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Post-Upgrade Tips.......................................................................14
General Ledger ................................................................................ 15
Overview ..................................................................................... 15
Setup Tips .................................................................................... 15
Operational Tips ..........................................................................16
Global Accounting Engine .............................................................. 17
Overview ..................................................................................... 17
Planning Considerations ............................................................. 17
Subledger Accounting .................................................................... 17
Overview ..................................................................................... 17
Planning Considerations ............................................................. 17
Operational Tips ..........................................................................18
E-Business Tax .................................................................................19
Overview .....................................................................................19
Planning Considerations ............................................................ 20
Post-Upgrade Tips...................................................................... 20
Setup Tips .................................................................................... 21
Troubleshooting Tips .................................................................. 21
Change Record ............................................................................... 23
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Oracle E-Business Suite
R12.1 Financials Pre-Upgrade,
Setup and Operational Tips
- Provides planning considerations, process change, and configuration changes for the
R12.1 Financial products.
- Review this document for the latest Financials recommended patches released after the
R12.1.x EBS suite-wide release.
• R12.1 Oracle Financials Pre-Upgrade Patch, supplemental patch list for the
R12.1 EBS Consolidated Patch Update (CUP) - Doc ID 1127593.1
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guides. All Release 12.1 documentation is available via the E-Business Suite Product
Information Center – refer to My Oracle Support Doc ID 806555.1.
Payables
Release 12 introduces
Oracle Subledger Overview
Accounting, Oracle E-
Release 12 introduced Oracle Subledger Accounting, Oracle E-Business Tax,
Business Tax, Ledgers,
Banks, and other common Ledgers, Banks, and other common data model components that are used by
data model components Oracle Payables.
that are used by Oracle
The following Payables features are new as of Release 12:
Payables.
• Suppliers are defined as Parties within the Oracle Trading Community
Architecture (TCA).
• Invoice Lines are introduced as an entity between the Invoice Header and
Invoice Distributions to better match the structure of invoice documents
and to improve the flow of information such as manufacturer, model and
serial number from Purchasing through to Assets.
• Banks, bank branches, and internal bank accounts are defined centrally
and are managed in Oracle Cash Management.
• Document sequencing of payments has moved to the Cash Management
bank account setup.
• A new module called Oracle Payments now handles payments and all
funds disbursement activities.
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Global Descriptive Flexfields (GDFs), which are obsolete in Release 12, to
regular fields on the appropriate entities.
Pre-Upgrade Tips
Just prior to the upgrade:
• Run the Payables Accounting Health Check script (My Oracle Support Doc
ID 416699.1 to ensure that there are no inconsistencies in your 11i data.
Setup Tips
• Once you have set options for Automatic Offsets, do not change them.
Doing so would represent a major setup change that does not update past
transactions and would lead to accounting issues. A change in Automatic
Offsets should be considered as a project that includes full testing before
being implemented in your production system. Past transactions must be
cleared before such a change.
• When defining new bank accounts, ensure that cash clearing and cash
accounts have been provided at the bank accounts control level.
Operational Tips
Run the Invoice Validation
program on a regular basis (at Regular Activities
least daily) to determine if there
are invoices that are not getting • Run the Invoice Validation program on a regular basis (at least daily) to
validated. The best practice is to determine if there are invoices that are not getting validated. The best
schedule a concurrent request so practice is to schedule a concurrent request so that it runs daily at a time
that it runs daily at a time when when load is not high.
load is not high.
• Run the Create Accounting program on a regular basis (at least daily) to
identify invoices that are not getting accounted.
• When you make manual entries to the General Ledger, ensure that proper
descriptions are provided so that they can be tracked back as required
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• For U.S. implementations: Once you begin creating 1099 payment
information for 1099 suppliers, periodically review the information to
verify its accuracy and completeness. Payables provides three standard
reports to help you identify 1099 reporting exceptions:
Reconciliation-related Activities
• Ensure that accounts used as liability accounts, and that need
reconciliation, are not used for any other purpose. For example, such
accounts should not be used in any other Subledger and no manual entries
should be made against them. To ensure this, make these accounts
control accounts using a new feature of Release 12.
