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11i NEW FEATURES INFIXED ASSETS

An Oracle White Paper

February 2003


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White Paper Title Page 2

11i NEW FEATURES IN FIXED ASSETS

O verview ............................................................……………………………. 4 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 4 Minipack 11i.FA.A (Patch No. 1345671) ........................................................ 4

Bonus Rule Depreciation................................................................................ 4 Bonus Rules Scenarios................................................................................ 5 Bonus Rules Accounts................................................................................ 5 Enhanced Unplanned Depreciation ......................................................... 5 Major Features ............................................................................................. 6 Re-Runnable Create Journal Entries ........................................................ 7

Minipack 11i.FA.B (Patch No. 1405177) ........................................................ 8 Amortize Net Book Value Over Remaining Useful Life........................... 8

Account Generator Enhancements .............................................................. 8 Including The Function ............................................................................. 8 New Profile Options .................................................................................. 9

Minipack 11i.FAC (Patch No. 1483543) ......................................................... 10 Future Effective Dated Asset Transactions Enhancement ....................... 10

Future Transactions .................................................................................... 10 Minipack 11i.FA.D (Patch No. 1509971 )....................................................... 11

Mrc: Rollback Depreciation Enhancements For Mrc ................................ 11 Minipack 11i.FA.E (Patch No. 1584277) ........................................................ 11

Automatic Lease Payments: Payables Integration....................................... 11

New Messages For Tax Interface.................................................................. 12

New Messages Needed For The Validation In Tax Book Upload Interface. 12 Enhancements To Transaction Approval .................................................... 12 Rollback Depreciation Enhancements For Mrc Enabled Books ............. 13

Enhancement To Add New Accounts To Fagda Processing ................... 13 Tax Interface Enhancement........................................................................... 14

Minipack 11i.FA.F (Patch No. 1794240)......................................................... 14 Enhancement For Account Generator Errors ............................................ 14

New Message Fa_Post_Gl_Invalid_Period ................................................. 15 Enhancement To The Discard/Purge Process Of A Hierarchy Batch... 15

New Tools Menu Function Security In Prepare Mass Additions ............ 15

End User Steps To Disable 'Post All', 'Hold All', And 'Delete All':.. 15

Asset Reclass Api For Network Logistics .................................................... 16 Enhancement For Annual Rounding ........................................................... 17 Adding Mass External Retirements To Core Oracle Assets ..................... 17

Minipack 11i.FA.H (Patch No. 2115788)........................................................ 18 Enhancement To Mass Transfers To Accept Partial Values For 'To Expense Account' 18 Modifications To Transaction Approval...................................................... 18

Minipack 11i.FA.I (Patch No.2117740)........................................................... 18


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Creating One-Off Patch Of New Lease Forms.......................................... 18 Implementing One-Step Rollback Journal Entries ..................................... 18 Enhancing Basic Messaging ........................................................................... 19

Minipack 11i.FA.J (Patch No.2230269)........................................................... 19 Facility To Enter Sale Proceeds Or Cost Of Removals............................. 19

Fixing Vendor Sites Lov In Non-Multi-Org Setup .................................... 19 FA Depreciable Basis Features ...................................................................... 19

Depreciable Basis Formula -- New Feature ............................................ 19

New Message For Clarifying Large Rollback Segment .............................. 19

Minipack 11i.FA.K (Patch No.2398923)......................................................... 20 Parallelized Mass Transactions ...................................................................... 20

New User Interface For Mass Retirements ................................................. 20 Enhanced Mass Change.................................................................................. 20 MRC Inquiry Window Hook To Financial Inquiry Form......................... 21 Depreciation Override Need.......................................................................... 21

Depreciation Override -- New Feature.................................................... 21 Conclusion............................................................................................................. 21


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NEW FEATURES AT EACH MINIPACK LEVEL – 11i

OVERVIEW

This White paper is intended for Analysts and users who would like to understand the newfeatures and/or enhancements added at each minipack level.

