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BASICS OF ORACLE RECEIVABLES
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Objective
The objective of this training document is to introduce the Oracle Receivables Module (11.5.10.2) to the Sierra
Atlantic employees who are new to Oracle Application and to train them in using this module for their operations.
This document is prepared keeping in view the requirements of Sierra Atlantic program to conduct training in
Oracle Apps. For further and full information on Oracle Receivables Module, reference may be made to the
Receivables User Guide, released by Oracle Corporation.
The users would develop conversance and expertise if and only if they devote sufficient time in practicing on the
product with specific reference to the daily activities carried on by each of them.
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1.
Introduction
2.
Setups
3.
Receivables Masters
4.
Transaction Processing
5.
Collection Overview
6.
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Accounting Entries
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Contents
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Introduction
Basic Concepts
Setups
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Receovable Masters
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Customer
Prerequisites
Payment Terms
Collectors
Sales Person
Customer Profile Class
Creation of new customer
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Bank Details
Tax(Tax Codes, Location, Tax Authority)
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Transaction Processing
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Prerequisites
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Transaction Types
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Transaction Source
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Receipts
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Prerequisites
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Receipt Class
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Receipt Source
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Collection
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Customer Calls
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Customer Accounts
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Aging
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Customer Correspondence
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Introduction
Module Overview
Oracle Receivables provides four integrated workbenches that are used to perform most of daytoday Accounts
Receivable operations.
For example, in the Transactions Workbench, you can query transactions based on the billto or shipto
customer, currency, transaction number, or General Ledger date. You can then review financial, application, and
installment information, perform adjustments, create a credit memo, or complete the transaction.
Receivables Overview
Receivable is integrated with Order Management, Oracle General Ledger. This allows you to access your
purchasing information online and match invoices to purchase orders or purchase order receipts or drill down
facility of payables accounts in General Ledge.
Basic Functions of the module:
Receipt
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Basic Concepts
Transactions: These include invoices, debit memos, credit memos, deposits, guarantees and chargeback entered
with a GL date that is between the beginning and ending GL dates. The transactions are displayed in the
Transaction Register in the Functional Currency column.
Invoice: A document that you create in Receivables that lists amounts owed for the purchases of goods or
services. This document also lists any tax, freight charges, and payment terms.
Debit Memos: Debits that you assign to a customer to collect additional charges. For example, you may want to
charge a customer for unearned discounts taken, additional freight charges, taxes, or finance charges.
Credit memos : a document that partially or fully reverses an original invoice. You can create credit memos in the
Receivables Credit Transactions window or with Auto Invoice.
Deposit : A type of commitment whereby a customer agrees to deposit or prepay a sum of money for the future purchase of
goods and services.
Guarantee: A contractual obligation to purchase a specified amount of goods or services over a predefined
period of time.
Charge Back: A new debit item that you assign to your customer when closing an existing, outstanding debit
item. It is created only in Receipt Workbench.
Receipt: A document that you create in Receivables that shows the amount collected from the customers for
the purchases of goods or services. You can enter receipts manually, import them using AutoLockbox, or create
them automatically. You can also use this workbench to clear or risk eliminate factored receipts, remit automatic
receipts, create chargebacks and adjustments, and submit Post QuickCash to automatically update your
customer's account balance.
Payment terms: Payment Terms specify the dates by which the customer is supposed to make the payments for
the invoices raised for him. A payment term is attached to the customers profile class. This is in turn defaults to
the customer level. At the time of raising invoices for the customer, the ayment terms attached to the customer
defaults to the transaction level.
Transfer to GL The process of transferring accounting entries from Oracle subledger applications to the
GL_INTERFACE table in General Ledger. When entries are transferred from the subledgers, the subledger
system marks the entries in the subledger tables as posted, even though they have not been posted in General
Ledger. Entries modify General Ledger balances only when Journal Import is run and the subsequent entries are
posted.
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Setups
Setting up is the process where the Oracle Applications Modules will be configured to meet the requirements of
an organization based on their requirements.
Setups Summary
Following are the steps involved in the setting up Oracle Receivables Module. However before configuring the
Oracle Receivables ensure whether the following Prerequisites are complied with:
General Pre-requisites:
Following are the steps involved in the setting up Oracle Receivables Module.
