General Ledger End User Manual
General Ledger End User Manual
By
GL TEAM
General Ledger End User Training Manual
CONTENTS
Contents ii
1 INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Overview of ERP and General Ledger module......................................................4
1.2 Understanding the Application User Interface.....................................................5
1.2.1 Login to Oracle & Password..................................................................................5
2 Journal Entry.................................................................................................................. 14
2.1 Entering New Journals (OMR)..................................................................................14
2.2 New Journals (Foreign Currency)............................................................................24
2.3 Create Recurring Journals.......................................................................................... 26
2.3.1 Skeleton...................................................................................................................... 27
4 Budget.............................................................................................................................. 61
4.1 Creation of budgets....................................................................................................... 61
4.2 Budget Transfer.............................................................................................................. 77
5 Inquiry............................................................................................................................. 84
5.1 Account Inquiry.............................................................................................................. 85
5.2 Budget/Funds Inquiry................................................................................................. 89
5.2.1 Budget Inquiry........................................................................................................ 89
6 Revaluation..................................................................................................................... 96
6.1 Overview of revaluation.............................................................................................. 96
7 Consolidation................................................................................................................. 99
7.1 Overview........................................................................................................................... 99
8 Reports.......................................................................................................................... 106
8.1 Predefined Reports..................................................................................................... 106
8.2 Financial Statement Generator Reports.............................................................109
1 INTRODUCTION
It is a onetime installation of multiple modules (Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, General
Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets etc,) to efficiently manage the organization resources.
Equity Group will benefit from implementation of ERP in the following ways:
Sharing of common data by different functions ensure that there is no data redundancy and
redundant data entry.
The General Ledger module will enable us enter, maintain, and report on actual accounting
information for the enterprise efficiently. Among the functions it will handle include:
Budgeting
Consolidations
2. Enter Password
3. Click on Login
In Oracle ERP a responsibility is a level of authority in your organization, assigned to you by the
business. Your responsibility determines which functions, forms and data you can access as
appropriate to your role within Equity Bank.
Responsibilities
1. In the left pane under Applications click on the required responsibility, for example, EB
General Ledger Super User
2. In the right pane click on the task you wish to perform, for example, Journals > Enter
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) enables you to navigate throughout the application with
ease.
It is composed of a series of menus and icons:
Fields
Windows
Buttons
Mandatory
Note: All fields appearing in YELLOW are mandatory. They should be entered so that the
application allows you to go the next step.
The toolbar is a collection of icon buttons, where each button performs a specific action when
you choose it. Each toolbar button replicates a commonly used menu item. Depending on the
context of the current field or window, a toolbar button can be enabled or disabled. You can
display help for an enabled toolbar button by holding your mouse over the button.
Print Prints the current screen that the cursor is in. In some cases
it may print a report associated with the current data.
Paste Pastes from the clipboard into the current field, and replaces
any selection. This command is available only if you have cut
or copied text.
Edit Field Displays the Editor window for the current field.
The Navigator window allows you to navigate to the required forms or windows within your
responsibility.
A cross beside a menu option, +, indicates that it contains sub-menus that can be expanded.
The following symbols can be used to navigate within the Navigator window:
2 JOURNAL ENTRY
“Batch” is a set of journals. Related journals can be grouped into a batch to enable carrying out certain
tasks on the group like approvals. To create a new batch:
1. Click on Open
2. Click on New Batch or New Journal to enter the journal without batching.
1. Click on Journals
a) “Journal” Name
b) “Journal Description”
c) “Category”
d) “Period’
e) “Effective Date’
a) “Line” number
7. Save
Assumption: Exchange rate types have been defined and rates entered (See App 1)
5) Follow the steps in 2.3 for entering line and other information, checking/reserving funds, approval
and posting.
Journals Screen
Recurring Journals are used for the repetitive entries like Monthly Accruals etc
Skeleton
Standard
Formulas
2.3.1 Skeleton
This means only the “Natural accounts” will be set, without any amounts. System will generate the
empty Journal entry without any amounts, which can be entered in the journal at a future date.