INTRODUCTION

Every minipack released by Oracle contains the solution to the bugs reported internally and bythe analysts but also includes the new features or enhancements to the existing features.

This White paper is intended to briefly describe the new features and enhancements at eachminipack level.

Minipack 11i.FA.G (patch no. 1974812) is obsoleted and replaced with 11i.FA.H (patch no.2115788). Hence any new features or functionalities included in minipack G is discussed along with Minipack H.

MINIPACK 11I.FA.A (PATCH NO. 1345671)

Bonus Rule Depreciation

Depreciation can be computed based on the Bonus Rule defined under Depreciation Method. With the bonus rules enhancements, Oracle Assets will be able to support German Special

Depreciation

The Mass Change feature can now support Italian Accelerated Depreciation

Japanese Special Depreciation can also be supported with the enhancements made in thisminipack.

The following enhancements are covered:

Expansion of the situat ions in which Bonus Rules can be used.

Tracking Bonus Rule depreciation in separate accounts.


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Bonus Rules Scenarios

The following uses of bonus rules are allowed:

You can use bonus rules with corporate books as well as tax books.

You can use bonus rules with straight-line and table-based depreciation methods. You can use negative bonus rule rates.

Bonus Rules Accounts

You can set up Oracle Assets to charge bonus depreciation expense to a different account fromthat of normal depreciation expense.

You can also set up Oracle Assets to charge accumulated depreciation from bonus rules to aspecial “bonus depreciation reserve” account, instead of including it in the standard accumulateddepreciation account.

Enhanced Unplanned Depreciation

Unplanned depreciation is a feature used primarily to comply with special depreciationaccounting rules in Germany and the Netherlands. However, you also can use this feature tohandle unusual accounting situations in which you need to adjust the net book value and

accumulated depreciation amounts for an asset without affecting its cost.

In 11.0, unplanned depreciation is supported for the following methods:

Rate source Depreciation Basis

STL Cost

Flat Cost

Production N/A

With this minipack, Unplanned depreciation can now use Flat rate and NBV based methods as well.

Alternative Flat Rate Depreciation Method?? – Does this mean that we now support thisDepreciation method also, if so, add to statement above.


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Major Features

Using Flat-rate methods, the calculation basis for the depreciation is set to the following :

CalculationBasis

Timing Amount

Cost Initial Recoverable Cost

Cost After Expensed Adjustment Recoverable Cost

Cost After Amortized Adjustments with Amortization Start Date in current period

No change (it will continue touse the same amount that wasused before the adjustment).

Cost After Amortized Adjustments with Amortization Start Date not in current period

NBV as of the amortizationstart date

NBV Initial NBV

NBV After Expensed Adjustment NBV as of the current period

NBV After Amortized Adjustments with Amortization Start Date in current period

NBV as of the amortizationstart date (current period)

NBV After Amortized Adjustments with Amortization Start Date not in current period

NBV as of the amortizationstart date

Once you enable this feature, the calculation basis will be modified to the following: - How doyou enable this feature?

CalculationBasis

Timing Amount

Cost Initial Recoverable Cost

Cost After Expensed Adjustment Recoverable Cost

Cost After Amortized Adjustments with Amortization Start Date in current period

Recoverable Cost

Cost After Amortized Adjustments with Amortization Start Date not in current period

Recoverable Cost

NBV Initial NBV (Recoverable Cost)

NBV After Expensed Adjustment NBV as of the beginning of

the current fiscal yearNBV After Amortized Adjustments with

Amortization Start Date in current periodNBV as of the beginning ofthe fiscal year of theamortization start date

NBV After Amortized Adjustments with Amortization Start Date not in current period

NBV as of the beginning ofthe fiscal year of the


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amortization start date

Re-runnable Create Journal Entries

Oracle Assets creates journal entries for depreciation expense, asset cost, and other accounts.Oracle Assets automatically creates transaction journal entries for your general ledger, if youhave set up the journal entry category for that transaction type for that book.

