Oracle glossary

GLOSSARY OF ORACLE TERMS

Note: These definitions are derived from the glossaries contained in User
Manuals for each Oracle Financials Systems module. In many cases, terms
have slightly different meanings based on which module is involved. When
multiple definitions are provided by Oracle, all are included.

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1099 form The forms the Internal Revenue Service supplies to record a
particular category of payment or receipt. 1099 number The tax identification
number for a supplier. According to IRS rules in the United States, lack of a valid
tax identification number may result in tax withholding. Payables stores the tax
identification number for each supplier. Payables also enables you to enter a
withholding status for each supplier.

1099 types A 1099 classification scheme used in the United States for types of
payments. Each 1099 form has one or more payment types. A 1099 supplier
may receive payments from more than one type. The 1099–MISC form has the
following types: rents, royalties, prizes and awards, federal income tax withheld,
fishing boat proceeds, medical and health care payments, non–employee
compensation, and substitute payments in lieu of dividends or interest. Payables
records 1099 payments by type so that you can report them according to IRS
requirements.

24–hour format A time format that uses a 24 hour clock instead of am and pm,
so that 3:30 would be 3:30am, 16:15 would be 4:15pm, 19:42 would be 7:42pm,
etc.

2–way matching The process of verifying that purchase order and invoice
information matches within accepted tolerance levels. Oracle Receivables uses
the following criteria to verify two–way matching: Invoice price <= Order price,
Quantity billed <= Quantity ordered.

360-degree appraisal Part of the SSHR Appraisal function and also known as a
Group Appraisal. This is an employee appraisal undertaken by managers with
participation by reviewers.

360-degree self-appraisal Part of the SSHR Appraisal function and also known
as a Group Appraisal. This is a 360 Degree appraisal initiated by an employee.
The employee (initiator) can add managers and reviewers to the appraisal.

3–way matching The process of verifying that purchase order, invoice, and
receiving information matches within accepted tolerance levels. Oracle
Receivables uses the following criteria to verify three–way matching: Invoice

price <= Purchase Order price, Quantity billed <= Quantity ordered, Quantity
billed <= Quantity received.

4–4–5 calendar A depreciation calendar with 12 uneven periods: four cycles of a
four– week period, followed by a four– week period, followed by a five– week
period. Depreciation is usually divided by days for a 4– 4– 5 calendar. Since a
4– 4– 5 calendar has 364 days per year, it has different start and end dates for
the fiscal year each year.

4–way matching The process of verifying that purchase order, invoice, and
receiving information matches within accepted tolerance levels. Oracle
Receivables uses the following criteria to verify four–way matching: Invoice price
<= Order price, Quantity billed <= Quantity ordered, Quantity billed <= Quantity
received, Quantity billed <= Quantity accepted.
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absence types Categories of absence, such as medical leave or vacation leave,
that you define for use in absence windows.

accept An action to indicate that you accept the previous approver’s
authorization.

acceptance Supplier acknowledgement of a purchase order that indicates that
the supplier agreed to and accepted the terms of the purchase order.

access level A numeric value ranging from 0 to 1000. Every workflow user
operates at a specific access level. The access level defines whether the user
can modify certain workflow data. You can only modify data that is protected at a
level equal to or higher than your access level.

account See accounting flexfield.

Account Generator A feature that uses Oracle Workflow to provide various
Oracle Applications with the ability to construct Accounting Flexfield
combinations automatically using custom construction criteria. You define a
group of steps that determine how to fill in your Accounting Flexfield segments.
You can define additional processes and/or modify the default process(es),
depending on the application. See also activity (Workflow), function, item type,
lookup type, node, process, protection level, result type, transition, Workflow
Engine.

account hierarchy An Oracle Financials feature you use to perform summary
level funds checking. An account hierarchy lets Oracle Purchasing and General
Ledger quickly determine the summary accounts into which your detail accounts
roll up.

account segment One of up to 30 different sections of an accounting flexfield,
which together make up the General Ledger account code. Each segment is
separated from the other segments by a symbol, such as -, /, or . Each segment
typically represents an element of the business structure, such as Company,
Cost Center, or Account.

Account segment value A series of characters and a description that define a
unique value for a particular value set.

account structure See Accounting Flexfield structure.

accounting calendar The calendar that defines your accounting periods and
fiscal years in Oracle General Ledger. You define accounting calendars using the
Accounting Calendar window. Oracle Financial Analyzer will automatically create
a Time dimension using your accounting calendar.

accounting currency In some financial contexts, a term used to refer to the
currency in which accounting data is maintained. In this manual, this currency is
called functional currency. See functional currency.

accounting flexfield The code you use to identify a general ledger account in an
Oracle Financials application. Each Accounting Flexfield value corresponds to a
summary or rollup account within your chart of accounts. For example, this
structure can correspond to your company, budget account, and project account
numbers. For simplicity, Inventory and Oracle Manufacturing use the term
account to refer to the accounting flexfield.

accounting flexfield limit The maximum amount you authorize an employee to
approve for a particular range of accounting flexfields.

accounting flexfield structure The account structure you define to fit the
specific needs of your organization. You choose the number of segments, as well
as the length, name, and order of each segment in your Accounting Flexfield
structure.

accounting flexfield value set A group of values and attributes of the values.
For example, the value length and value type that you assign to your account
segment to identify a particular element of your business, such as Company,
Division, Region, or Product.

accounting method The method you select for recording accounts payable
transactions. You can choose between accrual basis, cash basis, or combined
basis of accounting. With accrual basis accounting, Payables creates journal
entries for invoices and payments. With cash basis accounting, Payables creates
journal entries only after you make payments. With combined basis accounting,

Payables creates journal entries for invoices and payments to post to your
accrual set of books and creates journal entries for payments to post to your
cash set of books.

accounting period The fiscal period a company uses to report financial results,
such as a calendar month or fiscal period. In Oracle Assets, the periods that
make up your fiscal year. You depreciate assets each period. In Oracle Cash
Management, a time period making up your fiscal year, used on financial
statements. They can be of any length, but are usually a month, quarter, or year.
Periods are defined in Oracle General Ledger.

accounting rule start date The date Oracle Receivables uses for the first
accounting entry it creates when you use an accounting rule to recognize
revenue. If you choose a variable accounting rule, you need to specify a rule
duration to let Receivables know how many accounting periods to use for this
accounting rule.

accounting rules Rules that you can use for imported and manually entered
transactions to specify revenue recognition schedules. You can define an
accounting rule in which revenue is recognized over a fixed or variable period of
time. For example, you can define a fixed duration accounting rule with monthly
revenue recognition for a period of 12 months.

accounts payable accrual account The account used to accrue payable
liabilities when you receive your items. Always used for inventory and outside
processing purchases. You can also accrue expenses at the time of receipt.
Used by Purchasing and Inventory, the accounts payable account represents
your non– invoiced receipts, and is included in your month end accounts payable
liability balance. This account balance is cleared when the invoice is matched in
Payables.

accrual accounting Recognition of revenue when you sell goods and
recognition of expenses when a supplier provides services or goods. Accrual
based accounting matches expenses with associated revenues when you
receive the benefit of the good and services rather than when cash is paid or
received.

accrual band A range of values that determines how much paid time off an
employee accrues. The values may be years of service, grades, hours worked,
or any other factor.

accrual basis accounting A method of accounting in which you recognize
revenues in the accounting period in which you earn revenues and recognize
expenses in the accounting period in which you incur the expense. Both
revenues and expenses need to be measurable to be reportable.

accrual plan See: PTO Accrual Plan accrual term, in which PTO is accrued. In
many plans, the same amount of time is accrued in each accrual period, such as
two days per month. In other plans, the amount accrued varies from period to
period, or the entitlement for the full accrual term is given as an up front amount
at the beginning of the accrual term.

accrual term The period, such as one year, for which accruals are calculated. In
most accrual plans, unused PTO accruals must be carried over or lost at the end
of the accrual term. Other plans have a rolling accrual term which is of a certain
duration but has no fixed start and end dates.

accrue through date The date through which the system accrues revenue for a
project. When accruing revenue, the system includes expenditure items having
an expenditure item date on or before the accrue through date. Oracle Projects
picks up expenditure items having an expenditure item date on or before this
date, and events having a completion date on or before this date, when accruing
revenue. An exception to this rule are projects that use cost–to–cost revenue
accrual; in this case, the accrue through date used is the PA Date of the
expenditure item’s cost distribution lines.

accrued receipts account The account used to accrue your uninvoiced
expense receipts at month end by Purchasing. The accrued receipts account
may or may not be the same account as the accounts payable accrual account.
However, both accrual accounts represent additional payable liabilities you
include in your month end accounts payables liability balance. You reverse the
accrued receipts account by reversing the month end journal in the following
period.

accumulated depreciation The total depreciation taken for an asset since it was
placed in service. Also known as life–to–date depreciation and depreciation
reserve.

accumulation An obsolete term. See also summarization.

ACE See adjusted current earnings.

ACE book A tax book for Adjusted Current Earnings (” ACE” ) tax calculations.

action set A sequence of alert actions that are enabled for a particular alert. You
can assign a sequence number to each action you include in an action set to
specify the order in which the actions are performed.

activity A unit of work performed during a business process. In Oracle
Receivables, a name that you use to refer to a receivables activity such as a
payment, credit memo, or adjustment. See also activity attribute, function
activity. In Oracle Workflow, a unit of work performed during a business process.

activity attribute A parameter for an Oracle Workflow function activity that
controls how the function activity operates. You define an activity attribute by
displaying the activity’s Attributes properties page in the Activities window of
Oracle Workflow Builder. You assign a value to an activity attribute by displaying
the activity node’s Attribute Values properties page in the Process window.

activity rate The monetary amount or percentage associated with an activity,
such as $12.35 per pay period as an employee payroll contribution for medical
coverage. Activity rates can apply to participation, eligibility, coverages,
contributions, and distributions.

actual premium The per–participant premium an insurance carrier charges the
plan sponsor for a given benefit.

ad hoc Concerned with or formed for a particular purpose. For example, ad hoc
tax codes or an ad hoc database query.

address validation The type of validation you want Receivables to use for your
address, if you are not using a flexible address format for validation. You can
implement address validation at three levels: Error, No Validation, or Warning.
’Error’ ensures that all locations exist for your address before it can be saved.
’Warning’ displays a warning message if a tax rate does not exist for this address
(allows you to save the record). ’No Validation’ does not validate the address.
adjusted current earnings (” ACE” ).

adjustment A Receivables feature that allows you to increase or decrease the
amount due of your invoice, debit memo, chargeback, deposit, or guarantee.
Receivables lets you create manual or automatic adjustments.

administrative enrollment A type of scheduled enrollment caused by a change
in plan terms or conditions and resulting in a re–enrollment.

advance An amount of money prepaid in anticipation of receipt of goods,
services, obligations or expenditures. In Oracle Payables, an advance is a
prepayment paid to an employee. You can apply an advance to an employee
expense report during expense report entry, once you fully pay the advance.

aggregate balance The sum of the end–of–day balances for a range of days.
There are three types of aggregate balances: period–to–date (PTD), quarter–to–
date (QTD), and year–to–date (YTD). All three are stored in the General Ledger
database for every calendar day.

aging buckets In Oracle Cash Management, aging buckets are used to define
time periods represented in the forecast. Examples of aging buckets are date
ranges or accounting periods. In Oracle Receivables and Oracle Payables, time

periods you define to age your debit items. Aging buckets are used in the Aging
reports to see both current and outstanding debit items. For example, you can
define an aging bucket that includes all debit items that are 1 to 30 days past
due. GL Desktop Integrator uses the aging buckets you define for its Invoice
Aging Report.

agreement A contract with a customer that serves as the basis for work
authorization. An agreement may represent a legally binding contract, such as a
purchase order, or a verbal authorization. An agreement sets the terms of
payment for invoices generated against the agreement, and affects whether
there are limits to the amount of revenue you can accrue or bill against the
agreement. An agreement can fund the work of one or more projects.

agreement type An implementation-defined classification of agreements
negotiated with sponsors. Typical agreement types include federal and state
grants.

alert A specific condition defined in Oracle Alert that checks your database and
performs actions based on the information it finds there. An alert is characterized
by the SQL SELECT statement it contains. A SQL SELECT statement tells your
application what database exception to identify as well as what output to produce
for that exception.

alert action An action you want your alert to perform. An alert action can depend
on the output from the alert. An action can include sending an electronic mail
message to a mail ID, running an Oracle Applications program, running a
program or script from your operating system, or running a SQL script to modify
information in your database. You can have more than one action for an alert,
and an action can incorporate the output of the alert.

alert input A parameter that determines the exact definition of the alert condition.
You can set the input to different values depending upon when and to whom you
are sending the alert. For example, an alert testing for users to change their
passwords uses the number of days between password changes as an input.
Oracle Alert does not require inputs when you define an alert.

alert output A value that changes based on the outcome at the time Oracle Alert
checks the alert condition. Oracle Alert uses outputs in the message sent to the
alert recipient, although you do not have to display all outputs in the alert
message.

allocation A method for distributing existing amounts between and within
projects and tasks. The allocation feature uses existing project amounts to
generate expenditure items for specified projects.

allocation entry A recurring journal entry you use to allocate revenues or costs.

allocation method An attribute of an allocation rule that specifies how the rule
collects and allocates the amounts in the source pool. There are two allocation
methods, full allocation and incremental allocation. See also full allocation,
incremental allocation.

allocation rule A set of attributes that describes how you want to allocate
amounts in a source pool to specified target projects and tasks.

allocation run The results of the PRC: Generate Allocation Transactions
process.

alphanumeric number type An option for numbering documents, employees,
and suppliers where assigned numbers can contain letters as well as numbers.

alternate regions A collection of logically related fields in a window, set apart
from other fields by a drop-down list box.

alternative region An alternative region is one of a collection of regions that
occupy the same space in a window where only one region can be displayed at
any time. You identify an alternative region by a poplist icon that displays the
region title, which sits on top of a horizontal line that spans the region.

Always Take Discount A Payables feature you use to always take a discount
on a supplier’s invoice if the payment terms for the invoice include a discount.
You define Always Take Discount as a Payables option that Payables assigns to
new suppliers you enter. When Always Take Discount is enabled for a supplier
site, you take a discount on that supplier’s invoice site regardless of when you
pay the invoice. When Always Take Discount is disabled, you only take a
discount if you pay the invoice on or before the discount date.

amendment An installment type. A non-financial change to an award, such as
a change to an installment start date or end date.

amount based order An order you place, receive, and pay based solely on
the amount of service you purchase.

amount class For allocations, the period or periods during which the source
pool accumulates amounts.

amount type Beginning period that the system uses for funds checking.

applicant A candidate for employment in a Business Group.

applied Payment in which you record the entire amount as settlement for one
or more debit items.

Apply for a Job An SSHR function that enables an employee to, apply,
search and prepare applications for an internally advertised vacancy.

appraisal An appraisal is a process where an employee’s work performance is
rated and future objectives set. See also: Assessment.

appraisee A person being appraised by an appraiser.

appraiser A person, usually a manager, who appraises an employee.

appraising manager The person who initiates and performs an Employee–
Manager or 360 Degree Appraisal. An appraising manager can create appraisal
objectives.

approval A feature that prevents you from paying an invoice when your
supplier overcharges you or bills you for items you have not received, ordered or
accepted. Approval also validates tax, period, currency, budgetary, and other
information. If you use budgetary control and encumbrance accounting,
Approval also creates encumbrances for unmatched invoices or for invoice
variances. Approval prevents payment or posting of invoices that do not meet
defined approval criteria by placing holds on the invoice. Approval also releases
holds when you resolve invoice exceptions. You must submit Approval for each
invoice to pay and post the invoice.

approval limits Limits you assign to users for creating adjustments and
approving credit memo requests. Oracle Receivables enforces the limits that you
define here when users enter receivables adjustments or approve credit memo
requests initiated from iReceivables. When users enter adjustments that are
within their approval limit, Oracle Receivables automatically approves the
adjustment. When users enter adjustments outside their approval limit, Oracle
Receivables assigns a status of pending to the adjustment.

approve An action you take to indicate that you consider the contents of the
purchasing document to be correct. If the document passes the submission tests
and you have sufficient authority, Purchasing approves the document.

approved A purchase order or requisition status that indicates a user with
appropriate authorization approved the purchase or requisition. Purchasing
verifies that the purchase order or requisition is complete during the approval
process.

approved date The date on which an invoice is approved.

archive To store historical transaction data outside your database.

archive table General Ledger copies your account balances from the
Balances Table (GL_BALANCES) to your Archive Table
(GL_ARCHIVE_BALANCES). General Ledger copies your journal details from
the Journal Entry tables (GL_JE_BATCHES, GL_JE_HEADERS, and
GL_JE_LINES) to your archive tables (GL_ARCHIVE_BATCHES,
GL_ARCHIVE_HEADERS, and GL_ARCHIVE_LINES). Oracle Assets copies
depreciation expense and adjustment transaction data for a fiscal year to
temporary tables called archive tables.

archive tablespace The tablespace where your archive table is stored. A
tablespace is the area in which an Oracle database is divided to hold tables.

archiving The process of recording all historical versions of approved
purchase orders. Purchasing automatically archives a purchase order when you
approve it for the first time. Purchasing subsequently archives your purchase
orders during the approval process if you have increased the revision number
since the last time you approved the purchase order.

Arrestment Scottish court order made out for unpaid debts or maintenance
payments. See also: Court Order.

ASL Approved Suppliers List. A list where you can set up your Approved
Suppliers, Sites, and Items.

assessment An information gathering exercise, from one or many sources, to
evaluate a person’s ability to do a job. See also: Appraisal.

asset An object of value owned by a corporation or business. Assets are
entered Oracle Projects as non–labor resources. See attribute See activity
attribute, item type attribute. See also: fixed asset.

asset account A general ledger account to which you charge the cost of an
asset when you purchase it. You must define an account as an asset account.

asset key flexfield Oracle Assets lets you define additional ways to sort and
categorize your assets without any financial impact. You use your Asset Key
Flexfield to define how you want to keep the information.

assignment An employee’s assignment identifies his or her role and payroll
within a Business Group. The assignment is made up of a number of assignment
components. Of these, organization is mandatory, and payroll is a required
component for payment purposes.

assignment number A number that uniquely identifies an employee’s
assignment. An employee with multiple assignments has multiple assignment
numbers.

assignment set A grouping of employees and/or applicants that you define for
running QuickPaint reports and processing payrolls. See also: QuickPaint
Report.

assignment status For employees, used to track their permanent or
temporary departures from your enterprise, and to control the remuneration they
receive. For applicants, used to track the progress of their applications.

attribute An Oracle Financial Analyzer database object that links or relates the
values of two dimensions. For example, you might define an attribute that relates
the Sales District dimension to the Region dimension so that you can select data
for sales districts according to region. See also: Activity Attribute, Item Type
Attribute, or Message Attribute.

audit set The group of forms that are available for auditing in your application.

authorization check A set of tests on a purchasing document to determine if
the document approver has sufficient authority to perform the approval action.

AutoAccounting In Oracle Projects, a feature that automatically determines
the account coding for an accounting transaction based on the project, task,
employee, and expenditure information. In Oracle Receivables, a feature that lets
you determine how the Accounting Flexfields for your revenue, receivable,
freight, tax, unbilled receivable and unearned revenue account types are created.

AutoAccounting function A group of related AutoAccounting transactions.
There is at least one AutoAccounting function for each Oracle Projects process
that uses AutoAccounting. AutoAccounting functions are predefined by Oracle
Projects.

AutoAccounting lookup set An implementation–defined list of intermediate
values and corresponding Accounting Flexfield segment values. AutoAccounting
lookup sets are used to translate intermediate values such as organization
names into account codes.

AutoAccounting parameter A variable that is passed into AutoAccounting.
AutoAccounting parameters are used by AutoAccounting to determine account
codings. Example AutoAccounting parameters available for an expenditure item
are the expenditure type and project organization. AutoAccounting parameters
are predefined by Oracle Projects.

AutoAccounting rule An implementation–defined formula for deriving
Accounting Flexfield segment values. AutoAccounting rules may use a
combination of AutoAccounting parameters, AutoAccounting lookup sets, SQL
statements, and constants to determine segment values.

AutoAccounting transaction A repository of the account coding rules
needed to create one accounting transaction. For each accounting transaction
created by Oracle Projects, the necessary AutoAccounting rules are held in a
corresponding AutoAccounting Transaction. AutoAccounting transactions are
predefined by Oracle Projects.

AutoAdjustment A feature used to automatically adjust the remaining
balances of your invoices, debit memos, and chargebacks that meet the criteria
that you define.

autoallocation set A group of allocations rules that you can run in sequence
that you specify (step–down allocations) or at the same time (parallel
allocations). See also step–down allocation, parallel allocation.

AutoAssociate An option that allows you to specify whether you want Oracle
Receivables to determine the customer using invoice numbers if the customer
cannot be identified from either the magnetic ink character recognition (MICR)
number or the customer number. Oracle Receivables checks the invoice
numbers until it finds a unique invoice number for a customer. Oracle
Receivables then uses this invoice number to identify the customer. You can
only use this feature if your bank transmits invoice numbers and if the
AutoLockbox Validation program can identify a unique customer for a payment
using an invoice number. Otherwise, Oracle Receivables treats the payment as
unidentified. See also MICR number.

AutoCash rule A feature that Post QuickCash uses to automatically apply
receipts to a customer’s open items. AutoCash Rules include: Apply to the Oldest
Invoice First, Clear the Account, Clear Past Due Invoices, Clear Past Due
Invoices Grouped by Payment Term, and Match Payment with Invoice. See also
AutoCash Rule Set, Post QuickCash.

AutoCash rule set A feature that determines the order of the AutoCash Rules
that the Post QuickCash program will use when automatically applying receipts
to a customer’s open items. You can choose to include discounts, finance
charges, and items in dispute when calculating your customer’s open balance.

AutoClear Formerly an Oracle Payables feature, this was replaced by Oracle
Cash Management features in Release 10SC.

AutoCopy – budget organizations A feature that automatically creates a
new budget organization by copying account assignments from an existing
budget organization.

AutoCopy – budgets A feature that automatically creates a new budget by
copying all of the data from an existing budget. Budget AutoCopy copies budget
amounts only from open budget years.

AutoInvoice A program that imports invoices, credit memos, and on account
credits from other systems to Oracle Projects.

AutoLockbox See lockbox.

automatic asset numbering A feature that automatically numbers your
assets if you do not enter an asset number.

automatic event An event with an event type classification of Automatic.
Billing extensions create automatic events to account for the revenue and invoice
amounts calculated by the billing extensions.

automatic numbering A numbering option Purchasing uses to assign
numbers to your documents, employees, or suppliers automatically.

automatic payment A Payables process that automatically selects invoices
based on your selection criteria, creates a payment (check or electronic funds
transfer), and confirms the status of each payment.

automatic payment processing A Payables process that produces payments
for groups of invoices. The complete process includes: invoice selection
(payment batch), payment building, manual modification/addition to invoice
payments in the payment batch, payment formatting, and confirmation of results.
You can modify a payment batch up until the time you format payments for the
payment batch. You can cancel a payment batch up until the time you confirm
the payment batch.

automatic receipt In addition to standard check processing, you can use the
automatic receipt feature to automatically generate receipts for customers with
whom you have predefined agreements. These agreements let you transfer
funds from the customer’s bank account to yours on the receipt maturity date.

automatic sourcing A Purchasing feature which allows you to specify for
predefined items a list of approved suppliers and to associate source documents
for these suppliers. When you create a requisition or purchase order line for the
item, Purchasing automatically provides appropriate pricing for the specified
quantity based on the top– ranked open source document for the supplier with
the highest percentage allocation.

AutoOffset A feature that automatically determines the offset (or credit) entry
for your allocation entry. AutoOffset automatically calculates the net of all

previous journal lines in your allocation entry, reverses the sign, and generates
the contra amount.

AutoReduction An Oracle Applications feature in the list window that allows
you to shorten a list so that you must scan only a subset of values before
choosing a final value. Just as AutoReduction incrementally reduces a list of
values as you enter additional character(s), pressing [Backspace] incrementally
expands a list.

AutoSelection A feature in the list window that allows you to choose a valid
value from the list with a single keystroke. When you display the list window, you
can type the first character of the choice you want in the window. If only one
choice begins with the character you enter, AutoSelection selects the choice,
closes the list window, and enters the value in the appropriate field.

AutoSkip A feature specific to flexfields where Oracle Applications
automatically moves your cursor to the next segment as soon as you enter a
valid value into a current flexfield segment. You can turn this feature on or off
with the user profile option Flexfields:AutoSkip.

average balance The amount computed by dividing an aggregate balance by
the number of calendar days in the related range.

average exchange rate An exchange rate that is the average rate for an
entire accounting period. General Ledger automatically translates revenue and
expense account balances using period–average rates in accordance with FASB
52 (U.S.). And, for companies in highly inflationary economies, General Ledger
uses average exchange rates to translate your non–historical revenue and
expense accounts in accordance with FASB 8 (U.S.). Also known as period–
average exchange rate.

award Grant received by an organization, which is used to fund one or more
projects. An award is a funding installment, which typically represents a budget
year.

award amount Total of all installments.

award budget A detailed estimate of the cost of that portion of a project funded
by a particular award.

award distributions Award distributions allows users to determine transaction
charging instructions for expenditure items based on a predefined funding pattern
for cost distribution.

award roles User-defined functions that people perform in activities funded by
an award. Typical award roles include Award Manager, Principal Investigator,
Technician, Research Assistant, and Post-Doctoral Fellow.

award template Predefined award data that repeats from award to award and
is used to simplify and standardize award entry. Users typically create an award
template for each funding source.

award terms and conditions Sponsor-determined requirements for managing
an award. Typical examples of award terms and conditions categories include
confidentiality, intellectual property, publications, salaries, and travel.

award type An implementation-defined classification of awards. Typical award
types include federal grants and private grants.
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background engines A supplemental Workflow Engine that processes
deferred or timed out activities.

back–value transactions Transactions whose effective date is prior to the
current accounting date. Also known as value–dated transactions.

BACS Bankers Automated Clearing System. This is the UK system for
making direct deposit payments to employees.

BAI An acronym for the Banking Administration Institute. This organization has
recommended a common format that is widely accepted for sending lockbox
data. See also bank statement.

balance adjustment A correction you make to a balance. You can adjust user
balances and assignment level predefined balances only.

balance dimension The period for which a balance sums its balance feeds, or
the set of assignments/transactions for which it sums them. There are five time
dimensions: Run, Period, Quarter, Year and User. You can choose any reset
point for user balances.

balance feeds These are the input values of matching units of measure of any
elements defined to feed the balance.

balances Positive or negative accumulations of values over periods of time
normally generated by payroll runs. A balance can sum pay values, time periods
or numbers. See also: Predefined Components.

balances table A General Ledger database table that stores your account
balances, called GL_BALANCES.

balancing segment An Accounting Flexfield segment that you define so that
General Ledger automatically balances all journal entries for each value of this
segment. For example, if your company segment is a balancing segment,
General Ledger ensures that, within every journal entry, the total debits to
company 01 equal the total credits to company 01.

bank file In Oracle Receivables and Oracle Payables, the data file you receive
from the bank containing all of the payment information that the bank has
deposited in your bank account.

bank statement A report sent from a bank to a customer showing all
transaction activity for a bank account for a specific period of time. Bank
statements report beginning balance, deposits made, checks cleared, bank
charges, credits, and ending balance. Enclosed with the bank statement are
cancelled checks, debit memos, and credit memos. Large institutional banking
customers usually receive electronic bank statements as well as the paper
versions.

Bankers Automated Clearing System (BACS) The standard format of
electronic funds transfer used in the United Kingdom. You can refer to the BACS
User Manual, Part III: Input Media Specifications, published by the Bankers
Automated Clearing System, for the exact specifications for BACS electronic
payments.

bargaining unit A bargaining unit is a legally organized group of people which
have the right to negotiate on all aspects of terms and conditions with employers
or employer federations. A bargaining unit is generally a trade union or a branch
of a trade union.

base amount The amount that represents the denominator for the ratio used
to determine the amount due. You specify your base amount when you define
your payment terms. Amount Due = Relative Amount/Base Amount * Invoice
Amount.

base currency The currency in which Oracle Payroll performs all payroll
calculations for your Business Group. If you pay employees in different
currencies to this, Oracle Payroll calculates the amounts based on exchange
rates defined in the system.

base unit The unit of measure to which you convert all units of measure within
one class. The base unit is the smallest or most commonly used unit of measure
in the class. For example, millimeter is the base unit in the Length class. You
define your base unit of measure when you create your unit class.

baseline To approve a budget for use in reporting and accounting.

baseline budget The authorized budget for a project or task which is used for
performance reporting and revenue calculation.

baselining The process of approving a budget for use in reporting and
accounting.

basis method How an allocation rule is to allocate the amounts in a source
pool to target projects. The basis methods include options to spread the amounts
evenly, allocate by percentage, or prorate amounts based on criteria you specify.
Also referred to as the ”basis.” See also source pool.

basis reduction rate Each Investment Tax Credit Rate has a basis reduction
rate associated with it. Oracle Assets applies the basis reduction rate to the ITC
basis to determine the amount by which it will reduce the depreciable basis.
Oracle Assets displays the basis reduction rate with its corresponding investment
tax credit rate in the Assign Investment Tax Credit form so you can easily see
whether the rate you choose will reduce the depreciable basis of the asset.

batch source A source you define in Oracle Receivables to identify where
your invoicing activity originates. The batch source also controls invoice defaults
and invoice numbering. Also known as a transaction batch source.

beginning balance The beginning balance is the balance of the transaction
item as of the beginning GL Date that you specified. This amount should be the
same as the Outstanding Balance amount of the Aging – 7 Buckets Report
where the As Of Date is the same as the beginning GL Date.

behavioral indicators Characteristics that identify how a competence is
exhibited in the work context. See also: Proficiency Level.

benefit Any part of an employee’s remuneration package that is not pay.
Vacation time, employer–paid medical insurance and stock options are all
examples of benefits. See also: Elements.

bill in advance An invoicing rule that enables you to record the receivable at
the beginning of the revenue recognition schedule for invoices that span more
than one accounting period. See also invoicing rules, bill in arrears.

bill in arrears An invoicing rule that records the receivable at the end of the
revenue recognition schedule for invoices that span more than one accounting
period. See also invoicing rules, bill in advance.

bill of exchange In Oracle Cash Management, a method of payment involving
the transfer of funds between bank accounts, where one party promises to pay
another a specified amount on a specified date. In Oracle Payables, a method of
payment. Also known as a future dated payment in some countries, including
France. In Oracle Receivables, an agreement made with your customer in which
they promise to pay a specified amount on a specific date (called the maturity
date) for goods or services. This process involves the transfer of funds from your
customer’s bank account to your bank account.

bill rate A rate per unit at which an item accrues revenue and/or is invoiced for
time and material projects. Employees, jobs, expenditure types, and non–labor
resources can have bill rates.

bill rate schedule A set of standard bill rates that maintains the rates and
percentage markups over cost that you charge clients for your labor and non–
labor expenditures.

bill site The customer address to which project invoices are sent.

bill-through date The date through which you want to invoice a project.
Oracle Projects picks up revenue distributed expenditure items having an
expenditure item date on or before this date, and events having a completion
date on or before this date, when generating an invoice.