• After closing the periods in Payables and General Ledger, please run the
needed reports to balance within Payables. This would typically include
the Trial Balance, Posted Invoice Register, and Posted Payment Register
reports. You’ll also need to run the Account Analysis in General Ledger
and reconcile that to Payables. Ensure that a monthly reconciliation is
performed. Track any unexpected data.
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Payments
In Release 12, the Oracle E-
Business Suite introduces Oracle Overview
Payments, a configurable, robust In Release 12, the Oracle E-Business Suite introduced Oracle Payments, a
and centralized engine for
configurable, robust and centralized engine for disbursing and receiving payments.
disbursing and receiving
payments. In addition to new features, Oracle Payments offers functionality previously
released as Oracle iPayment, which becomes obsolete starting with Release 12.
Planning Considerations
The Release 11i iPayments setup is migrated to the Release 12 Payments module.
All Release 12 payment formats are BI Publisher-based; therefore, the 11i payment
formats are obsolete. Oracle seeds payment formats in Release 12 corresponding
to those that were seeded in 11i.
You may need to configure the seeded payment formats using BI Publisher to
satisfy the requirements of your banking partners. This configuration involves
modifying the format files, and then sending them to your banking partners for
validation. You may need to repeat this process a few times before your format
files are validated, so ensure that you allocate enough time. For more information
on upgrading your Release 11i payment formats, see My Oracle Support Doc ID
549024.1.
Post-Upgrade Tips
• Dummy Funds Capture setup in Payments is required to perform
Automatic Receipts transactions in Receivables.
• In Release 11i, bank accounts were not centralized and customer bank
accounts were stored in Receivables tables. Oracle iPayment was
leveraged only for credit card transactions. The Receipt remittance is
done by a format program in Oracle Receivables. In Release 12, Oracle
Payments is required for remitting receipts since bank accounts are
centralized in Payments. Therefore, the minimal Payments setup (for
Payee, Payment System, Funds Capture Process Profile, and so on) is
required in Release 12 for the remittance of receipts.
• A user can create dummy Payments setup per the following My Oracle
Support articles:
o 471418.1 – Oracle Payments Setup for Funds Capture Processing
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Internet Expenses
Overview
Release 12 changes to Oracle Internet Expenses include:
• Per Diem and Mileage – Per diem and mileage transaction data are not
migrated. However, per diem and mileage setup data is automatically
upgraded.
• Expense Reports – Expense Reports that were created prior to the upgrade
display information in a pre-Oracle Internet Expenses minipack (11i.OIE.K)
format. Newly created expense reports use the new user interface.
Planning Considerations
Prior to the upgrade, it’s important to review your catalog data. A recommended
pre-upgrade procedure for identifying and fixing exceptions in your catalog data is
documented in the “Reducing Downtime” appendix of the Oracle Applications
Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.0.x.
You should also remove duplicate suppliers and sites from your supplier data prior
to the upgrade to reduce the number of parties created in Trading Community
Architecture (TCA).
Consider implementing Multiple Organization Access Control (MOAC) for those
responsibilities that are new with Release 12 and designed to be MOAC, for
example, the supplier profile administrator for creating and managing suppliers.
Although the Release 11i per diem and mileage schedules are migrated to Release
12, detailed testing is recommended.
With Release 12, entering and viewing project information in Internet Expenses
changes. Be sure to address these changes in your user training.
Pre-Upgrade Tips
• Since the Expense Report Import program is obsolete in Release 12,
submit it just prior to the upgrade to ensure that all intercompany data in
Internet Expenses interface records is imported into Oracle Payables. Fix
any rejections and resubmit until all records are imported.
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• In Release 12, the address for the Employee Supplier cannot be changed; it
is the address in HRMS that is used for making payments to employees.
Before you upgrade, make sure that the address for the Employee Supplier
is the same at the Supplier Site and in the HRMS application.
Post-Upgrade Tips
• In Release 12, tax is always marked as inclusive for the expense report
lines containing a Tax Code. When entering an expense report, a user
should enter an amount that is inclusive of the tax amount for the expense
line.
Setup Tips
• The Cost Center segment should be defined as an independent segment to
render the proper value for cost center on an Expense Report.
Receivables
Overview
Release 12 changes to Oracle Receivables include:
• Integration with E-Business Tax – Release 12 introduces Oracle E-Business
Tax to manage tax across the E-Business Suite. During the upgrade,
system and customer options used to control tax calculation and tax code
defaulting are migrated from Oracle Receivables into Oracle E-Business
Tax entities.