Oracle Assets creates journal entries that summarize the activity for each account for eachtransaction type. Oracle Assets allows you to run the Create Journal Entries program multipletimes before closing the depreciation period. You can post journal entries to Oracle GeneralLedger for all transactions that have occurred thus far in an open depreciation period. Ifadditional transactions occur during the open period, you need to rerun Depreciation, then youcan rerun the Create Journal Entries program. Oracle Assets also allows you to roll back journal

entries in an open depreciation period, as long as those journals have not already been posted toGeneral Ledger. After you make the necessary adjustments, you run the Create Journal Entriesprogram once again and post the journals to General Ledger.


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MINIPACK 11I.FA.B (PATCH NO. 1405177)

Amortize Net Book Value over Remaining Useful Life

Oracle Assets now supports straight-line depreciation over remaining useful life. This methodemploys the net book value as the depreciable basis. Assets subjected to this method ofdepreciation in legacy systems can continue to use this method in Oracle Assets. This featureeliminates the effort of changing the cost basis during legacy asset data conversions.

Account Generator Enhancements

Including the Function

Oracle Assets uses Account Generator which is implemented using workflow rules andprocedures to generate code combinations for all the account types. Some of the account typesfor which Oracle Assets creates code combinations are Asset Cost Account, Asset Clearing Account, Depreciation Expense Account, and Depreciation Reserve Account etc. Oracle Assetsutilizes a concurrent program called Generate Accounts, which generates all the codecombinations for all the distributions in a book and stores it in a table calledFA_DISTRIBUTION_ACCOUNTS. Account Generator is called repeatedly to generate thecombinations for each account type and subsequently all transactions and concurrent programs,such as Depreciation and Create Journal Entries, check if a combination already exists inFA_DISTRIBUTION_ACCOUNTS and uses the combination if it exists.

There are performance issues associated with using Account Generator. Generate Accounts was designed to alleviate the performance issues by retrieving the needed account from theFA_DISTRIBUTION_ACCOUNTS table instead of calling Workflow for each transaction. Itcan be run ahead of critical month end processes thereby significantly speeding up month endclose. The code to generate code combinations using Account Generator in Oracle Assets iscontained in the package FA_GCCID_PKG, which is shipped in the file FAFBGCB.pls. Thispackage contains a function called fafbgcc, which calls the workflow process to generate codecombinations. Oracle Assets will now provide a PL/SQL package and stub function, which acustomer can modify to generate code combinations without using Account Generator.

A profile option, FA: Use FA_CUSTOM_GEN_CCID_PKG to Generate CCID, whenenabled will allow FA_GCCID_PKG.fafbgcc to call the stub package instead of calling Oracle's Workflow to generate code combinations. All the logic required to generate a code combinationmust be placed in this stub package. No changes must be made to the logic inFA_GCCID_PKG.


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New Profile Options

FA: Use Recoverable Cost for FLAT rate COST based method

FA:Generate Asset Level Account

FA:Generate Book Level Accounts

FA:Generate Category Level Accounts

FA: Use Recoverable Cost for FLAT rate COST based method

Setting the Profile Option to 'YES' at the Application Level will result in Recoverable Costbeing used for depreciation calculation for dated amortized adjustments and as the depreciablebasis for periodic depreciation for assets assigned to a FLAT rate COST based method. Whenthis profile option is not set or set to 'NO', Oracle Assets will set the depreciable basis to theNet Book Value, which is the standard functionality without this profile option.

Only when the profile is set to 'YES' will Recoverable Cost be used as depreciable basis. Besure that setting this meets your requirements. Once you set this profile option to 'YES', thisshould not be changed. Otherwise recoverable cost or net book value will be used as thedepreciable interchangeably based on the value of the profile at the time of the adjustment. Thisis not desirable and must not be done.