Bill-to address The address of the customer who is to receive the invoice.
Equivalent to Invoice To Address in Oracle Order Management.

Bill-to site A customer location to which you have assigned a Bill–To business
purpose. You can define your customer’s bill–to sites in the Customers windows.

billing The functions of revenue accrual and invoicing.

billing cycle The billing frequency for an award or the billing period for a
project. Examples of billing cycles you can define are: a set number of days, the
same day each week or month, or the project completion date. You can
optionally use a client extension to define a billing cycle.

billing form A document sent to the funding source for billing purposes.

billing invoice number A system–generated number assigned to a
consolidated billing invoice when you print draft or final versions of these
invoices. This number appears in some Receivables windows (next to the
transaction number) and reports if the profile option AR: Show Billing Number is
set to Yes. See also consolidated billing invoice.

billing title See Employee Billing Title, Job Billing Title.

blanket purchase agreement A type of purchase order you issue before you
request actual delivery of goods or services. You normally create a blanket
purchase agreement to document a long– term supplier agreement. A blanket
purchase agreement may contain an effective date and an expiration date, a
committed amount, or quantity. You use a blanket purchase agreement as a tool
for specifying agreed prices and delivery dates for goods and services before
ordering them.

blanket purchase order See blanket purchase agreement.

blanket release An actual order of goods and services against a blanket
purchase agreement. The blanket purchase agreement determines the
characteristics and prices of the items. The blanket release specifies actual
quantities and dates ordered for the items. You identify a blanket release by the
combination of the blanket purchase agreement number and the release number.

blind receiving A site option that requires your receiving staff to count all
items on a receipt line. Blind receiving prevents display of expected receipt
quantities in receiving windows.

block Every Oracle Applications window (except root and modal windows)
consists of one or more blocks. A block contains information pertaining to a
specific business entity Generally, the first or only block in a window assumes the
name of the window. Otherwise, a block name appears across the top of the
block with a horizontal line marking the beginning of the block.

book See depreciation book.

boundary code Ending period that the system uses for funds checking.

b–record A summary record of all 1099 payments made to a supplier for one
tax region.

budget Estimated cost, revenue, labor hours or other quantities for a project
or task. Each budget may optionally be categorized by resource. Different budget
types may be set up to classify budgets for different purposes. In addition,
different versions can exist for each user–defined budget type: current, original,
revised original, and historical versions. The current version of a budget is the
most recently baselined version. See also budget line, resource.

budget book A book that you use to track planned capital expenditures.

budget formula A mathematical expression used to calculate budget amounts
based on actual results, other budget amounts and statistics. With budget

formulas, you can automatically create budgets using complex equations,
calculations and allocations.

budget hierarchy A group of budgets linked at different levels such that the
budgeting authority of a lower–level budget is controlled by an upper–level
budget.

budget interface table In Oracle Assets, the interface table from which
Assets uploads budget information. In Oracle General Ledger, a database table
that stores information needed for budget upload.

budget line Estimated cost, revenue, labor hours, or other quantity for a
project or task categorized by a resource.

budget organization An entity, such as a department, division, or activity
responsible for entering and maintaining budget data. You define budget
organizations for your agency, then assign appropriate accounting flexfields to
each budget organization.

budget rules A variety of shorthand techniques you can use to speed manual
budget entry. With budget rules you can divide a total amount evenly among
budget periods, repeat a given amount in each budget period or enter budget
amounts derived from your account balances.

budget upload In Oracle Assets, the process by which Assets loads budget
information from the Budget Interface table into the Budget worksheet. You can
use the Budget Upload process to transfer budget information from a feeder
system, such as a spreadsheet, to Oracle Assets. In Oracle General Ledger, the
ability to transfer budget information from a spreadsheet to Oracle Assets. For
example, with the spreadsheet interface you can upload budget information from
your spreadsheet to Oracle Assets.

budget value In Oracle Human Resources you can enter staffing budget
values and actual values for each assignment to measure variances between
actual and planned staffing levels in an organization or hierarchy.

budget worksheet Oracle Assets holds your budget in the budget worksheet
so that you can review and change it before you load it into your budget book.
Your budget must be in a budget book before you can run depreciation
projections or reports.

budgetary account An account segment value (such as 6110) that is
assigned one of the two budgetary account types. You use budgetary accounts
to record the movement of funds through the budget process from appropriation
to expended appropriation.

budgetary account type Either of the two account types Budgetary DR and
Budgetary CR.

budgetary control The process of applying actual and encumbrance
transactions against a funding budget to determine funds available and perform
automatic funds checking. An Oracle Financials feature you use to control actual
and anticipated expenditures against a budget. When budgetary control is
enabled, you can check funds online for transactions, and you can reserve funds
for transactions by creating encumbrances. Oracle Financials automatically
calculates funds available (budget less encumbrances less actual expenditures)
when you attempt to reserve funds for a transaction. Oracle Financials notifies
you online if funds available are insufficient for your transaction.

burden accounting A method of applying burden costs to raw costs to track
the total burdened cost of a project.

burden cost code An implementation–defined classification of overhead
costs. A burden cost code represents the type of burden cost you want to apply
to raw cost. For example, you can define a burden cost code of G&A to burden
specific types of raw costs with General and Administrative overhead costs.

burden costs Burden costs are legitimate costs of doing business that
support raw costs and cannot be directly attributed to work performed. Examples
of burden costs are fringe benefits, office space, and general and administrative
costs.

burden multiplier A numeric multiplier associated with an organization for
burden schedule revisions, or with burden cost codes for projects or tasks. This
multiplier is applied to raw cost to calculate burden cost amounts. For example,
you can assign a multiplier of 95% to the burden cost code of Overhead.

burden schedule An implementation–defined set of burden multipliers that is
maintained for use across projects. Also referred to as a standard burden
schedule. You may define one or more schedules for different purposes of
costing, revenue accrual, and invoicing. Oracle Projects applies the burden
multipliers to the raw cost amount of an expenditure item to derive an amount;
this amount may be the total cost, revenue amount, or bill amount. You can
override burden schedules by entering negotiated rates at the project and task
level. See also Firm Schedule, Provisional Schedule, Burden Schedule Revision,
Burden Schedule Override.

burden schedule override A schedule of negotiated burden multipliers for
projects and tasks that overrides the schedule you defined during
implementation.

burden schedule revision A revision of a set of burden multipliers. A
schedule can be made of many revisions.

burden structure A grouping of cost bases for a given use, which specifies
what types of raw costs are included in each cost base and what burden costs
are applied to the raw costs in each cost base. A burden structure determines
how cost bases are grouped and what types of burden costs are applied to the
cost bases. A burden structure defines relationships between cost bases and
burden cost codes and between cost bases and expenditure types.

burdened cost The cost of an expenditure item, including raw cost and
burden costs.

business day Days on which financial institutions conduct business. In
General Ledger, you choose which days of the calendar year are defined as
business days. You can include or exclude weekends and holidays as needed.

business entity A person, place, or thing that is tracked by your business. For
example, a business entity can be an account, a customer, or a part.

Business Group The highest level organization in the Oracle HRMS system.
A Business Group may correspond to the whole of your enterprise or to a major
grouping such as a subsidiary or operating division. Each Business Group must
correspond to a separate implementation of Oracle HRMS.

Business Number (BN) In Canada, this is the employer’s account number
with Revenue Canada. Consisting of 15 digits, the first 9 identify the employer,
the next 2 identify the type of tax account involved (payroll vs. corporate tax),
and the last 4 identify the particular account for that tax.

business purpose The business reason you have for communicating with a
customer’s address. For example, you would assign the business purpose of
Ship To an address if you ship products to that address. If you also send invoices
to that address, you could also assign the business purpose Bill To.

business unit An organization which represents the consolidated enterprise, a
major division, or an operation company. This entity partitions Oracle Human
Resource Management Systems information.

button You choose a button to initiate a predefined action. Buttons do not
store values. A button is usually labeled with text to describe its action or it can
be an icon whose image illustrates its action.

buyer Person responsible for placing item re-supply orders with suppliers and
negotiating supplier contracts.
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cache A temporary storage area for holding information during processing.

Cafeteria Benefits Plan See: Flexible Benefits Program.

calculated depreciation method A depreciation method that uses the
straight– line method to calculate depreciation based on the asset life and the
recoverable cost.

calendar exceptions In Oracle SSP/SMP you define calendar exceptions for
an SSP qualifying pattern, to override the pattern on given days. Each calendar
exception is another pattern which overrides the usual pattern.

calendars In Oracle Human Resources you define calendars that determine
the start and end dates for budgetary years, quarters and periods. For each
calendar you select a basic period type. In Oracle SSP/SMP you define
calendars to determine the start date and time for SSP qualifying patterns.

call actions Actions that you record and plan to take as a result of a call with a
customer. Examples of actions that you might note for future reference include
creating a credit memo, excluding a customer from dunning, or alerting another
member of your staff about an escalated issue.

call topics Each call can have many points or topics of discussion. Examples
include invoice, debit memo, invoice lines, and customer problems.

Canada/Quebec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP) Contributions Contributions paid
by employers and employees to each of these plans provide income benefits
upon retirement.

cancel You can cancel a purchase order after approving it. When you cancel a
purchase order, you prevent anyone from adding new lines to the purchase order
or receiving additional goods. Purchasing still allows billing for goods you
received before canceling the purchase order. Purchasing releases any unfilled
requisition lines for reassignment to another purchase order.

candidate A record that Payables or Purchasing selects to purge based on
the last activity date you specify. Payables only selects records that you have not
updated since the last activity date you specify. Payables does not purge a
candidate until you confirm a purge.

candidate offers An SSHR function used by a line manager to offer a job to a
candidate. This function is supplied with its own responsibility.

capital gain threshold The minimum time you must hold an asset for Oracle
Assets to report it as a capital gain when you retire it. If you hold an asset for at
least as long as the capital gain threshold, Oracle Assets reports it as a capital
gain when you retire it. If you hold the asset for less than the threshold, Oracle
Assets reports it as an ordinary income from the retirement.

capital project A project that tracks asset development activities and costs
and capitalizes costs when the asset is placed in service.

capitalized assets Capitalized assets are assets that you depreciate (spread
the cost expense over time). The Asset Type for these assets is ” Capitalized”.

career path This shows a possible progression from one job or position from
any number of other jobs or positions within the Business Group. A career path
must be based on either job progression or position progression; you cannot mix
the two.

carry over The amount of unused paid time off entitlement an employee
brings forward from one accrual term to the next. It may be subject to an expiry
date i.e. a date by which it must be used or lost. See also: Residual.

cash analysis A specification of the different currency denominations required
for paying your employees in cash. Union contracts may require you to follow
certain cash analysis rules.

cash basis An accounting method that lets you recognize revenue at the time
payment is received for an invoice.

cash basis of accounting An accounting method in which you only recognize
an expense when you incur the expense. With the Cash Basis of Accounting,
Payables only creates journal entries for invoice payments.

cash clearing account The cash clearing account you associate with a
payment document. You use this account if you account for payments at clearing
time. Oracle Payables credits this account instead of your Asset (Cash) account
and debits your Liability account when you create accounting entries for
uncleared payments. Oracle Payables debits this account and credits your Asset
(Cash) account once you clear your payments in Oracle Cash Management.

category Code used to group items with similar characteristics, such as
plastics, metals, or glass items.

category flexfield Oracle Assets lets you group your assets and define what
descriptive and financial information you want to keep about your asset
categories. You use your Category Flexfield to define how you want to keep the
information.

ceiling The maximum amount of unused paid time off an employee can have
in an accrual plan. When an employee reaches this maximum, he or she must
use some accrued time before any more time will accrue.

certification Documentation required to enroll or change elections in a
benefits plan as the result of a life event, to waive participation in a plan, to
designate dependents for coverage, or to receive reimbursement for goods or
services under an FSA.

chargeable project For each expenditure, a project to which the expenditure
can be charged or transferred.

chargebacks A new debit item that you assign to your customer when closing
an existing, outstanding debit item.

chart of accounts The account structure your organization uses to record
transactions and maintain account balances.

chart of accounts structure A classification of account segment values that
assigns a particular range of values a common characteristic. For example, 1000
to 1999 might be the range of segment values for assets in the account segment
of your accounting flexfield.

check A bill of exchange drawn on a bank and payable on demand. Or, a
written order on a bank to pay on demand a specified sum of money to a named
person, to his or her order, or to the bearer out of money on deposit to the credit
of the maker. A check differs from a warrant in that a warrant is not necessarily
payable on demand and may not be negotiable. It differs from a voucher in that a
voucher is not an order to pay.

check box You can indicate an on/off or yes/no state for a value by checking
or unchecking its check box. One or more check boxes can be checked since
each check box is independent of other check boxes.

check funds To certify whether you have funds available to complete your
requisition or purchase order. The difference between the amount you are
authorized to spend and the amount of your expenditures plus encumbrances
equals your funds available. You can certify funds available at any time when
you enter a requisition or a purchase order. You can track funds availability at
different authority levels on–line.

check overflow A check printing situation where there are more invoices paid
by a check than can fit on the remittance advice of the check.

child request A concurrent request submitted by another concurrent request
(a parent request.) For example, each of the reports and/or programs in a report
set are child requests of that report set.

child segment value A detail–level segment value that is part of a parent
segment value. See also parent segment value.

Child/Family Support payments In Canada, these are payments withheld
from an employee’s compensation to satisfy a child or family support order from
a Provincial Court. The employer is responsible for withholding and remitting the
payments to the court named in the order.

CIP assets See construction–in–process assets.

class category An implementation–defined category for classifying projects.
For example, if you want to know the market sector to which a project belongs,
you can define a class category with a name such as Market Sector. Each class
category has a set of values (class codes) that can be chosen for a project. See
class code.

class code An implementation–defined value within a class category that can
be used to classify a project. See class category.

clear A payment status when the bank has disbursed funds for the payment,
and the payment has been cleared but not matched to a bank statement within
Oracle Cash Management.

clearing A process that assigns a cleared date and status to a transaction and
creates accounting entries for the cash clearing account. See also manual
clearing reconciliation.

clearing account An account used to ensure that both sides of an accounting
transaction are recorded. For example, when you purchase an asset, your
payables group creates a journal entry to the asset clearing account. When your
fixed assets group records the asset, they create another journal entry to the
asset clearing account to balance the entry from the payables group.

close A purchase order is automatically closed once it is received (if you
require a receipt) and is billed for all purchase order shipments. Since you do not
require or expect any further activity, Purchasing closes the purchase order. You
can also manually close the purchase order early if you do not expect further
activity. Adding lines to it or receiving against it, reopens the purchase order.
Purchasing does not consider closed purchase orders for accruals.

close date Typically 90 days past the award end date. The close date is
specified by the funding source. When the system date is after the close date,
the user cannot charge expenditures to the award.

close for invoicing A purchase order control that you can assign manually or
that Purchasing can assign automatically when the amount invoiced reaches a
defined percentage of the order quantity.

close for receiving A purchase order control you can assign manually or that
Purchasing can assign automatically when the amount received reaches a
defined percentage of the order quantity.

collective agreement A collective agreement is a form of contract between an
employer or employer representative, for example, an employer federation, and a
bargaining unit for example, a union or a union branch.

column headings Descriptions of the contents of each column in the report.

column set A Financial Statement Generator report component you build
within General Ledger by defining all of the columns in a report. You control the
format and content of each column, including column headings, spacing and
size, calculations, units of measure, and precision. A typical column set includes
a header column for headings and subheadings, currency assignments, amount
types, and calculation columns totals. You can also define a column set with
each column representing a different company to enhance consolidation
reporting.

columns Oracle database tables consist of columns. Each column contains
one type of information. The format to indicate tables and columns is:
(TABLE_NAME.COLUMN_NAME).

combination block A combination block displays the fields of a record in both
multi–record (summary) and single–record (detail) formats. Each format appears
in its own separate window that you can easily navigate between.

combination of segment values A combination of segment values uniquely
describes the information stored in a field made up of segments. A different
combination of segment values results when you change the value of one or
more segments. When you alter the combination of segment values, you alter the
description of the information stored in the field.

combination query See Existing Combinations.

combined basis accounting A method of accounting that combines both
Accrual Basis Accounting and Cash Basis Accounting. With Combined Basis of
Accounting, you use two separate sets of books, one for the accrual basis

accounting method and the other for the cash basis accounting method.
Payables creates journal entries for invoices and payments to post to your
accrual set of books and creates journal entries for payments to post to your
cash set of books.

comment alias A user–defined name for a frequently used line of comment
text, which can be used to facilitate online entry of timecards and expense
reports.

commitment In Oracle General Ledger, an encumbrance you record when
you complete a purchase requisition. In Oracle Receivables and Oracle
Payables, a contractual guarantee with a customer for future purchases, usually
involving deposits or prepayments. You can create invoices against the
commitment to absorb the deposit or prepayment. Receivables automatically
records all necessary accounting entries for your commitments. Oracle Order
Management allows you to enter order lines against commitments.

committed amount The amount you agree to spend with a supplier.

communications Benefits plan information that is presented in some form to
participants. Examples include a pre–enrollment package, an enrollment
confirmation statement, or a notice of default enrollment.

compensation The pay you give to employees, including wages or salary,
and bonuses. See also: Elements.

compensation rule An implementation–defined name for an employee
compensation method. Also known as pay type. Typical compensation rules
include Hourly and Exempt.

competence Any measurable behavior required by an organization, job or
position that a person may demonstrate in the work context. A competence can
be a piece of knowledge, a skill, an attitude or an attribute.

competence evaluation A method used to measure an employees ability to
do a defined job.

competence profile Where you record applicant and employee
accomplishments, for example, proficiency in a competence.

competence requirements Competencies required by an organization, job or
position. See also: Competence, Core Competencies.

competence type A group of related competencies.

complete invoice An invoice with a status of Complete. To have a status of
Complete, the invoice total must be greater than or equal to zero, have at least
one invoice line, revenue records must exist for each line, revenue records for
each line must add up to the line amount, and a tax and sales credit record must
exist for each line.

complete matching A condition where the invoice quantity matches the
quantity originally ordered, and you approve the entire quantity. See also
matching, partial matching.

compound tax A method of calculating tax on top of other tax charges. You
can create compound taxes in the Transactions window or with AutoInvoice.

concurrent manager A unique facility that manages many time–consuming,
non–interactive tasks within Oracle Applications for you, so you do not have to
wait for their completion. When you submit a request in Oracle Applications that
does not require your interaction, such as releasing shipments or running a
report, the Concurrent Manager does the work for you, enabling you to complete
multiple tasks simultaneously.

concurrent process A non–interactive task that you request Oracle
Applications to complete. Each time you submit a non– interactive task, you
create a new concurrent process. A concurrent process runs simultaneously with
other concurrent processes (and other interactive activities on your computer) to
help you complete multiple tasks at once.

concurrent processing Allows a single processor to switch back and forth
between different programs.

concurrent queue A list of concurrent requests awaiting completion by a
concurrent manager. Each concurrent manager has a queue of requests waiting
to be run. If your system administrator sets up your Oracle Application to have
simultaneous queuing, your request can wait to run in more than one queue.

concurrent request A request to Oracle Applications to complete a non–
interactive task for you. You issue a request whenever you submit a non–
interactive task, such as releasing a shipment, posting a journal entry, or running
a report. Once you submit a request, Oracle Applications automatically takes
over for you, completing your request without further involvement from you or
interruption of your work.

consolidated billing invoice An invoice that you send to a customer to
provide a summary of their receivables activity for the month. This invoice
includes a beginning balance, the total amount of any payments received since
the prior consolidated billing invoice, an itemized list of new charges (for
example, invoices, credit memos, and adjustments) in either summary or detail

format, a separate reporting of consumption tax, and the total balance due for
this customer.

consolidation A General Ledger feature that allows you to combine the
results of multiple companies, even if they are in different sets of books with
different currencies, calendars, and charts of account. The Consolidated Billing
Invoice program lets you print a single, monthly invoice that includes all of your
customer’s transactions for the period. This lets you send one consolidated billing
invoice instead of a separate invoice for each transaction.

consolidation set A grouping of payroll runs within the same time period for
which you can schedule reporting, costing, and post–run processing.

consolidation set of books A set of books that has average balance
processing enabled and that is defined as a consolidation set of books. A
consolidation set of books must be used to consolidate average balances using
the balances consolidation method.

Construction–In–Process (CIP) asset A depreciable fixed asset you plan to
build during a capital project. The costs associated with building CIP assets are
referred to as CIP costs. You construct CIP assets over a period of time rather
than buying a finished asset. Oracle Assets lets you create, maintain, and add to
your CIP assets as you spend money for material and labor to construct them.
When you finish the assets and place them in service (capitalize them), Oracle
Assets begins depreciating them.

consumption tax An indirect tax imposed on transfer of goods and services at
each stage of their supply. The difference between output tax (tax collected for
revenue earned from the transfer) and the input tax (tax paid on expense paid on
the transfer) will be the tax liability to the government. This tax is, in concept,
value added tax (VAT).

contact Funding source personnel. For example, a billing contact is someone
at the funding organization who receives award invoices. A person who has a
relationship to an employee that you want to record. Contacts can be
dependents, relatives, partners or persons to contact in an emergency. In Oracle
Projects, a customer representative who is involved with a project. For example,
a contact can be a billing contact, the customer representative who receives
project invoices. In Oracle Receivables, a representative who is responsible for
communication between you and a specific part of your customer’s company. For
example, your customer may have a shipping contact person who handles all
questions regarding orders shipped to that address. Oracle Receivables lets you
enter contacts for your customers, addresses, and business purposes.

contact role A responsibility that you associate to a specific contact. Oracle
Receivables provides ’Bill To’, ’Ship To’, and ’Statements,’ but you can enter
additional responsibilities.

contact type An implementation–defined classification of project contacts
according to their role in the project. Typical contact types are Billing and
Shipping.

content set A report component you build within General Ledger that defines
the information in each report and the printing sequence of your reports. For
example, you can define a departmental content set that prints one report for
each department.

context field prompt A question or prompt to which a user enters a response,
called a context field value. When Oracle Applications displays a descriptive
flexfield pop–up window, it displays your context field prompt after it displays any
global segments you have defined. Each descriptive flexfield can have up to one
context prompt.

context field value A response to your context field prompt. Your response is
composed of a series of characters and a description. The response and
description together provide a unique value for your context prompt, such as
1500, Journal Batch ID, or 2000, Budget Formula Batch ID. The context field
value determines which additional descriptive flexfield segments appear.

context response See context field value.

context segment value A response to your context–sensitive segment. The
response is composed of a series of characters and a description. The response
and description together provide a unique value for your context–sensitive
segment, such as Redwood Shores, Oracle Corporation Headquarters, or
Minneapolis, Merrill Aviation’s Hub.

context–sensitive segment A descriptive flexfield segment that appears in a
second pop–up window when you enter a response to your context field prompt.
For each context response, you can define multiple context segments, and you
control the sequence of the context segments in the second pop–up window.
Each context–sensitive segment typically prompts you for one item of information
related to your context response.

contract In Oracle Human Resources/Labor Distribution, an agreement
between an employer and employee or potential employee that defines the
fundamental legal relationship between an employing organization and a person
who offers his or her services for hire. The employment contract defines the
terms and conditions to which both parties agree and those that are covered by
local laws. In Oracle Purchasing, an agreement between you and a supplier for

unspecified goods or services. This agreement may include terms and
conditions, committed amount, and an effective and expiration date. You
reference contract purchase agreements directly on standard purchase order
lines. Purchasing monitors the amount you have spent against contract purchase
agreements.

contract project A project that tracks activities and costs, accrues revenue,
and bills the customer. A project for which you can generate revenue and
invoices. Typical contract project types include Time and Materials and Fixed
Price. Formerly known as a direct project.

contribution An employer’s or employee’s monetary or other contribution to a
benefits plan.

control amount A feature you use to specify the total amount available for
payment of a recurring payment. When you generate invoices for a recurring
payment, Oracle Payables uses the control amount and the total number of
payments to determine the invoice amount.

control book A tax book, used for mass depreciation adjustments, that holds
the minimum accumulated depreciation for each asset.

control file A file used by SQL*Loader to map the data in your bank file to
tables and columns in the Oracle database. You must create one control file for
each different bank file you receive, unless some or all of your banks use the
exact same format.

conversion A process that converts foreign currency transactions to your
functional currency.

conversion formula The number that, when multiplied by the quantity of one
unit of the source base unit, gives you the quantity of one unit of the destination
base units in the interclass conversion. The number is also the conversion
between units for standard unit conversion or item–specific conversion.

copy An AutoCreate option that lets a buyer designate a specific requisition
line as the source of information that Purchasing copies to the purchase order or
RFQ line.

core competencies Also known as Leadership Competencies or
Management Competencies. The competencies required by every person to
enable the enterprise to meet its goals. See also: Competence.

corporate book A depreciation book that you use to track financial information
for your balance sheet.

corporate exchange rate An exchange rate you can optionally use to perform
foreign currency conversion. The corporate exchange rate is usually a standard
market rate determined by senior financial management for use throughout the
organization. You define this rate in Oracle General Ledger.

cost A relative value that you can assign to a function or notification activity to
inform the Workflow Engine how much processing is required to complete the
activity. Assign a higher cost to longer running, complex activities. The Workflow
Engine can be set to operate with a threshold cost. Any activity with a cost above
the Workflow Engine threshold cost gets set to ’DEFERRED’ and is not
processed. A background engine can be set up to poll for and process deferred
activities.

cost allowability schedule A list of expenditure types with the maximum total
indirect cost that a sponsor allows for each type.

cost base A grouping of raw costs to which burden costs are applied.
Examples of cost bases are Labor and Materials.

cost budget The estimated cost amounts at completion of a project. Cost
budget amounts can be summary or detail, and can be burdened or unburdened.

cost burden schedule A burden schedule used for costing to derive the total
cost amount. You assign the cost burden schedule to a project type that is
burdened; this default cost burden schedule defaults to projects that use the
project type; and then from the project to the tasks below the project. You may
override the cost burden schedule for a project or a task if you have defined the
project type option to allow overrides of the cost burden schedule.

cost distribution The act of calculating the cost and determining the cost
accounting for an expenditure item.

cost element A classification for the cost of an item. Oracle Manufacturing
supports five cost elements: material, material overhead, resource, outside
processing, and overhead.

cost rate The monetary cost per unit of an employee, expenditure type, or
resource.

costable type A feature that determines the processing an element receives
for accounting and costing purposes. There are four costable types in Oracle
HRMS: costed, distributed costing, fixed costing, and not costed.

costing Recording the costs of an assignment for accounting or reporting
purposes. Using Oracle Payroll, you can calculate and transfer costing

information to your general ledger and into systems for project management or
labor distribution.

cost–to–cost A revenue accrual method that calculates project revenue as
budgeted revenue multiplied by the ratio of actual cost to budgeted cost. Also
known as percentage of completion method or percentage spent method.

court order A ruling from a court that requires an employer to make
deductions from an employee’s salary for maintenance payments or debts, and
to pay the sums deducted to a court or local authority. See also: Arrestment.

credit check An Oracle Order Management feature that automatically checks
a customer order total against predefined order and total order limits. If an order
exceeds the limit, Oracle Order Management places the order on hold for review
by your finance group.

credit invoice An invoice you receive from a supplier representing a credit
amount that the supplier owes to you. A credit invoice can represent a quantity
credit or a price reduction. You can create a mass addition line from a credit
invoice and apply it to an asset.

credit items Any item you can apply to an open debit item to reduce the
balance due for a customer. Oracle Receivables includes credit memos, on–
account credits, and unapplied and on–account cash as credit items. Credit items
remain open until you apply the full amount to debit items.

credit memo In Oracle Payables and Oracle Projects, a document that
partially or fully reverses an original invoice. In Oracle Receivables, a document
that partially or fully reverses an original invoice. You can create credit memos in
the Receivables Credit Transactions window or with AutoInvoice.

credit memo reasons Standard explanations as to why you credit your
customers. (Receivables Lookup) See also return reason.

credit receiver A person receiving credit for project or task revenue. One
project or task may have many credit receivers for one or many credit types.

credit type An implementation-defined classification of the credit received by a
person for revenue a project or award earns.

