15 FSG Fundamentals
15 FSG Fundamentals
Table of Contents
Standard Reports and Listings.................................................................................... 2
When to Use Standard Reports...................................................................................2
Financial Statement Generator Features....................................................................3
When to Use FSG Reports........................................................................................... 4
Preparing Your FSG Report.......................................................................................... 4
Building Basic Reports................................................................................................ 5
Financial Statement Generator...................................................................................5
Steps for FSG Financial Reports..................................................................................6
Defining Row Sets....................................................................................................... 7
Assigning Accounts..................................................................................................... 9
Defining Calculations in Row Sets............................................................................. 11
Reviewing Your Row Set Definitions..........................................................................12
Defining Ad Hoc Reports........................................................................................... 12
Defining Column Sets............................................................................................... 13
Applying Column Set Relative Headings...................................................................15
Standard Column Sets.............................................................................................. 16
Reviewing Your Column Set Definitions....................................................................17
Row Set and Column Overrides................................................................................ 17
Defining and Requesting Financial Reports...............................................................19
Handling Rounding Problems.................................................................................... 20
Specifying Control Values......................................................................................... 21
Defining Content Sets............................................................................................... 22
Selecting Display Options......................................................................................... 23
Reviewing Your Content Set Definitions....................................................................24
Defining Row Orders................................................................................................. 24
Ranking Methods...................................................................................................... 25
Reviewing Your Row Order Detail Listing Report.......................................................26
Copying Reports and Components...........................................................................27
FSG Report Prerequisites.......................................................................................... 28
Enabling FSG Security.............................................................................................. 28
Run FSG Reports from Standard Request Submission..............................................29
Running Financial Report Sets..................................................................................30
FSG Tips and Techniques.......................................................................................... 30
FSG Tips and Techniques.......................................................................................... 30
Setting FSG Options for General Ledger...................................................................31
Report
Specify formatting:
To control page breaks, indentation, line spacing, and underline
characters. You can define a new row set, or use FSG's AutoCopy
feature to copy an existing row set, which you can then modify
as needed.
Note: If you have average balance processing enabled in your set of books, you can
report on functional, foreign, and translated average balances.
Implementation Note
Row Set:
When creating a balance sheet, you must include your entire
income statement account range for the Current Period Retained
Earnings amount. Oracle General Ledger never posts the
monthly net income amount to an actual current period retained
earnings account. This only happens when the first period of a
new fiscal year is opened. Thus, to achieve the figure for current
period retained earnings, it is a reporting solution where you
enter your Profit and Loss account range in the account
assignment.
When creating reports, it is a good idea to include check figures
at the end of the report to verify that all accounts were properly
assigned in the reports. This is particularly useful if you have
had to enter account ranges with gaps because of the structure
of your chart of accounts.
For example, when creating a Balance Sheet, add check figures
at the end of the report defined as follows:
- Total Assets 1000-1999
- Total Liabilities 2000-2999
- Total Stockholder's Equity 3000-9999. Note: In order to
derive the net income amount that is usually posted to
current period retained earnings, you must include your
income statement account range.
Assigning Line Numbers to Rows:
You should enter line numbers in increments of 10 to allow for
space to add additional rows for future modifications.
Account Assignment Display Option:
Oracle General Ledger stores debit balances as positive
numbers and credit balances as negative numbers. If you want
your credit balance accounts, such as liabilities, and revenues to
display as positive numbers, select the Change Sign check box.
Doing so will have no effect on your calculations.
Assigning Accounts
You can select the sign and ranges of accounts for each row in your row
set.
Assigning Accounts
Select the Account Assignments button to assign accounts for a row set.
Select a numeric operator (+ or -) to add or subtract the totals for the account
range.
Enter a Low and High for the range of account combinations. To specify an individual
account, enter the same account as the Low and High. You can leave these fields
blank to create generic row sets with universal account assignments.
Enter a Display type for each account segment:
Select "E" to expand the range and display one report line for
each segment value.
Select "T" to total the amounts in the range and display only one
total line for the segment values.
Select "T" for each segment of the range if multiple account
ranges are assigned to a row.
Select "B" to display both the expanded detail and the Total. "B"
combines the effects of "E" and "T".
Implementation Note
Account Assignment:
You should always enter a unique Row Name for every row. The
Row Name does not appear in any reports, but it does appear in
lists of values when you perform calculations. If the row is simply
a label, for example, "Current Assets", that does not have any
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accounts assigned to it, you should append the row name with
the word "label" to let you know that this row contains no
accounts and you will not need to include it in your calculations.
Also be sure the row name is unique to ensure that calculations
yield the correct results. If you use the same row name for two
different rows, FSG will not know which row to use.
Consider creating generic row sets by applying "T" display types
for each account segment. You can later define content sets to
create more specific reports.
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To run ad hoc reports, you select report objects and other report parameters during
the report submission process. With predefined report, you can run the report with
the parameters you saved in the report definition or you can change the parameters
at runtime.
Note: If you change the parameters at runtime, FSG will not save them in the stored
report definition.
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Level of Detail
Column Overrides Row
Override Row/Column Calculations (Conflict exists only if the same value (Yes or
No) is entered at both the row and the column set levels)
Activity
Other Conflicts
Accounts: Report uses intersecting accounts.
Summary: Must assign the same summary option at the row and column level.
Currency: Must assign the same currency at the row and column level.
Change Sign: Yes overrides No.
Change Sign on Variance: Yes overrides No.
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Ranking Methods
Determine
Ranking Methods
Oracle General Ledger offers several ways to order and display expanded detail
rows. Select a ranking method and to display segment values, segment value
descriptions, or both. Alternatives include the following:
Order by ranking, display description: For example, department
number.
Order by ranking, display both: For example, the name of the
department.
Order by description, display description: For example,
department description.
Order by description, display value
Order by value, display description
Order by value, display value
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FSG:
FSG:
FSG:
FSG:
child segment value ranges. When you set this profile option to
Yes, the FSG performance enhancement is applied.
Enforce Segment Value Security:
Control whether your defined security rules will apply to reports
produced using FSG.
Expand Parent Value:
Control whether the rollup group or the summary flag associated
with flexfield assignments determine the expansion of parent
values when requesting summary balances.
Message Detail:
Specify the error message catalogue and level of detail in your
error message log file when you request your Financial
Statement Generator reports.
String Comparison Mode:
Do not change this profile option unless instructed to do so by
Oracle World Wide Support. This profile option affects the
character language for text-based character sets.
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