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Particulars
Define Sets of Books
Decide How to Use the Account Generator
Define Transaction Flexfield Structure
Define Descriptive Flexfields
Define Organizations
Define Sales Tax Location Flexfield Structure
Define AutoCash Rule Sets
Define Receivables Lookups
Define Demand Class Lookups
Define Invoice Line Ordering Rules
Define Grouping Rules
Define Application Rule Sets:
Define System Options
Define Flexible Address Formats
Maintain Countries and Territories
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Particulars
Define Payment Terms
Assign Reporting Set of Books:
Define Accounting Rules:
Open or Close Accounting Periods
Define AutoAccounting
Set Up Cash Basis Accounting Method
Define Transaction Types
Define Transaction Sources
Define Collectors:
Define Approval Limits
Define Remittance Banks
Distribution Sets
Define Receivables Activities
Define Receipt Programs:
Define Receipt Classes
Define Payment Methods:
Define Receipt Sources
Define Aging Buckets:
Define Statement Cycles
Define Standard Messages:
Define Dunning Letters
Define Dunning Letter Sets
Define Territories:
Define Salespersons
Define System Profile Options
Define Customer Profile Classes
Define Customers:
Define RemitTo Addresses
Define Customer Relationships
Define Lockboxes:
Define Transmission Formats
Define Unit of Measure Classes
Define Units of Measure
Define Standard Memo Lines
Set Up Cross Currency Receipts
Set Up Tax
Set Up Tax Vendor Extension
Set Up Document Sequences
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Accounting Periods should be open to control the recording of accounting information for these Periods.
Receivables lets you open future accounting periods while your current period is still open.
Receivables also lets you reopen previously closed accounting periods and enter receivables activities
without transferring transactions to the general ledger when you set your accounting periods to 'Future.'
Oracle Receivables
N Control Accounting Periods Open / Close Periods:
The following screen will appear
2. To update the status of an accounting period, place the cursor in the Status field next to that period,
then enter a new status.
3. To open the next accounting period after the Latest Open Period, choose Open Next Period.
Receivables changes the status of the next period to 'Open.'
4. Save your work.
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Receivable
Masters
In Receivable Masters include defining Customers, Bank, Tax Codes . Masters are treated as one time setups
and are not the daily activities.
In Oracle Receivables the Customer Type attribute identifies the customer as either an
organization or an individual person.
When you enter customer information your existing customer records are searched to locate any
matching customer names or addresses. You can then either add a new customer to your records,
or modify the existing customer record.
When you enter a new customer, or modify existing customers, you first select the customer type,
either Organization or Person.
You then choose a search procedure: Advanced, Simple, or Address. You must perform this search
before entering any information about either a new or an existing customer. The search ensures
that you will not enter a duplicate customer.
Prerequisites
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Payment Terms
Collectors
Sales Person
Payment Terms:
Payment Terms specify the dates by which the customer is supposed to make the payments for the
invoices raised for him. A payment term is attached to the customers profile class. This is in turn
defaults to the customer level. At the time of raising invoices for the customer, the payment terms
attached to the customer defaults to the transaction level.
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Payment
Terms
Customer
Profile Class
Customer
Standard
Invoice
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Collectors:
Collector is the person who is responsible for collection. The Collectors will be assigned to a profile class or to a
customer's credit profile class. When you assign a collector to a profile class, that collector becomes the collector
for all customers assigned that profile class. You can modify collector assignments for your customers in the
Customers window and for your profile classes in the Customer Profile Classes window.
Collector
Customer
Profile Class
Customer
Standard
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To define a Collector :
1.
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Sales Person:
A person who is responsible for the sale of products or services. Salespeople are associated with orders, returns,
invoices, commitments, and customers. You can also assign sales credits to your salespeople.
Resource window is used for defining the name of the salesperson in Oracle Receivables.
Some of the required functions for defining a resource as a salesperson are performed in the Receivables
tab of the Resource window. The following table describes the available functions in the Receivables tab
fields:
Field
Description
Date Active
Enter the range of dates that this salesperson is to be active. Date Active (start date) is a
required field, the Date Active (end date) is optional. If you do not enter an end date, this
salesperson is active indefinitely.
The Geo Override value associates the salesperson with a unique tax jurisdiction. Both fields
are available only if you have installed a sales tax vendor of type Tax ware Sales.
