New R12 CGAC & FV Consolidated Patches, Good, But…
Federal Development released a patch (9307787) for R12 in late December that provides a number of Federal Financials enhancements focused on better accommodating the OMB Common Government Accounting Classification (CGAC) attributes. The most obvious enhancements included are changes to the Treasury Symbols forms and related functionality. There is certainly more to the changes and a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )11i ‘Program – Restore Journals’ resolves GL Journals Stuck with Funds Reservation In Process
Oracle released a new 11i concurrent program a few months back which is meant to resolve issues with GL Journals when the gl journal batch is perpetually stuck with Funds Reservation “In Process”. I’ve dealt with this issue numerous times and from my experience, the issue normally has been caused by getting a connection/network hiccup while in the process of reserving Funds [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )11i10 Patch 8448145: Allows entry of FV Budget Execution Entries for Expired Appropriations
I wanted to share an enhancement that we got Oracle to deliver a ways back for USAF DEAMS & share that the patch is available for download. We have a requirement to enter Budget Authority increases/decreases, even after Appropriations are expired. This is because we need to move money around to cover various Expired Year [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Patch 5200606 Impacts FACTS II Beginning Balances Amounts
Wanted to relay a tip I got from Kim Fix (DOI-NBC) on a patch that’s causing some issues with the FACTS II outputs. It seems that patch 5200606 causes a problem in that beginning balances are no longer showing on some of the FACTS II outputs. It looks like this patch modifies FACTS II functionality [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Validate updated version of FVBEFDCB.pls is installed to leverage ‘FV: Enable funds check / reservation based on the line level’ profile option functionality
I’ve run into 2 instances just recently related to the profile option ‘FV: Enable funds check / reservation based on the line level’. One is where we’re doing testing on my current USAF implementation (discovered the profile option wasn’t having any effect) and the 2nd was in helping a different agency through some year-end stuff. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Treating Budgetary Accounts as Balance Sheet Accounts for Year-End Rollover
In-case anyone might have missed it, Oracle has provided functionality to streamline the Federal year-end process a bit. Oracle released patch 5200606 in June 2006 that allows for budgetary accounts to be automatically rolled over (just as asset & liability accounts have always been) as part of the year-end. This mitigates the necessity of running [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )11i10 FV Status of Funds Availability Patch 7327551 Corrects Inconsistent Results
For those out there who have been wanting to utilize the Fed Admin Status of Funds Availability Reports more (Concurrent Program Name: Status of Funds Availability Process), but have been frustrated by inconsistent results, we recently worked with Oracle Support to resolve some issues around the inconsistencies. As a result, Oracle recently published bug/patch 7327551 [...]
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