Oracle General Ledger Guide: Implement a Highly Automated Financial Processing System (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Master Oracle E-Business Suite's Oracle General Ledger

Maintain a centralized, highly automated processing platform across a fully integrated set of Oracle E-Business Suite applications using Oracle General Ledger. This Oracle Press guide explains how to utilize Oracle General Ledger to distribute timely and accurate financial information enterprise-wide. Learn efficient techniques for creating transactions and budgets, defining custom rules and flows, reconciling balances, and easing regulatory compliance. You will also discover how to consolidate financial data, process foreign currencies, and implement the brand-new Oracle Subledger Accounting.

Plan, test, and carry out a new implementation or upgradeWork with ledgers, calendars, journals, budgets, and business flowsConvert and load data from external systems and spreadsheetsPerform company-wide consolidationsRender reports using the Financial Statement GeneratorHandle foreign transactions, translations, and revaluationsCentralize accounting rules using Oracle Subledger Accounting Understand implications of setup and implementation decisions

User review
Great book!
Great book! Been using R12 for about a year, and this answered several questions we had. This is not a Read Once and Sit on the Shelf kind of book, but a reference manual I'll reuse over and over. Well worth the cost!

User review
Selected extracts from Oracle R12 Implementation Guide
This book is for you if you have not heard about Oracle EBS General Ledger and you do not know the existence of Oracle documentation. Having been in Oracle consultantcy for 12 years, I have never come across such a poorly presented book on Oracle EBS. Some comparably bad ones are Oracle Procure to pay by Melanie Cameron and Oracle EBS Financials Administration by Shanker Iyer.

There are better books available on Oracle EBS like Oracle EBS Financials Handbook by David James, Oracle EBS manufacturing & Supply chain by Bastin Gerald and Solution Beacon publications.

Back to the book, the contents of the book have nothing to do with the title `Implement a highly automated financials`. I was expecting a book with functional prespective, technical architecture (Financials), Interfacing along with the business process & Testing. Boy! I was busted! This book contains only selected text from Oracle Implementation and user guides.

Leaving the front & back wrapper, about the author, contents, index , blank pages etc the effective size of the book is about 250 pages. Out of these 250 pages, a significant portion has been taken by screen shots of EBS R12. None of the subjects are adquately covered. For example. multi currency is covered in just 7 pages, No referece about Advanced Global Inter company system is found. AGCS is just touched and so on and so forth.

The new/modified features in GL like Ledger set, Data Access set, MOAC, SLA, TAX, etc are not adequately covered.

On the other hand, I have read some of the white papers presented by the author on Oracle Financials that are really well presented. They also show that the author is highly knowledgable in the subject!



User review
Brilliant!!
Brilliant! This is one of the best ERP books that I have ever read in my life!

Fun and ease to read. The author explains the business and the application flows, processes and much more. She explains fields and all what GL is capable to do with setups step by step.

Like I said Brilliant! 100% recommended!