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No. You cannot retire the asset in the period it was added because there has been no
depreciation calculated so there is nothing to retire. As no depreciation has been calculated on
the asset you can simply delete the asset. To ensure data integrity and an adequate audit trail
only assets added in the current period can be deleted. To delete all other assets they must be
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The asset inherits the new categories account number defaults. Asset depreciation rules are
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made. If it is necessary to make the transfer immediately, the work around is to delete the line
from the first asset and manually add it to the second.

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You have two choices:

OR You may amortize the adjustment over the remaining life of the asset. This is
called an Amortized Adjustment. This is done by populating the amortize
adjustment check box.
OR The other alternative is to take up the difference in the current period. This is
called an Expensed Adjustment. This is done by not populating the amortize
adjustment check box.

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In Release 11 you may perform a financial adjustment and specify a retroactive amortization
start date. The amount of depreciation expense missed since the amortization start date is taken
in the current period.

This functionality is also available in Release 10.7 (prod16.1) through:

OR client-side patch 513032

OR server-side patch 513033
There is a new field ± ³Amortization Start Date´ on the Books window of the Asset Workbench.
By default this field is disabled. When the Amortize Adjustment check box is checked, this field
is enabled, allowing the user to enter a start date for the amortization. The default value for this
field is the last day of the current period or system date.

The restriction to this functionality however, is that there should be no transactions between the
amortization start date and the date of the transaction.

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What is Oracle Financials?

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Oracle Financials products provide organizations with solutions to a wide range of long- and
short-term accounting system issues. Regardless of the size of the business, Oracle Financials
can meet accounting management demands with:

Oracle Assets: Ensures that an organization¶s property and equipment investment is accurate and
that the correct asset tax accounting strategies are chosen.

Oracle General Ledger: Offers a complete solution to journal entry, budgeting, allocations,
consolidation, and financial reporting needs.
Oracle Inventory: Helps an organization make better inventory decisions by minimizing stock
and maximizing cash flow.
Oracle Order Entry: Provides organizations with a sophisticated order entry system for managing
customer commitments.
Oracle Payables: Lets an organization process more invoices with fewer staff members and
tighter controls. Helps save money through maximum discounts, bank float, and prevention of
duplicate payments.
Oracle Cash Management: Lets you perform bank reconciliation and cash forecasting.

Oracle Personnel: Improves the management of employee- related issues by retaining and
making available every form of personnel data.
Oracle Purchasing: Improves buying power, helps negotiate bigger discounts, eliminates paper
flow, increases financial controls, and increases productivity.
Oracle Receivables:. Improves cash flow by letting an organization process more payments
faster, without off-line research. Helps correctly account for cash, reduce outstanding
receivables, and improve collection effectiveness.
Oracle Revenue Accounting Gives an organization timely and accurate revenue and flexible
commissions reporting.
Oracle Sales Analysis: Allows for better forecasting, planning. and reporting of sales
information.

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1. In the Price type quickpick in the Purchase Order Lines zone in enter
Purchase Order form, there is a value called COST PLUS FEE. What is the
COST PLUS FEE price type? How is Purchase Order treating this
price type?
2. What is 2-way, 3-way, 4-way matching? How is this set up?
3. How do you reflect discount from a supplier on a Purchase orders?
4. How do you change the created date on a Purchase Order?
5. What is the sorting order for requisition lines in autocreation of a
Purchase Order?
6. What does the error µAPP-50022: Oracle Human Resources could not retrieve a
value for User Type profile option¶ mean?
7. In the Enter Receipts (RCVRCERC) form and using different responsibilities
produces different values in the action required field. The Purchasing
Responsibility shows Direct and Standard while the Inventory Responsibility
shows just Direct.
Why are the action options for creating receipts different in Inventory
compared Purchasing?
8. How do you purge Cancelled Requisitions?
9. On the requisition form in the source details zone, there is a field
labeled supplier item. Where does this information on the quickpick come
from and how can this information default in?
10. You are entering a requisition and are unable to find the header or line
note fields. Was this replaced in GUI by attachments?
11. When you select the Notifications form to review approvals and click on
approve button for a Requisition waiting for approval, the µReject¶ box is
greyed out. How does the approver reject a requisition?
12. What are standard Quotations used for?
13. When do you see the status of a Purchase order as Archived?
14. Where are standard notes in GUI?
15. In Oracle Purchasing, where is the automatic numbering for Purchase Order
defined and maintained?
16. There is a field for the organization code. What is this code?
17. Can the original Purchase Order can be viewed in any way without resorting
to SQL, for a revised Purchase Order?