This is relevant for FLAT rate COST based methods and amortized adjustments on assetsassigned to such methods.

FA:Generate Asset Level Account

FA:Generate Book Level Accounts

FA:Generate Category Level Accounts

Setting any of these profiles to 'NO' will prevent the Generate Accounts Program FAGDA)from pre-generating any of the associated accounts. In general, they should be left NULL or setto 'YES'. The value 'NO' should only be used in cases where the FA Workflow has beencustomized so that one or more accounts for a single asset and distribution may change overtime. For example, when a segment value is determined by an asset's retirement type which can

not be known at the time of addition.

NOTE: Excluding one or more account types from processing by the Generate Accountsprogram will have significant performance impacts as Workflow will be called for each accountas needed. This is especially important in the case of mass transactions and batch processingsuch as Depreciation. By default, these profiles should be left as NULL or set to 'YES'.


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MINIPACK 11I.FA.C (PATCH NO. 1483543)

FUTURE EFFECTIVE DATED ASSET TRANSACTIONS ENHANCEMENT

Future Transactions

Oracle Assets supports one open asset accounting period. However, Oracle Assets allows you toenter transactions for future accounting periods. When you enter a future transaction, it istemporarily stored in the FA_MASS_ADDITIONS interface table. This pending transactiondoes not become effective until the transaction date for the transaction is within the currentopen period in Oracle Assets. For example, if the current open period is May 2000, and youenter an adjustment transaction with a transaction date of 01-Sep-2000, the transaction does notbecome effective until Sep-2000 is the current open period.

When you open a new accounting period, the Process Pending Transactions concurrentprogram runs and automatically processes all pending transactions with a transaction date thatfalls within the open period. You do not need to enter any further transaction detail to completethe transaction in the effective open period.

The Process Pending Transactions program looks up the transaction date of each pendingtransaction. If the transaction date falls within the current open period of the corporate book,the program processes that transaction. Any exceptions are written to the log file.

It is not necessary to enter future transactions in chronological order. The Process Pending Transactions program automatically processes pending transactions in chronological order.

You can also add assets from invoice lines from Oracle Payables, and provide a future dateplaced in service. These invoices must first be posted to future General Ledger periods fromOracle Payables and satisfy all other mass addition criteria to be successfully interfaced fromOracle Payables to Oracle Assets.

Refer Note : 125950.1

In the Mass Additions Prepare (FAXMADDS) form, it now gives customers the option to enterfuture lines. The Mass Additions Post (FAMAPT) program will only pick up lines in the currentperiod. So, Development has added an additional Mass Addition Post job in the Depreciationrequest set. When Depreciation runs and opens the next period, a Mass Additions Post job willautomatically be submitted.


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This additional Mass Additions Post program is the Process Pending Transactions (FAPPT)program.

Refer : Oracle Assets Future Transactions Documentation Supplement

MINIPACK 11I.FA.D (PATCH NO. 1509971 )

MRC: ROLLBACK DEPRECIATION ENHANCEMENTS FOR MRC

In order to run depreciation in the primary set of books in a MRC environment, it is necessaryto run depreciation and close the period in the reporting sets of books. Once the period isclosed, the customer is unable to rollback depreciation. It is a very common situation that acustomer would not know that he needed to rollback depreciation in his reporting set of booksuntil he ran depreciation in his primary set of books. So we need the ability to be able torollback depreciation in all sets of books prior to closing the primary set of books period

MINIPACK 11I.FA.E (PATCH NO. 1584277)

AUTOMATIC LEASE PAYMENTS: PAYABLES INTEGRATION

Manage your asset leases from Oracle Assets to ensure on-time payments. You can selectspecific payment lines for multiple leases and export them to the Oracle Payables system. You

also have the flexibility to direct these payments to different accounts at the payment line level.