Cross Business Group Responsibility Security This security model uses
security groups and enables you to link one responsibility to many Business
Groups.

cross charge To charge a resource to a project owned by a different
operating unit.

cross currency receipt A receipt that is applied to a transaction denominated
in a currency different than that of the receipt. Cross currency receipt
applications usually generate a foreign exchange gain or loss due to fluctuating
exchange rates between currencies.

cross rate An exchange rate you use to convert one foreign currency amount
to another foreign currency amount. In Payables, you use a cross rate to convert
your invoice currency to your payment currency.

cross site and cross customer receipts Receipts that you apply across
customers and sites and are fully applied. Each of these receipts appears on the
statements of the customer site that owns the receipt. The invoice(s) to which
you have applied a cross receipt appear on the statement of the customer or site
that owns the invoice.

cross–project responsibility A responsibility that permits users to view and
update any project.

cross–project user A user who is logged into Oracle Projects using a Cross–
Project responsibility.

cross–validation rules In Oracle Assets, rules that define valid combinations
of segment values that a user can enter in an key flexfield. Cross–validation rules
restrict users from entering invalid combinations of key flexfield segment values.
In Oracle General Ledger, rules that define valid combinations of segment values
a user can enter in an account. Cross–validation rules restrict users from
entering invalid combinations of account segment values.

cumulative translation adjustment A balance sheet account included in
stockholder’s equity in which General Ledger records net translation adjustments
in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). You specify the account you want to use for
Cumulative Translation Adjustment when you define each set of books in the Set
of Books window.

current budget The most recently baselined budget version of the budget.

current dimension The Oracle Financial Analyzer dimension from which you
are selecting values. The current dimension is the one you specified in the
Dimension box of the Selector window. Choices you make and actions you take
in lower–level windows ultimately affect this dimension by selecting values from it
to include in a report, graph, or worksheet.

current object The Oracle Financial Analyzer object upon which the next
specified action takes place. Generally, the current object is the one most

recently selected. However, if you use a highlight a group of objects, such as
data cells in a column, the first object in the group is the current object.

current record indicator Multi–record blocks often display a current record
indicator to the left of each record. A current record indicator is a one character
field that when filled in, identifies a record as being currently selected.

customer address A location where your customer can be reached. A
customer can have many addresses. You can also associate business purposes
with addresses.

customer agreement See agreement.

customer bank A bank account you define when entering customer
information to allow funds to be transferred from these accounts to your
remittance bank accounts as payment for goods or services provided. See also
remittance bank.

customer business purpose See business purpose.

customer class A method to classify your customers by their business type,
size, or location. You can create an unlimited number of customer classes.
(Receivables Lookup).

customer contact A specific customer employee with whom you
communicate. Oracle Receivables lets you define as many contacts as you wish
for each customer. You can also define contacts for an address and assign
previously defined contacts to each business purpose.

customer interface A program that transfers customer data from foreign
systems into Receivables.

customer interface tables A series of two Oracle Receivables database
tables from which Customer Interface inserts and updates valid customer data
into your customer database.

customer merge A program that merges business purposes and all
transactions associated to that business purpose for different sites of the same
customer or for unrelated customers.

customer number In Oracle Payables, the number a supplier assigns to your
organization. In Oracle Receivables, a number assigned to your customers to
uniquely identify them. A customer number can be assigned manually or
automatically, depending on how you set up your system.

customer phone A phone number that is associated with a customer. You
can also assign phone numbers to your customer contacts.

customer profile A method used to categorize your customers based on
credit information. Receivables uses credit profiles to assign statement cycles,
dunning letter cycles, salespersons, and collectors to your customers. You can
also decide whether you want to charge your customers interest. Oracle Order
Management uses the order and total order limits when performing credit
checking.

customer profile class A category for your customers based on credit
information, payment terms, currency limits, and correspondence types.

customer relationship An association that exists between customers which
lets you apply payments to related customers, apply invoices to related
customer’s commitments, and create invoices for related customers.

customer response Explanations, comments, or claims that customers make
during conversation with a collector regarding the call reason.

customer site A site where a customer is located. A customer can have more
than one site. Site names can more easily identify a customer address,
facilitating invoice and order entry. See also Oracle Order Management location.

customer status The Active/Inactive flag you use to inactivate customers with
whom you no longer do business. If you are using Oracle Order Management,
you can only enter orders, agreements, and returns for active customers, but you
can continue to process returns for inactive customers. If you are using
Receivables, you can only create invoices for active customers, but you can
continue collections activities for inactive customers.

customizable forms Forms that your system administrator can modify for
ease of use or security purposes by means of Custom Form restrictions. The
Form Customization window lists the forms and their methods of customization.

cutoff day The day of the month that determines when an invoice with
proxima payment terms is due. For example, if it is January and the cutoff day is
the 10th, invoices dated before or on January 10 are due in the next billing
period; invoices dated after the 10th are due in the following period.
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database item An item of information in Oracle HRMS that has special
programming attached, enabling Oracle FastFormula to locate and retrieve it for
use in formulas.

database table A basic data storage structure in a relational database
management system. A table consists of one or more units of information (rows),
each of which contains the same kind of values (columns). Your application’s
programs and windows access the information in the tables for you. See also
customer interface tables.

date placed in service The calendar date on which you start using an asset.

Date-to and date-from These fields are used in windows not subject to
DateTrack. The period you enter in these fields remains fixed until you change
the values in either field. See also: DateTrack, Effective Date.

DateTrack When the user changes the effective date to past or future,
DateTrack enables the user to enter information that takes effect on the new
effective date and to review information as of the new date.

DBA library If an Oracle Financial Analyzer database object belongs to a DBA
library, it means that the object was created by an administrator and cannot be
modified by a user.

debit invoice An invoice you generate to send to a supplier representing a
credit amount that the supplier owes to you. A debit invoice can represent a
quantity credit or a price reduction.

debit items Any item that increases your customer’s balance. Oracle
Receivables includes invoices, debit memos, and chargebacks as debit items.
Debit items remain open until the balance due is zero.

debit memo reversal A reversal of a payment that generates a new debit
memo, instead of reopening old invoices and debit memos.

debit memos Debits that you assign to a customer to collect additional
charges. For example, you may want to charge a customer for unearned
discounts taken, additional freight charges, taxes, or finance charges.

deferred depreciation The difference between the depreciation expense for
an asset in a tax book and its depreciation expense in the associated corporate
book.

deferred revenue An event type classification that generates an invoice for
the amount of the event, and has no immediate effect on revenue. The invoice
amount is accounted for in an unearned revenue account that will be offset as
the project accrues revenue.

deliver–to location A location where you deliver goods previously received
from a supplier to individual requestors.

delivery Internal delivery of items to requestors within your organization.

demand class A category you can use to segregate scheduled demand and
supply into groups, so that you can track and consume the groups independently.
You can define a demand class for a very important customer or a group of
customers. (Manufacturing Lookup).

denomination currency In some financial contexts, a term used to refer to
the currency in which a transaction takes place. In this manual, this currency is
called transaction currency. See: transaction currency.

dependent segment An account segment in which the available values
depend on values entered in a previous segment, called the independent
segment. For example, the dependent segment Sub–Account 0001 might mean
Bank of Alaska when combined with the independent segment Account 1100,
Cash, but the same Sub–Account 0001 might mean Building #3 when combined
with Account 1700, Fixed Assets.

deployment factors See: Work Choices.

deposit A type of commitment whereby a customer agrees to deposit or
prepay a sum of money for the future purchase of goods and services.

depreciable basis The amount of your asset that is subject to depreciation,
generally the cost minus the salvage value. Also known as recoverable cost.

depreciate To depreciate an asset is to spread its cost over the time you use
it. You charge depreciation expense for the asset each period. The total
depreciation taken for an asset is stored in the accumulated depreciation
account.

depreciation book A book to store financial information for a group of assets.
A depreciation book can be corporate, tax, or budget. Also known as book.

depreciation calendar The depreciation calendar determines the number of
accounting periods in a fiscal year. It also determines, with the divide
depreciation flag, what fraction of the annual depreciation amount to take each
period. You must specify a depreciation calendar for each book.

depreciation projection The expected depreciation expense for specified
future periods.

depreciation reserve See accumulated depreciation.

derived factor A factor (such as age, percent of fulltime employment, length
of service, compensation level, or the number of hours worked per period) that is
used in calculations to determine Participation Eligibility or Activity Rates for one
or more benefits.

descriptive flexfield A field that an organization can extend to capture extra
information not otherwise tracked by Oracle Applications. A descriptive flexfield
appears on the form as a single character, unnamed field. An organization can
customize this field to capture additional information unique to the business.

destination base unit The unit of measure to which you are converting when
you define interclass conversions. Your destination base unit is the base unit of a
unit class.

detail action An alert action that represents one exception found in the
database.

detail budget A budget whose authority is controlled by another budget.

detailed message action A message representing one exception. Oracle
Alert inserts the exception values into the text of the message.

developer descriptive flexfield A flexfield defined by your localization team
to meet the specific legislative and reporting needs of your country. See also:
Extra Information Types.

dimension An Oracle Financial Analyzer database object used to organize
and index the data stored in a variable. Dimensions answer the following
questions about data: ”What?” ”When?” and ”Where?” For example, a variable
called Units Sold might be associated with the dimensions Product, Month, and
District. In this case, Units Sold describes the number of products sold during
specific months within specific districts.

dimension label A text label that displays the name of the Oracle Financial
Analyzer dimension associated with an element of a report, graph, or worksheet.
For example, the data markers in a graph’s legend contain dimension labels that
show what data each data marker represents. Dimension labels can be short,
meaning they display the object name of a dimension, or user–specified,
meaning they display a label that you typed using the Dimension Labels option
on the Graph, Report, or Worksheet menus.

dimension values Elements that make up an Oracle Financial Analyzer
dimension. For example, the dimension values of the Product dimension might
include Tents, Canoes, Racquets, and Sportswear.

direct debit An agreement made with your customer to allow the transfer of
funds from their bank account to your bank account. The transfer of funds occurs
when the bank receives a document or tape containing the invoices to be paid.

direct deposit The electronic transfer of an employee’s net pay directly into
the account(s) designated by the employee.

direct project An obsolete term. See contract project.

direct receipt The receipt of an item directly to its final destination (either
directly to the person who requested the item or directly to the final inventory
location). It differs from a standard receipt in that it is received into a receiving
location and delivered in one transaction, rather than received and delivered in
two separate transactions.

Directory Services A mapping of Oracle Workflow users and roles to a site’s
directory repository.

disbursement type A feature you use to determine the type of payment for
which a payment document is used. For example, computer–generated
payments and recorded checks or wire transfers.

discount The amount or percentage that you allow a customer to decrease
the balance due for a debit item. In Oracle Receivables, you use Payment Terms
to define customer discounts and can choose whether to allow earned and
unearned discounts. See also earned discounts, unearned discounts, payment
terms.

display group A range of rows or columns in your row set or column set for
which you want to control the display in your report. You assign a display group
to a display set where you specify whether you want to display or hide your rows
or columns.

display set A Financial Statement Generator report component you build
within General Ledger to control the display of ranges of rows and columns in a
report, without reformatting the report or losing header information. You can
define a display set that works for reports with specific row and column sets.
Alternatively, you can define a generic display set that works for any report.

distribution Monetary payments made from, or hours off from work as
allowed by, a compensation or benefits plan.

distribution line A line corresponding to an accounting transaction for an
expenditure item on an invoice or the liability on a payment. In Oracle Assets,
information such as employee, general ledger depreciation expense account,
and location to which you have assigned an asset. You can create any number of

distribution lines for each asset. Oracle Assets uses distribution lines to allocate
depreciation expense and to produce your Property Tax and Responsibility
Reports. In Oracle Payables and Oracle Projects, a line corresponding to an
accounting transaction for an expenditure item on an invoice, or a liability on a
payment.

distribution line adjustments An adjustment of a distribution line that has
already been posted.

distribution list A distribution list is a set of mail names to whom Oracle Alert
sends a message when it finds an exception condition. An alert can have many
distribution lists and each distribution list can have its own set of input variables
to increase your control over who gets messages about what. For example, to
send a message about furniture to Joe Smith and about telecommunications
equipment to Sally Jones, you can define two distribution lists and enter the
appropriate item class as an input variable to each list.

distribution rule See revenue distribution rule.

distribution set In Oracle Payables, a feature you use to assign a name to a
predefined expense distribution or combination of distributions (by percentage).
Payables displays on a list of values the list of Distributions Sets you define. With
Distribution Sets, you can enter routine invoices into Payables without having to
enter accounting information. In Oracle Receivables, a predefined group of
general ledger accounting codes that determine the debit accounts for other
receipt payments. Receivables lets you relate distribution sets to receivables
activities to speed data entry.

distribution total The total amount of the distribution lines of an invoice. The
distribution total must equal the invoice amount before you can pay or post an
invoice.

document The physical base of a transaction, such as an invoice, a receipt, or
a payment.

document category A document category is used to split transactions into
logical groups. You can assign a different sequence to each category and, by
doing so, separately number each logical group. Each category is associated
with a table. When you assign a sequence to a category, the sequence numbers
the transactions in that table. Oracle Receivables lets you set up categories for
each type of transaction, receipt, and adjustment.

document reference A message that precisely identifies the document or part
of document you want to describe using standard or one–time notes.

document sequence Used to uniquely number documents, such as bank
statements in Oracle Cash Management and invoices in Oracle Receivables. A
Document Sequence has a sequence name, an initial value, and a type of either
Automatic or Manual.

document sequence number A number that is manually or automatically
assigned to your documents to provide an audit trail. For example, you can
choose to sequentially number invoices in Receivables or journal entries in
General Ledger.

domestic transaction Transactions between registered traders in the same
EU (European Union) country. Domestic transactions have VAT charged on
goods and services with different countries applying different VAT rates to
specific goods and services. See also external transaction, EU.

draft budget A preliminary budget which may be changed without affecting
revenue accrual on a project.

draft invoice A potential project invoice that is created, adjusted, and stored in
Oracle Projects. Draft invoices require approval before they are officially
accounted for in other Oracle Applications.

draft revenue A project revenue transaction that is created, adjusted, and
stored in Oracle Projects. You can adjust draft revenue before you transfer it to
other Oracle Applications.

drilldown A software feature that allows you to view the details of an item in
the current window via a window in a different application.

drop shipment A method of fulfilling sales orders by selling products without
handling, stocking, or delivering them. The selling company buys a product from
a supplier and has the supplier ship the product directly to customers.

dunning letter set A group of dunning letters that you can assign to your
customer’s credit profile.

dunning letters A letter that you send to customers to inform them of past due
debit items. Receivables lets you specify the text and format of each letter and
whether to include unapplied and on–account payments.

duplicate An exception Oracle Alert located for the same action set during a
previous alert check. Oracle Alert does not consider a detail action to contain a
duplicate exception until Oracle Alert sends the final action level to a specific
action set, and then locates the same exception for the same action set again.
For example, if on Monday Oracle Alert notifies a buyer that a supplier shipment
is overdue, then on Tuesday Oracle Alert finds the shipment is still overdue, you

can choose whether Oracle Alert should re– notify the buyer or suppress the
message.

dynamic distribution A distribution that includes at least one recipient whose
electronic mail ID is represented by an alert output. Oracle Alert locates the
actual electronic mail ID in one of the application tables, and substitutes it into
the distribution before sending the alert message. You can use output variables
to represent electronic mail IDs. When you define mail message alert actions in
Oracle Quality, the message is sent to all defined mail IDs.

dynamic insertion An Accounting Flexfields feature that allows you to enter
and define new combinations of segment values directly in a flexfield pop–up
window in Oracle Payables and Oracle General Ledger. The new combination
must satisfy any cross–validation rules before it is accepted. Your organization
can decide if an Accounting Flexfield supports dynamic insertion. If an account
does not support dynamic insertion, you can only enter new combinations of
segment values using the Define Accounts window. Automatically creates new
accounting flexfield combinations as you enter them. If you do not use dynamic
insertion, you create new accounting flexfield combinations with a separate
window. In Oracle Projects, a feature specific to key flexfields that allows you to
enter and define new combinations of segment values directly into a flexfield
pop–up window. The new combination must satisfy any cross–validation rules,
before your flexfield accepts the new combination. Your organization can decide
if a key flexfield supports dynamic insertion. If a flexfield does not support
dynamic insertion, you can only enter new combinations of segment values using
a combinations form (a form specifically used for creating and maintaining code
combinations). In Oracle Receivables, an Oracle Applications feature you use to
automatically create new key flexfield combinations when you enter transactions
or customers. If you do not use dynamic insertion, you can only create new key
flexfield combinations using the various flexfield setup forms.
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earned discounts Discounts your customers are allowed to take if they remit
payment for their invoices on or before the discount date. The discount date is
determined by the payment terms assigned to an invoice. Oracle Receivables
takes into account any discount grace days you assign to this customer’s credit
profile. For example, if the discount due date is the 15th of each month, but
discount grace days is 5, your customer must pay on or before the 20th to
receive the earned discount. Discounts are determined by the terms you assign
to an invoice during invoice entry. See also unearned discounts.
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic transmission of routine
business documents in a standard electronic format from one computer to
another. See electronic data interchange.

effective date The date a transaction affects the balances in the general
ledger. This does not have to be the same as the posting date. Also known as
the value date. The date for which you are entering and viewing information.

EFT See Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT).

EIT See: Extra Information Type.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) The electronic transmission of routine
business documents in a standard format from one computer to another. See
EDI.

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) A method of payment in which your bank
transfers funds electronically from your bank account into another bank account.
In Payables, your bank transfers funds from your bank account into the bank
account of a supplier you pay with the Electronic payment method.

element A component in the calculation of employee pay. Each element
represents a compensation or benefit type, such as salary, wages, stock
purchase plans, and pension contributions.

element classifications These control the order in which elements are
processed and the balances they feed. Primary element classifications and some
secondary classifications are predefined by Oracle Payroll. Other secondary
classifications can be created by users.

element entry The record controlling an employee’s receipt of an element,
including the period of time for which the employee receives the element and its
value. See also: Recurring Elements, Nonrecurring Elements.

element link The association of an element to one or more components of an
employee assignment. The link establishes employee eligibility for that element.
Employees whose assignment components match the components of the link are
eligible for the element. See also: Standard Link

element set A group of elements that you define to process in a payroll run, or
to control access to compensation information from a customized form, or for
distributing costs.

elements Components in the calculation of employee pay. Each element
represents a compensation or benefit type, such as salary, wages, stock
purchase plans, and pension contributions.

employee billing title An employee title, which differs from a job billing title,
that may appear on an invoice. Each employee can have a unique employee
billing title.

employee histories An SSHR function for an employee to view their, Training
History, Job Application History, Employment History, Absence History, or Salary
History. A manager can also use this function to view information on their direct
reports.

employee organization The organization to which an employee is assigned.

employee supervisor hierarchy An approval routing structure based on
employee/super-visor relationships. See position hierarchy.

employment category A component of the employee assignment. Four
categories are defined: Full Time – Regular, Full Time – Temporary, Part Time –
Regular, and Part Time – Temporary.

Employment Equity Occupational Groups (EEOG) In Canada, the
Employment Equity Occupational Groups (EEOG) consist of 14 classifications of
work used in the Employment Equity Report. The EEOGs were derived from the
National Occupational Classification system.

Employment Insurance (EI) Benefit plan run by the federal government to
which the majority of Canadian employers and employees must contribute.

employment insurance rate In Canada, this is the rate at which the employer
contributes to the EI fund. The rate is expressed as a percentage of the
employee’s contribution. If the employer maintains an approved wage loss
replacement program, they can reduce their share of EI premiums by obtaining a
reduced contribution rate. Employers would remit payroll deductions under a
different employer account number for employees covered by the plan.

encumbrance An entry made to record anticipated expenditures of any type.
See also: encumbrance journal entry, purchase order encumbrance.

encumbrance accounting An Oracle Financials feature you use to create
encumbrances automatically for requisitions, purchase orders, and invoices. The
budgetary control feature uses encumbrance accounting to reserve funds for
budgets. If you enable encumbrance accounting only, you can create
encumbrances automatically or manually; however, you cannot check funds
online and Oracle Financials does not verify available funds for your transaction.
See also budgetary control.

encumbrance journal entry In Oracle Payables, a journal entry that
increases or relieves encumbrances. Encumbrance entries can include
encumbrances of any type. If you have enabled encumbrance accounting, when
you successfully approve an invoice matched to an encumbered purchase order,
General Ledger automatically creates encumbrance journal entries that relieve

the original encumbrance journal entries. General Ledger also creates new
encumbrance journal entries for any quantity or price variance between an
invoice and the matched purchase order. General Ledger automatically creates
encumbrance journal entries for an unmatched invoice when you approve the
invoice.

encumbrance type An encumbrance category that allows you to track your
expenditures according to your purchase approval process and better control
your planned expenditures. You can set up separate encumbrance types for
each stage in your purchasing cycle to track your spending at each level.
Examples of encumbrance types are commitments (requisition encumbrances)
and obligations (purchase order encumbrances). In Oracle General Ledger, an
encumbrance category that allows you to track your anticipated expenditures
according to your purchase approval process and to more accurately control your
planned expenditures. Examples of encumbrance types are commitments
(requisition encumbrances) and obligations (purchase order encumbrances).

end date The date an award is no longer active. The user cannot charge an
expenditure item to an award if the expenditure item date is after the award end
date.

ending balance The ending balance represents the balance of the transaction
as of the ending GL Date that you have specified. This column should be the
same as the Outstanding Balance of the Aging – 7 Buckets Report for this item.

end–of–day balance The actual balance of a general ledger account at the
end of a day. This balance includes all transactions whose effective date
precedes or is the same as the calendar day.

Enroll in a Class An SSHR function which enables an employee to search
and enroll in an internally published class. An employee can also use this
function to maintain their competencies.

enrollment action type Any action required to complete enrollment or de–
enrollment in a benefit.

escheatment The legal process of remitting unclaimed property to the
required authority. In the United States, escheatment laws are at the state level.
Under these laws, accounts payable departments are required to perform due
diligence to contact and remit the funds to the payee. Organizations must then
remit to the state of last known address of the owner all unpaid items once they
have been outstanding for a set time period.

ESS Employee Self Service. A predefined SSHR responsibility.

EU The EU (European Union) is a single European market where customs and
tariff barriers between member states have been removed.

euro A single currency adopted by the 11 member countries of the Economic
and Monetary Union (EMU) beginning January 1, 1999. These countries include
Austria, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. The official abbreviation for the euro is EUR.
This abbreviation is used for all commercial, business, and financial purposes,
and has been registered with the International Standards Organization (ISO).

event A milestone in a project that generates revenue or billing activity. An
example of a billing event is completion of a portion of a project ahead of
schedule. In Oracle Projects, a summary level transaction assigned to a project
or top task that records work completed and generates revenue and/or billing
activity, but is not directly related to any expenditure items. For example, unlike
labor costs or other billable expenses, a bonus your business receives for
completing a project ahead of schedule is not attributable to any expenditure
item, and would be entered as an event.

event alert An alert that runs when a specific event occurs that you define. For
example, you can define an event alert to immediately send a message to the
buyer if an item is rejected on inspection.

event type An implementation–defined classification of events that determines
the revenue and invoice effect of an event. Typical event types include
Milestones, Scheduled Payments, and Write–Offs.

exception A single occurrence of an event returned by an alert check. For
example, if an alert checking for invoices that Approval places on funds hold
finds five such invoices, each invoice is an exception.

exception An occurrence of the specified condition found during an alert
check. For example, an alert testing for invoices on hold may find five invoices on
hold, or none. Each invoice on hold is an exception.

exception reporting An integrated system of alerts and action sets that
focuses attention on time– sensitive or critical information, shortens your reaction
time, and provides faster exception distribution. Exception reporting
communicates information by either electronic mail messages or paper reports.

exchange rate In Oracle Cash Management and Oracle General Ledger, a
rate that represents the amount of one currency that you can exchange for
another at a particular point in time. Oracle Applications use the daily, periodic,
and historical exchange rates you maintain to perform foreign currency
conversion, revaluation, and translation. In Oracle Receivables and Oracle
Payables, a rate that represents the amount in one currency that you can

exchange for another at a particular point in time. You can enter and maintain
daily exchange rates for Oracle Projects to use to perform foreign currency
conversion. Oracle Projects multiplies the exchange rate by the foreign currency
to calculate the functional currency.

exchange rate type A specification of the source of an exchange rate. For
example, a user exchange rate or a corporate exchange rate. See also corporate
exchange rate, spot exchange rate.

exchange rate variance The difference between the exchange rate for a
foreign–currency invoice and its matched purchase order. Payables tracks any
exchange rate variances for your foreign–currency invoices.

exemption certificate A document obtained from a taxing authority which
certifies that a customer or item is either partially or fully exempt from tax. The
document details the reason for the exemption and the effective and expiration
dates of the certificate.

existing combinations A feature specific to key flexfields in data entry mode
that allows you to enter query criteria in the flexfield to bring up a list of matching
predefined combinations of segment values to select from.

expected receipts report A printed report of all expected receipts for a time
period and location you specify.

Expected Week of Confinement (EWC) In the UK, this is the week in which
an employee’s baby is due. The Sunday of the expected week of confinement is
used in the calculations for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP).

expenditure A group of expenditure items incurred by an employee or an
organization for an expenditure period. Typical expenditures include Timecards
and Expense Reports.

expenditure (week) ending date The last day of an expenditure week period.
All expenditure items associated with an expenditure must be on or before the
expenditure ending date, and must fall within the expenditure week identified by
the expenditure week ending date.

expenditure category An implementation–defined grouping of expenditure
types by type of cost. For example, an expenditure category with a name such as
Labor refers to the cost of labor.

expenditure comment Free text that can be entered for any expenditure item
to explain or describe it in further detail.

expenditure cost rate The monetary cost per unit of a non–labor expenditure
type.

expenditure cycle A weekly period for grouping and entering expenditures.

expenditure group A user–defined name used to track a group of pre–
approved expenditures, such as Timecards, or Expense Reports.

expenditure item The smallest logical unit of expenditure you can charge to a
project and task. For example, an expenditure item can be a timecard item or an
expense report item.

expenditure item date The date on which work is performed and is charged
to a project and task.

expenditure operating unit For an expenditure, the operating unit where the
expenditure item was incurred against a project.

expenditure organization For timecards and expense reports, the
organization to which the incurring employee is assigned, unless overridden by
organization overrides. For usage, supplier invoices, and purchasing
commitments, the incurring organization entered on the expenditure.

expenditure type An expenditure type is an implementation-defined
classification of cost that users assigns to each expenditure item. Expenditure
types are grouped into expenditure categories such as Labor, Expense Reports,
Assets, and Vendor Invoices and revenues categories such as Labor and Non-
labor revenue. They are also made up of units of measure and system linkages
which define a relationship between the expenditure type and another system
such as Oracle Public Sector Payables. Examples of expenditure types are
Professional Labor, Clerical Labor, Faculty Tenured Salary, Air Travel,
Automobile Rental, Computer Services, and Supplies.

expenditure type class An additional classification for expenditure types that
indicates how Oracle Projects processes the expenditure types. For example, if
you run the Distribute Labor Costs process, Oracle Projects will calculate the
cost of all expenditure items assigned to the Straight Time expenditure type
class. Formerly known as system linkage.

expense report In Oracle Payables, a document that details expenses
incurred by an employee for the purpose of reimbursement. You can enter
expense reports online in Payables or Web Employees, or you can import them
from Projects. In Oracle Projects, a document that, for purposes of
reimbursement, details expenses incurred by an employee. You can set up
expense report templates to match the format of your expense reports to speed

data entry. You must create invoices from Payables expense reports using
Invoice Import before you can pay the expense reports.

expensed asset An asset that you do not depreciate, but charge the entire
cost in a single period. Oracle Assets does not depreciate an expensed asset, or
create any journal entries for it. You can, however, use Oracle Assets to track
expensed assets. The Asset Type for these assets is ” Expensed”.

expensed item Items that do NOT depreciate; the entire cost is charged in a
single period to an expense account. Oracle Assets tracks expensed items, but
does not create journal entries for them.

explode An AutoCreate option that lets a buyer split a single requisition line
for an item into one or more requisition lines for different items. Use this option to
expand a requisition line for an item that your company purchases in component
parts.

export A utility that enables you to copy data from an Oracle8 table to a file in
your current directory. The export utility is part of the Oracle8 Relational
Database Management System. In Oracle Receivables, to move archive data to
a different storage device.

export file The file the export utility creates in your directory. Export files must
have the extension .dmp. It is wise to name the export file so it identifies the data
in the table. For example, if you are saving fiscal year 1994 for your Fremont set
of books, you might call your export file FY94FR.dmp.

express delivery An option that lets you deliver the entire quantity of a receipt
without entering quantities for each shipment or distribution.

express receipt A site option that lets you receive an entire purchase order or
blanket purchase agreement release with one keystroke.

express requisitions To create requisitions quickly from predefined
requisition templates. You only need to provide an accounting flexfield and
quantities to create a requisition for commonly purchased items.

external functions Programs that are executed outside of Oracle8.

external organization See organization.

external transaction Transactions between an EU (European Union) trader
and a supplier or customer located in a non–EU country. Customers and sites in
non–EU countries are tax exempt and should have a zero tax code assigned to
all invoices. See also domestic transaction, EU.

Extra Information Type (EIT) A type of developer descriptive flexfield that
enables you to create an unlimited number of information types for six key areas
in Oracle HRMS. Localization teams may also predefine some EITs to meet the
specific legislative requirements of your country. See also: Developer Descriptive
Flexfield.
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factor In Oracle General Ledger, data upon which you perform some
mathematical operation. Fixed amounts, statistical account balances, account
balances, and report rows and columns are all data types you can use in
formulas. In Oracle Payables, the payee of an invoice when the payee differs
from the supplier on the invoice. For example, a supplier may have sold their
receivables to a factor.

factoring The process by which you sell your accounts receivable to a
financial institution (such as a bank) in return for cash. Financial institutions
usually charge a fee for factoring.

FASB 52 (U.S.) See SFAS 52.

Federal Identification Number See Tax Identification Number.

feeder program A custom program you write to transfer your transaction
information from an original system into Oracle Application interface tables. The
type of feeder program you write depends on the environment from which you
are importing data.

feeder system Another system from which you can pass information into
Oracle Assets. For example, you can pass budget or production information from
a spreadsheet into Oracle Assets.

field A position on a window that you use to enter, view, update, or delete
information. A field prompt describes each field by telling you what kind of
information appears in the field, or alternatively, what kind of information you
should enter in the field.

field type Each record you import is divided into regions and each region
holds a different piece of information. Oracle Receivables calls these regions
”fields” and provides you with a list of the types of fields that can be interfaced
through AutoLockbox.

final close A purchase order control you can assign to prevent modifications
to or actions against completed documents, lines, and shipments by final closing
them. Final–closed documents are not accessible in the corresponding entry
windows, and you cannot perform the following actions against final–closed

entities: receive, transfer, inspect, deliver, correct receipt quantities, invoice,
return to supplier, or return to receiving.

finance charges Additional charges that you assign to customers for past due
items. You specify whether you want to charge your customers finance charges
in their customer profiles. Finance charges can be included on your customer’s
statements and dunning letters.

financial data item An Oracle Financial Analyzer database object that is
made up of either a variable, or a variable and a formula. For example, a
financial data item called ” Actuals” would be a variable, while a financial data
item called ” Actuals Variance” would be made up of a variable (Actuals) and a
formula that calculates a variance.

Financial Statement Generator A powerful and flexible tool you can use to
build your own custom reports without programming. You can define reports
online with complete control over the rows, columns and contents of your report.

firm A purchase order control. When you firm an order, Master
Scheduling/MRP uses the firm date to create a time fence within which it does
not suggest new planned purchase orders, cancellations, or reschedule–in
actions. It continues to suggest reschedule–out actions for orders within the time
fence. If several shipments with different promised or need–by dates reference
the same item, Master Scheduling/MRP sets the time fence at the latest of all
scheduled dates.

firm schedule A burden schedule of burden multipliers that will not change
over time. This is compared to provisional schedules in which actual multipliers
are mapped to provisional multipliers after an audit.

first bill offset days The number of days that elapse between a project start
date and the date that the project’s first invoice is issued.

fiscal year Any yearly accounting period without regard to its relationship to a
calendar year.

fixed asset An item owned by your business and used for operations. Fixed
assets generally have a life of more than one year, are acquired for use in the
operation of the business, and are not intended for resale to customers. Assets
differ from inventory items since you use them rather than sell them.

fixed assets unit A measure for the number of asset parts tracked in Oracle
Assets. You can assign one or more units to a distribution line.

fixed date See schedule fixed date.

fixed rate currencies Currencies with fixed exchange rates. For example, the
euro and currencies of countries in the Economic Monetary Union (EMU).

flat file A file where the data is unformatted for a specific application.

flat tax A specific amount of tax, regardless of the amount of the item. There is
no rate associated with flat taxes. Flat taxes are charged on items such as
cigarettes, gasoline, and insurance.

flat–rate depreciation method A depreciation method that calculates the
depreciation for an asset based on a fixed rate each year. This method uses a
constant rate which Oracle Assets multiplies by an asset’s recoverable cost or
net book value as of the beginning of each fiscal year.

flex credit A unit of ”purchasing power” in a flexible benefits program. An
employee uses flex credits, typically expressed in monetary terms, to ”purchase”
benefits plans and/or levels of coverage within these plans.