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1. In the Price type quickpick in the Purchase Order Lines zone in enter
Purchase Order form, there is a value called COST PLUS FEE. What is the
COST PLUS FEE price type? How is Purchase Order treating this
price type?
Answer
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The functionality for COST PLUS FEE price type is not in Oracle Purchasing at
this point of time. PO does not do anything with this price type.
It is an enhancement request that is being looked at for future releases.
2. What is 2-way, 3-way, 4-way matching? How is this set-up?
Answer
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2-way matching verifies that Purchase order and invoice information match within your
tolerances as follows:
Quantity billed <= Quantity Ordered Invoice price <= Purchase order price (<= sign is used
because of tolerances) 3-way matching verifies that the receipt and invoice information match
with the quantity tolerances defined: Quantity billed <= Quantity received 4-way matching
verifies that acceptance documents and invoice information match within the quantity tolerances
defined: Quantity billed <= Quantity accepted. (Acceptance is done at the time of Inspecting
goods). Whether a PO shipment has 2-way, 3-way or 4-way matching can be setup in the
Shipment Details zone of the Enter PO form (character) Receipt required Inspection required
Matching Yes Yes 4-way Yes No 3-way No No 2-way In GUI, Shipments block, alternative
region, click on More«this brings up a region with µInvoice matching¶ column where you can
choose 2-way, 3-way or 4- way match. You can find more detailed information about matching
in the Oracle Payables Reference Manual (Volume 3) Topical Essay on Integrating your
Payables and Purchasing Information. 3. How do you reflect discount from a supplier on a
Purchase orders? Answer ²² The legal document is the Purchase order not the quote and
therefore the purchase order should reflect agreed upon price. Secondly if the discount comes
after the PO then AP should handle it when invoicing. If you are using a blanket Purchase order
then you can use price breaks. 4. How do you change the created date on a Purchase Order?
Answer ²² The µCreated¶ date on the Purchase order is not an updateable field, due to it being
a legal document once approved. 5. What is the sorting order for requisition lines in autocreation
of a Purchase Order? Answer ²² Requisition lines first meet search criteria determined by
³find´ screen, and then are grouped together by item and item category, then by need-by date.
After you choose an action, enter any search criteria to narrow the selection of requisition lines.
Oracle Purchasing chooses requisition lines from the requisition pool that meet your search
criteria. All requisition lines for the same item and item category are grouped together, but they
are not necessarily in order alphabetically. Within each grouping of item and item category,
requisition lines are ordered by need-by date. 6. What does the error µAPP-50022: Oracle Human
Resources could not retrieve a value for User Type profile option¶ mean? Answer ²² The
profile HR: User Type needs to be set. Set the profile option µHR: User Type¶ at the
Responsibility level. 7. In the Enter Receipts (RCVRCERC) form and using different
responsibilities produces different values in the action required field. The Purchasing
Responsibility shows Direct and Standard while the Inventory Responsibility shows just Direct.
Why are the action options for creating receipts different in Inventory compared Purchasing?
Answer ²² Set the Profile option RCV: Allow routing override to µYES¶ at the application
level. 8. How do you purge Cancelled Requisitions? Answer ²² To purge any Purchase orders
or Requisitions: ± assign the Payables Purge GUI responsibility to the user ± have the user
choose that responsibility ± then choose Purge from the menu ± under the Category field do a
List of Values and pick Simple Requisitions for cancelled requisitions The choices are listed. 9.
On the requisition form in the source details zone, there is a field labeled supplier item. Where
does this information on the quickpick come from and how can this information default in?
Answer ²² The supplier item field on the requisition can be populated by using either the
supplier item catalog or ASL. Take an item from the supplier item catalog that has an associated
supplier item, add it to the order pad and then add it to the requisition. After doing this go to the
source details zone. The supplier item is defaulted in for that item you choose from the catalog.
Navigation: ±> Purchasing ±> Supplier Item catalog
10. You are entering a requisition and are unable to find the header or line
note fields. Was this replaced in GUI by attachments?
Answer
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The attachments have replaced notes. The attachments are better because at the
header level, the requisition notes were not coming over to the Purchase Order
whereas the attachment does come over to the Purchase Order.
11. When you select the Notifications form to review approvals and click on
approve button for a Requisition waiting for approval, the µReject¶ box is
greyed out. How does the approver reject a requisition?
Answer
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You cannot reject Requisitions submitted to yourself. You can only reject those
from others.
12. What are standard Quotations used for?
Answer
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Standard quote is one that you can tie back to a PO. For example, navigate to
RFQ -> Auto create -> enter a PO and reference it back.
13. When do you see the status of a Purchase order as Archived?
Answer
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You must approve or print a specific purchase order before you can see it in
the history information.
14. Where are standard notes in GUI?
Answer
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Go to Setup ±> Attachments ±>Create attachment. Go to Purchase Order and
attach the attachment to the Purchase Order. In GUI, notes are replaced by
attachments.
15. In Oracle Purchasing, where is the automatic numbering for Purchase Order
defined and maintained?
Answer
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The navigation path for GUI is:
Setup ±> Organizations ±> Purchasing Options, Numbering alternate region
The navigation path for Character is:
\ Navigate Setup Purchasing Options Purchasing, Numbering options
16. There is a field for the organization code. What is this code?
Answer
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This code is a short abbreviation for the organization.
17. Can the original Purchase Order can be viewed in any way without resorting
to SQL, for a revised Purchase Order?
Answer
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The original version of a revised PO cannot be viewed from the PO form or PO
summary form. Information on the original PO can be obtained from the
PO_HEADERS_ARCHIVE and PO_LINES_ARCHIVE tables using the PO_HEADER_ID
column as
a common reference using SQL only.