Accounting
Flexfield (Forms)
The accounting flexfield includes Revenue, Freight, and Receivable Accounts. Receivables
can use this information, along with your Auto Accounting rules, to determine the revenue,
freight, and receivable accounts for invoices that you assign to this salesperson.
Territory Flexfield If you want to assign a territory to this salesperson, then enter the range of dates that this
(Forms)
territory is to be assigned to this salesperson. The Start Date defaults as the current date, but
you can change it. If you do not enter an End Date, this territory is active for this salesperson
infinitely.
1.
Receivables
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f. (Optional) Enter the Accounting Flexfield for your Revenue, Freight, and Receivable
Accounts.
g. (Optional) Assign a territory to this resource..
h. (Optional) If you assigned a territory to this resource, then enter the range of dates that
this territory is to be assigned to this salesperson.
8. (Optional) Enter more information in the other tabs to further specify the resource. You can
simultaneously end date a resource's roles, group member roles, team member roles, and sales
person records.
10. Choose File > Save to save your work.
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Use Customer Profiles to group customer accounts with similar credit worthiness, business volume, and
payment cycles. For each profile class you can define information such as credit limits, payment terms,
statement cycles, invoicing, and discount information. You can also define amount limits for your finance
charges, dunning, and statements for each currency in which you do business.
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N Customer Standard
2.
If you are entering information about a new customer and the search does not produce a
match, you will be prompted to proceed with entering new information. Choose the New
button, as shown below:
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3. The Customers - Standard window is displayed. If the new customer is part of an existing
organization or person, information about the organization or person will be displayed as shown
below:
4. If the customer does not yet have a customer number, and you are not using Automatic Customer Numbering,
enter a unique customer number.
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7. Enter additional address information for this customer, such as City, State, Postal Code, and County.
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8. Assign Business Purpose to this customer by selecting Bill To and Ship To under Usage Tab as shown below:
Bill To: Invoices will be sent to this address. The bill-to address can be different from this
customer account's ship-to address.
Ship To: Goods or services to this address. The ship-to address can be different from this
customer account's bill-to address.
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Bank Details
Use the Banks window to enter bank information for bank branches with which you do
business.
Each bank branch can have multiple bank accounts, and each bank account you define can be
associated with Payables payment documents and/or Receivables payment methods.
B. In the Banks window, enter all basic bank information: bank name, branch name, bank number,
branch number, and address. Use a bank account name that indicates its usage, for example, "Main
Disbursement - USD."
C. Select Bank as the Institution.
D. Optionally enter names and information for your bank contacts in the Contact region.
E. Save your work.
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F. Choose the Bank accounts button. The following screen will appear
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Tax
Codes
Location
Authority
Tax Codes:
Tax Codes and Rates window are used to enter and maintain your tax codes and their associated tax
rates.
You can define as many tax codes of type VAT (Value Added Tax) or Sales Tax as you need. You can
have only one enabled tax code of type Location for any given date range. This code cannot have a rate
associated with it.
You can enter a tax code at the customer Ship-To and Bill-To business purpose level, as well as at the
customer level.
You can also assign tax codes to inventory items. If your tax method is VAT, you can include a tax code
in the Tax Defaulting Hierarchy in the System Options window.
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After Discount: Calculate tax on the invoice line amount, after any early payment discount is
taken.
Before Discount: Calculate tax on the invoice line amount, before any early payment discount is
taken.
Quantity: Calculate tax based on the quantity ordered and unit of measure of the invoice line. If
you choose this option, specify a Tax Amount
PL/SQL: Calculate tax using the PL/SQL formula that you specify.
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Prior Tax: Select this option if you use this tax code as part of a tax group (to calculate multiple
taxes) and you want to calculate tax on only the tax for the previous tax line.
5. If the tax type is not 'Location Based Tax' and you specified a taxable Basis of either After Discount
or Before Discount, enter a Tax Rate.
6. If the Taxable Basis is Quantity, enter a Tax Amount. For example, you enter a Tax Amount of 2 for
this tax code. If you create an invoice line with a quantity of 7 and assign this tax code to it, Receivables
calculates tax of $14 for this line.
7. Indicate whether this tax code is positive or negative by setting the Sign parameter to either 'Cr' or
'Dr', respectively. When you use a tax code with a sign of 'Dr' (negative), Receivables debits your tax
account. When you use a tax code with a sign of 'Cr' (positive), Receivables credits your tax account.