FlexBudgeting A feature that uses budget formulas and statistics to create a
flexible budget. For example, a manufacturing organization may want to maintain
a flexible budget based on actual units of production to eliminate volume
variances during an analysis of actual versus budgeted operating results.

flexfield An Oracle Applications field made up of segments. Each segment
has an assigned name and a set of valid values. Oracle Applications uses
flexfields to capture information about your organization. There are two types of
flexfields: key flexfields and descriptive flexfields.

flexfield segment One of the sections of your key flexfield, separated from the
other sections by a symbol that you define (such as –,/, or ). Each segment
typically represents an element of your business, such as cost center, product, or
account.

flexible address format Oracle Applications allows you to enter an address in
the format most relevant for the country of your customer, supplier, bank, or
remit–to site. This is done by using descriptive flexfields to enter and display
address information in the appropriate formats. The descriptive flexfield opens if
the country you enter has a flexible address style assigned to it, allowing you to
enter an address in the layout associated with that country.

Flexible Benefits Program A benefits program that offers employees choices
among benefits plans and/or levels of coverage. Typically, employees are given
a certain amount of flex credits or moneys with which to ”purchase” these
benefits plans and/or coverage levels.

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Under US Internal Revenue Code Section
125, employees can set aside money on a pretax basis to pay for eligible
unreimbursed health and dependent care expenses. Annual monetary limits and
use–it–or–lose it provisions exist. Accounts are subject to annual maximums and
forfeiture rules.

FOB (Free On Board) The point or location where the ownership title of goods
is transferred from the seller to the buyer. This indicates that delivery of a
shipment will be made on board or into a carrier by the shipper without charge,
and is usually followed by a shipping point or destination (e.g. ’FOB Our
warehouse in New York’). (Receivables Lookup).

folder A flexible entry and display window in which you can choose the fields
you want to see and where each appears in the window.

follow up date The date when you plan to perform a subsequent action.
Examples include a date that you specify for verifying that you have received
payment or a date that you note for calling the customer again.

foreign currency In Oracle Assets, a currency that you define for your set of
books to record and conduct accounting transactions in a currency other than
your functional currency. In Oracle Cash Management, Payables, Receivables,
Projects currency that you define for your set of books for recording and
conducting accounting transactions in a currency other than your functional
currency. See also exchange rate, functional currency.

foreign currency conversion In Oracle Cash Management and Oracle
General Ledger, a process that converts a foreign currency journal entry into
your functional currency. Oracle Receivables automatically converts the
currency whenever you enter a journal entry in a currency other than your
functional currency. Oracle Receivables multiplies the daily exchange rate you
define or the exchange rate you enter to convert amounts for your functional
currency. You can view the results of foreign currency conversion in the Enter
Journals window. In Oracle Projects, a process that converts a foreign currency
transaction to your functional currency. In Oracle Receivables and Oracle
Payables, the conversion of a foreign currency transaction, such as an invoice or
a payment, into your functional currency. Oracle Receivables automatically
performs this conversion whenever you enter an invoice or make a payment in a
currency other than your functional currency. See also foreign currency
exchange gain or loss.

foreign currency exchange gain or loss The difference in your functional
currency between the invoiced amount and the payment amount when applying a
receipt to an invoice. A realized gain exists if the receipt amount in your
functional currency exceeds the invoice amount; a loss exists if the invoice
amount in your functional currency exceeds the amount of the payment. Such

gains and losses arise from fluctuations in exchange rates of the receipt currency
between the invoice date and the payment date. See also realized gain or loss,
unrealized gain or loss.

foreign currency journal entry A journal entry in which you record
transactions in a foreign currency. General Ledger automatically converts foreign
currency amounts into your functional currency using an exchange rate you
specify. See also foreign currency, functional currency.

foreign currency revaluation A process that allows you to revalue assets
and liabilities denominated in a foreign currency using a period– end (usually a
balance sheet date) exchange rate. General Ledger automatically revalues your
foreign assets and liabilities using the period– end exchange rate you specify.
Revaluation gains and losses result from fluctuations in an exchange rate
between a transaction date and a balance sheet date. General Ledger
automatically creates a journal entry in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.) to adjust
your unrealized gain/loss account when you run revaluation.

foreign currency translation A process that allows you to restate your
functional currency account balances into a reporting currency. General Ledger
multiplies the average, periodic, or historical rate you define by your functional
currency account balances to perform foreign currency translation. General
Ledger translates foreign currency in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). General
Ledger also re-measures foreign currencies for companies in highly inflationary
economies, in accordance with FASB 8 (U.S.).

form A logical collection of fields, regions, and blocks that appear on a single
screen. Oracle Applications forms look just like the paper forms you use to run
your business. All you need to do to enter data is type onto the form. See
window.

formula entry A recurring journal entry that uses formulas to calculate journal
entry lines. Instead of specifying amounts, as you would for a standard entry, you
use formulas, and General Ledger calculates the amounts for you. For example,
you might use recurring journal entries to do complex allocations or accruals that
are computed using statistics or multiple accounts.

forward An action you take to send a document to another employee without
attempting to approve it yourself.

four–way matching Purchasing performs four–way matching to verify that
purchase order, receipt, inspection and invoice quantities match within tolerance.

Free On Board (FOB) See FOB.

freeze You can freeze a purchase order after printing. By freezing a purchase
order, you prevent anyone from adding new lines or changing the purchase
order. You can continue to receive goods and be billed on already existing
purchase order lines. The ability to continue receiving against the purchase order
is the difference between freezing and canceling.

freight carrier A commercial company used to send product shipments to
your customers.

freight charges A shipment–related charge added during ship confirmation (in
Oracle Order Management) and billed to your customer.

FTE See full-time equivalency.

full allocation An allocation method that distributes all the amounts in the
specified projects in the specified amount class. The full allocation method is
generally suitable if you want to process an allocation rule only once in a run
period. See also incremental allocation.

full-time equivalency The sum of full-time positions plus part-time positions.
For example, if a department has 3 full-time positions, 2 three-quarter time
positions, 4 half-time positions, and 1 quarter-time positions, the department has
10 staff, but a full-time equivalency of 6.75 employees.

Function A PL/SQL stored procedure that can define business rules, perform
automated tasks within an application, or retrieve application information. The
stored procedure accepts standard arguments and returns a completion result.

function activity An automated unit of work that is defined by a PL/SQL
stored procedure.

function security An Oracle Applications feature that lets you control user
access to certain functions and windows. By default, access to functionality is not
restricted; your system administrator customizes each responsibility at your site
by including or excluding functions and menus in the Responsibilities window.

functional currency Currency you use to record transactions and maintain
your accounting information. The functional currency is generally the currency
used to perform most of your company’s business transactions. You determine
the functional currency for the set of books you use in your organization. Also
called base currency. In Oracle Assets, General Ledger, and Cash Management,
the principal currency you use to record transactions and maintain accounting
data within Oracle Receivables. The functional currency is usually the currency in
which you perform most of your business transactions. You specify the functional
currency for each set of books in the Set of Books window. In Oracle Payables
and Receivables, the principal currency you use to record transactions and

maintain your accounting data for your set of books. You define the functional
currency for each set of books within your organization. When you enter and pay
an invoice in a foreign currency, Oracle Receivables automatically converts the
foreign currency into your functional currency based on the exchange rate you
define. Oracle Receivables creates journal entries for your multiple currency
invoices and payments in both your foreign and functional currencies. In Oracle
Projects, the principal currency you use to maintain accounting data in your
General Ledger.

funded amount The total of all active installments.

funding budget A budget against which accounting transactions are checked
for available funds when budgetary control is enabled for your set of books.

funding source A government agency, a private firm, or an individual that
provides funding for a project.

funds available The budget amount, less actuals and encumbrances. In
Oracle General Ledger, the difference between the amount you are authorized to
spend and the amount of your expenditures plus commitments. You can track
funds availability at different authority levels using the Online Funds Available
inquiry window, or you can create custom reports with the Payables Financial
Statement Generator. In Oracle Payables, the difference between the amount
you are authorized to spend and all actual and anticipated expenditures. In other
words, funds available is the amount budgeted less actual expenses and
encumbrances of all types. Oracle Financials lets you check funds available
online for requisitions, purchase orders, and invoices. Funds Available = Budget
– (Actual Expenses + Encumbrances).

funds checking The process of verifying that sufficient funds are available to
cover an expenditure. Funds checking also refers to the entire funds checking
and reservation process. When you check funds, the transaction amount is
compared with your funds available, and you are notified whether funds are
available for your transaction. Checking funds does not reserve funds for your
transaction.

funds reservation The process of setting aside funds for an expenditure after
it has passed funds checking and before it has been posted to Oracle General
Ledger. In Oracle General Ledger, the process of reserving funds available. You
can reserve funds when you enter actual, budget, or encumbrance journals.
When you reserve funds, Oracle Financials compares the amount of your
transaction against your funds available and notifies you online whether funds
are available for your transaction. In Oracle Payables, the creation of requisition,
purchase order, or invoice encumbrance journal entries. reserves funds for your
invoice when you approve the invoice. Approval creates encumbrance journal
entries for an unmatched invoice or for price and quantity variances between an

invoice and the purchase order to which you match the invoice. immediately
updates your funds available balances and creates an encumbrance journal
entry that you can post in your general ledger.
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gain See realized gain or loss, unrealized gain or loss.

gain / loss The profit or loss resulting from the retirement of an asset.

general ledger The accounting system that tracks the journal entries that
affect each account.

general ledger account A specific account within an organization’s chart of
accounts. A General Ledger account is made up of the General Ledger
accounting flexfield segments that are defined for a set of books.

general ledger date The date used to determine the correct accounting period
for your transactions. The Oracle Receivables posting program uses this date
when posting transactions to your general ledger.

GL Date In Oracle Cash Management, the date used to determine the correct
accounting period for your accounting transactions. In Oracle Payables and
Oracle Receivables, the date used to determine the correct accounting period for
your invoice and payment transactions. You assign a GL Date to your invoices
during invoice entry and your payments during payment creation. In Oracle
Projects, the end date of the GL Period in which costs or revenue are transferred
to Oracle General Ledger. This date is determined from the open or future GL
Period on or after the PA Date of a cost distribution line or revenue. For invoices,
the GL Date is the date within the GL Period on which an invoice is transferred to
Oracle Receivables, and is based on the invoice date.

GL Date range An accounting cycle that is defined by a beginning and ending
GL Date.

global segment prompt A non–context–sensitive descriptive flexfield
segment. Each global segment typically prompts you for one item of information
related to the zone or form in which you are working.

global segment value A response to your global segment prompt. Your
response is composed of a series of characters and a description. The response
and description together provide a unique value for your global segment, such as
J. Smith, Financial Analyst, or 210, Building C.

global value A value you define for any formula to use. Global values can be
dates, numbers or text.

goods or service type A list of goods or services a benefit plan sponsor has
approved for reimbursement.

grace period See Receipt Acceptance Period.

grade A component of an employee’s assignment that defines their level and
can be used to control the value of their salary and other compensation
elements.

Grade Comparatio A comparison of the amount of compensation an
employee receives with the mid–point of the valid values defined for his or her
grade.

grade rate A value or range of values defined as valid for a given grade. Used
for validating employee compensation entries.

grade scale A sequence of steps valid for a grade, where each step
corresponds to one point on a pay scale. You can place each employee on a
point of their grade scale and automatically increment all placements each year,
or as required. See also: Pay Scale.

grade step An increment on a grade scale. Each grade step corresponds to
one point on a pay scale. See also: Grade Scale.

grandfathered A term used in Benefits Administration. A person’s benefits are
said to be grandfathered when a plan changes but they retain the benefits
accrued.

grantee The receiver of a grant.

grantor A person or organization that makes a grant.

Grants Accounting charging instruction A user-defined combination of
Project, Organization, Expenditure Type, Task, and Award that specifies a
particular charging instruction to Oracle Grants Accounting. These instructions
constitute the Oracle Grants Accounting equivalent of a General Ledger account.

group A component that you define, using the People Group key flexfield, to
assign employees to special groups such as pension plans or unions. You can
use groups to determine employees’ eligibility for certain elements, and to
regulate access to payrolls.

GSA An acronym for the General Services Administration. In Oracle
Receivables, you can indicate whether a customer is a government agency that
orders against GSA agreements in Oracle Order Management.

guarantee A contractual obligation to purchase a specified amount of goods
or services over a predefined period of time.
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hard limit An option for an agreement that prevents revenue accrual and
invoice generation beyond the amount allocated to a project or task by the
agreement. If you do not impose a hard limit, Oracle Projects automatically
imposes a soft limit of the same amount. See also soft limit.

hazard class A category of hazardous materials. Most hazardous materials
belong to only one hazard class. Some materials belong to more than one
hazard class and some materials do not belong to any. If a material belongs to
more than one hazard class, you should list these classes in a specific order.

hierarchy An organization or position structure showing reporting lines or
other relationships. You can use hierarchies for reporting and for controlling
access to Oracle HRMS information.

historical exchange rate A weighted–average rate for transactions that occur
at different times. General Ledger uses historical rates to translate owner’s equity
accounts in accordance with FASB 52 (U.S.). For companies in highly inflationary
economies, General Ledger uses historical rates to remeasure specific historical
account balances, according to FASB 8.

hold In Oracle Payables, an Oracle Applications feature that prevents a
transaction from occurring or completing until the hold has been released. You
can place a hold on an invoice or an invoice schedule line. All holds in Payables
prevent payment; some holds also prevent posting to your general ledger. In
Oracle Receivables, a feature that prevents an order or order line from
progressing through the order cycle. If you place a customer on credit hold in
Receivables, you cannot create new orders for this customer in Oracle Order
Management. However, you can still create transactions for this customer in
Receivables.

HP notation Mathematical logic upon which EasyCalc is based. HP Notation
is used by Hewlett–Packard calculators. HP Notation emphasizes
straightforward, logical entry of data, and de–emphasizes complicated
parenthetical arrangements of data.
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import A utility that enables you to bring data from an export file into an
Oracle8 table. The import utility is part of the Oracle8 Relational Database
Management System. This utility is used to restore archived data.

import journal entry A journal entry from a non–Oracle application, such as
accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed assets. You use Journal Import
to import these journal entries from your feeder systems.

import program A program that imports your bank file from an external
system into Oracle Receivables. Oracle Receivables is set up to work with
SQL*Loader as the import program. Two sample SQL*Loader control files are
included with Oracle Receivables to assist you in writing your own custom control
file.

imported invoice In Oracle Payables, an invoice that is imported into Oracle
Receivables using the Invoice Import program. In Oracle Receivables, an invoice
that is imported into Oracle Receivables from an external system (for example,
Oracle Order Management) using the AutoInvoice program.

imputed income Certain forms of indirect compensation that US Internal
Revenue Service Section 79 defines as fringe benefits and taxes the recipient
accordingly. Examples include employer payment of group term life insurance
premiums over a certain monetary amount, personal use of a company car, and
other non–cash awards.

income tax region The region or state you assign to paid invoice distribution
lines for a 1099 supplier. If you participate in the Combined Filing Program,
Payables produces K records for all income tax regions participating in the
Combined Filing Program that have qualifying payments.

income tax type A type of payment you make to 1099 suppliers. With
Payables you can assign an income tax type to each paid invoice distribution line
for a supplier. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires that you report, by
income tax type, payments made to 1099 suppliers.

incomplete invoice An invoice whose status has not been changed to
Complete or that has failed validation. To complete an invoice, several conditions
must be met. For example, the invoice must have at least one line and the GL
date must be in an Open or Future period.

incremental allocation An allocation method that creates expenditure items
based on the difference between the transactions processed from one allocation
to the next. This method is generally suitable if you want to use an allocation rule
in allocation runs several times in a given run period. See also full allocation.

indirect cost rate schedule Same as a burden schedule, only for the award
level, rather than the project level. See burden schedule.

indirect project A project used to collect and track costs for overhead
activities, such as administrative labor, marketing, and bid and proposal
preparation. You can also define indirect projects to track time off such as sick
leave, vacation, and holidays. You cannot generate revenue or invoices for
indirect projects.

inflation start date The inflation start date for an asset specifies when
inflation begins to impact an asset. The asset is adjusted for inflation from this
date onward. The inflation start date is generally the same date as the date
placed in service. You can, however, define an inflation start date that is different
than the date placed in service. For example, if you enter an asset that is already
in service and that has already been adjusted for inflation, you can set the
inflation start date to an appropriate date to begin calculating new inflation
adjustments in Oracle Assets.

initiator In SSHR a person who starts a 360 Degree appraisal (Employee or
Self) on an individual. An initiator and the appraisee are the only people who can
see all appraisal information.

input values Values you define to hold information about elements. In Oracle
Payroll, input values are processed by formulas to calculate the element’s run
result. You can define up to fifteen input values for an element.

inspection A procedure you perform to ensure that items received conform to
your quality standards. You can use inspections to prevent payment for goods
and services that fail to meet your quality standards.

installment A portion of the total award funding that is received in fixed
amounts at specified intervals. One of many successive payments of a debt. You
specify a payment schedule when defining your payment terms.

installment number A number that identifies the installment for a specific
transaction.

instructions An SSHR user assistance component displayed on a web page
to describe page functionality.

intangible asset A long term asset with no physical substance, such as a
patent, copyright, trademark, leasehold, and formula. You can depreciate
intangible assets using Oracle Assets.

integer data type Any Oracle Financial Analyzer variables with an integer
data type containing whole numbers with values between –2.14 billion and +2.14
billion.

interclass conversion The conversion formula you define between base units
from the different unit classes.

inter-company account A general ledger account that you define in an
Accounting Flexfield to balance inter-company transactions. You can define
multiple inter-company accounts for use with different types of accounts payable
journal entries.

inter-company journal entry A journal entry that records transactions
between affiliates. General Ledger keeps your accounting records in balance for
each company by automatically creating offsetting entries to an inter-company
account you define.

interest invoice An invoice that Payables creates to pay interest on a past–
due invoice. Payables automatically creates an expense distribution line for an
interest invoice using an Accounting Flexfield you specify. You cannot modify an
interest invoice.

interface table A temporary database table used for transferring data between
applications or from an external application. See also database table.

intermediate value The parameter value, constant, or SQL statement result
that is determined during the first step in the execution of an AutoAccounting
rule. internal organization See organization.

internal requisition See internal sales order, purchase requisition.

internal sales order A request within your company for goods or services. An
internal sales order originates from an employee or from another process as a
requisition, such as inventory or manufacturing, and becomes an internal sales
order when the information is transferred from Purchasing to Order Management.
Also known as internal requisition or purchase requisition.

inter–organization transfer Transfer of items from one inventory organization
to another You can have freight charges and transfer credits associated with
inter–organization transfer. You can choose to ship items directly or have them
go through in-transit inventory.

intra-EU, taxed transaction Transactions between non–registered traders in
different EU (European Union) countries. VAT must be charged to customers
within the EU if you do not know their VAT registration number. The destination
country and inventory item controls which VAT rate to use.

intra-EU, zero-rated transactions Transactions between registered traders in
different EU (European Union) countries. An Intra–EU transaction is zero rated if
and only if you know the customer’s VAT registration number; otherwise, VAT
must be charged on the invoice.

in-transit inventory Items being shipped from one inventory organization to
another. While items are in-transit you can view and update arrival date, freight
charges, and so on.

inventory item Items you stock in inventory. You control inventory for
inventory items by quantity and value. Typically, the inventory item remains an
asset until you consume it. You recognize the cost of an inventory item as an
expense when you consume it or sell it. You generally value the inventory for an
item by multiplying the item standard cost by the quantity on hand.

inventory organization An organization that tracks inventory transactions and
balances, and/or that manufactures or distributes products.

inventory transaction A record of material movement. The basic information
for a transaction includes the item number, the quantity moved, the transaction
amount, the accounting flexfields, and the date. See material transaction.

investment tax credit (ITC) A United Sates tax credit that is based on asset
cost.

invoice In Oracle Payables and Oracle Assets, a document you receive from
a supplier that lists amounts owed to the supplier for purchased goods or
services. In Payables, you create an invoice online using the information your
supplier provides on the document. Payments, inquiries, adjustments and any
other transactions relating to a supplier’s invoice are based upon the invoice
information you enter. In Oracle Projects, a summarized list of charges, including
payment terms, invoice item information, and other information that is sent to a
customer for payment. In Oracle Receivables and Oracle Cash Management, a
document that you create in Receivables that lists amounts owed for the
purchases of goods or services. This document also lists any tax, freight
charges, and payment terms.

invoice batch In Oracle Payables, a feature that allows you to enter multiple
invoices together in a group. You enter the batch count, or number of invoices in
the batch, and the total batch amount, which is the sum of the invoice amounts in
the batch, for each batch of invoices you create. You can also optionally enter
batch defaults for each invoice in a batch. When you enable your batch control
system option, Oracle Receivables automatically creates invoice batches for
Payables expense reports, prepayments, and recurring invoices, as well as all
standard invoices. In Oracle Receivables, a group of invoices you enter together

to ensure accurate invoice entry. Invoices within the same batch share the same
batch source and batch name. Receivables displays any differences between the
control and actual counts and amounts. An invoice batch can contain invoices in
different currencies.

invoice burden schedule A burden schedule used for invoicing to derive the
bill amount of an expenditure item. This schedule may be different from your
revenue burden schedule, if you want to invoice at a different rate at which you
want to accrue.

invoice currency The currency in which an Oracle Projects invoice is issued.

invoice date In Oracle Assets and Oracle Projects, the date that appears on a
customer invoice. This date is used to calculate the invoice due date, according
to the customer’s payment terms. In Oracle Payables, the date you assign to an
invoice you enter in Oracle Assets. Oracle Assets uses this date to calculate the
invoice due date, according to the payment terms for the invoice. The invoice
date can be the date the invoice was entered or it can be a different date you
specify. In Oracle Receivables, the date an invoice is created. This is also the
date that Oracle Receivables prints on each invoice. Oracle Receivables also
use this date to determine the payment due date based on the payment terms
you specify on the invoice.

invoice distribution line A line representing an expenditure item on an
invoice. A single expenditure item may have multiple distribution lines for cost
and revenue. An invoice distribution line holds an amount, account code, and
accounting date.

invoice distribution line types A feature that classifies every invoice
distribution line as an item, tax, freight, or miscellaneous distribution.

invoice format The columns, text, and layout of invoice lines on an invoice.
An Oracle Payables process you use to import invoices from non–Oracle
payables systems and to create invoices from Payables expense reports. You
can also use Invoice Import to create invoices from expense reports in Oracle
Projects. When you initiate Invoice Import, Payables imports the required invoice
or expense report information and automatically creates invoices with invoice
distribution lines from the information. Payables also produces a report for all
invoices or expense reports it could not import.

invoice item A single line of a project’s draft invoice, formatted according to
the project invoice formats.

invoice number A number or combination of numbers and characters that
uniquely identifies an invoice within your system. Usually generated
automatically by your receivables system to avoid assigning duplicate numbers.

invoice price variance The difference between the purchase order price for
an item and the actual invoice price multiplied by the quantity invoiced. Payables
records this variance after matching the invoice to the purchase order. Typically,
the price variance is small since the price the supplier charges you for an item
should be the one you negotiated on your purchase order.

invoice quantity variance The difference between the quantity–billed for an
invoice and the quantity–ordered (or received/accepted, depending on the level
of matching you use) for its matched purchase order. Payables distributes
invoice quantity variances to the Accounting Flexfield for your invoice distribution
lines.

invoice set For each given run of invoice generation for a project, if multiple
agreements exist and multiple invoices are created, Oracle Projects creates the
invoices within a unique set ID. You approve, release, and cancel all invoices
within an invoice set.

invoice split amount See split amount.

invoice transaction type An Oracle Receivables transaction type that is
assigned to invoices and credit memos that are created from Oracle Projects
draft invoices.

invoice write–off A transaction that reduces the amount outstanding on an
invoice by a given amount and credits a bad debt account.

invoicing The function of preparing a client invoice. Invoice generation refers
to the function of creating the invoice. Invoicing is broader in the terms of
creating, adjusting, and approving an invoice.

invoicing rules Rules that Receivables uses to determine when you will bill
your customer and the accounting period in which the receivable amount is
recorded. You can bill In Advance or In Arrears. See also bill in advance, bill in
arrears.

ITC See investment tax credit.

ITC amount The investment tax credit allowed on an asset. The ITC amount is
based on a percentage of the asset cost. When you change an asset’s cost in
the accounting period you enter it, Oracle Assets automatically recalculates the
ITC amount.

ITC basis The maximum cost that Oracle Assets can use to calculate an
investment tax credit amount for your asset. If you enabled ITC ceilings for the

asset category you assigned to an asset, the ITC basis is the lesser of the
asset’s original cost or the ITC ceiling.

ITC ceiling A limit on the maximum cost that Oracle Assets can use to
calculate investment tax credit for an asset. You can use different ceilings
depending on the asset’s date placed in service.

ITC rate A rate used to calculate the investment tax credit amount. This
percentage varies according to the expected life of the asset and the tax year.

ITC recapture If you retire an asset before the end of its useful life, Oracle
Assets automatically calculates what fraction of the original investment tax credit
must be repaid to the government. This amount is called the investment tax
credit recapture.

item A specific process, document, or transaction that is managed by a
workflow process. For example, the item managed by the Requisition Approval
Process workflow is a specific requisition created by Oracle Internet Commerce’s
Web Requisitions page. Anything you buy, sell, or handle in your business. An
item may be a tangible item in your warehouse, such as a wrench or tractor, or
an intangible item, such as a service.

item attribute See Item Type Attribute.

item category See category.

item flexfield See System Items Flexfield.

item type A grouping of all items of a particular category that share the same
set of item attributes. For example, PO Requisition is an item type used to group
all requisitions created by Oracle Internet Commerce’s Web Requisitions page.
Item type is also used as a high level grouping for processes.

item type attribute A feature associated with a particular item type, also
known as an item attribute. An item type attribute is defined as a variable whose
value can be looked up and set by the application that maintains the item. An
item type attribute and its value is available to all activities in a process.

item Validation Organization The organization that contains your master list
of items. You define this organization by setting the OE: Item Validation
Organization profile option. See also organization.

item–specific conversion The conversion formula you define between the
primary unit of measure for an item and another unit of measure from the same
unit class. If you define a conversion rate for a specific item, Purchasing uses the

item–specific conversion rate instead of the standard conversion rate for
converting between units for that item.
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Japanese consumption tax The Value Added Tax (VAT) paid on any
expense (Input VAT) is usually recoverable against the VAT charged on revenue
(Output VAT). This ensures that VAT is not inflationary within a supply chain.

job A category of personnel in your organization. Examples of a typical job
include Vice President, Buyer, and Manager. See also position. A name for a set
of duties to which an employee may be assigned. You create jobs in Oracle
Projects by combining a job level and a job discipline using your job key flexfield
structure. For example, you can combine the job level Staff with the job discipline
Engineer to create the job Staff Engineer.

job billing title A job billing title, which differs from a job title, that may appear
on an invoice.

job discipline A categorization of job vocation, used with Job Level to create
a job title. For example, a job discipline may be Engineer, or Consultant.

job level A categorization of job rank, used with Job Discipline to create a job
title. For example, a job level may be Staff, or Principal.

job title In Oracle Projects, a unique combination of job level and job discipline
that identifies a particular job. In Oracle Receivables, a brief description of your
customer contact’s role within their organization.

journal details tables Journal details are stored in the database tables
GL_JE_BATCHES, GL_JE_HEADERS, and GL_JE_LINES.

journal entry A debit or credit to a general ledger account. See also manual
journal entry.

journal entry batch A method used to group journal entries according to your
set of books and accounting period. When you initiate the transfer of invoice or
payment information to your general ledger for posting, Oracle Projects transfers
the necessary information to create journal entry batches for the information you
transfer. Journal Import in General Ledger uses the information to create a
journal entry batch for each set of books and accounting period. You can name
your journal entry batches the way you want for easy identification in your
general ledger. Oracle Projects attaches the journal entry category, date, and
time of transfer to your batch name so that each name is unique. If you choose
not to enter your own batch name when you transfer posting information, Oracle
Projects uses the journal entry category, date, and time of transfer.

journal entry category In Oracle Assets and Oracle Projects, a category used
to indicate the purpose or nature of your journal entry. General Ledger
associates each of your journal entry headers with a journal entry category.
Journal entry categories specify what kind of transaction the journal entry
represents. In Oracle General Ledger, a category in which describes the purpose
or type of journal entry. Standard journal entry categories include accruals,
payments, and vouchers. In Oracle Payables, a category used to indicate the
purpose or nature of your journal entry. General Ledger associates each of your
journal entry headers with a journal entry category. There are three journal entry
categories in Oracle Projects if you use the accrual basis accounting method:
Invoices, Payments, and All (both Invoices and Payments). If you use the cash
basis accounting method, Oracle Projects only assigns the Payment journal entry
category to your journal entries.

journal entry header A method used to group journal entries by currency and
journal entry category within a journal entry batch. When you initiate the transfer
of invoices or payments to your general ledger for posting, Oracle Projects
transfers the necessary information to create journal entry headers for the
information you transfer. Journal Import in General Ledger uses the information
to create a journal entry header for each currency and journal entry category in a
journal entry batch. A journal entry batch can have multiple journal entry headers.

journal entry lines Each journal entry header contains one or more journal
entry lines. The lines are the actual journal entries that your general ledger posts
to update account balances. The number and type of lines in a journal entry
header depend on the volume of transactions, frequency of transfer from Oracle
Projects, and your method of summarizing journal entries from Oracle Projects.

journal entry source In Oracle Assets, Oracle Payables, and Oracle Projects,
an indicator from which feeder system your journal entries originate, such as
Oracle Projects. General Ledger associates each of your journal entries with one
journal entry source. This allows you to group related journal entry transactions
for reporting and analysis in your general ledger. In Oracle General Ledger, the
source by which Oracle Assets identifies and differentiates the origin of journal
entries. Standard journal entry sources include payables, payroll, personnel, and
receivables.

journal import A General Ledger program that creates journal entries from
transaction data stored in the General Ledger GL_INTERFACE table. Journal
entries are created and stored in GL_JE_BATCHES, GL_JE_HEADERS, and
GL_JE_LINES.

jurisdiction code An abbreviated address that is specific to a Tax Supplier
and more accurate than a simple five digit zip code.
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key flexfield An intelligent key that uniquely identifies an application entity.
Each key flexfield segment has a name you assign, and a set of valid values you
specify. Each value has a meaning you also specify. You use this Oracle
Applications feature to build custom fields used for entering and displaying
information relating to your business. The Accounting Flexfield in your Oracle
General Ledger application is an example of a key flexfield used to uniquely
identify a general ledger account. In Oracle General Ledger, an Oracle
Applications feature you use to build custom fields in which you can enter and
display information relating to your business. The General Ledger Accounting
Flexfield is a key flexfield. In Oracle Payables, an Oracle Applications feature you
use to build custom fields used for entering and displaying information relating to
your business. Oracle Receivables uses the following key flexfields: Accounting
Flexfield, System Items Flexfield. In Oracle Projects, an intelligent key that
uniquely identifies an application entity. Each key flexfield segment has a name
you assign, and a set of valid values you specify. Each value has a meaning you
also specify. You use this Oracle Applications feature to build custom fields used
for entering and displaying information relating to your business. The Accounting
Flexfield in your Oracle General Ledger application is an example of a key
flexfield used to uniquely identify a general ledger account. An Oracle
Applications feature you use to build custom fields used for entering and
displaying information relating to your business. Oracle Assets uses the following
key flexfields: Accounting Flexfield, Category Flexfield, Location Flexfield, Asset
Key Flexfield. In Oracle Receivables, an Oracle Applications feature you use to
build custom fields used for entering and displaying information relating to your
business. Oracle Receivables uses the following key flexfields: Accounting
Flexfield, Sales Tax Location Flexfield, System Items Flexfield, Territory Flexfield.

key flexfield segment One of up to 30 different sections of your key flexfield.
You separate segments from each other by a symbol you choose (such as –, / or
.). Each segment can be up to 25 characters long. Each key flexfield segment
typically captures one element of your business or operations structure, such as
company, division, region, or product for the Accounting Flexfield and item,
version number, or color code for the Item Flexfield.

key flexfield segment value A series of characters and a description that
provide a unique value for this element, such as 0100, Eastern region, or V20,
Version 2.0.

key indicators Also an Oracle Applications feature you can use to gather and
retain information about your productivity, such as the number of invoices paid.
You define key indicator periods and Payables provides a report that shows
productivity indicators for your current and prior period activity. A report that lists
statistical receivables and collections information that lets you review trends and
projections. Also an Oracle Applications feature you can use to gather and retain

information about your productivity, such as the number of invoices paid. You
define key indicator periods and Oracle Receivables provides a report that shows
productivity indicators for your current and prior period activity.

key member An employee who is assigned a role on a project. A project key
member can view and update project information and expenditure details for any
project to which they are assigned. Typical key member types include Project
Manager and Project Coordinator.

k–record A summary record of all 1099 payments made to suppliers for a
single tax region that participates in the Combined Filing Program.
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labor cost The cost of labor expenditure items.

labor cost multiplier A multiplier that is assigned to an indirect project task
and applied to labor costs to determine the premium cost for overtime or other
factors.

labor cost rate The hourly raw cost rate for an employee. This cost rate does
not include overhead or premium costs.

labor invoice burden schedule A burden schedule used to derive invoice
amounts for labor items.

labor multiplier A multiplier that is assigned to a project or task, and is used
to calculate the revenue and/or bill amount for labor items by applying the
multiplier to the raw cost of the labor items.

labor revenue burden schedule A burden schedule used to derive revenue
amounts for labor items.

labor schedule A collection of schedule lines that is defined at a single level of
the labor schedule hierarchy. A single labor schedule specifies how all pay
elements for an assignment, all pay elements in an element group, or a single
pay element from a payroll is to be distributed for a given employee and
assignment. A special case labor schedule is an Organization Default Labor
Schedule.

labor schedule hierarchy A collection of labor schedules that specify how
payroll pay elements associated with an employee and assignment are to be
distributed.