The basic functionality of Automatic Lease Payments is to enable users to integrate the Oracle Assets Lease Payments information with Oracle Accounts Payable. By automating the leasepayment functionality, users can more accurately and easily manage lease payments and reducecost by eliminating administrative overhead.

Automatic Lease Payments implementation requires Oracle Forms 6 for modifications to theLease forms, Rxi reports and Oracle Reports for preview and review reports, and a PL/SQL

program to populate information from Oracle Assets into Accounts Payable interface tables.Once the information is added to their tables, Accounts Payable can run the AP Invoice Importprogram and the invoices are created.

Automatic Lease Payments for Oracle Assets fits into the following business flow:


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Setup LeaseCreate new asset &

associate with lease

Send lease

payment info to

AP for invoice

creation each

period

Setup lease payment

schedule

Figure 1 : Automatic Lease Payaments for Oracle Assets

NEW MESSAGES FOR TAX INTERFACE

New messages needed for the validation in Tax Book Upload Interface.

FA_NO_ITC_FOR_CEILING - You cannot use an ITC ceiling without assigning ITC.

FA_NO_RESERVE_FOR_PROD - You cannot upload ytd or reserve information for UOPassets.

FA_NO_TAX_UPLOAD_CIP - You cannot upload tax information for CIP assets.

FA_NO_TAX_UPLOAD_DEPRN_ASSETS - You cannot upload tax information for assets, which have been depreciated.

FA_NO_RSV_IN_FIRST_PERIOD - You cannot assign reserve to an asset with a DPIS in thecurrent period.

FA_NO_BONUS_WITH_NON_FLAT - You cannot assign bonus rules to assets using non-flat methods.

FA_EXP_CEILING_NOT_ALLOWED - You cannot assign an expense ceiling as they arenot allowed in this book.

FA_INVALID_BONUS_RULE - Unable to select bonus rule from FA_BONUS_RULES

FA_ASSET_NUMBER_NOT_EXIST - The asset number specified can not be found inFA_ADDITIONS.

FA_TAXUP_GET_ASSET_INFO -Tax upload failed to select financial information for thisasset.

FA_NO_ITC_CEILINGS- ITC ceilings are not allowed for this category.

FA_TAXUP_ASSET_SUCCESS -Asset number: &NUMBER processed.

FA_TAXUP_ASSET_FAILURE - Asset number: &NUMBER ===> ***FAILED***.

FA_AMORT_DATE_LESS_CONV_DATE - For short tax year assets, the amortization datemust fall after the conversion date.

FA_CACHE_ITC_RATES - Error retrieving ITC rate information.

ENHANCEMENTS TO TRANSACTION APPROVAL


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Previously, transactions could be performed on CIP assets where associated tax books allowedthe cip-in-tax feature even if those tax book had processes running on them. This created aproblem (It effects only 11.0 and 11i) and was resolved in this minipack by disallowingtransactions to be performed when processes were running.

ROLLBACK DEPRECIATION ENHANCEMENTS FOR MRC ENABLED BOOKS

MRC-enabled customers can now utilize the rollback depreciation functionality in both primaryand reporting books. One-step processing must be used to use the new functionality. Thedepreciation run form's restriction that disallows depreciation to be run on the primary book ifthe reporting has not been closed is still in effect. General one-step processing is detailed in adocument located under the MRC technical libraries section on Metalink.

In short, the new functionality works as follows:

1) Run the one-step depreciation process "MRC: Depreciation Run in all sets of books" on agiven book (selecting 'No' for the close period parameter). This will run depreciation withoutclosing the books on all reporting and primary books.

2) At this point, you can review reports, etc. Should you choose to rollback depreciation for anyreason including corrective or additional transactions, simply run the one-step rollback process"MRC: Rollback Depreciation in all sets of books". Primary and reporting books will now beback at their pre-depreciation run state. Transactions can be performed before depreciation isrun again. These steps can be performed as many times as desired until any of the reportingbooks have depreciation submitted with the close_period parameter set to 'Yes'. At that point,you will be unable to perform any transactions until the remaining reporting books as well as theprimary are closed and the periods are again in sync.

