
• Roll forward recurring abatement selections automatically and have the system
apply abatements automatically as part of the variable rent calculation process.
• Enter amounts for ‘Fixed Abatement.’ This is a new type of abatement. A fixed
abatement is an amount entered by the user to be applied as abatement for each
invoice period, much like the system applies the amount of recurring abatement
terms each invoice period.
4.1.1.17. Carry Forward of Excess Abatement as Negative Rent
Users can now control through an agreement parameter whether excess abatement
amounts are treated as negative rent.
4.1.1.18. Constraints
Users can now set start and end dates for constraints for the life of the agreement rather
than setting them up for each year.
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4.1.1.19. Updating Volumes
Users can now update previously entered volume amounts through the Variable Rent
Gateway, where previously the only way to do an adjustment was by entering an
additional volume record (with a positive or negative adjusting amount).
4.1.1.20. Additional Frequency Attribute
The attribute called ‘Reporting Frequency’ in previous functionality determined two
different frequencies, which sometimes should have had different values. This attribute
has been split into two attributes:
• Calculation Frequency. The frequency with which variable rent is calculated.
This was the primary purpose of the former ‘Reporting Frequency.’
• Reporting Frequency. The frequency with which the tenant is required to report
volumes. This frequency does not affect calculations but does affect the logic by
which the Variable Rent Gateway creates default volume entry rows.
4.1.1.21. Streamlining of Adjustments
Users can now recalculate variable rent at any time, to accommodate for changed
volume, breakpoints or other factors. The system will create adjusting terms if necessary.
There is no longer a separate adjustment process.
4.1.1.22. Form Enhancements
There have been many enhancements to layouts and navigation, decreasing the number of
screens and improving usability.
• A number of multi-row views have been converted to folder blocks to allow for
user configuration.
• Drilldowns have been added between the invoice review screen and the line item
review screen.
• Multi-row views have been combined on a single screen with a master-detail
relationship to reduce the number of screens and present information in a more
intuitive layout.
4.1.1.23. Display of Calculation Results
Users can review in detail, on-screen, the calculation that resulted in the variable rent
amount, regardless of which method is used for the agreement.
4.1.1.24. Variable Rent Templates
Users may select a variable rent template to populate many of the attributes of a variable
rent agreement. This reduces data entry effort and error.
4.1.1.25. Term Template Enhancements
Users can now create, edit and save term templates from within the variable rent
agreement. Now, users can maintain a relatively small number of generic term templates
to use as the starting point for term detail defaults for variable rent agreements. The user
will select a generic term template then, if necessary, make a copy with changes specific
to the agreement.
4.1.1.26. Processing by Property
Property has been added as a parameter to the concurrent process for calculation of
variable rent so that users can now select agreements by property for batch calculation.
4.1.1.27. Improved Variable Rent Report
An improved report has been introduced for reporting calculated variable rent.
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4.1.1.28. Early Termination of Rent Increase Agreements
The user can now end rent increase agreements as of any date, either directly or by
terminating a lease. The system will create adjusting and/or reversing items as necessary.
4.1.1.29. Extension of Rent Increase Agreements
The user can now extend the length of rent increase agreements, or have the system
extend the agreement automatically when a lease is extended.
4.1.1.30. Month-to-Month Roll Forward
If a lease is in Month-to-Month status, the user can choose to automatically extend the
rent increase agreement with each monthly roll-forward of the Month-to-Month
extension.
4.1.1.31. Index Multiplier
Users can now specify a multiplier to be applied for rent increases based on an index
value. The amount specified is multiplied times the calculated change in the index
amount and the rent is changed by the resulting value rather than by the actual index
change percentage.
4.1.1.32. Proration
The system will now prorate constraints on rent increase for partial years.
4.1.1.33. Term Length
One compounding rent increase calculation method has been changed so that rent
increase terms are created only for the length of the assessment period rather than to the
end of the lease. This is appropriate for this method so that users now do not need to
manually change the term lengths.
4.1.1.34. Include/Exclude Option
A system option has been introduced that controls how terms are selected to form the
basis for rent increases. With previous functionality, all terms of the selected type were
selected by default for inclusion and users would deselect terms as appropriate. An
organization now can choose whether terms are included or excluded by default. Users
will still have complete control at the individual agreement level.
4.1.1.35. Recurring Backbill Terms
An option has been introduced that controls whether backbill terms are created as one-
time terms or as recurring terms. If they are created as recurring terms, the transaction
date for all resulting schedules is set to the same date, which is the date that the term was
approved.
4.1.1.36. Rent Increase Report
An improved report has been introduced for reporting calculated rent increases.
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• All common ways of determining the pro rata basis for expense recovery, such as
occupied area with floor
• Multiple pro rata bases within a single agreement
• Administration fees and anchor contributions
• Rules governing recovery of different expense groups or pools, within a single
agreement, such as whether a type of expense is subject to fees or cap
• All common methods for calculating caps and minimums
• Different reconciliation frequencies
• Whether rent is subject to tax
• Stop amounts
• How reconciliation credits can be applied
• Standard expense group naming, for cross-portfolio comparisons
• Critical date rules, such as audit period and statement and payment due dates
• Extensive notes, by category.