8. If the Taxable Basis is PL/SQL, enter the name of a PL/SQL stored procedure in the Formula field.
Receivables uses this stored procedure to calculate tax when you assign this tax code to a transaction.
9. Open the Effective region, and then enter a range of Effective Dates for this tax rate, as shown below.
The default start date is today's date, but you can change it. If you do not enter an end date, this tax rate
will be valid indefinitely.
10. To disable this tax code, uncheck the Enabled box. You can have multiple disabled tax codes for the
same date range.
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11. Open the Control region, then choose a Tax Class, as shown below
Choose Output to use this tax code with invoices, debit memos credit memos,
adjustments, discounts, finance charges and miscellaneous cash receipts.
Choose Input to use this tax code with miscellaneous cash payments (negative
receipts). Input tax codes appear only in the list of values for the Liability Tax Code
field in the Receivables Activities window; output tax codes appear in all
Receivables transaction and set up windows.
12. To allow tax exemptions for items using this tax code, check the Allow Exempt box.
13. To be able to change the tax rate for this tax code in the Transaction windows, check the Ad-hoc box.
You can only check this box if the tax type is not 'Location Based Tax.' You can update this option after
you save this tax code.
14. If you want this tax code to automatically display line amounts including tax, check the Inclusive
Tax box.
15. If you do not want to be able to change this tax code from inclusive to exclusive (or vice versa) when
entering invoices, uncheck the Allow Inclusive Override box.
16. To prevent this tax code from appearing in Receivables windows, uncheck the Displayed box. If this
box is not checked, you cannot assign this tax code to individual transactions.
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17. To update the Tax Account assigned to this tax code, open the More tabbed region.
The default account is the Location Tax Account you defined in the System Options window.
AutoAccounting uses this value if the AutoAccounting structure for your tax account is
derived from the tax code.
18. Enter the Printed Tax Name as you want it to appear on printed transactions.
19. Enter a description for this tax code (optional). Receivables displays this information in countryspecific reports as required.
22. Save your work.
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Location:
Tax Locations Window is used to enter and update your locations and their associated tax
rates.
For each location you can define multiple tax rates and postal code ranges, as long as the date
and postal code range do not overlap.
Receivables use these locations and tax rates to create authorities and sales tax rates for tax
calculations. Receivables also use locations to validate your customers' addresses.
Use this window to assign tax accounts to the components of your segment that has a tax
account qualifier assigned to it. You assign a tax account qualifier to any one segment of your
location flexfield structure using the Key Flexfield Segments window
Prerequisites:
2.
Query 'Sales Tax Location Flexfield' in the Flexfield Title field; Receivables will return all the
seeded Sales Tax Location Flexfield structures in the Structures region. The following screen
will appear:
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3.
To enter your new Sales Tax Location Flexfield structure, choose New Record from the Edit
menu. Be sure to use a unique name for your new structure.
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When you define each segment of your Sales Tax Location Flexfield structure, make
sure you define them in the order of their dependencies. For example, if you are
defining a new two segment structure using State and city, and State is your parent
segment, define State as your first segment and city as your second segment. When
you assign columns to each segment, make sure you assign them in ascending order,
starting with LOCATION_ID_SEGMENT_1. In the example above you would assign
LOCATION_ID_SEGMENT_1
to
your
first
segment
(County)
and
LOCATION_ID_SEGMENT_2 (City) to your second segment, as shown below:
Use this window to also assign your new value sets and flexfield qualifiers to each
segment. You should only enable one 'Location' qualifier for each segment. In the
example above you would enable the State qualifier for the State segment and the City
qualifier for the City segment. You must also enable your Tax Account and Exempt
Level qualifiers as described above, then freeze your new structure.
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To define a new or update an existing tax location and its associated tax rate
3. If you chose a sales tax structure of 'County,' enter the Given State in which this county is
and then choose Find.
located,
4. If you chose a sales tax structure of 'City,' enter the Given County in which this city is located, then
choose Find.
5. If you choose a sales tax structure of 'State,' choose Find.
6. If this segment has been assigned to the tax account qualifier, Receivables enters a default Tax
Account. This is the account you defined for the 'Location' tax code type in the Tax Codes and Rates
window. You can update this information.
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7. Enter the Tax Rate percentage to assign to this location (optional). You can enter multiple tax rates
for this location as long as the date and postal code range do not overlap. Receivables use the date and
postal code range for each tax rate assignment to determine when this assignment is active for this
location.
