Herewith providing the generic period close process for Cash managment for R12.

1.Make sure you have Loaded & reconciled all bank statements for month

• You must verified Auto-Reconciliation Execution Report

2.If there any , resolve all exceptions

3.Create miscellaneous transactions

This step existed in Release 11i but the difference is that in Release 12 when you create the miscellaneous transactions in AR, the accounting is done by SLA.

4. Resolve unreconciled lines

A Note on Transactions Available for Reconciliation Report

Take advantage of this report.This report shows all transactions available for reconciliation for a specific bank account. It lists detailed transaction information for your Available Receipts, AvailablePayments, and Available Journal Entries for reconciliation.

Detailed information includes the Customer, Supplier, Transaction Date, Payment Method, Transaction Number, Currency, and Amount. It also lists detailed information for statement lines that are available for reconciliation against other statement lines.

5.Reconcile to General Ledger

A Note on General Ledger Reconciliation Report

Use this report to reconcile the General Ledger cash account to a bank statement balance.

This report lists a balance and an adjusted balance for the bank statement. It also lists a separate adjustment amount for un-reconciled receipts, payments, and journal entries, as well as bank errors.

This Report will show

Hopefully these steps will be helpful for doing Closure for CE.

If you are coming from 11i, there is slightly change in FA Period Closure process because of SLA.

Here are steps & procedures for performing period-end processing in Oracle Assets Release 12.

In FA, at period end, we require to run depreciation for depreciation books set up for the organization, and to Create accounting for Oracle General Ledger. Oracle Assets has only a single open depreciation period in each depreciation book.

1.Complete All Transactions for the Period Being Closed

You need to ensure that all transactions have been entered for the period being closed. Once a depreciation period in Oracle Assets has been closed, it cannot be re-opened. Check that no-one is entering transactions as Oracle Assets prevents transaction data entry while the Depreciation Run Process is running. You need to complet all transactions for Oracle Assets:

• Prepare and Post Mass Additions
• Complete Manual Additions
• Complete Adjustments
• Complete Retirements
• Complete Transfers
• Complete Reinstatements

2.Then if you required, you need to assign distribution lines to all assets.

If an asset has not been assigned to a distribution line, the period end Depreciation Process will not complete, and will not close the period. Take the advantage of running "Assets Not Assigned to Any Cost Centers Listing " report to determine which assets have not been assigned to a distribution line.

3.Run Calculate Gains and Losses

This is optional , the Calculate Gains and Losses program for retirements can be submitted prior to running depreciation. The Calculate Gains and Losses process is performed independently for each depreciation book.

4.Run the depreciation

In Release 11i when you ran depreciation you would automatically close the period whereas in Release 12 you can now run depreciation without closing the period.

5.Create accounting

Create Journal Entries (FAPOST) is replaced by Create Accounting – Assets process (FAACCPB)

6.RollBack Depreciation for adjustment

When you are trying to do adjustment on a particular asset, FA automatically rolls-back depreciation for that particular asset.This is one of the area where you will experience change if you are coming from other versions.

7.Once you are sure that all the balances are correct you need to run depreciation and close the period.

8.Create accounting

You need to run "create accounting" very similar as mention in step 5.

9.Post Asset Transaction in GL

You need to make sure the step 8 must be completed only if you done transfer and posting for the accounting entries to GL.

These steps are basically takes care of data movement , then next step for you to tie FA and GL.

For reconciliation of assets you need to take advantage of some of seeded and newly added report that will help business user to reconcile and closing the period.

10. Reconcile your Fixed Asset and GL

• Reconcile Assets to the GL Using Reports
  • Journal Entry Reserve Ledger - reconcile with the Account Analysis with Payables Details Report.
  • Tax Reserve Ledger Report
  • Account Reconciliation Reserve Ledger Report
• Balance Report
  • Cost Detail and Cost Summary Reports
  • CIP Detail and CIP Summary Reports
  • Reserve Detail and Reserve Summary Reports
  • Revaluation Reserve Detail and Revaluation Reserve Summary Reports
• GL Report
  • Journal - posted/Unposted
  • Account analysis

Once these report can tally, there is no way that your P & L report is not going to tally.

Suggested Reading

• Fixed Asset Transfer to GL
• Fixed Asset & SLA
• Release 12: 6 New and Changed Feature in "Oracle Assets"

This post is answer of reader's query which was pending from long time.

To elaborate in details , lets take sample case with two items.

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