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1. What is an Organization & Location?

2. What are the KeyFlexFields in Oracle Inventory Module?
3. What are the Attributes of Item Category & System Items?
4. What are the KeyFlexFields in Oracle Purchasing & Oracle Payables?
5. What are the KeyFlexFields in Oracle HumanResources & Oracle Payroll?
6. How would you create an Employee (Module Name) Describe?
7. What is a Position Hierarchy? Is there any restriction to create that?
8. To whom we call as a Buyer? What are the Responsibilities?
9. How do you Setup an Employee as a User ± Navigation?
10. How many Approval Groups we have? Describe?
11. Describe the Types of Requisition?
12. How many Status¶s and Types For RFQ¶s & Quotations Describe?
13. How many Types of Purchase Orders We Have?
14. What is a Receipt?
15. What is Catlog Rfq?
16. Give me online about Planned Po?
17. How can the manger view the Approval Documents Information?
18. Whether the manager can forward to Any other person? How?
19. Can u resend the document your subordinate how?
20. What is Po Summary?

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1. It is a Ware House Which you can Store the Items, And You can setup your business
Organization Information Like Key Flexfilelds,Currency,Hr Information and starting time and
end time. Location¶s are like godown place, office place, production point.

2. System items,Item Categories,Account Alias,Sales Order,Item Catalog,Stock Locators

3. The classification of items are Category Like Hard ware and Software, where as the Systems
are individual items like Cpu,Key Board.

4. No Flexfields, But the help of Inventory And Human Resources we can use

5. Job Flexfield,Position Flexfield,Grade Flexfiled,Costing,People Group Flexfield,Personal

Analysis Flexfield.

6. If Human Resource is Installed Hr/Payroll, If Not I can create Employee using with
Gl,Ap,Purchasing,Fixed Assets

7. It is a Grouping of Persons for Approving and Forwarding the Documents from one person to
another person, there is no restriction.

8. The Employee is nothing a Buyer, who is responsible for Purchase of Goods or services.

9. Security²-User²-Define, System Administration Module

10. Document Total,Accounts,Items,Item Categories,Location

11. Purchase Requistion,Internal Requistion

12. In Process,Print,Active,Closed for Rfq¶s In Process,Active,Closed for Quotation

13. Standard,Purchase Agreement,Blanket Po,Planned Po

14. To Register the Purchase orders/Po lines for shipment purpose

15. It contains Price breaks with different quantity levels

16. For a Agreement for long period for goods

17. Notifications Window

18. Yes, In the Notifications Window under the Forward to Push Button

19. Yes, In the Notifications Window under the Forward to Push Button

20. The Purchase Order Summay Information like total lines, and status.

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Find below the Interview questions related to oracle apps technical interview. The Questions are
primarily on Sysadmin and AOL (Application Object Library) Responsibilities. The questions
are in MCQ style. The answers are written at the end of each question.
1. Which of the following is not associated with a responsibility?
A. Menu
B. Request group
C. Data group
D. Password expiration
Ans:D

2. What do you need to do to allow a different user to see your output file?
A. The user must log on as a system administrator.
B. The user must have the View My Requests form in system administrator mode.
C. The user must be logged on with the same responsibility as the user that generated the output
file, and the profile option Concurrent: Report Access Level value must be set to Responsibility.
D. The user must be logged on as the same responsibility as the one that generated the output file
and profile option Concurrent: Report Access Level value is User.
Ans:C

