Speaker: Christine McCabe, The New Millennium Group
FlexBuilder provides applications with the ability to construct key flexfield combinations automatically using customized construction criteria. The key flexfield most frequently built with FlexBuilder is the Accounting Flexfield.
Several Oracle Applications use FlexBuilder to build the Accounting Flexfield: Assets, Purchasing, Order Entry, Receivables, Project Accounting .
The basics of Flexbuilder will be discussed in this session. One or more examples of how you might do a custom implementation for a FlexBuilder function at your site will be demonstrated, as time permits. If you would like to do some advance planning for this session you can read about Flexbuilder in the Flexfields reference manual. You can also review the example discussed in the online application help (entitled Implementation Example: LaForge Chemical Company) as this will be the first example discussed in the session.
Presented by: Christine McCabe
Christine McCabe is a Certified Public Accountant who has been implementing financial software for 13 years. She has been working exclusively with Oracle Applications for 8 years on projects throughout the United States. Ms. McCabe is Vice President of The New Millennium Group, Inc. a consulting firm she co-founded with her husband Chris. She implemented a fairly complicated flexbuilder solution at The Southern Company to build the Order Entry Inventory Interface COGS Account
Presentation: "Growing & Supporting Your Chart of Accounts"(Considering FSG's, Cross Validation Rules, Value Sets, etc.)
Speaker: Brad Eldredge, AnswerThink
The chart of accounts (COA) establishes the framework for how an organization's financial data may be recorded and reported. The COA should not be thought of as a one-time setup to be forgotten. Instead, your COA should grow with the organization in order to continue to meet regulatory and management reporting requirements. This presentation will address considerations for growing & supporting your chart of accounts. Specific areas of discussion will include code combinations, subledger COA dependencies, FSG reporting, Cross-Validation Rules, etc
Presented by: Brad Eldredge
Mr. Eldredge began his career working in various accounting and financial systems management positions at BellSouth Corp and BellSouth International. Currently he works for the AnswerThink Consulting Group as a project manager of Oracle financials projects.
Mr. Eldredge has worked extensively with the Oracle financials and supporting/technical applications for over four years. His in-depth knowledge of both the functional and technical aspects of Oracle is a major asset in bridging the communication gap that often exists between financial managers and technical developers.
Mr. Eldredge plays an active role within the OAUG organization. As the Enhancement Chairman for the General Ledger application, Mr. Eldredge has served for three years as the liaison between OAUG members and Oracle Corporation in shaping future versions of the product through the enhancement process.