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are migrated from the Payables entities to the centralized Payments
entities. Oracle Payments centralizes and secures all payment instrument
data, including external bank accounts, credit cards, and debit cards.
Planning Considerations
In Release 12, suppliers are modeled in the Trading Community Architecture (TCA),
and there is a new user interface for maintaining suppliers. Backward-compatible
Receivables views to customer and supplier tables no longer exist, so if you have
custom reports running against those views, plan to modify them to run against the
TCA tables.
Setup Tips
• Model your customer accounts and sites according to the best practices
recommended in the white paper, “Oracle Trading Community
Architecture: Modeling Customer and Prospect Data – TCA Best Practices”,
My Oracle Support Doc ID 164519.1.
• Submit the Create Accounting program in draft mode and review the
accounting before submitting in final mode and posting to the General
Ledger.
• Run the Create Accounting program on a regular basis (at least daily) to
identify invoices that are not getting accounted.
Operational Tips
Performance-related:
• To process large volumes, run multiple instances of the “Automatic
Receipts Creation Program (API)” program concurrently for all of the
Receipt Class/Payment Methods that have been set up.
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the processing load for the Late Charges program instance across multiple
jobs or workers, resulting in faster generation of your finance charges.
Reconciliation-related:
• Perform the following pre-requisite steps before starting the Receivables
to General Ledger reconciliation:
• Review the Un-posted Items reports to confirm that all items are posted to
the General Ledger.
• Run the Potential Reconciling Items Report to view items that might have
accounting setup errors. This report suggests journal items that might
potentially post to General Ledger accounts with unexpected account
types, thus creating reconciliation issues in General Ledger. When a
potential reconciling item is an error, correct the individual transaction as
well as the incorrect setup to prevent future occurrences of the error.
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• Run the Journal Entries Report after completing Create Accounting (Final
Accounting) to show the accounting data transferred to Subledger
Accounting. This should be matched with the AR Reconciliation Report to
ensure that Receivables versus Subledger Accounting reconciliation is
done.
Advanced Collections
The Collections Workbench
module in Oracle Receivables is Overview
obsolete and is replaced with
comparable functionality in Oracle The Collections Workbench module in Oracle Receivables is obsolete and is
Advanced Collections. replaced with comparable functionality in Oracle Advanced Collections. This
includes functionality relating to customer interactions and correspondence,
transaction processing, and dunning activities. With Release 12, additional features
such as scoring, collections strategies, enhanced payment and promise processing,
automated promise tracking, and automated collector work assignment are also
available.
Planning Considerations
Receivables users who have not purchased a license for Advanced Collections are
not authorized to use the full feature set of this product. The Receivables
Collections Workbench has been replaced with a limited version of Oracle
Advanced Collections for Oracle Receivables. Details on the collections features
available in Receivables and the features available in Oracle Advanced Collections
are provided in My Oracle Support Doc ID 389443.1.
Assets
Overview
In Release 12, Oracle Assets adds Subledger Accounting (SLA) functionality. By
default, transactions in the current fiscal year in Assets books will have their
accounting lines migrated to the Subledger Accounting model. Accounting for
current period depreciation will be upgraded only if depreciation has already run
for the period, and the period remains open. After the upgrade, you can run the
SLA post-upgrade process to update accounting for past transaction data as
needed.
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Operational Tips
• Important reports such as the transaction diagnostics report and
reconciliation reports should be run before closing the period to ensure
that the accounting entries are reviewed and verified.
• If you are using multiple asset books that link to the same ledger, ensure
that the natural account segment value of the asset clearing account is
unique for each asset book.
• Once Group Asset Advanced Rules options are defined, you cannot change
them. Review group asset options carefully to determine which ones satisfy
your requirements for accounting and tracking of group and member
assets.
Overview
The Oracle Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) is a new module in
Release 12 that allows companies to streamline intercompany processing and
facilitates the reconciliation of intercompany transactions. It replaces the Global
Intercompany System (GIS) feature provided by General Ledger in Release 11i.
Planning Considerations
All GIS setup and transaction data are moved to the AGIS data model. It’s a good
idea to review existing 11i intercompany rules and update them as necessary
before the upgrade.