3. When will a request group become a request security group?

A. When the request group is assigned to a responsibility
B. When the request group is specified for the Submit Request form
C. When the request group is defined with request sets
D. When the request group is defined with stage functions
Ans:A

4. How can you customize the SRS process?

A. Change the form title
B. Restrict it by request group
C Eliminate the Submit Another Request dialog window
D. All of the above
Ans:D

5. Which is not a component of a request set?

A. Stage
B. Group
C. Request
D. Parameter Ans:B

6. Which of the following operations cannot be performed with the internal concurrent manager?
A. Restart
B. Verify
C. Deactivate
D. Terminate
Ans:A

7. Which one of the following will be the correct outcome with two include rules in a combined
rule?
A. Program will be included if the program is in one of the include rules
B. Program will be included if the program is in both of the include rules
C. Program will be included if the program is run by one of the two Oracle IDs in the include
rules
D. None of the above
Ans:B

8. When will the number of actual processes be less than the number of target processes?
A. When the concurrent manager is down
B. When the concurrent manager is coming up
C. When there are not enough requests
D. All of the above
Ans:D

9. Which of the following is not a component of parallel concurrent processing?

A. Internal monitor
B. Transaction manager
C. Primary node
D. Secondary node
Ans:B

10. Which of the following is the overriding level for profile option values?
A. Site
B. Application
C. Responsibility
D. User
Ans:D
11. Which of the following is the correct sequence for setting up database change audits? A.
Audit installations, audit tables, audit groups, audit trail update tables request
B. Audit installation, audit groups, audit tables, audit trail update tables request
C. Audit trail update tables request, audit installation, audit groups, audit tables
D. Audit groups, audit tables, audit trail update tables request, Audit Installation
Ans:B

12. Which of the following is not a document sequence type?

A. Category
B. Automatic
C. Gapless
D. Manual
Ans:A

13. Which of the following determines the subdirectory for an executable?

A. Application name
B. Execution method
C. Subroutine
D. Execution filename
Ans:B

14. For what is the Token field used?

A. Default value
B. Profile option value
C. Oracle Reports parameter
D. Value set
Ans:C

15. How are output files associated with various printer components?
A. Through the printer type of the selected printer and the selected print style
B. Through the selected print style and the selected printer driver
C. Through the selected printer type and the selected print style
D. Through the printer type of the selected printer and the selected
Ans:A

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Below is the list of question asked in Oracle Apps Technical Interviews.

1. Explain Directory Structure of APPS?

2. How to activate, deactivate and run Concurrent Managers?
3. What is the location for concurrent request or manager logfiles and output files?
4. Specify the standard naming conventions for the logfile and output file?
5. How to write LOG information from PL/SQL block to log file?
6. What is Request Group?
7. What is Request Set?
8. What is difference between the Request Group and Request Set?
9. What are the steps to develop a simple Oracle Apps form?
10. What are the important Libraries in Template.fmb?
11. Which Concurrent Manager will run when you run the report in Oracle Application ?
12. How to create a Multi-org report in Apps?
13. State the mandatory parameters while developing Multi-org report in Apps?
14. What is the Schema for AOL?
15. What is the significance of :$FLEX$ ?
16. State some of the FND tables?
17. How to create Query-only form in Oracle Apps with out touching the fmb file?
18. What is the profile option pertaining to Operating Unit?
19. What is the difference between Applsys and Apps?
20. How to Register Shell Script Program in Oracle Applications? How to use parameters while
registering shell script as a concurrent program?
21. How to Register PL/SQL Stored Procedure in Oracle Apps? What are the Mandatory thing
we need to do for creating PL/SQL Procedure before Registering into Apps?
22. What is Zoom? How to enable zoom feature using Custom.pll?

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Oracle Receivables is not an easy module to set-up. To crack the interview is bit more
tedious.Below are some of the Functional questions pertaining to Oracle AR module. Just go
through them and brush up your skills.

1. How many Address¶s can have one Customer?

Primary Address, Bill ± To ± Address, Ship ± To ± Address

2. Customer Number Always Automatic / Manual?

Any thing Either Manual or Automatic

3. What are the Mandatory Address¶s you should create a Customer for Communicate him?
Remit ± To ± Address

4. Can U Merge the Customers? If How?

Using the Merging Customer Window
5. What is Accounting Rules?
It is For Generating Revenue Recognition Programs like Monthly, Quarterly

6. What is Invoicing Rules?

The Invoicing Rules Helps you when you receive data from Outside systems like Auto Invoices
how the data should insert and It contains 2 rules Advance Invoice, Arrears Invoice.