Labor Scheduling window A window that displays an employee and the
employee’s assignments. Each assignment is scheduled at one of the following

levels of the schedule hierarchy: Assignment, Element Group, Element, or
Organization Default.

lamp A one–word message that Oracle Applications displays in the message
line of any window to notify you that a particular feature is available for a
particular field. A single word message that appears on the message line to
indicate whether a function such as <Insert> or <List> is available for the current
field.

leasehold improvement An improvement to leased property or leasehold.
Leasehold improvements are normally amortized over the service life or the life
of the lease, whichever is shorter.

Leaver’s Statement In the UK, this Records details of Statutory Sick Pay
(SSP) paid during a previous employment (issued as form SSP1L) which is used
to calculate a new employee’s entitlement to SSP. If a new employee falls sick,
and the last date that SSP was paid for under the previous employment is less
than eight calendar weeks before the first day of the PIW for the current
sickness, the maximum liability for SSP is reduced by the number of weeks of
SSP shown on the statement.

legal entity An organization that represents a legal company for which you
prepare fiscal or tax reports. You assign tax identifiers and other relevant
information to this entity.

lien See commitment, obligation.

life event A significant change in a person’s life that results in a change in
eligibility or ineligibility for a benefit.

life event collision A situation in which the impacts from multiple life events
on participation eligibility, enrollability, level of coverage or activity rates conflict
with each other.

life event enrollment A benefits plan enrollment that is prompted by a life
event occurring at any time during the plan year.

life–based depreciation method A depreciation method that spreads out the
depreciation for an asset over a fixed life, usually using rates from a table.

life–to–date depreciation The total depreciation taken for an asset since it
was placed in service. Also known as accumulated depreciation.

line ordering rules You define line ordering rules for invoice lines that you
import into Receivables using AutoInvoice. AutoInvoice uses these rules to order

invoice lines when it groups the transactions it creates into invoices, debit
memos, and credit memos.

line type Determines whether a purchasing document line is for goods,
services, or any other type that you define. The line type also determines
whether the document line is based on price and quantity or on amount.

linked PIWs In the UK, these are linked periods of incapacity for work that are
treated as one to calculate an employee’s entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay
(SSP). A period of incapacity for work (PIW) links to an earlier PIW if it is
separated by less than the linking interval. A linked PIW can be up to three years
long.

linking interval In the UK, this is the number of days that separate two
periods of incapacity for work. If a period of incapacity for work (PIW) is
separated from a previous PIW by less than the linking interval, they are treated
as one PIW according to the legislation for entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay
(SSP). An employee can only receive SSP for the maximum number of weeks
defined in the legislation for one PIW.

listing An organized display of Oracle Applications information, similar to a
report, but usually showing setup data as opposed to transaction data.

LMSS Line Manager Self Service. A predefined SSHR responsibility.

location In Oracle Assets, a key flexfield combination specifying a particular
place. You assign each asset to a location. Oracle Assets uses location
information to produce Responsibility and Property Tax Reports. In Oracle
Receivables, a shorthand name for an address. Location appears in address list
of values to let you select the correct address based on an intuitive name. For
example, you may want to give the location name of ’Receiving Dock’ to the Ship
To business purpose of 100 Main Street.

location flexfield Oracle Assets lets you define what information you want to
keep about the locations you use. You use your Location Flexfield to define how
you want to keep the information.

lockbox A service that commercial banks offer corporate customers to enable
them to outsource their accounts receivable payment processing. Lockbox
processors set up special postal codes to receive payments, deposit funds and
provide electronic account receivable input to corporate customers.

logical organization A business unit that tracks items for accounting
purposes but does not physically exist. See organization.

long notes A Purchasing feature that lets you provide up to 64K characters
per note. You can add long notes to your headers and lines. Purchasing
automatically wraps the note while you are typing. You can also format the note
by providing extra lines or indenting parts of your message. You can provide as
many long notes as you want wherever the long notes capability is available.

lookup code An internal name of a value defined in a lookup type.

lookup type A predefined list of values. Each value in a lookup type has an
internal and a display name.

lookups In Oracle Payables, a feature you use to create reference information
you use in your business. This reference information appears in lists of values for
many of the fields in Payables windows. There are three basic kinds of Lookups:
supplier, payables, and employee. With Lookups you can create Pay Groups,
supplier types, and other references used in Payables. In Oracle Receivables,
codes that you define for the activities and terminology you use in your business.
These codes appear in lists of values in many Receivables windows. For
example, you can define Lookups for personal titles, such as ’Sales Manager’, so
you can refer to people using these titles.

loss See realized gain or loss, unrealized gain or loss.

Lower Earnings Limit (LEL) In the UK, this is the minimum average weekly
amount an employee must earn to pay National Insurance contributions.
Employees who do not earn enough to pay National Insurance cannot receive
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) or Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP).
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manager–employee appraisal Part of the SSHR Appraisal function. A
manager appraisal of an employee. However, an appraising manager does not
have to be a manager.

manual clearing The process in which, prior to receiving their bank statement,
users mark transactions that are known to be cleared through the bank, which
creates an up–to–date cash position. These cleared transactions are still
available for the actual reconciliation process. Once the bank statement is
received, Oracle Cash Management can automatically perform all appropriate
reconciliation steps. See also clearing.

manual invoice An invoice that you enter using either the Transactions or
Transactions Summary window.

manual journal entry A journal entry you enter at a computer terminal.
Manual journal entries can include regular, statistical, inter-company and foreign
currency entries.

manual numbering A numbering option to let someone assign numbers
manually to documents, employees, and suppliers.

manual reconciliation The process where you manually reconcile bank
statement details with the appropriate batch or detail transaction. Oracle Cash
Management generates all necessary accounting entries. See also reconciliation.

many–to–many attribute In Oracle Financial Analyzer, a relationship
between one or more values of one base dimension with one or more values of a
second base dimension. For example, if you have a Many–to–Many attribute
definition where the first base dimension is Organization and the second base
dimension is Line Item, then a single organization can be related to several line
items, and a single line item can be related to several organizations.

Mass Additions In Oracle Assets, a feature that allows you to copy asset
information from another system, such as Oracle Payables. Create Mass
Additions for Oracle Assets creates mass addition lines for potential assets. You
can review these mass addition lines in the Prepare Mass Additions window, and
actually create an asset from the mass addition line by posting it to Oracle
Assets. In Oracle Payables, invoice distribution lines that you transfer to Oracle
Assets for creating assets. Oracle Assets only creates mass additions for invoice
distribution lines that are marked for asset tracking. Invoice distribution lines
distributed to Asset Accounting Flexfields are automatically marked for asset
tracking. Oracle Assets does not convert the mass additions to assets until you
complete all of the required information about the asset and post it in Oracle
Assets.

Mass Change A feature that allows you to change the prorate convention,
depreciation method, life, rate, or capacity for a group of assets in a single
transaction.

Mass Copy A feature that allows you to copy a group of asset transactions
from your corporate book to a tax book. Use Initial Mass Copy to create a new
tax book. Then use Periodic Mass Copy each period to update the tax book with
new assets and transactions.

Mass Depreciation Adjustment A feature that allows you to adjust the
depreciation expense in the previous fiscal year for all assets in a tax book.
Oracle Assets adjusts the depreciation expense between the minimum and
maximum depreciation amounts by a depreciation adjustment factor you specify.

Mass Purge See archive, purge, restore.

Mass Revaluation See revaluation.

Mass Transfers A feature that allows you to transfer a group of assets
between locations, employees, and general ledger depreciation expense
accounts.

MassAllocations A single journal entry formula that allocates revenues and
expenses across a group of cost centers, departments, divisions, and so on. For
example, you might want to allocate your employee benefit costs to each of your
departments based on headcount in each department.

MassBudgeting A feature that allows you to build a complete budget using
simple formulas based on actual results, other budget amounts, and statistics.
For example, you may want to draft next year’s budget using last year’s actual
results plus 10 percent or some other growth factor. With MassBudgeting, you
can apply one rule to a range of accounts.

master budget A budget that controls the authority of other budgets.

master–detail relationship A master–detail relationship is an association
between two blocks—a master block and its detail block. When two blocks are
linked by a master–detail relationship, the detail block displays only those
records that are associated with the current (master) record in the master block,
and querying between the two blocks is always coordinated. Master and detail
blocks can often appear in the same window or they can each appear in separate
windows.

matching In Oracle Cash Management, the process where batches or
detailed transactions are associated with a statement line based on the
transaction number, amount, currency and other variables, taking Cash
Management system parameters into consideration. In Cash Management,
matching can be done manually or automatically. In Oracle Payables and Oracle
Assets, the process of comparing purchase order, invoice, and receiving
information to verify that ordering, billing, and receiving information is consistent
within accepted tolerance levels. Oracle Projects uses matching to control
payments to suppliers. You can use the matching feature in Oracle Projects if
you have Purchasing or another purchasing system. Oracle Projects supports
two–, three–, and four–way matching.

matching tolerances The acceptable degrees of variance you define for
matched invoices and purchase orders. Payables measures variance between
quantities and item prices for invoices and purchase orders. You can define
tolerances for order quantities, including Maximum Quantity Ordered and
Maximum Quantity Received. You can also define tolerances for price variances,
including exchange rate amounts, shipment amounts, and total amounts. If any

of the variances between a matched invoice and purchase order exceed the
tolerances you specify, Approval places the invoice on hold.

Maternity Pay Period In the UK, this is the period for which Statutory
Maternity Pay (SMP) is paid. It may start at any time from the start of the 11th
week before the expected week of confinement and can continue for up to 18
weeks. The start date is usually agreed with the employee, but can start at any
time up to the birth. An employee is not eligible to SMP for any week in which
she works or for any other reason for ineligibility, defined by the legislation for
SMP.

maturity date In Oracle Payables and Oracle Cash Management, the date
your bank disburses funds to a supplier for a future dated payment. Oracle
Receivables displays the maturity date on the future dated payment document to
inform your supplier and bank when the bank should transfer funds to the
supplier’s bank. You can update the payment status from Issued to Negotiable
on or after the maturity date. In Oracle Receivables, a date that determines when
funds for an automatic receipt can be transferred from your customer’s bank
account to your bank account. See also Bill of Exchange.

maximum depreciation expense The maximum possible depreciation
expense for an asset in a mass depreciation adjustment. The maximum
depreciation expense for an asset is the greatest of the depreciation actually
taken in the tax book, the amount needed to bring the accumulated depreciation
up to the accumulated depreciation in the corporate book, or the amount needed
to bring the accumulated depreciation up to the accumulated depreciation in the
control book.

memo pad An area where you write as many notes as you need regarding
your conversation with a customer.

menus You set up your own navigation menus, to suit the needs of different
users.

message The information that is sent by a notification activity. A message
must be defined before it can be associated with a notification activity. A
message contains a subject, a priority, a body, and possibly one or more
message attributes.

message attribute A variable that you define for a particular message to
either provide information or prompt for a response when the message is sent in
a notification. You can use a predefine item type attribute as a message attribute.
Defined as a ’Send’ source, a message attribute gets replaced with a runtime
value when the message is sent. Defined as a ’Respond’ source, a message
attribute prompts a user for a response when the message is sent.

message distribution See distribution list. A line at the bottom of the toolbar
that displays helpful hints, warning messages, and basic data entry errors.

message line A line on the bottom of a window that displays helpful hints or
warning messages when you encounter an error.

meta data Data you enter in Oracle General Ledger to represent structures in
Oracle Financial Analyzer. Meta data consists of the dimensions, segment range
sets, hierarchies, financial data items, and financial data sets you define in
Oracle General Ledger. When you load financial data from Oracle General
Ledger, Oracle Financial Analyzer creates dimensions, dimension values,
hierarchies, and variables based on the meta data.

MICR number (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition number) A number
that appears on a receipt and associates your customer with a bank. This
number consists of two segments. The first segment is the Transit Routing
number, which identifies the bank from which your customer draws their check.
The second segment identifies your customer’s account at that bank. These
segments correspond to the Bank Branch Number and the Bank Account
Number fields in the Banks and Bank Accounts windows.

minimum accountable unit The smallest meaningful denomination of a
currency (this might not correspond to the standard precision). While a currency
may require a precision of three places to the right of the decimal point, for
example, .001 (one thousandth), the lowest denomination of the currency may
represent 0.025 (twenty–five thousandths). Under this example, the Minimum
Accountable Unit would be .025. Calculations in this currency would be rounded
to .025 (the Minimum Accountable Unit), not .001 (the precision).

minimum depreciation expense The minimum possible depreciation
expense for an asset in a mass depreciation adjustment. The minimum
depreciation expense for an asset in a tax book is the amount needed to bring
the accumulated depreciation up to the accumulated depreciation in the
corporate book or control book, or zero, whichever is greater.

minimum interest amount The amount below which Payables does not pay
interest on an overdue invoice. Payables automatically compares the interest
amount it calculates on past due invoices with the minimum interest amount you
have defined, and does not create an interest invoice unless the amount of
interest exceeds the minimum interest amount.

min–max planning An inventory planning method used to determine when
and how much to order based on a fixed user–entered minimum and maximum
inventory levels.

miscellaneous receipts A feature that lets you record payments that you do
not apply to debit items, such as refunds and interest income.

model A set of interrelated equations for calculating data in Oracle Financial
Analyzer.

model invoice An invoice used as a template that you copy to create new
invoices.

move transaction A transaction to move assemblies from operation to
operation or within an operation on a discrete job or repetitive schedule.

multi-funding A feature that allows users to fund multiple projects from a
single award and a single project from multiple awards.

multi–org See multiple organizations.

multiple organizations The ability to define multiple organizations and the
relationships among them within a single installation of Oracle Applications.
These organizations can be sets of books, business groups, legal entities,
operating units, or inventory organizations.

multiple payment formats You can choose from several payment methods to
pay your supplier invoices. Within each payment method you can define as many
payment formats as you want. A payment format determines your payment
creation and remittance advice programs.

Multiple Reporting Currencies An Oracle General Ledger feature that allows
you to report in your functional currency and in one or more foreign currencies.

multi–source An AutoCreate option that lets a buyer distribute the quantity of
a single requisition line to several suppliers whenever the buyer wants to
purchase the requisition line item from more than one supplier.
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NACHA National Automated Clearing House Association. This is the US
system for making direct deposit payments to employees.

National Occupational Classification (NOC) code In Canada, the National
Occupational Classification (NOC) System was developed to best reflect the type
of work performed by employees. Occupations are grouped in terms of particular
tasks, duties and responsibilities. The use of this standardized system ensures
consistency of data from year to year within the same company as well as
between companies. These codes are used in the Employment Equity Report.

natural account A natural account is the segment that determines whether an
account is an asset, liability, equity, revenue, or expense account. When chart of
accounts is defined, one segment must be defined as the natural account
segment. Examples of natural accounts are Accounts Payable, Accounts
Receivable, Revenue, Fixed Assets, and Accrued Liabilities.

natural account segment In Oracle General Ledger, the segment that
determines whether an account is an asset, liability, owners’ equity, revenue, or
expense account. When you define your chart of accounts, you must define one
segment as the natural account segment. Each value for this segment is
assigned one of the five account types.

natural application only A Transaction Type parameter that, if enabled, does
not let you apply a transaction to a debit item if the application will reverse the
sign of the debit item (for example, from a positive to a negative balance).
Natural Application does not apply to chargebacks and adjustments. See
Overapplication.

nesting The act of grouping calculations to express the sequence of routines
in a formula. Traditional mathematical nesting uses parenthesis and brackets.
General Ledger EasyCalc uses a straightforward and logical nesting method that
eliminates the need for parenthetical expressions.

net accrual calculation The rule that defines which element entries add to or
subtract from a plan’s accrual amount to give net entitlement.

net allocation Allocation in which you post the net of all allocations to an
allocated–out account.

net entitlement The amount of unused paid time off an employee has
available in an accrual plan at any given point in time.

No Exception Action An alert action that represents no exceptions found in
the database.

node An instance of an activity in a process diagram as shown in the Process
window.

non–labor invoice burden schedule A burden schedule used to derive
invoice amounts for non–labor items.

non–labor resource An implementation–defined asset or pool of assets. For
example, you can define a non–labor resource with a name such as PC to
represent multiple personal computers your business owns.

non–labor revenue burden schedule A burden schedule used to derive
revenue amounts for non–labor items.

non–posting hold A hold that prevents you from paying your invoice, but
allows posting. All holds prevent payment but you can decide if you want to allow
or disallow posting for each hold you define.

non-recurring elements Elements that process for one payroll period only
unless you make a new entry for an employee. See also: Recurring Elements.

non-revenue sales credit Sales credit you assign to your salespeople that is
not associated with your invoice lines. This is sales credit given in excess of your
revenue sales credit. See also revenue sales credit.

North American Industrial Classification (NAIC) code The North American
Industrial Classification system (NAICs) was developed jointly by the US,
Canada and Mexico to provide comparability in statistics regarding business
activity across North America. The NAIC replaces the US Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) system, and is used in the Employment Equity Report.

Not in Program Plan A benefit plan that you define outside of a program.

note name A name that uniquely identifies a standard or one–time note. You
use note names to locate a note you want to use or copy on a document.

notification An instance of a message delivered to a user.

notification activity A unit of work that requires human intervention. A
notification activity sends a message to a user containing the information
necessary to complete the work.

notification mailer A concurrent program that sends E– mail notifications to
users via a mail application, and processes E– mail responses.

notification web page A Web page that you can view from any Web browser
to query and respond to workflow notifications.

numeric number type An option for numbering documents, employees, and
suppliers where assigned numbers contain only numbers.
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obligation An encumbrance you record when you turn a requisition into a
purchase order.

offset account An offset account is used to balance journal entries in your
General Ledger. For example, offsetting accounts for a guarantee are the
Unbilled Receivables and the Unbilled Revenue accounts.

offsets Reversing transactions used to balance allocation transactions with
the source or other project.

omit An AutoCreate option that lets a buyer prevent Purchasing from including
certain displayed requisition lines when creating a purchase order or RFQ. If you
omit a requisition line, Purchasing returns it to the available pool of requisition
lines.

on–account Payments where you intentionally apply all or part of the payment
amount to a customer without reference to a debit item. On–account examples
include prepayments and deposits.

on–account credits Credits that you assign to your customer’s account that
are not related to a specific invoice. You can create on–account credits in the
Transactions window or using AutoInvoice.

on–account payment The status of a payment of which you apply all or part
of its amount to a customer without reference to a specific debit item. Examples
of these are prepayments and deposits.

one time billing hold A type of hold that places expenditure items and events
on billing hold for a particular invoice; when you release that invoice, the items
are billed on the next invoice.

one–time item An item you want to order but do not want to maintain in the
Items window. You define a one–time item when you create a requisition or
purchase order. You can report or query on a one–time item by specifying the
corresponding item class.

one–time note A unique message you can attack to an order, return, order
line, or return line to convey important information.

one–to–many attribute A relationship in Oracle Financial Analyzer where one
or more values of a base dimension are related to a single value of an aggregate
dimension. For example, if you have a One–to–Many attribute definition where
the base dimension is Organization and the aggregate dimension is Level, each
organization can be related to only a single level.

online processing When, during the execution of a single process, no further
input is allowed until the process is complete.

open An open purchase order exists if the purchase order has any lines that
have not been fully invoiced and are not cancelled. If you require receipt for items
you order, an open purchase order exists if any lines have not been fully received
and fully invoiced and are not cancelled.

open batch Status of a batch that is in balance, but contains unapplied or
unidentified payments.

open enrollment A type of scheduled enrollment in which participants can
enroll in or alter elections in one or more benefits plans.

open interface A Manufacturing function that lets you import or export data
from other systems through an open interface. An example is a bar code reader
device accumulating data you later import into your manufacturing system for
further processing.

open items Any item, such as an invoice, debit memo, credit memo,
chargeback, on–account credit, on–account payment, or unapplied payment,
whose balance due is not yet zero.

operating unit An organization that partitions data for subledger products,
such as Payables, Receivables, Purchasing, and Oracle Order Entry. It is roughly
equivalent to a single pre-Multi-Org installation.

operator A mathematical symbol you use to indicate the mathematical
operation in your calculation.

option group An option group is a set of option buttons. You can choose only
one option button in an option group at a time, and the option group takes on that
button’s value after you choose it. An option button or option group is also
referred to as a radio button or radio group, respectively.

Oracle FastFormula An Oracle tool that allows you to write Oracle HRMS
formulas without using a programming language.

order date The date upon which an order for goods or services is entered.

organization A business unit such as a company, division, or department.
Organization can refer to a complete company, or to divisions within a company.
Typically, you define an organization or a similar term as part of your account
when you implement Oracle Financials. See also business group. Internal
organizations are divisions, groups, cost centers or other organizational units in a
company. External organizations can include the contractors your company
employs. Organizations can be used to demonstrate ownership or management
of functions such as projects and tasks, non–labor resources, and bill rate
schedules. See also Item Validation Organization. A required component of

employee assignments. You can define as many organizations as you want
within your Business Group. Organizations can be internal, such as departments,
or external, such as recruitment agencies. You can structure your organizations
into organizational hierarchies for reporting purposes and for system access
control.

organization hierarchy An organizational hierarchy illustrates the
relationships between your organizations. A hierarchy determines which
organizations are subordinate to other organizations. The topmost organization
of an organization hierarchy is generally the business group.

organization structure See organization hierarchy.

original budget The budget amounts for a project at the first successful
baselining of the project.

original system The external system from which you are transferring data into
Oracle Receivables tables.

OSSWA Oracle Self Service Web Applications.

other receipts See miscellaneous receipts.

OTM Oracle Training Management.

Out-of-balance batch The status of a batch when the control count or amount
does not equal the actual count or amount.

outside operation An operation that contains outside resources and possibly
internal resources as well.

outside processing Performing work on a discrete job or repetitive schedule
using resources provided by a supplier.

outside processing item An item you include on a purchase order line to
purchase supplier services as part of your assembly build process. This item can
be the assembly itself or a non– stocked item which represents the service
performed on the assembly.

outside processing operation Any operation that has an outside processing
resource. See outside resource.

outside resource A resource provided by a supplier that you include in your
routings, such as supplier sourced labor or services. This includes both PO
move and PO receipt resources.

overapplication A Transaction Type parameter that, if enabled, lets you apply
a transaction to a debit item even if it will reverse the sign of the debit item (for
example, from a positive to a negative balance). Overapplication applies to debit
items such as debit memos, deposits, guarantees, credit memos, and on–
account credits. See also Natural Application Only.

overflow record A type of bank file record that stores additional payment
information that could not fit on the payment record. Each overflow record must
have a payment record as a parent. Typically, an overflow record will store
additional invoice numbers and the amount of the payment to apply to each
invoice.

Overtime Calculation Program A program that Oracle Projects provides to
determine which kind of overtime to award an employee based on the
employee’s compensation rule and hours worked. If your company uses this
automatic overtime calculation feature, you may need to modify the program
based on the overtime requirements of your business.

overtime cost The currency amount over straight time cost that an employee
is paid for overtime hours worked. Also referred to as Premium Cost.
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PA date The end date of the PA Period in which costs are distributed, revenue
is created, or an invoice is generated. This date is determined from the open or
future PA Period on or after the latest date of expenditure item dates and event
completion dates included in a cost distribution line, revenue, or an invoice.

PA period See Project Accounting Period.

PA period type The Period Type as specified in the PA implementation
options for Oracle Projects to copy project accounting periods. Oracle Projects
uses the periods in the PA Period Type to populate each Operating Unit’s PA
periods. PA periods are mapped to GL periods which are used when generating
accounting transactions. PA periods drive the project summary for Project Status
Inquiry. You define your accounting periods in the Operating Unit’s Set of Books
Calendar.

parallel allocation A set of allocation rules that carries out the rules in an
autoallocation set without regard to the outcome of the other rules in the set. See
also autoallocation set, step–down allocation.

parallel processing Parallel processing allows segments of a program to be
processed by different processors at the same time to reduce the overall time to
complete the program.

parameter A variable used to restrict information in a report, or determine the
form of a report. For example, you may want to limit your report to the current
month, or display information by supplier number instead of supplier name. See
also report parameter.

parameter (report) See report parameter.

parent asset A parent asset has one or more sub-component assets. First
you add the parent asset. Then, you add the sub-component asset and assign it
to the parent asset in the Additions form. You can change parent/sub-component
relationships at any time.

parent request A concurrent request that submits other concurrent requests
(child requests). For example, a report set is a parent request that submits
reports and/or programs (child requests).

parent segment value An account segment value that references a number
of other segment values, called child segment values. General Ledger uses
parent segment values for creating summary accounts, for reporting on summary
balances, and in MassAllocations and MassBudgeting. You can create parent
segment values for independent segments, but not for dependent segments.
Oracle Financial Analyzer uses parent and child segment values to create
hierarchies. See also child segment value. Oracle Receivables uses parent
segment values for creating Accounting Flexfields that summarize others and for
creating summary reports. See also child segment value.

partial matching A condition where the invoice quantity is less than the
quantity originally ordered, in which case you are matching only part of a
purchase order shipment line. See also matching, complete matching.

partial retirement A transaction that retires part of an asset. You can retire
any number of units of a multiple unit asset or you can retire part of an asset
cost. If you retire by units, Oracle Assets automatically calculates the cost retired.

pattern A pattern comprises a sequence of time units that are repeated at a
specified frequency. Oracle SSP/SMP uses SSP qualifying patterns to determine
employees entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP).

pattern time units A sequence of time units specifies a repeating pattern.
Each time unit specifies a time period of hours, days or weeks.

pay date basis A feature you assign to suppliers to determine when
AutoSelect selects invoices for payment in a payment batch. Pay Date Basis
(Due or Discount) defaults from the system level when you enter a new supplier,
but you can override it. When Pay Date Basis is Due for a supplier site, Payables
selects that supplier’s sites invoices for payment only when the invoice due date

falls on or before the Pay–Through–Date for the payment batch. If Pay Date
Basis is Discount, Payables selects the supplier’s sites invoices for payment if
the discount date or due date is before the pay–through–date.

pay group A feature you use to select invoices for payment in a payment
batch. You can define a Pay Group and assign it to one or more suppliers. You
can override the supplier’s Pay Group on individual invoices. For example, you
can create an Employee Pay Group to pay your employee expenses separately
from other invoices.

pay on receipt A Financials feature that allows you to automatically create
supplier invoices in Payables based on receipts and purchase orders you enter in
Purchasing.