Post-Upgrade Tips
• The Intercompany accounts in GIS are upgraded to AGIS Intra-company
Balancing rules. Auto-Accounting rules in GIS are not upgraded, and need
to be set up as Account Derivation Rules and compiled with the
Transaction Account Builder in Subledger Accounting.
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General Ledger
In Release 12, Oracle General
Ledger is significantly enhanced to Overview
support multi-national companies In Release 12, Oracle General Ledger is significantly enhanced to support multi-
and shared services centers.
national companies and shared services centers. These changes allow you to
These changes allow you to
maximize processing efficiencies maximize processing efficiencies while maintaining a high level of information and
while maintaining a high level of setup security.
information and setup security.
You can perform simultaneous accounting for multiple reporting requirements.
You can also gain processing efficiencies by setting up, accessing, and processing
data across multiple ledgers and legal entities from a single responsibility. In
addition, General Ledger definitions - such as Mass Allocations and Financial
Statement Generator (FSG) reports - can be more easily shared and secured across
your organization by allowing you to restrict certain users from viewing or updating
these definitions or from using them in processes.
Many global features that were previously available only in localized versions are
included in Release 12 of General Ledger.
Terminology Changes:
“Sets of books” is replaced by “ledgers”. All sets of books options are now called
ledger options. The upgrade retains all Release 11i settings.
Setup Tips
• The currency in which you do your local statutory reporting (transaction
based, such as VAT or withholding tax, or accounting) must be the
currency of your primary ledger. Oracle supports local compliance by
having local currency as the Primary Ledger currency.
th
• Ensure that the date range for your calendar includes the 29 day of
February in leap years. Check the calendar validation report before using
the calendar for setting up ledgers. You can change any of a period's
specifications, except for the period type, so long as the period has not
been used for transaction processing in General Ledger or in the
subledgers. You cannot change a calendar period that is open, closed,
future enterable, permanently closed, or is included in an open budget or
encumbrance year.
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• Do not freeze the journal source if you intend to correct journals from the
source during import into General Ledger.
• Ensure that you are assigning correct balancing segment values to ledgers
in the Accounting Setup Manager. Once you assign them, you can end-
date the assignment, but you cannot un-assign them.
• Ensure that you have defined a Tax Recoverable/Liability account for tax
rates that you plan to use in General Ledger. The system will generate a
tax line only if a Tax Recoverable/Liability account is defined for your
ledger for the tax rate in E-Business Tax.
• Ensure that you disable the legal entity balancing segment value
assignment whenever you disable the legal entity.
• Ensure that the start date of an organization type is set to a valid date
before creating the operating unit in the Accounting Setup Manager.
• Ensure that you run the General Ledger Setup diagnostics test to validate
your overall setup of General Ledger.
Operational Tips
• Run the Segment Value Inheritance Program when changes are made to
the segment qualifiers for segment values of the chart of accounts.
• Before you consolidate your subsidiary ledger to a parent ledger for the
first time, and before you try to run translation from the consolidation
workbench, ensure that you have run translation on the subsidiary ledger
at least once.
• Set the status of the first accounting period in the new fiscal year to
“Future Entry”. Do not open the first period of the new fiscal year until all
of the year-end processing for the last period of the current year has
completed.
• Close the period in your subledgers before closing the period in General
Ledger. This will prevent subledgers from posting entries to a closed
period.
• If you are using a calendar with an adjusting period that represents the
last day of the fiscal year, close the current period and open the adjusting
period. Create and post adjusting entries and accruals in the adjusting
period.
• If Mass Allocation is not creating any journal entries, check for any invalid
or end-dated account combinations used in the Mass Allocation formula.
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If yes, either enable the account combinations, or modify the Mass
Allocation formula to exclude them.
• Run the General Ledger Period Closing diagnostics test to verify that a
ledger period is ready to close.
Overview
In Release 12, Global Accounting Engine functionality is replaced by Oracle
Subledger Accounting, now standard for all feeders (Receivables, Payables, Assets,
Project Accounting.) Related to this change, all secondary and non-MRC posting
Sets of Books in Release 11i are upgraded to secondary ledgers in Release 12, with
automatic posting between the primary ledger and the secondary ledger.
Planning Considerations
It’s important that all statutory postings are up to date before you upgrade. It is
also important that dual posting from Payables and Receivables be tested
thoroughly.