8. If you are entering city level rate assignments and you include City in your tax location flexfield
structure, you can optionally override the sales tax rates for the senior segments (State and/or County)
of this structure. To override the sales tax rate for this city's state or county, enter a new rate in the
Override Sales Tax Rates popup window, as shown below
Note: You can only use the override feature if you include City in your Sales Tax Location Flexfield Structure.
9. Enter a range of Effective Dates for this tax rate. The default start date is today's date, but you can
change it. If you do not enter an end date, this tax rate will be valid indefinitely.
10. Enter a range of Postal Codes for this tax rate. Receivables uses the date and postal code range for
your locations to determine which tax rate assignments to use when creating your sales tax rates. You can
review these compiled sales tax rates in the Review Sales Tax Rates window.
11. Save your work.
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Tax Authorities
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Tax Authorities represent a unique combination of locations and are created manually
through the Tax Authorities window or automatically when you enter customer
addresses. Receivables use Tax Authorities to expedite sales tax calculations.
When you enter a customer address, Receivables first checks if this authority already
exists for the appropriate date range. If it exists, Receivables uses the combined sales
tax rate associated with this authority to calculate any tax amounts. If the authority
does not exist, Receivables first checks if the locations and associated rates exist. If
they exist, Receivables creates the authority and all of the sales tax rates. If the
locations do not exist, Receivables creates the authority and the locations in the Tax
Locations and Rates window.
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Transaction Processing
Record a Transaction
This chapter explains how to enter, complete, and review invoices. It explains how you can use
the Transaction Workbench to enter Customer transactions. It discusses all kinds of Transactions:
Invoices, Credit/Debit Memo, Deposit and Guarantees.
Prerequisites
Define Transaction Type
Define Transaction Source
Define Auto Accounting Rules
Transaction Type:
Transaction types are referred to as the classes of transactions like Invoice, Credit memo etc.
If we require an invoice for the customer, the invoice transaction type should be attached to the
transaction.
Transaction Type
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Enter the name and description of the transaction type as shown above.
Select the class of the transaction like Invoice, Debit Memo, Credit Memo etc. from the list of values.
Select the creation sign as Positive for an invoice.
Enter the Receivable, Revenue, Tax, Freight account etc.applicable to the invoice. (Optional).
Save the record.
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Transaction Source:
Transaction Source is required for Transactions as it is used for numbering of the transactions.
TRANSACTION SOURCE
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Active
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This is a very important tool which enables the system to automatically derive the accounting code combinations
for Receivables, Revenue, Freight, etc. These account combinations are derived fro the various account types
based on the rules that are provided in the Auto accounting window. These rules should be defined such that it
meets the business requirements.
1.
2.
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Select the Type as Receivables, Revenue, Freight, Auto Invoice Clearing, etc. from the List of
Values.
Select the Segments and specify the source from which the value should be derived from.
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Define Currency
Define Conversion rate type
Define Currency Rate (Daily / Period)
Define Currency:
To define a currency:
1. Navigate to the Customer Calls window.
Oracle Receivables
N Setup Financials Currencies
The following screen will appear
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Conversion rate types are used to automatically assign a rate when you convert foreign currency journal
amounts to functional currency equivalents.
When you enter a foreign currency journal, General Ledger automatically displays the predefined
exchange rate based on the currency, rate type (unless you are using the User rate type), and conversion
date you enter. When you have a User rate type, you enter the rate directly when you enter a foreign
currency journal.
2. Enter a Name and Description for the new conversion rate type.
3. Save your work
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Daily
Period
You can maintain daily conversion rates between any two currencies that you have enabled
in your applications instance.
2. Enter the From-Currency - the currency you want to convert from using the rates you enter.
3. As needed, change the To-Currency. If you enter the same currency as your from-currency,
you will receive an error.
4. Enter the Conversion Date and Type. When you use this date and rate type to enter journals,
General Ledger automatically displays the rate you define here.
5. Enter the conversion rate you want to use to convert your from-currency amounts into your tocurrency equivalents. System automatically calculates the inverse of the rate and displays it in
the adjacent column.
To enter a single rate for a date range:
1. Navigate to the Daily Rates window.
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8. Choose the Rate type from the list of value. If you choose User enter the rate manually.