Pay Only When Due A feature you use to determine whether to pay invoices
in a payment batch during the discount period. If you Pay Only When Due (Yes),
Payables only selects invoices for which payment is due; it postpones payment
of invoices still in the discount period until another payment batch, or until they
are due. If you do not Pay Only When Due (No), Payables also selects those
invoices in the discount period for which the pay date basis is Discount.

pay scale A set of progression points that can be related to one or more rates
of pay. Employee’s are placed on a particular point on the scale according to
their grade and, usually, work experience. See also: Grade Scale.

pay site A supplier site that is able to receive payments. A supplier must have
at least one supplier site defined as a pay site before Payables allows payments
to be issued to that supplier. You cannot enter an invoice for a supplier site that
is not defined as a pay site. See also purchasing site, RFQ Only Site.

pay type See compensation rule.

payment A document that includes the amount disbursed to any supplier/pay
site combination as the result of a payment batch. A payment can pay one or
more invoices. Any form of remittance, including checks, cash, money orders,
credit cards, and Electronic Funds Transfer.

payment application This report column represents the payments that were
applied to the item within the GL Date range that you specified. If the transaction
number corresponds to the item the payment was applied to, then the amount
should be positive. If the transaction number is the payment itself, then the
amount should be negative. The amount in this column should match the sum of
the amounts in the Applied Amount, Earned Discount, and Unearned Discount
columns of the Applied Receipts Register Report.

payment batch In Oracle Payables, a group of invoices selected for automatic
payment processing. Oracle Receivables creates a payment batch when you
initiate AutoSelect. Oracle Receivables selects invoices, according to criteria you
specify, and produces payments for the invoices in the payment batch. Oracle
Receivables uses the payment method and format you specify for the bank
account you choose for a payment batch to build and format payments for the
invoices in the batch. In Oracle Receivables, a payment batch is called as a
receipt batch, which is a group of payments that you enter together to reduce
data entry errors, share various default values, and to group them according to a
common attribute. For example, you might add all payments from the same
customer to a batch. Payments within the same batch share the same batch
source and batch name. Receivables displays any differences between the
control and actual counts and amounts.

payment date The date on which the status of an invoice is updated to ’Paid.’
Payables uses the payment date as the GL Date for each payment.

payment distribution line A line representing the liability transaction on a
payment. Each payment has at least one liability distribution line, but may have
additional lines to record discounts taken and realized gains and losses (foreign
currency payments only).

payment document A medium you use to instruct your bank to disburse
funds from your bank account to the bank account or site location of a supplier.
With Payables you can make payments using several types of payment
documents. You can send your supplier a check that you manually create or
computer–generate. You can instruct your bank to wire funds to the bank
account of a supplier. You can create a tape or diskette for an electronic funds
transfer. For each payment document, you can generate a separate remittance
advice. Payables updates your invoice scheduled payment the same way
regardless of which payment document you use to pay an invoice. Payables also
allows you to instruct your bank to pay in a currency different from your functional
currency, if you enable the multiple currency system option and define a multi–
currency payment format.

payment format In Oracle Payables, a definition that determines your
payment creation and remittance advice programs for a given payment
document. When you define a payment format, you do so for a particular
payment method. In Oracle Receivables, a feature that allows you to make
invoice payments using a variety of methods. You can then assign one or more
payment formats to a bank account. You can have multiple payment formats for
each payment method. Receivables associates receipt class, remittance bank,
and receipt account information with your receipt entries. See also payment
method.

payment method In Oracle Cash Management, you can assign a payment
method to suppliers, supplier sites, invoice payment schedule lines, and payment
formats. You can then assign one or more payment formats to a bank account.
You can have multiple payment formats for each payment method. Receivables
payment methods let you associate receipt class, remittance bank and receipt
account information with your receipt entries. You can define payment methods
for both manual and automatic receipts. In Payroll, there are three standard
payment types for paying employees: check, cash and direct deposit. You can
also define your own payment methods corresponding to these types. In Oracle
Payables, a feature that allows you to make invoice payments using a variety of
methods. You can disburse funds using checks, electronic funds transfers, and
wire transfers. Oracle Receivables updates your payment schedules the same
way regardless of which payment method you use. You can assign a payment
method to suppliers, supplier sites, invoice payment schedule lines, and payment
formats. You can then assign one or more payment formats to a bank account.
You can have multiple payment formats for each payment method. In Oracle
Receivables, an attribute that associates receipt class, remittance bank and
receipt account information with your receipts. You can define payment methods
for both manual and automatic receipts.

payment priority A value, ranging from 1 (high) to 99 (low), assigned to an
invoice that determines how Payables selects invoices for payment in a payment
batch. You can assign default payment priorities to suppliers, supplier sites, and
invoice scheduled payments in Payables.

payment program A program you use to build and format your payment.
Payables provides several payment programs. You can define as many
additional programs as you need. Payables recognizes three payment program
types: Build, Format, and Remittance Advice.

payment schedules The due date and discount date for payment of an
invoice. For example, the payment term ’2% 10, Net 30’ lets a customer take a
two percent discount if payment is received within 10 days with the full invoice
amount due within 30 days of the invoice date. See also scheduled payment,
payment terms.

payment terms The due date and discount date for payment of a transaction.
For example, the payment term ’2% 10, Net 30’ lets a customer take a two
percent discount if payment is received within 10 days; after 10 days, the entire
balance is due within 30 days of the invoice date with no applicable discount.
See also discount, scheduled payment.

payment type There are three standard payment types for paying employees:
check, cash and direct deposit. You can define your own payment methods
corresponding to these types.

Payroll A group of employees that Oracle Payroll processes together with the
same processing frequency, for example, weekly, monthly or bimonthly. Within a
Business Group, you can set up as many payrolls as you need.

pay–through date A feature you use during automatic payment processing.
You define a payment cycle (the number of days between regular payment
batches), and Payables calculates the Pay–Through–Date by adding the number
of days in the payment cycle to the payment date. Payables selects an invoice
for payment if either the due date or discount date is before the Pay–Through–
Date.

people list An SSHR line manager utility used to locate an employee.

performance (within assessment) An expectation of ”normal” performance
of a competence over a given period. For example, a person may exceed
performance expectation in the communication competence. See also:
Proficiency (within Assessment), Competence, Assessment.

performer A user or role assigned to perform a human activity (notification).
Notification activities that are included in a process must be assigned to a
performer.

period See accounting period.

period average–to–date The average of the end–of–day balances for a
related range of days within a period.

period expense An expense you record in the period it occurs. An expense is
typically a debit.

Period of Incapacity for Work (PIW) In the UK, this is a period of sickness
that lasts four or more days in a row, and is the minimum amount of sickness for
which Statutory Sick Pay can be paid. If a PIW is separated by less then the
linking interval, a linked PIW is formed and the two PIWs are treated as one.

period type A time division in a budgetary calendar, such as week, month, or
quarter. In Oracle Assets, you use the general ledger accounting period types to
define your general ledger calendar. In Oracle General Ledger, you use
accounting period types to define your accounting calendar.

period–average exchange rate See average exchange rate.

period–end exchange rate The daily exchange rate on the last day of an
accounting period. The system automatically translates monetary asset and
liability account balances using period–end rates. When you run revaluation for a
period, the system uses period–end rates to revalue the functional currency

equivalent balance associated with foreign currency–denominated account
balances.

periodic alert An alert that periodically reports key information according to a
schedule you define. Rather than notify you of immediate exceptions in the
database like an event alert, a periodic alert scans for specific database
information specified by its SQL SELECT statement at scheduled intervals.

periodic key indicator alert A message Oracle Alert sends after scanning
your database to notify you of current productivity levels. The number of invoices
you have entered during a period is an example of a periodic key indicator alert.

periodic troubleshooting alert A message Oracle Alert sends after scanning
your database to notify you of discrepancies from goals or standards you have
set. Invoices on hold is an example of a periodic troubleshooting alert.

Person Search An SSHR function which enables a manager to search for a
person. There are two types of search, Simple and Advanced.

person type There are eight system person types in Oracle HRMS. Seven of
these are combinations of employees, ex–employees, applicants, and ex–
applicants. The eighth category is ’External’. You can create your own user
person types based on the eight system types.

personal library If an Oracle Financial Analyzer database object belongs to a
personal library, it means that the object was created by the workstation user and
can be modified.

Personal Tax Credits Return (TD1) A Revenue Canada form which each
employee must complete. Used by the employee to reduce his or her taxable
income at source by claiming eligible credits and also provides payroll with such
important information as current address, birth date, and SIN. These credits
determine the amount to withhold from the employee’s wages for
federal/provincial taxes.

plan design The functional area that allows you to set up your benefits
programs and plans. This process involves defining the rules which govern
eligibility, available options, pricing, plan years, third party administrators, tax
impacts, plan assets, distribution options, required reporting, and
communications.

plan sponsor The legal entity or business responsible for funding and
administering a benefits plan. Generally synonymous with employer.

planned purchase order A type of purchase order you issue before you order
actual delivery of goods and services for specific dates and locations. You

normally enter a planned purchase order to specify items you want to order and
when you want delivery of the items. You later enter a shipment release against
the planned purchase order when you actually want to order the items.

PO See purchase order.

PO move resource An outside resource that is automatically charged upon
receipt of a purchase order. PO move resources also automatically initiate shop
floor move transactions upon receipt.

PO receipt resource An outside resource that is automatically charged upon
receipt of a purchase order.

poplist A poplist lets you choose a single value from a predefined list. To
choose a value, press your left mouse button while on the poplist icon to display
the list of choices, then drag your mouse through the list to the desired value.
Release your mouse button to choose the value you highlight and display it in the
poplist field. A poplist is also sometimes known as a list.

pop–up window An additional window that appears on an Oracle Applications
form when your cursor enters a particular field.

position A specific function within a job category. Examples of typical
positions associated with the Vice President job include: Vice President of
Manufacturing, Vice President of Engineering, and Vice President of Sales. See
job.

position hierarchy A structure of positions used to define management line
reporting and control access to employee information.

Positive Pay Program Third party or custom software that formats the output
file of the Payables Positive Pay Report into the format required by your bank,
and transmits it electronically to your bank. This prevents check fraud by
informing the bank which checks are negotiable or non–negotiable and for what
amount.

Post QuickCash Receipts entered through the QuickCash window or using
AutoLockbox are stored in interim tables; this lets you review them to ensure that
all receipt and application information is correct. After verifying that all information
is correct, you can run Post QuickCash to update your customer’s account
balances. See also QuickCash.

posting The process of updating account balances in your general ledger
from journal entries. Oracle Projects uses the term posting to describe the
process of transferring posting information to your general ledger. When you
initiate posting in Oracle Projects, Oracle Projects transfers your invoice and

payment transactions and sets the status of the payments and invoices to
posted. You must use your general ledger to create journal entries and post the
journal entries to update your account balances. See also Journal Import.

posting date The date a journal transaction is actually posted to the general
ledger.

posting hold A hold that prevents you from posting an invoice. You also
cannot pay an invoice that has a posting hold, because all holds prevent
payment.

pre–approved A document that has been approved by someone with final
approval authority, but then forwarded to yet another approver for additional
approval; or a document that has been authorized for approval but for which
funds have not yet been reserved (if your organization uses encumbrance). A
document with a status of Pre–Approved does not show up as supply until its
status changes to Approved.

pre-award spending Charging expenditure items against an award that has
not been formally received.

precedence burden structure A burden structure that is cumulative and
applies each cost code to the running total of the raw costs burdened with all
previous cost codes.

precedence numbers Numbers used to determine how Receivables will
compound taxes. The tax line with the highest precedence number will calculate
tax on all tax lines with a lower precedence number.

predefined components Some elements and balances, all primary element
classifications and some secondary classifications are defined by Oracle Payroll
to meet legislative requirements, and are supplied to users with the product. You
cannot delete these predefined components.

premium cost See overtime cost.

prepayment A payment you make to a supplier in anticipation of his provision
of goods or services. A prepayment may also be an advance you pay to an
employee for anticipated expenses. In Payables, a prepayment is a type of
invoice that you can apply to an outstanding invoice or employee expense report
to reduce the amount of the invoice or expense report. You must approve the
prepayment and fully pay the prepayment before you can apply the prepayment.

price break line Supplier pricing information for an item or purchasing
category on a quotation. The price you enter on a price break line depends on
the quantity you order from your supplier. Usually, suppliers provide you with

price break line structures to indicate the price you would pay for an item
depending on the quantity you order. Generally, the more you order, the less
expensive your unit price. Also, depending on the quantity you order, a supplier
may provide you with different purchase conditions, such as advantageous
payment or freight terms when you buy in large quantities.

price correction An invoice you receive from a supplier that is an adjustment
to the unit price of an invoice you previously matched to a purchase order
shipment. You can match the price correction to specific purchase order
distribution lines or you can have Payables prorate the price correction across all
previously matched purchase order distributions. If you receive a price correction
that represents a price reduction, you enter the price correction as a Credit
invoice. If you receive a price correction that represents a price increase, you
enter the price correction as a Standard invoice.

primary accounting method The accounting method you choose for your
primary set of books. You can choose either the cash or accrual method. You
must choose a primary accounting method before you can choose a secondary
accounting method and before you submit journal entries for posting to the
general ledger.

primary customer information Address and contact information for your
customer’s headquarters or principal place of business. Primary addresses and
contacts can provide defaults during order entry.

primary role Your customer contact’s principle business function according to
your company’s terminology. For example, people in your company may refer to
accounting responsibilities such as Controller or Receivables Supervisor.

primary salesperson The salesperson that receives 100% of the sales credits
when you first enter an invoice or commitment.

primary set of books The set of books you use to manage your business.
You can choose accrual or cash basis as the accounting method for your primary
set of books.

print lead days The number of days you subtract from the payment due date
to determine the invoice date for each installment. You can only specify Print
Lead Days when you are defining split payment terms.

prior period addition An addition is a prior period addition if you enter it in an
accounting period that is after the period in which you placed the asset in service.
Also known as retroactive addition.

prior period reinstatement A reinstatement is a prior period reinstatement if
you enter it in an accounting period that is after the period in which the retirement
took place. Also known as retroactive reinstatement.

prior period retirement A retirement is a prior period retirement if you enter it
in an accounting period that is after the period in which you entered the
retirement. Also known as retroactive retirement.

prior period transfer A transfer is a prior period transfer if you enter it in an
accounting period that is after the period in which the transfer took place. Also
known as retroactive transfer.

process A set of activities that need to be performed to accomplish a business
goal.

process activity A process modeled as an activity so that it can be referenced
by other processes.

process cycle The planned schedule for batch processing of costs, revenue,
and invoices, according to your company’s scheduling requirements. See
streamline request.

process definition An Oracle Workflow process as defined in the Oracle
Workflow Builder. See also process.

process responsibility type An implementation–defined name to which a
group of reports and processes are assigned. This group of reports and
processes is then assigned to an Oracle Projects responsibility. A process
responsibility type gives a user access to Oracle Projects reports and programs
appropriate to that user’s job. For example, the process responsibility type Data
Entry could be a set of reports used by data entry clerks. See responsibility.

production depreciation method See units of production depreciation
method.

production interface table The table in which Oracle Assets stores the
information you need to use the Production Interface. Information in the
Production Interface table is stored in columns.

production upload The process by which Oracle Assets loads production
information from the Production Interface table into Oracle Assets. You can use
the Production Information Upload process to transfer production information
from a feeder system, such as a spreadsheet, to Oracle Assets.

Professional Information An SSHR function which allows an employee to
maintain their own professional details or a line manager to maintain their direct
reports professional details.

proficiency (within assessment) The perceived level of expertise of a person
in a competence, in the opinion of the assessor, over a given period. For
example, a person may demonstrate the communication competence at Expert
level. See also: Performance (within Assessment), Competence, Assessment.

proficiency level A system for expressing and measuring how a competence
is exhibited in the work context. See also: Behavioral Indicators.

profile option A set of changeable options that affect the way your
applications run. In general, profile options can be set at one or more of the
following levels: site, application, responsibility, and user. Refer to the Profile
Option appendix in the Oracle Projects User’s Guide for more information.

progression point A pay scale is calibrated in progression points, which form
a sequence for the progression of employees up the pay scale. See also: Pay
Scale.

project A unit of work that can be broken down into one or more tasks. A
project is the unit of work for which you specify revenue and billing methods,
invoice formats, a managing organization and project manager, and bill rate
schedules. You can charge costs to a project, and you can generate and
maintain revenue, invoice, unbilled receivable, and unearned revenue
information for a project.

project accounting period An implementation–defined period against which
project performance may be measured. Also referred to as PA Periods. You
define project accounting periods to track project accounting data on a periodic
basis by assigning a start date, end date, and closing status to each period.
Typically, you define project accounting periods on a weekly basis, and your
general ledger periods on a monthly basis.

project budget A detailed estimate of the cost of a project. A project budget is
the aggregate of all the award budgets that fund a project.

Project Burdening Organization Hierarchy The organization hierarchy
version that Oracle Projects uses to compile burden schedules. Each business
group must designate one and only one version of an organization hierarchy as
its Project Burdening Organization Hierarchy. (Note: In Oracle Projects
Implementation Options, each operating unit is associated with an organization
hierarchy and version for project setup, invoice level processing, and project
reporting. The Project Burdening Organization Hierarchy selected for the

business group does not have to match the hierarchy version in the
Implementation Options.).

project chargeable employees In a multiple organization installation,
employees included as labor resource pool to a project. This includes all
employees, as defined in Oracle Human Resources, who belong to the business
group associated with the project operating unit.

project currency The currency in which transactions are billed (unless
overridden during the billing process). Also, the currency in which project
amounts are summarized for project summary reporting.

project funding An allocation of funds, generated revenue amounts, and
invoiced amounts from an award to a project or top task.

project operating unit The operating unit within which the project is created.

project role The responsibility or position assigned to an employee on a
project.

project role type An implementation–defined classification of the role or
responsibility that an employee can have on a project. When you define project
role types, you can determine whether an employee assign to a particular project
role type can query labor costs.

project segment To set up your account, you define the individual segments
of your general ledger account code. You can define a project segment to enter
your project identifier. You define all key attributes of the segment, including field
length, position of the segment within your account, prompt, type of characters
(numeric or alphanumeric), and default value (optional).

project segment value The identifier (project name, number, or code) you
use to designate each project. After you define a project segment in your
account, you set up a project in General Ledger by simply defining a project
segment value. For example, you could define a project name (ALPHA), a project
number (583), or a project code (D890).

project status An implementation–defined classification of the status of a
project. Typical project statuses are Active and Closed.

project template Predefined project data. A project template includes basic
and variable project data, the work breakdown structure, project and task
options, funding data, and budgets.

project type A project type is a project classification defined during
implementation that specifies essential project attributes and determines how
that project’s costs are processed.

project type class An additional classification for project types that indicates
how to collect and track costs, quantities, and, in some cases, revenue and
billing. Oracle Projects predefines three project type classes: Indirect, Contract,
or Capital. For example, you use an Indirect project type to collect and track
project costs for overhead activities, such as administrative and overhead work,
marketing, and bid and proposal preparation.

project/customer relationship An implementation–defined classification of
the relationship between a project and a customer. Project/Customer
Relationships help you manage projects that involve multiple clients by specifying
the various relationships your customers can have with a project. Typical
relationships include Primary or Non–Paying.

project/task alias A user–defined short name for a project or project/task
combination used to facilitate online timecard and expense report entry.

project/task organization The Organization that owns the project or task.
This can be any organization in the LOV (list of values) for the project setup. The
Project/Task Organization LOV contains organizations of the Project/Task
Organization Type in the Organization Hierarchy and Version below the Start
Organization. You specify your Start Organization and Version in the
Implementation Options window.

promise date The date on which a customer promises to pay for products or
services.

proprietary account An account segment value (such as 3500) that is
assigned one of the five proprietary account types.

proprietary account type Any of the five account types: Asset, Liability,
Owner’s Equity, Revenue, and Expense.

proprietary funds A fund type that uses accounting and reporting techniques
similar to commercial enterprises. Examples of proprietary funds include internal
service funds, such as a central motor pool or central public works facility, and
enterprise funds.

prorate calendar The prorate calendar determines the number of prorate
periods in your fiscal year. It also determines, with the prorate or retirement
convention, which depreciation rate to select from the rate table for your table-
based depreciation methods. You must specify a prorate calendar for each book.

prorate convention Oracle Assets uses the prorate convention to determine
how much depreciation to take in the first and last year of an asset’s life based
on when you place the asset in service. If you retire an asset before it is fully
reserved, Oracle Assets uses the retirement convention to determine how much
depreciation to take in the last year of life based on the retirement date. Your tax
department determines your prorate and retirement conventions.

prorate date Oracle Assets uses the prorate date to calculate depreciation
expense for the first and last year of an asset’s life.

protection level A numeric value ranging from 0 to 1000 that represents who
the data is protected from for modification. When workflow data is defined, it can
either be set to customizable (1000), meaning anyone can modify it or it can be
assigned a protection level that is equal to the access level of the user defining
the data. In the latter case, only users operating at an access level equal to or
lower than the data’s protection level can modify the data.

Provincial Health Number In Canada, this is the account number of the
provincially administered health care plan that the employer would use to make
remittances. There would be a unique number for each of the provincially
controlled plans i.e. EHT, Quebec HSF, etc.

Provincial/Territorial Employment Standards Acts In Canada, these are
laws covering minimum wages, hours of work, overtime, child labor, maternity,
vacation, public/general holidays, parental and adoption leave, etc., for
employees regulated by provincial/territorial legislation.

provisional schedule A burden schedule of estimated burden multipliers that
are later audited to determine the actual rates. You apply actual rates to
provisional schedules by replacing the provisional multipliers with actual
multipliers. Oracle Projects processes adjustments that account for the difference
between the provisional and actual calculations.

proxima payment terms A payment term you define for invoices due on the
same day each period, such as your credit card or telephone bills. When you
define a proxima payment term, you specify a cutoff day and the day of month
due. This type of payment term is also used with consolidated billing invoices.
See also cutoff day, consolidated billing invoice.

PTO Accrual Plan A benefit in which employees enroll to entitle them to
accrue and take paid time off. The purpose of absences allowed under the plan,
who can enroll, how much time accrues, when the time must be used, and other
rules are defined for the plan.

purchase order A type of purchase order you issue when you request
delivery of goods or services for specific dates and locations. You can order

multiple items for each planned or standard purchase order. Each purchase
order line can have multiple shipments and you can distribute each shipment
across multiple accounts. See standard purchase order and planned purchase
order.

purchase order (PO) In Oracle Assets, the order on which the purchasing
department approved a purchase. In Oracle General Ledger and Oracle Projects,
a document used to buy and request delivery of goods or services from a
supplier.

purchase order distribution Each purchase order shipment consists of one
or more purchase order distributions. A purchase order distribution consists of
the Accounting Flexfield information Payables uses to create invoice
distributions.

purchase order encumbrance A transaction representing a legally binding
purchase. Purchasing subtracts purchase order encumbrances from funds
available when you approve a purchase order. If you cancel a purchase order,
Purchasing creates appropriate reversing entries in your general ledger.
Purchase order encumbrance is also known as obligation, encumbrance, or lien.

purchase order line An order for a specific quantity of a particular item at a
negotiated price. Each purchase order in Purchasing can consist of one or more
purchase order lines.

purchase order receipt See receipt.

purchase order requisition line Each purchase order line is created from
one or more purchase order requisition lines. Payables creates purchase order
requisition lines from individual requisitions.

purchase order revision A number that distinguishes printed purchase order
versions. Purchasing automatically sets the revision to 0 when you initially create
a purchase order. Each purchase order you print displays the current revision
number.

purchase order shipment A schedule for each purchase order line composed
of the quantity you want to ship to each location. You can also provide delivery
dates for each shipment line. You can create an unlimited number of shipments
for each purchase order line. You receive goods and services against each
shipment line.

purchase price variance The variance that you record at the time you receive
an item in inventory or supplier services into work in process. This variance is the
difference between the standard unit cost for the item or service and the
purchase unit price multiplied by the quantity received. You record purchase

price variances in a purchase price variance account for your organization. Since
standard cost is a planned cost, you may incur variances between the standard
cost and the purchase order price.

purchase requisition An internal request for goods or services. A requisition
can originate from an employee or from another process, such as inventory or
manufacturing. Each requisition can include many lines, generally with a distinct
item on each requisition line. Each requisition line includes at least a description
of the item, the unit of measure, the quantity needed, the price per item, and the
Accounting Flexfield you are charging for the item. See also internal sales order.

purchased item An item that you buy and receive. If an item is also an
inventory item, you may also be able to stock it. See also inventory item.

purchasing documents Any document you use in the purchasing life cycle,
including requisitions, RFQs, quotations, purchase orders, and purchase
agreements.

purchasing open interface A Purchasing function that lets you import
price/sales catalog information from your suppliers. It receives the catalog data
electronically, verifies and processes the data, and imports the data directly into
Purchasing as blanket purchase agreements or quotations.

purchasing site A supplier site from which you order goods or services. You
must enter at least one purchasing site before Purchasing will allow you to enter
a purchase order.

purge A Payables process where you identify a group of records for Payables
to delete from the database. Payables purges each record and its related
records. Payables maintains summary data for each record it purges. A Oracle
Receivables process where you identify a group of records for Oracle
Receivables to delete from the database. Oracle Receivables purges each
record and its related records. Oracle Receivables maintains summary data for
each record it purges. To purge a fiscal year is to remove the depreciation
expense and adjustment transaction records for that year from Oracle Assets.
You must archive and purge all earlier fiscal years and archive this fiscal year
before you can purge it.

purge category A Purchasing feature you use to purge a particular group of
records from the database. Purchasing lets you choose from the following
separate categories: Simple Requisitions, Simple Purchase Orders, Suppliers,
Simple Invoices (only if you installed Payables), and Matched Invoices and POs
(only if you installed Payables). The last category is the most comprehensive
category you can choose. You should purge all appropriate documents before
purging your supplier information, because Purchasing does not purge suppliers
that you referenced on existing documents.

purge status A Purchasing method of reporting the progress of a purge you
initiate. The Status field lets you take an action on your purge process (Initiate,
Confirm, Abort), or reports on the current status of the purge (Printed, Deleting,
Completed–Aborted, Completed–Purged).

purgeable flag A flag in Payables you use to determine whether you can
purge an imported invoice from the database. Payables automatically enters Yes
for the purgeable flag on all expense reports you enter in the Payables Expense
Report window, allowing you to purge all expense reports, after importing,
without updating the purgeable flag. Oracle Projects enters No for the purgeable
flag on all expense reports you enter in Oracle Projects. You must update the
purgeable flag to Yes in Oracle Projects before you can purge the expense report
in Payables. Payables does not display the purgeable flag for any invoices.

purpose code A user-defined description of an activity that an award is
funding. Purpose codes are used to identify the purpose of award funds. Typical
examples include descriptions such as research, clinical trial, and sponsored
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QPP (See Canada/Quebec Pension Plan).

qualification type An identified qualification method of achieving proficiency
in a competence, such as an award, educational qualification, a license or a test.
See also: Competence.

qualifying days In the UK, these are days on which Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
can be paid, and the only days that count as waiting days. Qualifying days are
normally work days, but other days may be agreed.

qualifying pattern See: SSP Qualifying Pattern.

qualifying week In the UK, this is the week during pregnancy that is used as
the basis for the qualifying rules for Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP). The date of
the qualifying week is fifteen weeks before the expected week of confinement
and an employee must have been continuously employed for at least 26 weeks
continuing into the qualifying week to be entitled to SMP.

quantity accepted The number of items you accept after inspection.

quantity received tolerance The percentage by which you allow quantity
received to exceed quantity ordered.

quantity rejected The number of items you reject after inspection.

quantity–based order An order you place, receive, and pay based on the
quantity, unit of measure, and price of the goods or services that you purchase.

quarter average–to–date The average of the end–of–day balances for a
related range of days within a quarter.

Quebec Business Number In Canada, this is the employer’s account number
with the Ministere du Revenu du Quebec, also known as the Quebec
Identification number. It consists of 15 digits, the first 9 identify the employer, the
next 2 identify the type of tax account involved (payroll vs. corporate tax), and
the last 4 identify the particular account for that tax.

query A search for applications information that you initiate using an Oracle
Applications window.

Questionnaire An SSHR function which records the results of an appraisal.

Quick Check See Quick payment.

Quick Entry A feature in Grants Accounting that allows the user to specify
variable project data that changes from project to project.

Quick Payment A feature you use to create an automatic payment on
demand. With Quick payment, you choose the invoices you want to pay, and
Payables creates the check on a printer you choose. You can also void and
reissue a Quick payment if your printer spoils it while printing.

Quick Release A feature you can use to release all user–assigned and many
system–assigned invoice holds. You can define and apply unlimited approval
criteria to an invoice, and you can then use QuickRelease to release all holds for
a particular invoice, batch, or supplier with a single keystroke.

QuickCash A feature that lets you enter receipts quickly by providing only
minimal information. After using QuickCash to enter your receipts, you can post
your payment batches to your customer accounts by running Post QuickCash.
See also Post QuickCash.

QuickCodes An Oracle Assets feature that allows you to enter standard
descriptions for your business. You can enter QuickCode values for your
Property Types, Retirement Types, Asset Descriptions, Journal Entries, and
Mass Additions Queue Names.