Subledger Accounting
Oracle Subledger Accounting (SLA)
provides a common accounting Overview
engine that replaces the existing
accounting processes in the Oracle Subledger Accounting (SLA) provides a common accounting engine that
different Subledger applications. replaces the existing accounting processes in the different Subledger applications.
The SLA upgrade involves migrating existing accounting data between 11i and
Release 12 to ensure a continuous business operation. Depending upon your
business requirements, “existing accounting data” may have different implications.
For the purposes of this discussion, accounting data is defined as:
“All data that has accounting relevance for the customer, including journal entries,
balances, base transactions that have generated journal entries, and related
information, such as accounting events and setup information.”
Planning Considerations
The upgrade team should fully understand SLA functionality and closing processes,
which vary slightly by application.
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Map custom reports, such as custom reconciliation reports, to the new SLA tables.
You can change the amount of historical accounting data to be upgraded to SLA as
a pre-upgrade step. For example, you can specify that a larger range of periods be
upgraded.
This is an important decision because some SLA functionality relies on the existence
of previous accounting data. For example, if you need to cancel invoices from two
years ago, then you need to upgrade at least two years of accounting data to SLA.
However, you have the flexibility to limit the amount of Subledger data you update
during the upgrade to reduce downtime and save on disk space. If you do not
update all of your accounting data during the upgrade downtime, you can perform
additional updating at a later point, either during daily business operations, or
during a subsequent downtime. Review the document called R12: FAQ for the SLA
Upgrade: SLA Pre-Upgrade, Post-Upgrade, and Hot Patch -- Doc ID 604893.1, for
more information about the SLA Pre-Upgrade, Post-Upgrade, and Hot Patch.
Operational Tips
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Make Account Code Changes with Care
On certain occasions, you may need to make segment changes that invalidate
account codes (CCIDs) that you have previously used. For example, when a cost
center moves from one line of business to another, you need to reflect the change
in your account code validation rules. In this circumstance, you run the segment
inheritance program to invalidate the CCID so that no new transactions can
reference it.
Different business models will dictate the extent to which account code changes
are made during a month. In general, however, it is a good practice to designate a
fixed day in each month when any necessary chart of accounts changes are made
and communicated. This should reduce the need to make ad hoc changes
throughout the month, and will result in a cleaner close cycle.
One way to maintain consistency is, for each of the subledgers, to run Create
Accounting on a regular basis (at least daily), and then immediately to run Transfer
to General Ledger so that there is no disabling of account codes before journal
import occurs. If Create Accounting and the Transfer to General Ledger always run
back to back, then the account codes used by SLA and General Ledger should be in
synch.
To address an account code disconnect between SLA and General Ledger, Release
12 provides a new feature in the “GL Accounts” form that allows you to replace an
invalid account code in Subledger Accounting data, which in turn allows General
Ledger to find a valid account code and for import to proceed without error.
Account replacement is also performed for non-Oracle journal sources during the
import process. However, since a retrospective fix to an account code can cause
Subledger application data to get of synch with Subledger Accounting and General
Ledger data, it is best to avoid the situation altogether by adopting practices for
maintaining account code consistency.
E-Business Tax
Oracle E-Business Tax provides the
infrastructure for transaction tax Overview
knowledge management and
delivery using a global system Oracle E-Business Tax provides the infrastructure for transaction tax knowledge
architecture that is configurable management and delivery using a global system architecture that is configurable
and scalable for adding country- and scalable for adding country-specific tax content. As the single point solution
specific tax content. for managing transaction-based tax, Oracle E-Business Tax uniformly delivers tax
services to all E-Business Suite business flows through one application interface.
Oracle E-Business Tax consists of a tax knowledge base, a variety of tax services
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that respond to specific tax events, a set of repositories (for tax content and tax
recording) that allows customers to manage their local tax compliance needs in a
proactive manner, as well as the ability to integrate with external tax providers
through a single integration point. In short, Oracle E-Business Tax is the global and
consistent compliance repository that encapsulates fiscal and tax rules in a single
point solution for tax events that is easy to integrate, extend and implement. E-
Business Tax replaces the following tax solutions available in 11i:
Planning Considerations
In Release 11i, tax setups were defined separately in various products. In Release
12, tax setup and calculation have been centralized. Your tax manager, who knows
your organization’s current and future tax needs, should be responsible for
configuring the tax setup.