9. Select OK
10. Choose the customer s bill to site .from the l.o.v
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Receipts
This chapter explains how to enter and process a single Receipt for invoices.
Standard Receipt
Miscellaneous Receipt
Receipt Status
A receipt can have one of the following statuses:
Approved: This receipt has been approved for automatic receipt creation. This status is only valid for automatic
receipts.
Confirmed: For manually entered receipts, this status indicates the receipt belongs to a receipt class that
requires remittance. For automatic receipts, this status indicates the receipt has been confirmed.
Remitted: This receipt has been remitted. This status is valid for both automatic and manually entered receipts.
Cleared: The payment of this receipt was transferred to your bank account and the bank statement has been
reconciled within Receivables. This status is valid for both automatic and manually entered receipts.
Reversed: This receipt has been reversed. You can reverse a receipt when your customer stops payment on a
receipt, if a receipt comes from an account with non-sufficient funds or if you want to re-enter and reapply it in
Receivables. You can reverse cash receipts and miscellaneous transactions.
Prerequisites
Define receipt classes
Define payment methods
Define receipt sources
Define profile options
Open accounting periods
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Receipt Class:
Define receipt classes to determine the required processing steps for receipts to which you assign
payment methods with this class.
These steps include confirmation, remittance, and reconciliation. For example, you must create and remit
a direct debit, but you must create, confirm, and remit a bills receivable remittance.
You can specify any combination of these processing steps with one exception: if you confirm and
reconcile, then you must also remit. If you enter No for all three of these steps, Receivables automatically
creates receipts assigned to this receipt class with a status of Cleared.
Receivables uses the payment method you assign to a receipt class to determine how to account for
receipts you create using this receipt class.
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4. Choose a Remittance Method. The remittance method determines the accounts that Receivables uses
for automatic receipts that you create using payment methods to which you assign this receipt class.
Choose one of the following methods:
Standard: Use the remittance account for automatic receipts or for standard bills
receivable assigned to a payment method with this receipt class.
Factoring: Use the factoring account for automatic receipts or for factored bills receivable
assigned to a payment method with this receipt class.
Standard and Factoring: Choose this method if you want Receivables to select receipts
assigned to this receipt class for remittance regardless of the batch remittance method. In
this case, you can specify either of these remittance methods when creating your
remittance batches.
No Remittance: Choose this method if you do not require receipts assigned to this
receipt class to be remitted.
5. To require receipts created using a payment method assigned to this receipt class to be reconciled
before posting them to your cash account in the general ledger, choose one of the following Clearance
Methods:
Directly: Choose this method if you do not expect the receipts to be remitted to the bank
and subsequently cleared. These receipts will be assumed to be cleared at the time of
receipt entry and will require no further processing. Choosing this method is the same as
setting Require Bank Clearance to No in previous releases of Receivables.
By Automatic Clearing: Choose this method to clear receipts using the Automatic
Clearing program. See: Automatic Clearing for Receipts. (Receipts using this method can
also be cleared in Oracle Cash Management.)
By Matching: Choose this method if you want to clear your receipts manually in Oracle
Cash Management.
Payment Method :
Receivables uses payment methods to account for your receipt entries and applications. Payment
methods also determine a customer's remittance bank information.
You can assign multiple remittance banks to each payment method, but only one bank account can be the
primary account for each currency. For each remittance bank branch account assigned to a payment
method, you must define all of your receipt accounts. You can then assign your payment methods to
your receipt sources to use with your AutoLockbox and manually entered receipts.
If you remit receipts in several currencies for a single payment method, then you must enter at least one
remittance bank per currency. At least one of these remittance banks must be primary.
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8. After defining the bank details, choose Bank accounts from Receipt Class Workbench. The
following screen will appear:
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Receipt Source:
Define receipt batch sources to provide default values for the receipt class, payment method, and
remittance bank account fields for receipts you add to a receipt batch.
You can specify a default receipt batch source when defining the profile option AR: Receipt Batch Source.
If you specify a default receipt batch source, Receivables displays this source in the Receipt Batches
window when you create your receipt batches.
When you select a receipt batch source to enter receipts, Receivables automatically uses the Cash, Receipt
Confirmation, Remittance, Factoring, Short Term Debt, Bank Charges, Unapplied Receipts, Unidentified
Receipts, On-Account Receipts, Earned and Unearned Discounts, and Bills Receivable account
information you assigned to the payment method for this batch source. The payment method accounts
for the receipt entries and applications you make using this receipt batch source
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6. To manually enter batch numbers for receipt batches you create using this source, choose Manual
Batch Numbering.