ENHANCEMENT TO ADD NEW ACCOUNTS TO FAGDA PROCESSING

Account Generator builds the general ledger account combinations used to generate the generalledger journals by Oracle Assets. The enhanced messaging capability helps you troubleshootproblems encountered during the process, such as invalid account segments. Online errormessages precisely indicate the Asset Book, Account Type, Concatenated Segments andDistribution information necessary for troubleshooting.

The profile option FA: Print Debug must be turned on for these messages to appear in thelogfile or on the form.

New accounts like Bonus Expense & Bonus Reserve have not been added in FAGDA. Also,the deferred_deprn_reserve, deferred_deprn_expense, deprn_adjustment accounts have beenadded.


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TAX INTERFACE ENHANCEMENT

The basic functionality of the Tax Book Upload Interface is to enable users, consultants andother implementation specialists to upload values into the tax books that are not handled byMass Copy. Also, the new functionality will enable users to manage situations where different values are required in the corporate book and the tax book. Since we are now enabling different

cost values to be maintained in the corporate book and tax book, we need to modify PeriodicMass Copy by removing the current restriction that requires cost to be the same in both booksin order for PMC to occur.

The Tax Book Upload Interface implementation will not require Oracle Forms: no form will becreated for this feature. The new interface table created from theFA_SHORT_TAX_RESERVES table will be called FA_TAX_INTERFACE. Users will beexpected to populate this table via SQL*PLUS or SQL*LOADER, as there will be no form toaccess FA_TAX_INTERFACE otherwise. A concurrent request will also be created andidentified as the “Upload Tax Book Information” process in the Submit Requests Screen. Thisconcurrent request will simply be a PL/SQL program that uploads the information in

FA_TAX_INTERFACE into FA_BOOKS.

The Tax Book Upload Interface feature fits into the following flow:

Setup Corp Book

and Assets

Tax Book Information is now

uploaded from the interface tableinto the appropriate tax book

Run DepreciationMass Copy

to Tax Book

Using SQL,

populate the

tax interface table

Run the Upload Tax Book InformationConcurrent Process

Figure 2 Tax Book Upload Interface

MINIPACK 11I.FA.F (PATCH NO. 1794240)

ENHANCEMENT FOR ACCOUNT GENERATOR ERRORS

This minipack enhances error handling when Account Generator errors in PL/SQL based

programs and form level transactions.

Additional error messaging was desired to make diagnosing flex failures easier. Displaying theXVAL rule being violated or the disabled segment as well as the concatenated segments are justa few of the new examples of the new error messaging..


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NEW MESSAGE FA_POST_GL_INVALID_PERIOD

Created the following which will be displayed in the event that the period specified doesn't existor is not postable.

NAME: FA_POST_GL_INVALID_PERIOD

Text: The specified period is not a postable period in GL. The period must exist in theassociated set of books and the status must either be Open or Future Enterable.

ENHANCEMENT TO THE DISCARD/PURGE PROCESS OF A HIERARCHY BATCH

Review hierarchy batch screen gets locked for Discard of larger batches. The form updates thebatch details to discarded, through the Review Hierarchy Batches form. This locked the form

for very large batches. Now the user only updates the batch header to discarded. Then they runa separate Purge process to purge the batch details for the discarded batch headers.

NEW TOOLS MENU FUNCTION SECURITY IN PREPARE MASS ADDITIONS

Implemented in Prepare Mass Additions form, logic that can help customers enable or disablethe three options 'POST ALL', 'HOLD’,’ALL’, 'DELETE ALL' in the tools menu .Thefunctionality is dependant on data setup in AOL's functions-, menus- and responsibility-forms.Default logic is that the three options always are enabled. The three functions are already addedto the Form Functions form found under the Application Developers responsibility and theseare:

-FAX_FAXMADDS_POST_ALL

-FAX_FAXMADDS_HOLD_ALL

- FAX_FAXMADDS_DELETE_ALL

- These three functions are added to the FA_MASS_ADDITIONS menu (and also to

CRL_MASS_ADDITIONS menu for CRL).