During the upgrade, Release 11i tax setups are migrated to Release 12. While you
may not choose to utilize the new/advanced features of E-Business Tax
immediately after your upgrade, Oracle recommends that you familiarize your tax
users with the key E-Business Tax features and start taking advantage of them.
Test tax scenarios for all of your countries after the upgrade. In Payables, ensure
that you test your invoice sources (XML, iSupplier, flat file, and manual) to confirm
that each can automatically derive the correct tax regime-to-rate information.
Also, standardize your Release 11i customer and supplier tax setup before your
upgrade, as this will help to ensure that tax is derived correctly in Release 12.
Post-Upgrade Tips
• After the upgrade, you can still provide the tax codes in transactions and
also use defaulting hierarchies and tax groups in the same manner as you
did in Release 11i without changing your setup. Over time, you can
incrementally update your migrated tax data to gradually move from your
Release 11i tax code model to the E-Business Tax regime-to-rate and tax
rules model.
• Group constraints in Receivables are migrated as-is to E-Business Tax.
However, they are migrated as read only and cannot be modified. If you
want to add new conditions, you must use the new E-Business Tax rules
functionality to create rules (expert or guided) with all conditions.
• E-Business Tax provides users the flexibility to share a tax setup across
multiple Operating Units/Legal Entities, or to restrict it to a particular
Operating Unit/Legal Entity. You must decide which setup is appropriate
for your enterprise.
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Setup Tips
• On a migrated instance, any new operating unit should be subscribed to
the relevant tax regimes if the subscription of the Legal Entity is not being
used.
• If the Configuration Owner tax option is not created or is not active for a
specific combination of application, event class, and first party Legal
Entity/Operating Unit, then the defaults are taken from seeded Event Class
settings.
• You can run a transaction in the Tax Simulator to check your tax setup. The
Tax Simulator should be used after any change to your tax setup to test
multiple what-if scenarios without affecting the transaction database.
Troubleshooting Tips
Users may report E-Business Tax problems in the following categories:
Avoid these E-Business Tax problems by following the general, offset tax, and
irreversible options setup tips below:
General:
• Check whether all the required setups are effective on the transaction
date.
• STCC
• Determine Applicable Regimes
• If Party Tax Profile is changed, ensure that the Tax Applicability flag is
checked.
• Ensure that by default or as a rule result, Tax is Applicable.
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• Check whether the “Make Tax available for transactions” is enabled at
the Tax level.
• If the user has subscribed the Regime to a Legal Entity, then in the Party
Tax profile for the Operating Unit, the “Allow subscription of Legal Entity
flag” should be checked. This should be carefully done, as it is an
irreversible setting.
• Define all the required Tax Accounts based on your tax setup in the Tax
Rate to avoid errors during transactions.
• Check that the Configuration Owner Tax Options for the Event Class allows
for tax exemptions to be considered.
• Check that you have completed the setup for all the required set up tasks
listed in the E-Business Tax Home Page.
• Use the available Diagnostic scripts to identify any tax setup issues.
• Check that “Allow Offset Taxes” is enabled in the Party Tax Profile for the
Offset Taxes.
Irreversible Options:
Note that the following setup changes are irreversible:
• The “Use Subscription of the Legal Entity” box in the operating unit party
tax profile - This flag should be checked if the Regime is subscribed to the
Legal Entity.
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• The “Make Tax available for transactions” option in the Tax, if enabled,
cannot be updated.
Change Record
11-Jun-2008 Anne Carlson 1.1 Made Globalization edits under General Ledger and Global
Accounting Engine sections
17-May-2010 Anne Carlson Created Financials-specific excerpt for Chris Cianciolo to use as the
basis for Support Note containing R12.1 Financials Upgrade
Considerations
01-Jun-2010 Chris Cianciolo 1.2 Changed Title from Planning Your Oracle EBS Financials Upgrade
from 11i to R12.1 to Oracle EBS R12.1 Financials Pre-Upgrade, Setup
and Operational Tips
29-Sep-2010 Chris Cianciolo 1.3 Highlight the Financials Pre-Upgrade Patches listed in Doc 1127593.1
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Author: Financials Product Development
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