4.1.1.38. Enter and Maintain Estimated Payment Terms
If the agreement requires the tenant to make estimated payments based on landlord
budgets, the user can create the payment term through the Operating Expense Agreement.
Estimated payment amounts are often adjusted by landlords annually or at other intervals.
The user can enter new amounts through the Agreement and the system will create the
appropriate term, including a catch-up term if needed. A history of the changing amount
is thus captured and displayed, with percent change.
4.1.1.39. Reconciliation
Reconciliation is created for each agreement for each reconciliation period. The user can
record information from the landlord reconciliation statement and use the reconciliation
screens as a ‘workbench’ for doing a desktop audit of the reconciliation statement.
Features include:
• Key entry, from the landlord reconciliation statement, of information not
available to the user from other sources, such as actual landlord expenses.
• Optional entry of the same items, in an ‘Expected’ column, if the user
has information that conflicts with the values presented by the landlord.
• Presentation by the system of information that is known based on the Operating
Expense Agreement, previous payments, and prior reconciliations, such as
calculated cap amount, agreement fee percentage and amount already paid as
estimated payments.
• Optional entry of the same items in the ‘Statement’ column, if the
amounts on the landlord statement are not the same as expected.
• Detailed presentation of the operating expense obligation calculation, in side-by-
side layout, showing the values from the landlord statement next to the values
expected by the user. The calculation includes caps, fees, contributions,
occupancy adjustments and stops, pro rata share calculation, and prior payment
amounts.
• Presentations of the percent change over the prior period for each expense group,
the total landlord expense, and the tenant share of expenses.
• Printable version of the detailed reconciliation analysis with side-by-side
comparison.
• Simple creation of reconciliation payment term based on the bottom line of the
reconciliation analysis, or simply the payment due amount on the landlord
reconciliation statement.
• Flexible expense year dates, or reconciliation period dates, so that reconciliations
can be done at irregular intervals if needed.
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• Reconciliation notes and direct access to notes related to the agreement and to
prior reconciliations.
• Maintenance of critical dates specific to each reconciliation, such as audit period
end date.
• Tracking of reconciliation and audit status, and users responsible for each.
• Preservation of prior versions of a single reconciliation.
4.1.1.40. Operating Expense Agreement Dashboard
A dashboard presents agreements, reconciliations, and related payment terms that are
likely to need attention, based on user-configurable selection criteria. The dashboard also
has advanced query capability for searching for agreements, reconciliations and/or
payment terms.
Users can select existing objects for view or update, or can initiate creation of new
agreements, reconciliations or payment terms from the dashboard.
4.1.2. Release 12.1.3+
4.1.2.1. Business Event Workflow and Status Update
A new business event approval workflow integrated with approvals manager and lease
status update is now available. A new approval 'Submitted' status has been introduced to
prevent the lease from being updated when the approval workflow has been initiated but
not yet approved or rejected.
4.1.2.2. Lease and Terms APIs
Lease and Terms API’s are now available to programmatically convert legacy system
leases and update existing leases details and payment terms into Oracle Property
Manager.
4.1.2.3. Variable Rent and Breakpoint APIs
The variable rent API’s provide a standard and consistent integration mechanism with
customer’s legacy variable rent systems. The API’s provide users with the ability to
create new or update existing variable rent agreements, to generate periods and
breakpoints, abatements and constraints for Variable Rent.
4.1.2.4. Index Rent APIs
New Index Rent API’s are available to create new or update existing index rent
agreements. Based on parameters provided by the user, the APIs will generate the index
rent details and periods for new and existing agreements.
4.1.2.5. Operating Expense Support for Advance Payments
Tenants create payments for operating expenses through the Oracle Property Manager
Operating Expense Dashboard to prevent duplicate payments and validate compliance
with the operating expense agreement terms. Now they can process one-time advance
payments to the landlord for prepaid expenses, such as estimated tax and insurance
premiums.
4.1.2.6. Normalization Support for Multiple Amendments and Partial Periods
Property Manager renormalizes lease terms when changes are made using either the edit
or amend functions. When users need to amend lease payments mid-month, Property
Manager prorates the normalized amount for the partial month using the selected
proration rule.
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4.1.2.7. Variable Rent Agreement Invoice Date Derivation
A new profile option PN: Variable Rent Billing Date enables you to select the desired
logic to derive the billing period start date. This profile option applies only if you select
GL Calendar for a variable rent agreement. You can set the profile option to one of the
following:
Invoice Period Start Plus 30 Days: This option is the default value and it derives the
billing date as the invoice period start date plus 30 days. You can also leave the profile
option blank to use this option.
Last Date of Calendar Period: This option generates the billing date on the last date of
calendar period.
4.1.2.8. GL Date Derived from Period Name
You have options to derive GL date using the Transfer Normalized Lines to GL
concurrent program. Use the default value, Due Date, to derive the GL Date based on the
due date of the payment schedule. Optionally, you can select Period Name to derive the
GL Date based on the period name associated to the payment schedule.
4.1.2.9. Rent Normalization for Mid-Month Proration
Oracle Property Manager prorates normalized lease payments when the amendment
commencement date is in the middle of the month. For example, when your payments are
monthly and the lease begins mid-month, Property Manager applies the proration rule
you selected in the Details window to prorate the normalized amount for that month.
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