7. To have Receivables automatically assign sequential batch numbers to receipt batches you create using
this source, choose Automatic Batch Numbering.
8. If you chose Automatic Batch Numbering, enter the Last Number you want Receivables to use when
numbering your receipt batches. For example, to number receipt batches using this source starting with
1000, enter a last number of 999.
8. Enter the range of dates that this receipt batch source will be active.
9. Save your work.
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12. Select the invoice number from the list of value under Apply To
13. Enter the Apply date
14. Save the record
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Miscellaneous Receipt
Non-invoice related transactions such as investment and interest income are known as miscellaneous
transactions in Receivables.
Use the Receipts or Receipts Summary window to enter your miscellaneous transactions.
Receivables uses distribution sets that you define to account for miscellaneous transactions.
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5. To review or update the distribution set and general ledger account information for this transaction,
choose Distributions.
6. Save your work.
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Collections
This
chapter explains how to review customer accounts and perform collection activities such as recording
customer calls and printing dunning letters.
Collection workbench Overview
Collections Workbench window is used to view information about your customers' transactions and
account balances in a variety of ways.
This is also used to place a customer account on credit hold, place items in dispute, view the dunning
history for a transaction, and correspond with customers by recording customer calls.
Customer Calls
Customer Accounts
Aging
Transaction overview
Customer Calls:
Whenever a customer is contacted for his past due, the Customer Calls window can be used to record
the results of your conversation.
By speaking with a customer you may learn that they were incorrectly billed, never received the goods
or services that were ordered, or have already sent payment for the invoice in question.
By entering details about your conversation, you create a record of the contact and can recommend any
further collection action.
You can also use the Customer Calls window to place amounts in dispute and review previous calls
made to your customers.
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Customer Accounts:
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The total amount overdue for a customer or customers can be viewed from the Account Summary
window.
You can view all transactions that are past due for a specific customer in the Account Details window.
2. Enter selection criteria in the Find Customer Accounts window. For example, enter a Collector,
account Status, or the low and high values of outstanding Balances, Open Credits, Credit Limits, or
Amounts Past Due to view only those accounts. Leave a field blank if you do not want to limit your
query to accounts matching that criteria.
3. Choose Find.
To view the total number and amount of a customer's transactions in summary form:
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Receivables lets you view your customer's outstanding account balances by aging bucket. Aging buckets
are time periods in which you age and can review your debit items. For example, you can define an aging
bucket that includes all debit items that are 1 to 30 days past due.
When you view your customer balances by aging bucket, Receivables calculates and displays the total
outstanding amount and the credits not aged for unapplied cash, on-account cash, on-account credits,
and cash claims. You can modify your display by specifying an aging bucket or by choosing to age or
summarize open credits.
Receivables select a transaction for aging if its GL date is before or the same as the current date. Once
selected for aging, Receivables uses the following formula to determine the number of days past due for
each transaction:
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2. Enter selection criteria in the Find Customer Accounts window. For example, enter a Collector, account
Status, or the low and high values of outstanding Balances, Open Credits, Credit Limits, or Amounts Past
Due to view only those accounts. Leave a field blank if you do not want to limit your query to accounts
matching that criteria.
3. Choose Find.
4. Select the account to view, and then choose Aging.
5. To modify your display, choose Find from the Query menu, and then enter selection criteria.
6. Choose Find.
7. To view past due transactions within a specific aging bucket, select the bucket to view, then choose
Account Details.
Correspondence:
Regular correspondence is an effective way to create and maintain good relationships with your
customers.
Receivables provide three ways to correspond with your customers: printing account statements,
printing dunning letters, and making customer calls.
Receivables let you view all previous customer correspondence in the Correspondence window.
You can view all previous contact with your customers, including dunning letters, customer calls, and
account statements in this window.
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To view a list of statements generated for a customer, select the account, then open the
Statements tabbed region.
To view dunning letters sent to a customer, select the account, then open the Dunning
Letters tabbed region.
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Verify all accounts receivable transactions have been entered for the fiscal period.
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To transfer the transactions to the General Ledger Module and to create Journal Entries in the General
Ledger Module, GL-Interface program needs to be run.