6) Click on Lines
1) Click on “Generate”
2) Select Period
3) Select Submit
2) Click on Find
6) To check status, close the journal entry screen and click on re-query button
2) At the formula section of the screen (see below), enter formular steps. E.g.to get 10% of the amount
spent on advertising expenses,
a) Enter the advertising expenses account no to get the amount. Select the balance type and
amount type as required
b) Enter the operator in this case multiplication and the percentage in the amount cell
2.4.1 Steps
1. Create & Post a statistical (ratio of allocation) journal for the allocation of the expense
2. Post the expense journal
3. Define Mass Allocation Formula
4. Generate the Mass Allocation Journal
5. Post the Mass Allocation Journal
Statistical Journals are used for allocation of expenses across departments etc
Formulas screen
A = Select the “Source” account for the base amount for allocation
B = Select the ‘Source” or any other account, for statistical quantity with Currency type
As “Statistical” (Choose “L” for Type for Account) to get the numerator value.
C = Select the ‘Source” or any other account, for statistical quantity with Currency type
As “Statistical” (Choose “C” for Type for Account) to get the denominator value.
T = Select the ‘Target” or any other account, to which the allocated amount has to be
O = Select the “Target” account (ie credit account) which is selected for type “A”
2.5
4) Click on OK
5) Click on “Requery”
2) Click on “Reverse Batch” for reversing all the journals in the batch (Or)
5) Ok
1. Select Layout
3. Click on Open
4. Select Ledger
5. Select Category
6. Select Source
7. Select Currency
Click on upload
4 BUDGET
5. Click on “Ranges”
5) Save
3) Save
5) Click on OK
9) Click on ‘Apply’
5) Click on “Done”
4. Save
6. If “Funds Check” failed, renter the amount & “Check Funds” again
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8. Click on Post
13. Save
14. Close
5 INQUIRY
Enables inquiry of the Actual balance and comparisons between Actual and Budget
The following parameter can be selected to view the account balances and comparison between Actual
and Budget
2. Accounting period To
Displays the original budget balances that have been entered for summary accounts only.
1. Select Budget
2. Select Period
1. Select Budget
2. Select Period
3. Click on Go
6 REVALUATION
Revaluation process, revalues all the foreign currency denominated balances to the exchange rate of the
specified date.
7 CONSOLIDATION
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7.1 OVERVIEW
Consolidation is the period-end process of combining the financial results of separate subsidiaries with
the parent company to form a single, combined statement of financial results.
NAVIGATION: ConsolidationWorkbench
By default system will consider the current ledger as the Parent ledger for consolidation
1. Click on Find
Consolidation workbench
2. Click on Consolidation
Consolidation Definition screen
10. Click on Transfer button to transfer journal entries from subsidiaries to Consolidation Parent.
11. Click on Review Journal to review consolidation journals.
12. Click on Post to post the journals
8 REPORTS
Account Analysis - Contra Account Use this report to print balances by account
segment and list the subledger document number
for transactions imported from subledgers. You
can print this report by date range, accounting
flexfield range, contra account, and amount range.
Account Analysis – (132 Char) This report prints the journal entry lines and
beginning and ending balances of the accounts you
request. For each journal entry line, the report
prints the source, category, batch name, journal
entry name, account, description,
entry/line/source item reference
Budget - Funds Available Analysis Use the Funds Available Analysis Report to
measure budgets against expenditures to
determine the balance of funds available for your
future expenditures.
Currency - Daily Conversion Rates This listing prints the rate type for each conversion
rate as well as the date on which you defined the
Listing
rate. General Ledger sorts the listing alphabetically
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entered.
Journals by Document Number Report General Ledger prints the journals in ascending
order by document number. For each journal, the
report prints the creation date, batch name,
journal name, category, posting status, posted
date, currency, and journal amounts.
Journals - Day Book Review posted journal entries and journal details
chronologically by accounting date for a specified
range of dates, journal source, and journal
category.
Journals – Check Use the Journal Check Report to check the data
entry of manually entered journals prior to
posting. You can check, field by field, all data
entered into the system or data imported from
external sources
Journals - Extended Use this report to view data contained in each field
for your journals. You can check manually entered
data or data imported to General Ledger from
other sources.
2. Click on OK
Submission of Report
NAVIGATION: Reports Request Financial