- Prepare Mass Additions form is modified to take advantage of these functions.

END USER STEPS TO DISABLE 'POST ALL', 'HOLD ALL', and 'DELETE ALL':

Steps to restrict access to any of the three Tools menu options 'Post All',

'Hold All', 'Delete All' (note, all three are enabled by default):

Login to application using the System Administrator's responsibility.


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- Navigate to the Define Responsibilities form through the menu path

Security/Responsibility/Define

- Query up the responsibility that you want to restrict access to. For instance: "Fixed AssetsManager".

- Under the Menu Exclusions tab, choose Type=Function and enter the name of the function

you want to disable. For instance: "Mass Additions: Delete All".- Then Save.

Login to the responsibility and navigate to the Prepare Mass Additions form. Enter the Mass Additions main window; clicking on the Tools menu should now reflect the intended changes.In our example the Delete All option, should be disabled.

ASSET RECLASS API FOR NETWORK LOGISTICS

This is a new enhancement where a customer can reclass an asset through an API. This is inaddition to reclassing an asset through the Application.

The major features of this API are:

PL/SQL API: FA_MODIFY_CATEGORY_PKG.modify_category()

Ability to automate reclass transactions instead of needing to manually perform the transactionsthrough Oracle Applications.

Option to include or exclude fully reserved assets to reclassed.

Option to copy the category descriptive flexfield from the old category of the asset to the newcategory.

Option for the asset to inherit the default depreciation rules of the new category.

Option to treat the reclass as either an amortized adjustment or an expensed adjustment.

The API will have the following limitations:

The user will NOT be able to do prior period reclasses.

Reclasses will only be able to be performed on corporate books and not tax books.

The API only processes one asset at a time. It will process a range of assets.

The API only accepts internal IDs for the asset parameters and category parameters. The userof the interface must derive the correct asset_id and category_id instead of using asset_number,category, or any other descriptive field.

The API does not support using global flexfield information in the transaction.


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When determining whether to use the option to copy the category descriptive flexfieldinformation from the old category to the new one, the user of the interface must be aware of thefollowing scenarios:

1. The category descriptive flexfield is required for the new category and was not required forthe old category and was not populated for the old category.

2. The category descriptive flexfield was not setup in the new category or was setup in adifferent way than the old category descriptive flexfield. (For example, there may be threesegments in the old category but only two segments in the new category.)

3. When copying from the old category to the new category, the category flexfield informationno longer makes sense from a functional standpoint. For example, copying the licenseinformation from a CAR category to the acres field in the LAND category may not make sense.Depending on the exact scenario, some of the transactions will error while others will besuccessful even if the information no longer makes sense from a business standpoint. At thispoint, it is the users' of the interfaces responsibility for the validity of the information in theflexfield and their responsibility to make the user aware of this possibility.

ENHANCEMENT FOR ANNUAL DEPRN ROUNDING

fadpdp.lpc ,FACDES.pls, FACDEB.pls files were changed to enable annual variance roundingfor all cases; including the assets which have gone through adjustments, transfers, revaluationsand so on. The annual rounding is now available for projections and what-if analysis.

ADDING MASS EXTERNAL RETIREMENTS TO CORE ORACLE ASSETS

Oracle Assets allows you to perform mass retirements on a set of assets by populating anexternal interface table with these assets and processing them in a batch. To use the MassExternal Retirements feature, you need to install mini–pack F.

Submit the Post Mass External Retirements concurrent process. Oracle Assets does not allowpartial unit retirements and can only be grouped using a Batch Number, which restricts youfrom fully utilizing the benefit of the Oracle Assets Mass Retirements features. Oracle Assets

does allow partial cost retirements.