7. Where should the customers send the payments of Invoices?

Remittance Banks or Vendor Places

8. What is the Transaction Type?

It describes us Whether you want transfer the Receivables data into General Ledger or not. And
also when ever you create an invoice what are the accounts should be effected and also the sign
of Transaction also.

9. What is a Transaction Source?

It is For Invoice or Invoice Batch numbers whether automatically or manually

10. How many Transactions we have?

Six, Credit Transactions: Invoice: Debit Memo: Charge back: Guarantee: Deposit

11. How can i reduce the Invoice amount?

Using with Credit Transactions

12. What are the Accounts to be use in Transaction Types (Few)?

Revenue, Receivables, Freight, Tax, Clearing, Unearned, Unbilled

13. How can i Assign a Deposit amount to an Invoice?

In the Invoice Window ³Commitment´ Region

14. What is the Guarantee?

It is agreement between both sides for goods or services in the future , specific range of periods

15. Give the Navigation for Credit Transactions?

Transactions/Credit Transactions

16. How many ways you can apply the Receipt Amount?
Application: Mass Apply

17. How will you know a Customer Balance Amount?

Using with the Customer Account Overview window

18. Can U Define Customer Agreements using with AR?

No, In the Oracle Order Entry Module
19. What are Aging Buckets?
It is for Outstanding Reports purpose the no of days in various ranges

20. How will U View the Outstanding Balance of a Customer?

Generating the Aging Buckets Report

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Below is a list of 25 Important questions that is asked in almost every financials technical
interview question. I have also included some of the functional questions that are asked.Answers
are included.

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Ans: Flex field is used to capture information of your Organisations.

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KFF

Unique identifier

Stored in segment Column

DFF

Is used to capture additional information

Stored in attribute Column

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Module KFF

GL Accounting FF

AP No KFF

AR Sales tax Location FF

Territory Flexfield.

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Ans: Square Bracket [ ].

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Ans: Company

Cost center

Account

Product

Future use.

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Ans: max 30 segments and min two.

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Ans: Flexfield Qualifiers is used to identify the segments. Various types of flexfield qualifiers
are listed below:

a) Balancing Segment Qualifier.

b) Cost Center segment Qualifier.

c) Natural Account Segment Qualifier.

d) Intercompany Segment Qualifier.

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Ans: u can create Code Combinations at run time.

 
    

Ans: GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS.

 
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Ans: 1. fnd_ flex_Values

2. fnd_ flex_Values_tl

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Ans : Set of Books is a Financial Reporting entity which Consist of three C.

a) Chart Of Accounts

b) Currency

c) Calendar.

Set of Books is stored in GL_SETS_OF_BOOKS

 
  
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Currency ± FND_CURRENCIES

Period ± GL_PERIOD_STATUSES

 
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Ans: 1. GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS

2. GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS_KFV.

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Ans: Functional Currency

Foreign currency.

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Ans: Different types of Calendars are listed below

a) Fiscal

b) Accounting

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Ans: through Profile. GL SETS OF Books Name.

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Ans: Profile: Profile is the changeable option that affects the way your application runs. There
are two types of profile.

1. System defined

2. User defined

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Ans: Below are the Profiles Level available in oracle apps

1. Site(Lowest level)

2. Application

3. Responsibility

4. User.

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Ans:

1. GL Sets of Books Name

2. GL sets of Books id

3. MO:Operating unit (multi org).

4. HR:User type.

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3.

Ans: In simple and layman words-

1. Open the period

2. Create Journal Enteries

3. Post the Journals.

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Ans: Important tables are-

1. Batch: GL_JE_BATCHES
2. Header: GL_JE_HEADERS

3. Lines : GL_JE_LINES

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Ans: GL_BALANCES.( Column Period_net_cr, period_net_dr).

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Ans:

1. GL_JE_BATCHES

2. GL_JE_HEADERS

3. GL_JE_LINES

4. GL_BALANCES

5. GL_SETS_OF_BOOKS

6. GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS

7. GL_PERIOD_STATUES

8. GL_INTERFACE

 
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Ans: Supplier information can be found in following tables

1. PO_VENDORS

2. PO_VENDOR_SITES_ALL

3. PO_VENDOR_CONTACTS

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Ans: Org_id is for operating unit and organization_id is for inventory organization.