General Ledger Accounting Configurations in Oracle Fusion Applications

Every ledger must have the "4Cs":
- Chart of Accounts  (CoA) - helps organize the data
- must be associated with A Calendar - the Calendar identifies the time frame
- the Currency provides a financial measurement
- Convention - Accounting Convention - the statutory requirements of how we conduct our accounting.

Whether or not we're talking about a primary ledger or a secondary ledger, they must have these elements.




General Ledger Accounting Cycle


  1. Open Period
  2. Create Journals Manually / Import Journals from SLA / Reverse Journals
  3. Post Journals to Update GL Balances and the Cube
  4. Review GL Balances and Reconcile Balance Sheets
  5. Run Revaluation for Foreign Currencies and Translate Balances (i.e. from UK to US)
  6. Perform Consolidations 
  7. Review GL Balances and Reconcile Balance Sheets
  8. Run Financial Reports
  9. Close Period

Changing the Home Page Layout in Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Fusion Applications can provide three options for a home page layout: Newsfeed, Panel, and Banner. These are all set by the System Administrator.

News Feed Layout




Has the Analytics page section readily available.

Panel Layout




Banner Layout:




Has the Page Control dots to show the user's Infolets.

Changing the Home Page Layout

For you to change the Layouts or Appearance, the System Administrator would need to go into a "Sandbox" environment. Any changes applied to this Sandbox will only be visible to the user logged in and would need to be "Published" before all users in the system can see the changes. Do note that the Sandbox would only be available to the "System Administrator" Role. Below are the steps on how to change the Home Page Layout:


  1. Log in to a User that has a "System Administrator" Role.
  2. Go into a Sandbox by clicking on the Logged in User's name and click on "Manage Sandbox"
  3. You can either create a new Sandbox or activate an existing Sandbox.
  4. Click on the Navigator and select the "Appearance" menu
  5. Select the desired Layout and click "Apply". Wait for it to take effect.
  6. Click on the Home icon to navigate to the Welcome Springboard and see the applied home page layout.
  7. You may now publish the Sandbox and the desired layout will now be applied to the production environment.

Below is a video demonstration for further clarity:



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