QuickPaint Report A method of reporting on employee and applicant
assignment information. You can select items of information, paint them on a

report layout, add explanatory text, and save the report definition to run
whenever you want. See also: Assignment Set.

quota sales credits See revenue sales credit, non–revenue sales credit.

quotation A statement of the price, terms, and conditions of sale a supplier
offers you for an item or items. A quotation usually includes a detailed description
(specifications) of goods or services the supplier offers. Suppliers consider
quotations as an offer to sell when given in response to an inquiry. A quotation
may be verbal or written. You often get verbal quotations for minor purchases by
telephone. You usually send a request for quotation if you want a written
quotation from a supplier. Written quotations often have an effective date and an
expiration date.

quotation type A QuickCode you define to categorize your quotation
information. Purchasing provides you with the following set of predefined
quotation types: Catalog, Verbal, Telephone, or From RFQ. You can define other
quotation types that better fit your business.
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rates A set of values for employee grades or progression points. For example,
you can define salary rates and overtime rates.

rating scale Used to describe an enterprise’s competencies in a general way.
You do not hold the proficiency level at the competence level. See also:
Proficiency Level.

raw costs Costs that are directly attributable to work performed. Examples of
raw costs are salaries and travel expenses.

realized gain For foreign currency entries, a realized gain is the difference in
your functional currency between the invoiced amount and the payment amount,
if the payment in functional currency is less than the invoiced amount.

realized gain or loss The actual gain or loss in value that results from holding
an asset or liability over time. Realized gains and losses are shown separately on
the Income Statement. See also unrealized gain or loss, foreign currency
exchange gain or loss.

realized loss For foreign currency entries, a realized loss is the difference in
your functional currency between the invoiced amount and the payment amount,
if the invoiced amount in functional currency is less than the amount of the
payment.

reasons Standard definitions that you can customize to clarify your adjustment
entries, debit memos, customer responses, invoices, credit memos, payment
reversals and on–account credits. Use reasons to improve the quality of your
reporting.

receipt A shipment from one supplier that can include many items ordered on
many purchase orders.

receipt acceptance period The number of days you allow for acceptance or
rejection of goods. Payables uses this to recalculate invoice scheduled
payments. You specify receipt acceptance days when you define your Financials
options.

receipt batch source A name that you use to refer to how your company
accounts for receipts. Receipt batch sources relate your receipt batches to both
the bank and the accounting information required for recording and posting your
receipts.

receipt class Automatic receipt processing steps that you relate to your
payment methods. You can choose whether to confirm, remit, and clear
automatic receipts.

receipt currency The currency in which an expense report item originates.

receipt exception A control that you can set to indicate to your accounts
payable group that you want to place the corresponding invoice on hold until
further notice. You designate whether your purchase order shipment should be a
receipt exception when you receive the item.

receipt grace days A specific number of days that you assign to your
customers and sites to effectively extend the due dates for their outstanding debit
items.

receipt line An individual receipt transaction that identifies receipt of an item
against a purchase order shipment.

receipt routing A method of simplifying transaction entry by specifying routing
steps for receipts.

receipt source Your name for a source from which your company receives
cash. Your receipt sources determine the accounting for payments that are
associated with them. Receipts that you deposit in different banks belong in
different payment sources.

receipt traveler An internal routing ticket you place on received goods to
show their final destination.

receipts Payment received in exchange for goods or services. These include
applied and unapplied receipts entered within the GL date range that you
specified. If the receipt is applied within the GL date range that you specified, it
will appear in the Applied Receipts register; otherwise it will appear in the
Unapplied Receipt Register. See also cross site and cross customer receipts,
cross currency receipt.

receivable activities Predefined Receivables activities used to define the
general ledger accounts with which you associate your receivables activities.

receivables activity name A name that you use to refer to a receivables
activity. You use receivables activities during the setup process to create
accounting distributions for cash and miscellaneous receipt payments,
receivables adjustments, discounts, receivables accounts, and finance charges.

receiving open interface A set of interface tables in Purchasing that lets you
import information from outside of Purchasing, from Oracle or non–Oracle
applications. Some examples of information imported into the receiving open
interface are Advance Shipment Notices (ASNs). The receiving open interface
validates the information before importing it into the Purchasing application.

recipient A person to whom Oracle Alert sends a message. The recipient may
receive a message through electronic mail or via a printer.

reciprocal customer relationship An equal relationship shared between two
customers. Both customers can enter invoices against each others commitments
as well as pay each others debit items.

reconciliation In Oracle Payables, the process of matching and clearing your
bank account statement lines with payments and receipts entered in Payables
and Receivables. A reconciled document has been matched to a bank statement
line in Cash Management. Oracle Receivables inserts a cleared date and
amount for all payments that your bank reports as cleared. In Oracle
Receivables, an analysis that explains the difference between two balances. If
you are using Cash Management to reconcile receipts, payments are reconciled
when they are matched to a bank statement line.

record A record is one occurrence of data stored in all the fields of a block. A
record is also referred to as a row or a transaction, since one record corresponds
to one row of data in a database table or one database transaction.

Record of Employment (ROE) A Human Resources Development Canada
form that must be completed by an employer whenever an interruption of
earnings occurs for any employee. This form is necessary to claim Employment
Insurance benefits.

record type A bank file is made up of many different rows or records. Each
record must have a type. For example, a record may store information about a
payment record or a batch record. Record types help Oracle Receivables
determine where different types of data are stored in your bank file.

recoverable cost The lesser of the cost ceiling or the current asset cost less
the salvage value and ITC basis reduction amount. Recoverable cost is the total
amount of depreciation you are allowed to take on an asset throughout its life.

recruitment activity An event or program to attract applications for
employment. Newspaper advertisements, career fairs and recruitment evenings
are all examples of recruitment activities. You can group several recruitment
activities together within an overall activity.

recumbrance journal entry In Oracle General Ledger, a journal entry you
create online that increases or relieves your encumbrances. Encumbrance
entries can include encumbrances of any type. You can enter manual
encumbrance entries, define encumbrance allocations, or use Journal Import to
import encumbrance entries from other financial systems.

recumbrance type In Oracle Payables, an encumbrance category that allows
you to track your anticipated expenditures according to your purchase approval
process and better control your planned expenditures. You can also attach an
encumbrance type to your invoices for reporting purposes. Examples of
encumbrance types are commitments (requisition encumbrances) and
obligations (purchase order encumbrances).

recurring elements Elements that process regularly at a predefined
frequency. Recurring element entries exist from the time you create them until
you delete them, or the employee ceases to be eligible for the element.
Recurring elements can have standard links. See also: Nonrecurring Elements,
Standard Link.

recurring formula See recurring journal entry.

recurring invoice A feature that lets you create invoices for an expense that
occurs regularly and is not usually invoiced. Monthly rents and lease payments
are examples of typical recurring payments. You define recurring invoice
templates and Oracle Receivables lets you define recurring invoices using these
templates. See also recurring rule.

recurring journal entry A journal entry you define once; then, at your request,
General Ledger repeats the journal entry for you each accounting period. You
use recurring journal entries to define automatic consolidating and eliminating
entries. Also known as recurring formula.

recurring rule A rule that is applied to the model invoice to determine the
invoice dates of the recurring invoices. You can choose Annually, Bi-Monthly,
Days, Monthly, Quarterly, Semi–Annually, Single Copy, and Weekly.

recurring schedule A schedule used to determine the number of recurring
invoices created. You specify the recurring rule and number of recurring invoices
you want to create.

references User-defined values or characters that are assigned to an award
for identification purposes. Each award can have various references assigned to
it.

region A collection of logically–related fields set apart from other fields by a
dashed line that spans a block. Regions help to organize a block so that it is
easier to understand. reimbursement currency The currency in which an
employee chooses to be reimbursed for an expense report. See also transaction
currency.

Registered Pension Plan (RPP) This is a pension plan that has been
registered with Revenue Canada. It is a plan where funds are set aside by an
employer, an employee, or both to provide a pension to employees when they
retire. Employee contributions are generally exempt from tax.

Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) This is an individual retirement
savings plan that has been registered with Revenue Canada. Usually,
contributions to the RRSP, and any income earned within the RRSP, is exempt
from tax.

reject For Oracle Automotive, Oracle Service and Oracle Work in Process,
reject is an intra-operation step in an operation where you can record assemblies
that require rework or need to be scrapped. For Oracle Purchasing and Oracle
Quality, reject is an option you use to indicate that you do not want to approve a
document. Purchasing returns the document to its owner for modification and
resubmission if appropriate.

reject over quantity tolerance An option you use to disallow receipts that
exceed the tolerance level.

related transaction Additional transactions that are created for labor
transactions using the Labor Transaction Extension. All related transactions are
associated with a source transaction and are attached to the expenditure item ID
of the source transaction. You can identify and process the related transactions
by referring to the expenditure item ID of the source transaction. Using labor
transaction extensions, you can create, identify, and process the related
transactions along with the source transaction.

relationship An association you can create between two or more customers in
Receivables to make payment applications easier. See also reciprocal customer
relationship.

relative amount The amount that represents the numerator for the ratio used
to determine the amount due. You specify your relative amount when you define
your payment terms. Amount Due = Relative Amount/Base Amount x Invoice
Amount.

release An actual order of goods and services you issue against a blanket
purchase agreement. The blanket purchase agreement determines the
characteristics and the prices of the items. The release specifies the actual
quantities and dates ordered for the items. You identify a release by the
combination of blanket purchase agreement number and release number.

release code The release name Payables or you assign when releasing a
hold from an invoice.

released date The date on which an invoice and its associated revenue is
released.

remit to addresses The address to which your customers remit their
payments.

remittance advice A document that lists the invoices being paid with a
particular payment document. You can create and define remittance advices
which you can use with any payment format or you can use a standard
remittance advice that Payables provides.

remittance bank The bank in which you deposit your receipts.

reorder point planning An inventory planning method used to determine
when and how much to order based on customer service level, safety stock,
carrying cost, order setup cost, lead time and average demand.

report In Oracle Assets, Oracle Payables, Oracle Receivables, and Oracle
Projects, an organized display of Oracle Applications information. A report can be
viewed online or sent to a printer. The content of information in a report can
range from a summary to a complete listing of values. In Oracle General Ledger,
a combination of at least a row set and column set, and optionally a content set,
display group, row order, and runtime options, such as currency and override
segment name, that you can define and name. When you request financial
statements, you can enter this name, and Oracle Receivables automatically
enters the report components and runtime options for you. You simply specify the
accounting period. Oracle Receivables automatically enters the rest.

report component An element of a Financial Statement Generator report that
defines the format and content of your report. Report components include row
sets, column sets, content sets, row orders, and display sets. You can group
report components together in different ways to create custom reports.

report headings In Oracle Assets, Oracle Payables, Oracle Receivables, and
Oracle General Ledger, a descriptive section found at the top of each report
giving general information about the contents of the report. In Oracle Payables,
report headings also provide you with the name of the Set of Books selected for
all Oracle Assets transactions and reports. Oracle Assets prints the name of your
Set of Books in the heading of most reports.

report option See report parameter.

report parameter In Oracle Assets, Oracle General Ledger, and Oracle
Receivables, options that let you sort, format, select, and summarize the
information in your reports. In Oracle Payables, a variable you use to restrict
information in a report, or determine the format of the report. For example, you
may want to limit your report to the current month, or display information by
supplier number instead of supplier name. Most standard reports in Oracle
Assets that you can submit manually have a set of report parameters.

report security group A feature that helps your system administrator control
your access to reports and programs. Your system administrator defines a report
security group which consists of a group of reports and/or programs and assigns
a report security group to each responsibility that has access to run reports using
Standard Report Submission. When you submit reports using Standard Report
Submission, you can only choose from those reports and programs in the report
security group assigned to your responsibility.

report set A group of reports that you submit at the same time to run as one
transaction. A report set allows you to submit the same set of reports regularly
without having to specify each report individually. For example, you can define a
report set that prints all of your regular month–end management reports.

reporting currency The currency you use for financial reporting. If your
reporting currency is not the same as your functional currency, you can use
foreign currency translation to restate your account balances in your reporting
currency.

reporting hierarchies Summary relationships within an account segment that
let you group detailed values of that segment to prepare summary reports. You
define summary (parent) values that reference the detailed (children) values of
that segment.

Request For Quotation (RFQ) A document you use to solicit supplier
quotations for goods or services you need. You usually send a request for
quotation to many suppliers to ensure that you get the best price and terms
possible. Depending on the way you do business, you can use two general types
of RFQs: specific and generic.

request groups A list of reports and processes that can be submitted by
holders of a particular responsibility. See also: Responsibility.

requisition See purchase requisition and internal sales order.

requisition approval The act of approving the purchases of the items on a
requisition. A requisition must receive the required approvals before a buyer can
create purchase orders from this requisition. The approvals can come from any
employee, but a requisition is fully approved only when an employee who has
enough authority approves it. If you require encumbrance or budgetary control for
requisitions, a requisition is fully approved only when an employee with sufficient
approval authority approves and reserves funds for the requisition.

requisition encumbrance A transaction representing an intent to purchase
goods and services as indicated by the reservation of funds for a requisition.
Purchasing subtracts requisition encumbrances from funds available when you
reserve funds for a requisition. If you cancel a requisition, Purchasing creates
appropriate reversing entries in your general ledger.

requisition pool Requisition lines that are approved, not cancelled, and not
yet on a purchase order.

requisition template A feature that lets you define a list of commonly
purchased items from which a requestor can create a requisition. You can define
the list of items by referencing an existing purchase order. Requestors use the
requisition template to create simple, pre–sourced requisitions.

reserve An action you take in Purchasing to reserve funds for a purchasing
document or an action in Order Entry to allocate products for a sales order. If the
document passes the submission tests and if you have sufficient authority,
Purchasing reserves funds for the document.

reserve for encumbrance A portion of fund balance you use to record
anticipated expenditures. In Oracle Financials, you define your Reserve for
Encumbrance account when you define your set of books. Oracle Financials
uses your Reserve for Encumbrance account to create offsets for unbalanced
encumbrance entries you create in Purchasing, Payables, and General Ledger.

reserve for encumbrance account The account you use to record your
encumbrance liability. You define a Reserve for Encumbrance account when

you define your set of books. When you create encumbrances automatically in
Purchasing or Payables, General Ledger automatically creates a balancing entry
to your Reserve for Encumbrance account when you post your encumbrance
journal entries. And General Ledger overwrites the balancing segment for your
Reserve for Encumbrance account, so you automatically create the reserve for
encumbrance journal entry to the correct company.

residual The amount of unused paid time off entitlement an employee loses at
the end of an accrual term. Typically employees can carry over unused time, up
to a maximum, but they lose any residual time that exceeds this limit. See also:
Carry Over.

resource Labor, services, materials, and equipment needed to track, complete,
and account for project work. A user–defined group of employees, organizations,
jobs, suppliers, expenditure categories, revenue categories, expenditure types,
or event types for purposes of defining budgets or summarizing actuals.

resource list A set of similar resources used on specific kinds of project work.

responsibility Determines the data, windows, menus, reports, and concurrent
programs to access in Oracle Applications. It is linked to a data group. Several
users can share the same responsibility, and a single user can have multiple
responsibilities. A level of authority in an application. Each responsibility lets you
access a specific set of Oracle Applications windows, menus, reports, and data
to fulfill your role in an organization. Several users can share the same
responsibility, and a single user can have multiple responsibilities. In Oracle
Assets and Oracle General Ledger, a level of authority within Oracle Assets.
Each responsibility provides a user with access to a menu and a set of books.
You can assign one or more responsibilities to each user. Responsibilities let you
control security in Oracle Assets. In Oracle Projects, Oracle Payables, and
Oracle Receivables, a level of authority in an application. Each responsibility lets
you access a specific set of Oracle Applications windows, menus, reports, and
data to fulfill your role in an organization. Several users can share the same
responsibility, and a single user can have multiple responsibilities.

responsibility report A financial statement containing information organized
by management responsibility. For example, a responsibility report for a cost
center contains information for that specific cost center, a responsibility report for
a division manager contains information for all organizational units within that
division, and so on. A manager typically receives reports for the organizational
unit(s) (such as cost center, department, division, group, and so on) for which he
or she is responsible.

responsibility type See process responsibility type.

restore To restore a fiscal year is to reload the depreciation expense and
adjustment transaction records for that fiscal year into Oracle Assets from a
storage device. You can only restore the most recently purged fiscal year.

result code The internal name of a result value, as defined by the result type.

result type The name of the lookup type that contains an activity’s possible
result values.

result value The value returned by a completed activity.

retroactive addition See prior period addition.

retroactive reinstatement See prior period reinstatement.

retroactive retirement See prior period retirement.

retroactive transfer See prior period transfer.

retry Method of correcting a payroll run or other process before any post–run
processing takes place. The original run results are deleted and the process is
run again.

return In Purchasing, an AutoCreate option that lets a buyer return a
requisition line and all other unpurchased requisition lines on the same
requisition to the requisition preparer. In Order Entry, it is the opposite of a sales
order. It involves receipt of goods previously sold to a customer, credit to a
customer, and possibly replacement with an identical or similar product.

return reason Justification for a return of product. Many companies have
standard reasons that are assigned to returns to be used to analyze the quantity
and types of returns. See also credit memo reasons.

return to supplier A transaction that allows you to return to the supplier items
from a fully or partially received purchase order and receive credit for them.

revaluation In Oracle Assets, a feature that allows you to adjust the cost of
your assets by a revaluation rate. The cost adjustment is necessary due to
inflation or deflation. You can define revaluation rules for accumulated
depreciation, for amortization of revaluation reserve, and for revaluation ceilings.
In Oracle Receivables, a restatement of assets of liabilities denominated in a
foreign currency using exchange rates that you enter. Fluctuations in exchange
rates between the transaction and revaluation dates result in revaluation gains or
losses.

revaluation gain/loss account An income statement account you define that
records net gains and losses associated with the revaluation of foreign currency–
denominated accounts, in functional currency units. You select the appropriate
gain/loss account in the Revalue Balances window.

revaluation journal entry A journal entry that is automatically created when
you revalue foreign currency–denominated accounts. The revaluation process
creates a batch of revaluation journal entries reflecting changes in market rates
for each revalued currency and directs the gain or loss amount to the gain/loss
account that you specify.

revaluation status report A report that summarizes the results of your
revaluation. General Ledger automatically generates this report whenever you
revalue foreign asset and liability account balances for an accounting period in
your calendar. You can review this report to identify accounts that were revalued
in General Ledger and journal batches and entries that were created because of
the revaluation.

revenue In Oracle Projects, the amounts recognized as income or expected
billing to be received for work on a project.

revenue accrual The function of calculating and distributing revenue.

revenue authorization rule A configurable criterion that, if enabled, must be
met before a project can accrue revenue. For example, an active mandatory
revenue authorization rule states that a project manager must exist on a project
before that project can accrue revenue. Revenue authorization rules are
associated with revenue distribution rules. See also revenue distribution rule.

revenue budget The estimated revenue amounts at completion of a project.
Revenue budget amounts can be summary or detail.

revenue burden schedule A burden schedule used for revenue accrual to
derive the revenue amount for an expenditure item. This schedule may be
different from your invoice burden schedule, if you want to accrue revenue at a
different rate than you want to invoice.

Revenue Canada Department of the Government of Canada which, amongst
other responsibilities, administers, adjudicates, and receives remittances for all
taxation in Canada including income tax, Employment Insurance premiums,
Canada Pension Plan contributions, and the Goods and Services Tax (legislation
is currently proposed to revise the name to the Canada Customs and Revenue
Agency). In the province of Quebec the equivalent is the Ministere du Revenu du
Quebec.

revenue category An implementation–defined grouping of expenditure types
by type of revenue. For example, a revenue category with a name such as Labor
refers to labor revenue.

revenue credit Credit that an employee receives for project revenue. See
revenue sales credit. See also revenue sales credit.

revenue distribution rule A specific combination of revenue accrual and
invoicing methods that determine how Oracle Projects generates revenue and
invoice amounts for a project. See revenue authorization rule.

revenue item A single line of a project’s revenue, containing event or
expenditure item revenue summarized by top task and revenue category or
event.

revenue recognition The point at which revenue is recorded. The concept of
revenue recognition is central to accrual–basis accounting. Revenue recognition
schedules detail the points at which percent amounts of a sale are recognized as
revenue.

revenue sales credit Sales credit you assign to your salespeople that is
based on your invoice lines. The total percentage of all revenue sales credit must
be equal to 100% of your invoice lines amount. Also known as quota sales
credits. See also non–revenue sales credit, sales credit.

revenue write–off An event type classification that reduces revenue by the
amount of the write–off. You cannot write–off an amount that exceeds the current
unbilled receivables balance on a project. See also invoice write–off.

reversal Method of correcting payroll runs or QuickPay runs after post–run
processing has taken place. The system replaces positive run result values with
negative ones, and negative run result values with positive ones. Both old and
new values remain on the database.

reversing journal entry A journal entry General Ledger creates by reversing
an existing journal entry. You can reverse any journal entry and post it to any
open accounting period.

reviewer (SSHR) A person invited by an appraising manager to add review
comments to an appraisal.

revision A particular version of an item, bill of material, or routing.

revision quantity control A condition placed on an item that ensures that you
always identify an item by its number and its revision. Certain items require
tighter controls than other. For instance, you may want to control the quantities

you have in inventory for an item by revision. For another item, you may just want
to know the quantities you have on hand across all revisions. You keep track of
inventory quantities by revision when an item is under revision quantity control.
You keep track of inventory quantities by item when an item is not under revision
quantity control.

RFQ See request for quotation.

RFQ Only Site A supplier site from which you receive quotations.

role One or more users grouped by a common responsibility or position.

rollback Method of removing a payroll run or other process before any post–
run processing takes place. All assignments and run results are deleted.

rollforward The process of taking the beginning balance of a period and then
accounting for the transactions within that period by attempting to equate the
beginning balance with the ending balance for the period.

rollup group A collection of parent segment values for a given segment. You
use rollup groups to define summary accounts based on parents in the group.
You can use letters as well as numbers to name your rollup groups.

root node A parent segment value in Oracle General Ledger that is the
topmost node of a hierarchy. When you define a hierarchy using the Hierarchy
window, you specify a root node for each segment. Oracle Financial Analyzer
creates a hierarchy by starting at the root node and drilling down through all of
the parent and child segment values. See also parent segment value.

root window The root window displays the main menu bar and tool bar for
every session of Oracle Applications. In Microsoft Windows, the root window is
titled ”Oracle Applications” and contains all the Oracle Applications windows you
run. In the Motif environment, the root window is titled ”Toolbar” because it
displays just the toolbar and main menu bar.

row One occurrence of the information displayed in the fields of a block. A
block may show only one row of information at a time, or it may display several
rows of information at once, depending on its layout. The term “row” is
synonymous with the term “record”.

row order A report component that you use to modify the order of detail rows
and account segments in your report. You can rank your rows in ascending or
descending order based on the amounts in a particular column and/or by sorting
your account segments either by segment value or segment value description.
You also specify display options, depending on the row ranking method you
choose. For example, if you want to review Total Sales in descending order by

product, you can rank your rows in descending order by the Total Sales column
and rearrange your segments so that product appears first on your report.

row set A Financial Statement Generator report component that you build
within General Ledger by defining all of the lines in your report. For each row,
you control the format and content, including line descriptions, indentations,
spacing, page breaks, calculations, units of measure, precision and so on. A
typical row set includes row labels, accounts and calculation rows for totals. For
example, you might define a standard income statement row set or a standard
balance sheet row set.

rule numbers A sequential step in a calculation. You use rule numbers to
specify the order in which you want General Ledger to process the factors you
use in your budget and actual formulas.
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salary basis The period of time for which an employee’s salary is quoted,
such as hourly or annually. Defines a group of employees assigned to the same
salary basis and receiving the same salary element.

sales credit Credits that you assign to your salespeople when you enter
orders, invoices, and commitments. Credits can be either quota or non–quota
and can be used in determining commissions. See also non–revenue sales
credit, revenue sales credit.

sales tax A tax collected by a tax authority on purchases of goods and
services. The supplier of the good or service collects sales taxes from its
customers (tax is usually included in the invoice amount) and remits them to a
tax authority. Tax is usually charged as a percentage of the price of the good or
service. The percentage rate usually varies by authority and sometimes by
category of product. Sales taxes are expenses to the buyer of goods and
services.

sales tax structure The collection of taxing bodies that you will use to
determine your tax authority. ’State.County.City’ is an example of a Sales Tax
Structure. Oracle Receivables adds together the tax rates for all of these
components to determine a customer’s total tax liability for a transaction.

salesperson A person who is responsible for the sale of products or services.
Salespeople are associated with orders, returns, invoices, commitments, and
customers. You can also assign sales credits to your salespeople.

schedule fixed date The date used to freeze bill rate or burden schedules for
a project or task. You enter a fixed date to specify that you want to use particular

rates or multipliers as of that date. You do not use schedule fixed dates if you
want to use the current effective rates or multipliers for a particular schedule.

schedule line A combination of Grants Accounting and General Ledger
charging instructions, schedule line begin date, schedule line end date, and
distribution percentage. One or more schedule lines constitute a labor schedule.

schedule line period Contiguous days in the schedule lines in which the
distribution percent is the same.

schedule lines Window that is used to create a labor schedule by entering all
schedule lines for that labor schedule.

scheduled enrollment A benefits plan enrollment that takes place during a
predefined enrollment period, such as an open enrollment. Scheduled
enrollments can be administrative, open, or unrestricted.

scheduled payment A schedule used to determine the amount and date of
payment due. You use payment terms to determine your scheduled payment as
well as any discounts offered. See also payment terms.

Scheduling Summary Window that summarizes all labor schedules for an
employee and assignment. The window also displays the hierarchy of labor
schedules.

scrollable region A region whose contents are not entirely visible in a
window. A scrollable region contains a horizontal or vertical scroll bar so that you
can scroll horizontally or vertically to view additional fields hidden in the region.

Search-by date An SSHR sub–function used to search for a Person by Hire
date, Application date, Job posting date or search by a Training event date.

secondary accounting method The accounting method you choose for your
secondary set of books. You can choose either the cash basis or accrual basis
accounting methods. Your secondary accounting method cannot be the same as
your primary accounting method. You do not need a secondary accounting
method if you do not use a secondary set of books.

secondary set of books The set of books you maintain for reporting
purposes. You can run your business using accrual accounting and report on a
cash basis, or run your business on a cash basis and report on an accrual basis.

security group Security groups enable HRMS users to partition data by
Business Group. Only used for Cross Business Group Responsibility security.
See also: Responsibility, Security Profile, User Profile Options.

security profile Security profiles control access to organizations, positions
and employee and applicant records within the Business Group. System
administrators use them in defining users’ responsibilities. See also:
Responsibility.

segment A single sub–field within a flexfield. You define the structure and
meaning of individual segments when customizing a flexfield.

segment values The possible values for each segment of the account. For
example, the Cost Center segment could have the values 100, which might
represent Finance, and 200, which might represent Marketing.

segments The building blocks of your chart of accounts in Oracle General
Ledger. Each account is comprised of multiple segments. Users choose which
segments will make up their accounts; commonly–used segments include
company, cost center, and product.

selection options For each report, Oracle Receivables provides you with
parameters you can choose to make your report as brief as possible. For
example, on the Aging – 4 Buckets report, you can specify that you want to
review the report for a range of customers or only the aging information for one
customer. This feature saves time and lets you retrieve data in different ways.

selection tools A set of tools in Oracle Financial Analyzer that provide
shortcut methods for selecting the values that you want to work with in a report,
graph, or worksheet.

Self-appraisal Part of the SSHR Appraisal function. This is an appraisal
undertaken by an employee to rate their own performance and competencies.

senior tax authority The first tax location in your sales tax structure. This
segment does not have a parent location. For example, in the sales tax structure
’State.County.City’, State is the senior tax authority.

sequence type Receivables provides two types of sequences: Automatic and
Manual. Automatic numbering sequentially assigns a unique number to each
transaction as it is created. Manual numbering requires that you manually assign
a unique number to each transaction when you create it. You can skip or omit
numbers if desired.

sequencing A parameter you can set when defining your dunning letter sets
to ensure that your customers and sites receive proper notification of past due
debit items. Sequencing ensures that a customer receives each of the dunning
letters in their dunning letter set in the proper order. See also document
sequence.

serial number A number assigned to each unit of an item and used to track
the item.

serial number control A system technique for enforcing use of serial
numbers during a material transaction, such as receipt or shipment.

service type An implementation–defined classification of the type of work
performed on a task.

set of books A financial reporting entity that uses a particular chart of
accounts, functional currency and accounting calendar. You must define at least
one set of books for each business location.

settlement date The date before which you cannot apply a prepayment to an
invoice. Payables prevents you from applying a temporary prepayment to an
invoice until on or after the Settlement Date of the prepayment.

SFAS 52 (U.S.) Statement of Financial Accounting Standards number 52,
issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which prescribes
U.S. national accounting standards for the translation, revaluation, and reporting
of foreign currency–denominated amounts. General Ledger conforms to SFAS
52 (U.S.) standards. SFAS 52 (U.S.) guidelines require the use of period–end
exchange rates to translate monetary asset and liability accounts and weighted–
average exchange rates to translate revenue and expense accounts. Historic
rates are used to translate non–monetary asset and liability accounts and equity
accounts. Foreign currency–denominated accounts are revalued using period–
end rates.

Shared-use assets When your accounting entities in the same corporate
book share the use of an asset, you can apportion depreciation expense to each
by percentage or units used.

ship date The date upon which a shippable item is shipped.

Ship-to address The address of the customer who is to receive products or
services listed on the invoice or order.

ship via See freight carrier.

shipment release An actual order of goods and services against a planned
purchase order. The planned purchase order determines the characteristics of
the items on the order. The planned purchase order also has the expected
quantities, prices, and ship–to locations, and delivery dates for the items on the
order. You identify a shipment release by the combination of the planned
purchase order number and the release number. Each planned purchase order

line can have multiple shipments and you can distribute the quantity of each
shipment across multiple accounts.

ship–to location tolerance Whether the receiving location must be the same
as the ship–to location on the purchase order and whether Purchasing prohibits
the transaction, displays a warning message while permitting the transaction, or
permits the transaction without a warning.

short notes A Purchasing feature that lets you provide up to 240 characters
on your documents. Typically, these notes are for your supplier, approver, buyer,
or receiver.

shortdecimal data type Oracle Financial Analyzer variables with a
shortdecimal data type contain decimal numbers with up to 7 significant digits.

shorthand alias A user–defined code or character string that represents a
complete or partial flexfield value. You can define as many aliases as you need
for each key flexfield.

shorthand flexfield entry A quick way to enter key flexfield data using
shorthand aliases (names) that represent valid flexfield combinations or patterns
of valid segment values. Your organization can specify flexfields that will use
shorthand flexfield entry and define shorthand aliases for these flexfields that
represent complete or partial sets of key flexfield segment values.

shorthand window A single–segment customizable field that appears in a
pop–up window when you enter a key flexfield. The shorthand flexfield pop–up
window only appears if you enable shorthand entry for that particular key
flexfield.

shortinteger data type Oracle Financial Analyzer variables with a
shortinteger data type contain whole numbers with values between –32768 and
+32768.

SIC code (Standard Industry Classification Code) A standard classification
created by the government that is used to categorize your customers by industry.

sign–on An Oracle Applications username and password that allows you to
gain access to Oracle Applications. Each sign–on is assigned one or more
responsibilities.

site use See business purpose.

skeleton entry A recurring journal entry the amounts of which change each
accounting period. You simply define a recurring journal entry without amounts,
then enter the appropriate amounts each accounting period. For example, you

might define a skeleton entry to record depreciation in the same accounts every
month, but with different amounts due to additions and retirements.

SMP See: Statutory Maternity Pay.