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLES
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Give GL dates
Click submit.
See the request in view request window.
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Use Oracle Receivables standard reports and listings to analyze and track your accounts
Receivables information.
Navigate to Submit Request window.
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Select the Name of the request (report or program) you want to run from the LOV in the
Name field.
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Use the LOV to display a list of valid values for a special parameter
Once you enter the values in the required parameter fields and choose OK, the
Parameters window closes, and your parameter values will be displayed in the
Parameters field.
Choose the Options Button to specify the numbers of copies you want to print and
the printer from which you want to print your report.
To view the Report output, Navigate to the Requests window by choosing View
from the Menu Bar and then View Requests.
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Transaction Register
Use the Transaction Register to check that all postable items are
reflected on your Sales Journal.
Receipt Register
Use this report to review a list of receipts for the range of dates, receipt numbers, or document numbers that you
specify.
AR Reconciliation Report
This report is used to reconcile your accounts receivable activities. This report summarizes all customer, receipt,
transaction, and account balances for the period you specify to simplify the internal reconciliation process. The
report uses the following formula to help you reconcile any outstanding receivable amounts:
Totals for Period End of Period Balance = Difference
The AR Reconciliation report collects information from the following:
Adjustment Register
Aging (beginning and ending balances)
Applied Receipts Register
Gain/Loss
Invoice Exception Report
Rounding account
Transaction Register
Unapplied Receipts Register
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payments. Receivables automatically sorts your information by collector and prints a line for each payment
received within the cash collection date range that you specify.
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This essay describes the accounting entries created when you enter transactions in Receivables using the
Accrual method of accounting.
Receivables creates default accounts for revenue, receivable, freight, tax, unearned revenue, unbilled
receivable, finance charges, and Auto Invoice clearing (suspense) accounts using the information
specified in your Auto Accounting structure.
Transactions
Invoice
Credit Memo
Invoices:
When you enter a regular invoice through the Transactions window, Receivables creates the following journal
entry:
Dr.
CR
CR
CR
Receivables
Revenue
Tax (if you charge tax)
Freight (if you charge freight)
Credit Memos
When you credit an invoice, debit memo, or chargeback through the Credit Transactions window, Receivables
creates the following journal entry:
DR
DR
DR
CR
DR Receivables
CR Receivables
Revenue
Tax (if you credit tax)
Freight (if you credit freight)
Receivables (Credit Memo)
(Credit Memo)
(Invoice)
Receipts
A. Cash Receipt (Without Remittance)
When you enter a receipt, Receivables creates the following journal entries:
DR
CR
Cash
Receivables
When you fully apply a receipt to an invoice, Receivables creates the following journal entry:
DR
DR
CR
CR
Cash
Unapplied Cash
Unapplied Cash
Receivables
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When you enter an unidentified receipt, Receivables creates the following journal entry:
DR
CR
Cash
Unidentified
When you enter an on-account receipt, Receivables creates the following journal entry:
DR
CR
DR
CR
Cash
Unapplied
Unapplied
On-Account
When your receipt includes a discount, Receivables creates the following journal entry:
DR
CR
DR
CR
DR
CR
Receivables
Revenue
Cash
Receivables
Earned/Unearned Discount
Receivables
Receivables uses the default Cash, Unapplied, Unidentified, On-Account, Unearned, and Earned accounts that
you specified in the Remittance Banks window for this receipt class.
When you enter a receipt and combine it with an on-account credit (which increases the balance of the receipt),
Receivables creates the following journal entry:
DR
CR
Cash
Unapplied Cash
To close the receivable on the credit memo and increase the unapplied cash balance, Receivables creates the
following journal entry:
DR
CR
Receivables
Unapplied Cash
When you enter a receipt and combine it with a negative adjustment, Receivables creates the following journal
entries:
DR
CR
DR
CR
Cash
Receivables (Invoice)
Write-Off
Receivables (Invoice)
Note: You set up a Write-Off account when defining your Receivables Activity.
When you enter a receipt and combine it with a positive adjustment, Receivables creates the following journal
entries:
DR
CR
DR
Sierra Atlantic Software Services Ltd
Cash
Receivables (Invoice)
Receivables (Invoice)
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CR
Write-Off
When you write off the unapplied amount on a receipt, Receivables creates the following journal entries:
DR
CR
Unapplied Cash
Write-off
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