Social Insurance Number (SIN) A unique number provided by Human
Resources Development Canada (HRDC) to each person commencing
employment in Canada. The number consists of 9 digits in the following format
(###–###–###).

soft limit The default option for an agreement that generates a warning when
you accrue revenue or generate invoices beyond the amount allocated to a
project or task by the agreement, but does not prevent you from running these
processes. See also hard limit.

source The origin of imported invoices. When you enter and import an
expense report in Payables or Web Employees, the source is Payables Expense
Reports. When you import an expense report from Oracle Projects, the source is
Oracle Projects. You can define other sources in Payables for invoices you
import from other accounting systems.

source base unit The unit of measure from which you are converting when
you define your interclass conversions. You define the destination base unit in
terms of the source base unit. Your source base unit is the base unit of a unit
class.

Source Deductions Return (TP 1015.3) A Ministere du Revenu du Quebec
form which each employee must complete. This form is used by the employee to
reduce his or her taxable income at source by claiming eligible credits and also
provides payroll with such important information as current address, birth date,
and SIN. These credits determine the amount of provincial tax to withhold from
the employee’s wages.

source pool The combination of all the source amounts defined by an
allocation rule. See also allocation rule.

source transaction For related transactions, the identifying source
transaction from which the related items are created.

sourcing The action of identifying a purchasing source or supplier for goods
or services. To identify the best sources for your purchases, you can create
RFQs that you send to your suppliers, enter quotations from your supplier, and
evaluate these quotations for each item you purchase.

sourcing rule Specifies how to replenish items in an organization, such as
purchased items in plants. You can also use sourcing rules to override sourcing
that is specified in the bill of distribution assigned to an item.

special information types Categories of personal information, such as skills,
that you define in the Personal Analysis key flexfield.

split amount A dollar amount that determines the number of invoices over
and under this amount, as well as the total amounts remaining. For example,
your company generates invoices that are either $300 or $500. You choose $400
as your split amount so that you can review how much of your open receivables
are comprised of your $300 business and how much corresponds to your $500
business. The split amount appears in the Collection Effectiveness Indicators
Report.

split payment terms A feature used to automatically schedule multiple
payments for an invoice. You can split payments using either a flat amount or a
percentage of the total amount due.

sponsor A funding source. A sponsor can be a government agency, a private
firm, or an individual.

spot exchange rate A daily exchange rate you use to perform foreign
currency conversions. The spot exchange rate is usually a quoted market rate
that applies to the immediate delivery of one currency for another.

spreadsheet interface A program that uploads your actual or budget data
from a spreadsheet into General Ledger.

SSHR Oracle Self–Service Human Resources. An HR management system
using an intranet and web browser to deliver functionality to employees and their
managers.

SSP See: Statutory Sick Pay.

SSP qualifying pattern In the UK, an SSP qualifying pattern is a series of
qualifying days that may be repeated weekly, monthly or some other frequency.
Each week in a pattern must include at least one qualifying day. Qualifying days
are the only days for which Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) can be paid, and you define
SSP qualifying patterns for all the employees in your organization so that their
entitlement to SSP can be calculated.

staged dunning A dunning method in which letters are based on the dunning
levels of past due debit items. This method lets you send dunning letters based
on the number of days since the last letter was sent, rather than the number of
days items are past due. For each dunning letter, you specify the minimum

number of days that must pass before Receivables can increment an item’s
dunning level and include this item in the next dunning letter.

standard balance The usual and customary period–to–date, quarter–to–date,
or year–to–date balance for an account. The standard balance is the sum of an
account’s opening balance, plus all activity for a specified period, quarter, or
year. Unlike an average balance, no additional computations are needed to
arrive at the standard balance.

standard entry A recurring journal entry whose amount is the same each
accounting period. For example, you might define a standard entry for fixed
accruals, such as rent, interest, and audit fees.

standard HRMS security The standard security model. Using this security
model you must log on as a different user to see a different Business Group.
See: Multiple Responsibility Security.

standard link Recurring elements with standard links have their element
entries automatically created for all employees whose assignment components
match the link. See also: Element Link, Recurring Elements.

standard memo lines A type of line that you assign to an invoice when the
item is not an inventory item (for example, ’Consulting Services’). You define
standard memo lines to speed data entry when creating your transactions.

standard note A long note you define for Oracle Manufacturing and can later
reference on as many documents as you want.

standard purchase order A type of purchase order you issue when you order
delivery of goods or services for specific dates and locations for your company.
Each standard purchase order line can have multiple shipments and you can
distribute the quantity of each shipment across multiple accounts. See purchase
order.

standard receipt A receipt routing in which shipments are received into a
receiving location and then delivered in a separate transaction. Standard receipts
can be inspected or transferred before delivery.

Standard Request Submission A standard interface in Oracle Applications in
which you run and monitor your application’s reports and other processes.

standard reversal A payment reversal where Oracle Receivables
automatically updates your general ledger and re–opens the debit items you
closed by reversing the original payment.

standard unit conversion The conversion formula you define between
different units from the same unit class. You define your own standard
conversion.

standard unit cost The unit cost you may use to cost all material and
resource transactions in your inventory and work in process system. This cost
represents the expected cost for a component or assembly for a specified
interval of time. The basis for standard cost may be the cost history, purchase
order history, or predicted changes in future costs.

start organization An organization that defines a set which includes itself and
all subordinate organizations in the organization hierarchy. When you choose a
start organization as a report parameter, all organizations below the start
organization are included in the report.

Statement of Commissions and Expenses for Source Deduction Purposes
(TP 1015.R.13.1) A Ministere du Revenu du Quebec form which allows an
employee who is paid partly or entirely by commissions to pay a constant
percentage of income tax based on his or her estimated commissions for the
year, less allowable business expenses.

Statement of Remuneration and Expenses (TD1X) In Canada, the
Statement of Remuneration and Expenses allows an employee who is paid partly
or entirely by commission to pay a constant percentage of income tax, based on
his or her estimated income for the year, less business-related expenses.

statements Printed documents you send to your customers to communicate
their invoice, debit memo, chargeback, deposit, payment, on–account credit,
credit memo, and adjustment activity.

statistical quantity Statistical information relating to the unit of measure for
an invoice distribution line. For example, when you enter invoices for office rent,
you can enter Square Feet (or whatever Unit of Measure you define in General
Ledger) in the Unit field for an invoice distribution, and the number of square feet
in the Statistical Quantity field for an invoice distribution. Payables includes the
statistical quantity in the journal entries it creates for General Ledger during
posting. You must use General Ledger in order to define a unit of measure and
to be able to enter statistical quantities.

status See customer status.

status check A set of tests Purchasing performs on a purchasing document to
ensure it is in a valid state before performing an approval action.

status line A status line appearing below the message line of a root window
that displays status information about the current window or field. A status line

can contain the following: ^ or v symbols indicate previous records before or
additional records following the current record in the current block; Enter Query
indicates that the current block is in Enter Query mode, so you can specify
search criteria for a query; Count indicates how many records were retrieved or
displayed by a query (this number increases with each new record you access
but does not decrease when you return to a prior record); the <Insert> indicator
or lamp informs you that the current window is in insert character mode; and the
<List> lamp appears when a list of values is available for the current field.

Statutory Maternity Pay In the UK, you pay Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) to
female employees who take time off work to have a baby, providing they meet
the statutory requirements set out in the legislation for SMP.

Statutory Sick Pay In the UK, you pay Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) to
employees who are off work for four or more days because they are sick,
providing they meet the statutory requirements set out in the legislation for SSP.

step–down allocation In Oracle Projects, a set of allocation rules that carries
out the rules (steps) an autoallocation set serially, in the sequence specified in
the set. Usually the result of each step will be used in the next step. Oracle
Workflow controls the flow of the autoallocations set. See also autoallocation set,
parallel allocation.

straight time cost The monetary amount that an employee is paid for straight
time (regular) hours worked.

streamline process See streamline request.

streamline request A process that runs multiple Oracle Projects processes in
sequence. When using streamline processing, you can reschedule your
streamline requests by setting rescheduling parameters. Rescheduling
parameters allow you to configure your processes to run automatically, according
to a defined schedule. When you reschedule a process, the concurrent manager
submits another concurrent request with a status of Pending, and with a start
date according to the parameters you define.

structure A structure is a specific combination of segments for a key flexfield.
If you add or remove segments, or rearrange the order of segments in a key
flexfield, you get a different structure.

submission check A set of tests on a purchasing document to ensure it is
ready to be submitted for approval processing.

submit To send a document to another employee without attempting to
approve or reserve funds for it yourself.

substitute receipt An option that lets you receive predefined acceptable
substitutes for any item.

subtask A hierarchical unit of work. Subtasks are any tasks that you create
under a parent task. Child subtasks constitute the lowest level of your work
breakdown structure; where Oracle Projects looks when processing task charges
and for determining task revenue accrual amounts. See task.

Succession Planning An SSHR function which enables a manager to
prepare a succession plan.

Suitability Matching An SSHR function which enables a manager to compare
and rank a persons competencies.

summarization Processing a project’s cost, revenue, commitment, and
budget information to be displayed in the Project, Task, and Resource Project
Status windows. You must distribute costs for any expenditure items, accrue and
release any revenue, create any commitments, and baseline a budget for your
project before you can view summary project amounts. Formerly known as
accumulation.

summary action An alert action that represents multiple exceptions found in
the database.

summary message A summary message is a message representing one or
more exceptions. The message includes an introductory paragraph followed by
the exceptions listed in a columnar report format.

summary message action A message representing one or more exceptions.
The message may include introductory and closing paragraphs separated by the
exceptions listed in a columnar report format.

summary threshold The number of exceptions Oracle Alert can find before it
changes an alert action from a detail action to a summary action.

supplement An installment type. Additional award funds.

supplier A business or individual that provides goods or services or both in
return for payment. Provider of goods or services.

supplier codes A feature you use to define various kinds of supplier
information, such as Pay Group and Supplier Type. You can create as many
lookup codes for each item as you require. You can add or inactivate Supplier
Codes to meet your changing business needs.

supplier invoice An external supplier’s invoice entered into Oracle Payables.

supplier number A number or combination of numbers and characters that
uniquely identifies a supplier within your system.

supplier product number The number your supplier assigns to an item. You
and your supplier can have different item naming conventions. You can identify
the item with one number (Item) while your supplier identifies this item using
another number (Supplier Product Number). Using and referencing supplier
product numbers helps you speed up your purchasing cycle. By referencing a
number your supplier knows, you can help your suppliers understand your
purchase orders and RFQs better.

supplier purchasing hold A hold condition you place on a supplier to prevent
new purchasing activity on the supplier. You cannot approve purchase orders for
suppliers you placed on hold.

supplier quotation list A list of suppliers who can provide goods or services
you need. You often define a supplier quotation list for an item or class of items.
You can use a supplier quotation list to generate multiple copies of a RFQ
automatically and to manage supplier responses.

supplier site A facility maintained by a supplier for the purpose of conducting
business. A supplier may have one or many supplier sites. Payables maintains
supplier information regarding each supplier site you define for a supplier. You
may define a supplier site as a pay site only, a purchasing site only, both a pay
site and a purchasing site, or as an RFQ only site, in which case it may not have
purchase orders entered against it. See also pay site, purchasing site, RFQ only
site.

supplier sourced component A component item on a bill of material supplied
to work in process directly by a supplier.

suspense account An account that collects costs from labor distribution if
charging instructions at lower levels are missing or if charging instructions at any
level of the scheduling hierarchy are missing. For example, if an employee
receives a Special Production Bonus but no General Ledger account code for
this earning type to debit exists in the Cost Allocation flexfield, the cost of the
bonus goes into the suspense account.

system items flexfield A flexfield that allows you to define the structure of
your item identifier according to your business requirements. You can choose the
number and order of segments (such as product and product line), the length of
each segment, and other characteristics. You can define up to twenty segments
for your item. Also known as Item Flexfield.

system linkage An obsolete term. See expenditure type class.

system profile options Features that allow system administrators and users
to tailor Oracle Labor Distribution to their exact requirements.
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tabbed regions Parts of a window that appear in a stack so that only one is
visible at any time. You click on the tab of the required region to bring it to the top
of the stack.

table–based depreciation method A depreciation method that uses the
table– based method (rates) to calculate depreciation based on the asset life and
the recoverable cost or net book value.

tablespace The area in which an Oracle database is divided to hold tables.

target A project, task, or both that receives allocation amounts, as specified by
an allocation rule. See also source pool.

task A subdivision of project work. Each project can have a set of top level
tasks and a hierarchy of subtasks below each top level task. See also Work
Breakdown Structure, subtask.

task flows A sequence of windows linked by buttons to take you through the
steps required to complete a task, such as hiring a new recruit. System
administrators can create task flows to meet the needs of groups of users.

task organization The organization that is assigned to manage the work on a
task.

task service type See service type.

tax authority A governmental entity that collects taxes on goods and services
purchased by a customer from a supplier. In some countries, there are many
authorities (e.g. state, local and federal governments in the U.S.), while in others
there may be only one. Each authority may charge a different tax rate. Within
Oracle Receivables, tax authority consists of all components of your tax
structure. For example: California.San Mateo.Redwood Shores for
State.County.City. Oracle Receivables adds together the tax rates for all of these
locations to determine a customer’s total tax liability for an invoice.

tax book A depreciation book that you use to track financial information for
your reporting authorities.

tax codes Codes to which you assign sales tax or value–added tax rates.
Oracle Receivables lets you choose state codes as the tax code when you define
sales tax rates for the United States. (Receivables Lookup).

tax engine A collection of programs, user defined system parameters, and
hierarchical flows used by Oracle Receivables to calculate tax.

tax exempt A customer, business purpose, or item to which tax charges do
not apply. See also exemption certificate.

Tax Identification Number In the United States, the number used to identify
1099 suppliers. If a 1099 supplier is an individual, the Tax Identification Number
is the supplier’s social security number. If a 1099 supplier is a corporation, the
Tax Identification Number is also known as the Federal Identification Number.

tax line type A distribution line used to record a sales or VAT tax charge on
an invoice. See also invoice distribution line.

tax location A specific tax location within your tax authority. For example
’Redwood Shores’ is a tax location in the Tax Authority California.San
Mateo.Redwood Shores.

tax tolerances The acceptable degrees of variance you define for the
differences between the calculated tax amount on an invoice and the actual tax
amount on the invoice. The calculated tax amount is the amount of tax on the
invoice as determined by the tax name for the invoice (which has a defined tax
rate) and the amount of the invoice. The actual tax amount is the sum of all the
tax distribution lines. If the variance between these two amounts exceeds the
tolerances you specify, Approval places the invoice on hold.

tax type A feature you use to indicate the type of tax charged by a tax
authority when you define a tax name. Oracle Receivables uses the tax type
during invoice entry to determine the financial impact of the tax. When you enter
a tax of type Sales, Oracle Receivables creates a separate invoice distribution
line for the tax amount. When you enter a tax of type Use, Oracle Receivables
does not create the invoice distribution line.

terminating employees You terminate an employee when he or she leaves
your organization. Information about the employee remains on the system but all
current assignments are ended.

termination rule Specifies when entries of an element should close down for
an employee who leaves your enterprise. You can define that entries end on the
employee’s actual termination date or remain open until a final processing date.

terms and conditions Written stipulations specified by the grantor that are
indicated in an agreement or contract.

terms date basis The method that determines the date from which Payables
calculates an invoice scheduled payment. The terms date basis can be Current,
Goods Received, Invoice, or Invoice Received.

territory A feature that lets you categorize your customers or salespeople. For
example, you can categorize your customers by geographic region or industry
type.

territory flexfield A key flexfield you can use to categorize customers and
salespersons.

three–way matching Purchasing performs three–way matching to verify the
purchase order, receipt, and invoice information match within tolerance.

Time and Materials (T&M) A revenue accrual and billing method that
calculates revenue and billings as the sum of the amounts from each individual
expenditure item. The expenditure item amounts are calculated by applying a
rate or markup to each item.

timecard A weekly submission of labor expenditure items. You can enter
timecards online, or as part of a pre–approved batch.

timeout The amount of time during which a notification activity must be
performed before the Workflow Engine transitions to an error process or an
alternate activity if one is defined.

TIN See Tax Identification Number.

Tips An SSHR user assistance component that provides information about a
field.

tolerance A feature you use to specify acceptable matching and tax
variances. You can specify either percentage–based or amount–based
tolerances or both for quantity and item price variances between matched
invoices and purchase orders. You can also specify percentage–based or
amount–based tolerances for your tax variances. Approval uses the tolerance
levels you define to determine whether to hold or approve invoices for payment.
See also Matching Tolerances, Tax Tolerances.

tolerance percentage The percentage amount by which customers are
allowed to exceed their credit limit and still pass the credit check.

toolbar The toolbar is a collection of iconic buttons that each perform a
specific action when you choose it. Each toolbar button replicates a commonly–
used menu item. Depending on the context of the current field or window, a
toolbar button can be enabled or disabled. You can display a hint for an enabled
toolbar button on the message line by holding your mouse steadily over the
button. The toolbar generally appears below the main menu bar in the root
window.

total quantity accepted The total number of accepted items for the receipt
line.

total requisition limit The maximum amount you authorize an employee to
approve for a specific requisition.

transaction batch sources See batch source.

transaction code In Oracle Cash Management, you define transaction codes
that your bank uses to identify different types of transactions on its statements.
For example, your bank may use transaction codes T01, T02, and T03 to
represent debit, credit, and stop payment. In Oracle Payables, a feature you use
to describe bank transactions prior to initiating automatic reconciliation from a
bank tape. You define transaction codes based on those your bank provides, and
Payables uses them to load information from your bank tape. For example, your
bank may use transaction codes T01, T02, and T03 to represent debit, credit,
and stop payment.

transaction currency The currency in which a transaction originally takes
place. For processing purposes, the reimbursement currency in an expense
report is the transaction currency.

transaction type In Oracle Assets, the kind of action performed on an asset.
Transaction types include addition, adjustment, transfer, and retirement. In
Oracle Cash Management, transaction types determine how Cash Management
matches and accounts for transactions. Cash Management transaction types
include Miscellaneous Receipt, Miscellaneous Payment, Non–Sufficient Funds
(NSF), Payment, Receipt, Rejected, and Stopped. In Oracle Receivables, an
invoice control feature that lets you specify default values for invoice printing,
posting to the general ledger, and updating open receivable balances.

transactions Actual or encumbrance expenditure items for a particular project
charged against an award. These include invoices, debit memos, credit memos,
deposits, guarantees and chargebacks entered with a GL date that is between
the beginning and ending GL dates. The transactions are displayed in the
Transaction Register in the Functional Currency column. See also batch source.

transfer to GL The process of transferring translated accounting entries to
General Ledger. Entries are not shown in any General Ledger account balance.
When the entries are transferred to General Ledger, the subledger system marks
the entries in the subledger tables as posted. Entries are posted only when the
transferred entries are imported to General Ledger.

transferred date The date on which you transfer costs, revenue, and invoices
to other Oracle Applications.

transition The relationship that defines the completion of one activity and the
activation of another activity within a process. In a process diagram, the arrow
drawn between two activities represents a transition.

transmission format A transmission format defines what data your bank is
sending in the bank file, and how that data is organized. In Oracle Receivables,
you define a transmission format that identifies what types of records you want to
import, what data is in each type of record, and the position in which that data is
located on the record.

two–level master scheduling A technique that facilitates the forecast
explosion of product groupings into related master production schedules. The
top–level MPS is usually defined for a product line, family or end product while
the second–level is defined for key options and components.

two–way matching Purchasing performs two–way matching to verify that
purchase order and invoice information match within tolerance.
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UN number An identifier for a hazardous material. Each Identification number
has a description. Identification numbers are not unique. For instance, the same
UN Number may correspond to 2 closely related but different types of materials.

unapplied payment The status of a payment for which you can identify the
customer, but you have not applied or placed on account all or part of the
payment. For example, you receive a check for $1200.00 and you apply it to an
open debit item for $1000.00. The remaining $200.00 is unapplied until you either
apply the payment to a debit item or place the amount On Account.

unbilled receivables The amount of open receivables that have not yet been
billed for a project. Oracle Projects calculates unbilled receivables using the
following formula: (Unbilled Receivables = Revenue Accrued – Amount Invoice).

unearned discounts Discounts your customers are allowed to take if they pay
for their invoices after the discount date. (The discount date is determined by the

payment terms.) You can specify at the system level whether you want to allow
customers to take unearned discounts. See also payment terms.
unearned revenue Revenue received and recorded as a liability or revenue
before the revenue has been earned by providing goods or services to a
customer. Oracle Projects calculates unearned revenue using the following
formula: (Unearned Revenue = Amount Invoiced – Revenue Accrued).

unidentified payment The status of a payment for which the customer is
unknown. Oracle Receivables retains unidentified payments for you to process
further.

unit of measure The unit that the quantity of an item is expressed. In
Oracle Assets, a label for the production quantities for a units of production
asset. The unit used to measure production amounts. Each unit of measure
belongs to a unit of measure class. In Oracle Payables, you can define a unit of
measure in Oracle General Ledger and see the unit of measure information in
Payables when matching an invoice to a purchase order. For example, you may
want to define a unit of measure for Square Feet and then, when you enter
invoices for office rent, you can track the square footage in addition to the dollar
amount of the invoice. See also statistical quantity. In Oracle Projects, a unit of
measure records quantities or amounts of an expenditure item. For example, if
you specify the unit Miles when you define an expenditure type for personal car
use, Oracle Projects calculates the cost of using a personal car by mileage.

unit of measure class A group of units of measure and their corresponding
base unit of measure. The standard unit classes are Length, Weight, Volume,
Area, Time, and Pack.

unit of measure classes Groups of units of measure with similar
characteristics. Typical units of measure classes are Volume and Length.

unit of measure conversions Numerical factors that enable you to perform
transactions in units other than the primary unit of the item being transacted.

units of production depreciation method A depreciation method that
calculates the depreciation for an asset based on the actual production or use for
that period. This method uses the asset’s actual production for the period
divided by the capacity of the asset to determine depreciation. Oracle Assets
multiplies this fraction by the asset’s recoverable cost.

unordered receipt A site option that lets you receive an unordered item. You
can later batch an unordered item to an existing purchase order, or add it to a
new purchase order.

unrealized gain or loss The change in value, in functional currency units, of a
foreign currency–denominated account, measured over an accounting period.
See also realized gain or loss.

UOM See unit of measure.

US Sales and Use tax Levied on the end consumer, prior stages of supply are
exempt by certificate awarded by the state of the recipient. Government and
other organizations are exempt by statue. Many taxes may apply to a single
transaction, including state, County, City, Transit, and Muni tax. Monthly returns
to each state are required only if the operating company is registered for
business within that state. Monthly reporting of Sales and Use tax can be on an
accrual or cash basis.

usage An attribute of your standard and one–time notes that determines how
Purchasing should handle them. See also non–labor resource.

usage cost rate override The cost rate assigned to a particular non–labor
resource and non–labor organization which overrides the rate assigned to its
expenditure type.

usage logs Usage logs record the utilization of company assets on projects as
the asset is used.

use tax A tax that you pay directly to a tax authority instead of to the supplier.
Suppliers do not include use tax on their invoices. You sometimes owe use tax
for goods or services you purchased outside of, but consumed (used) within the
territory of a tax authority. Use taxes are liabilities to the buyer of goods and
services. You can define a tax name for use taxes. When you enter a use tax
name on an invoice, Payables does not create an invoice distribution or general
ledger journal entry for the tax.

User Assistance Components SSHR online help comprising tips and
instructions.

user balances Users can create, update and delete their own balances,
including dimensions and balance feeds. See also: Balances.

user procedures Oracle Receivables provides you with a report set so that
you can run through your concurrent manager to generate the reports from the
rollforward process. You must specify the report parameters as you are
prompted. You must also specify the same GL Date range for all of the reports in
the set except for the Aging reports. The Aging reports require that you declare
an As Of Date. The As Of Date represents the date that Oracle Receivables uses
to determine the balance of the transaction. Oracle Receivables determines the
balance by taking the current balance of an item, and then reversing any

transactions against this item that occurred after the As Of Date. You must enter
the beginning GL Date of your GL Date range to determine your beginning
balance. You must enter the ending GL Date of your GL Date range to determine
the ending balance. When the process completes, you should verify the amounts
on the reports.

user profile A set of changeable options that affect the way your applications
run. You can change the value of a user profile option at any time.

user profile options Features that allow system administrators and users to
tailor Oracle HRMS to their exact requirements. See also: Responsibility,
Security Profile.
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value Data you enter in a parameter. A value can be a date, a name, or a
code, depending on the parameter.

value added tax (VAT) A tax on the supply of goods and services paid for by
the consumer, but collected at each stage of the production and distribution
chain. The collection and payment of value added tax amounts is usually
reported to tax authorities on a quarterly basis and is not included in the revenue
or expense of a company. With Oracle Receivables, you control the tax names
on which you report and the reference information you want to record. You can
also request period–to–date value added tax reports.

value basis An attribute you associate with a line type to indicate whether you
order items for this line type by quantity or amount.

value set A group of values and related attributes you assign to an account
segment or to a descriptive flexfield segment. Values in each value set have the
same maximum length, validation type, alphanumeric option, and so on.

variable An Oracle Financial Analyzer database object that holds raw data.
Data can be numerical, such as sales or expense data, or textual, such as
descriptive labels for products.

variable text Variable text is used when dialog boxes or their components are
unlabeled or have labels that change dynamically based on their current context.
The wording of variable text does not exactly match what you see on your
screen.

VAT See value added tax.

vendor See supplier.

viewer (SSHR) A person with view only access to an appraisal. An appraising
manager or an employee in a 360 Degree Self appraisal can appoint view only
access to an appraisal.

void check stock A feature you use to void a range of blank check stock.

voucher number A number used as a record of a business transaction. A
voucher number may be used to review invoice information, in which case it
serves as a unique reference to a single invoice.
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waiting days In the UK, statutory Sick Pay is not payable for the first three
qualifying days in period of incapacity for work (PIW), which are called waiting
days. They are not necessarily the same as the first three days of sickness, as
waiting days can be carried forward from a previous PIW if the linking interval
between the two PIWs is less than 56 days.

warrant An order by authorized legislative or executive officials directing the
treasurer to pay a specific sum to order or to the bearer. It may be payable upon
demand, in which case it usually circulates the same as a bank check; or it may
be payable only out of certain revenues, when and if received, in which case it
does not circulate as freely.

WCB Account Number In Canada, this is the account number of the
provincially administered Worker’s Compensation Board that the employer would
use to make remittances. There would be a unique number for each of the
provincially controlled boards i.e. Workplace Safety & Insurance Board of
Ontario, CSST, etc.

weighted–average exchange rate An exchange rate that General Ledger
automatically calculates by multiplying journal amounts for an account by the
translation rate that applies to each journal amount. You choose whether the rate
that applies to each journal amount is based on the inverse of the daily
conversation rate or on an exception rate you enter manually. General Ledger
uses the weighted–average rate, instead of the period–end, average, or historical
rates, to translate balances for accounts assigned a weighted–average rate type.

weighted–average translation rate The rate General Ledger uses to
translate your functional currency into a foreign currency for your transactions.
Payables provides transaction information based on daily rates you enter in the
system and rate exceptions you define for individual transactions. This
transaction information allows General Ledger to calculate an accurate
weighted–average translation rate.

window A box around a set of related information on your screen. Many
windows can appear on your screen simultaneously and can overlap or appear
adjacent to each other. Windows can also appear embedded in other windows.
You can move a window to a different location on your screen.

window title A window title at the top of each window indicates the name of
the window, and occasionally, context information pertinent to the content of the
window. The context information, contained in parenthesis, can include the
organization, set of books, or business group that the window contents is
associated with.

WIP See work in process.

withholding In some cases, the Internal Revenue Service requires companies
to withhold a portion of payments to 1099 suppliers who meet specific criteria.
These payments are for federal income tax. Before withholding any payments,
you need to inform the supplier in writing. You then send the accumulated
withholding amount, with another window, to the Internal Revenue Service once
per quarter.

withholding tax group You can assign one or more Withholding Tax type tax
names to a withholding tax group. Assign a withholding tax group to an invoice or
distribution line and use Oracle Payables to automatically withhold tax for
expense reports and supplier invoices.

withholding tax rate The rate at which Payables withholds tax for an invoice
distribution line that has a Withholding Tax type tax name assigned to it.

work breakdown structure (WBS) The breakdown of project work into tasks.
These tasks can be broken down further into subtasks, or hierarchical units of
work.

Work Choices Also known as Work Preferences, Deployment Factors, or
Work Factors. These can affect a person’s capacity to be deployed within an
enterprise, such willingness to travel or relocate. You can hold work choices at
both job and position level, or at person level.

work in process An item in various phases of production in a manufacturing
plant. This includes raw material awaiting processing up to final assemblies
ready to be received into inventory.

work site The customer site where project or task work is performed.

work structures The fundamental definitions of organizations, jobs, positions,
grades, payrolls and other employee groups within your enterprise that provide
the framework for defining the work assignments of your employees.

Worker’s Compensation Board In Canada, this is a provincially governed
legislative body which provides benefits to employees upon injury, disability, or
death while performing the duties of the employer. Worker’s Compensation
Board premiums are paid entirely by the employer.

workflow An Oracle application which uses charts to manage approval
processes and in addition is used in SSHR to configure display values of
sections within a web page and instructions.

Workflow Definitions Loader A concurrent program that lets you upload and
download workflow definitions between a flat file and a database.

Workflow Engine The Oracle Workflow component that implements a
workflow process definition. The Workflow Engine manages the state of all
activities, automatically executes functions, maintains a history of completed
activities, and detects error conditions and starts error processes. The Workflow
Engine is implemented in server PL/SQL and activated when a call to an engine
API is made. See also Account Generator, activity, function, item type.

write–off See invoice write–off, revenue write–off.

write–off limits Limits that you set at the system and user levels for creating
receipt write–offs. Oracle Receivables enforces the limits that you define when
users write–off receipts. Users can only write off receipt balances within their
user limit for a given currency and the total cumulative write–off amount cannot
exceed the system level write–off limit.

write–on An event type classification that causes revenue to accrue and
generates an invoice for the amount of the write–on.
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XpenseXpress See expense report.
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year average–to–date The average of the end–of–day balances for a related
range of days within a year.

year–to–date depreciation The depreciation taken for an asset so far this
fiscal year.
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Zengin The standard file format for bank transfers in Japan. The profile option
AR: Alternate Name Search determines whether you can transfer this type of
bank file into Receivables using AutoLockbox. The profile option AR: Zengin
Character Set lets you choose the character set to use when importing bank files
of this type.

zero work day Zero work day situations occur when an employee assignment
is suspended or terminated during a previous payroll period and the assignment
is inactive during the payroll period being imported into Labor Distribution. Zero
work day situations also occur when an employee is hired in a payroll period on a
non-business day and there are no more business days in that payroll period
after the hire date.

zoom A forms feature that is obsolete in GUI versions of Oracle Applications.
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