Added the Mass External Retirements functionality to Oracle Assets core functionality, throughadding access to the Prepare External Retirements" form from the Mass Transactions submenuand providing access to the Post Mass External Retirements program from the Submit Requestsform. We've added the concurrent program to Assets requests groups, and added menu entriesto the FA_MASS_TRX submenu.


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MINIPACK 11I.FA.H (PATCH NO. 2115788)

ENHANCEMENT TO MASS TRANSFERS TO ACCEPT PARTIAL VALUES FOR 'TO EXPENSE

ACCOUNT'

This enhancement requires the 'Expense Account To' field in the Mass Transfer form to accept valid individual segment values and treat these as the range/selection criteria when assigningaccounts. If the new combination does not exist, then create one if dynamic insertion is turnedon.

MODIFICATIONS TO TRANSACTION APPROVAL

Enhancement to streamline transaction approval more. When we created the faxcrb function forreporting books, it was a bit simplistic in that it only checked the overall book status. It did not

perform specific checks based on whether it was an asset/mass transaction. Added asset_id andclose_period flags as parameters so that only the relevant checks are performed for a given call

MINIPACK 11I.FA.I (PATCH NO.2117740)

CREATING ONE-OFF PATCH OF NEW LEASE FORMS

This patch has been created to resolve wrong Key Flex Num handling in 'Lease Details' and'Lease Payment Push to Payables' forms.

A number of Multi-ORG related issues which occurred in Lease Details form and

Lease Payment Push To Payables form have been resolved.

IMPLEMENTING ONE-STEP ROLLBACK JOURNAL ENTRIES

We one-stepped create journals, but as the rollback journals process was a feature added post11i, it was not immediate one-stepped and thus users would have to rollback for each primaryand reporting book via individual responsibilities This needs more detailed explanation –

customers will not know what one-stepped means.

In this patch a new procedure has been added to the one-step package to rollback journals in allSets of Books


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ENHANCING BASIC MESSAGING

Improvements have been made to the text of the common FA error message stack. Newenhancements have been provided so as to provide the user with more understandable errormessages.

MINIPACK 11I.FA.J (PATCH NO.2230269)

FACILITY TO ENTER SALE PROCEEDS OR COST OF REMOVALS

The functionality to enter Proceeds of Sale and Cost of Removal has been added and processessimilar to that of Mass Retirements. These amounts are prorated based on the cost retired forthe assets in the Hierarchy Retirement Batch.

FIXING VENDOR SITES LOV IN NON-MULTI-ORG SETUP

A fix was created to correct the vendor sites LOV issue in non-multi-org setup

When multi-org is not set up, there is no default organization id populated in the vendor sitestable. This behavior is different from that of multi-org setup. Hence, enhancements have beenmade so as to provide for non-multi-org configuration within the vendor site record group.

FA DEPRECIABLE BASIS FEATURES

Depreciable Basis Formula -- New feature

This feature is provided to apply special rules to the depreciation. You use the DepreciationMethods window to apply the depreciable basis rule when you setup the depreciation methods. When you create the transactions, the depreciable basis of the asset is calculated following

depreciable basis rules. This feature is provided only for Flat Based-Method and the providedrules are only for Japan.

NEW MESSAGE FOR CLARIFYING LARGE ROLLBACK SEGMENT

A new warning message has been added for instances when the System Profile option FA: LargeRollback Segment is not set. The new message says that the user can ignore the error, and any


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previous related error messages, because this is just a warning that the profile option is not set. These messages do not indicate a failure in this concurrent program. Rather, they just indicatethat FND was unable to retrieve a value from the large rollback profile option, and that noexplicit rollback segment will be used.

MINIPACK 11I.FA.K (PATCH NO.2398923)

Parallelized Mass Transactions

Speed up processing time by taking advantage of multiple parallel processors when performing amass transaction. Specify how many processors you have, and when you run any masstransaction, it will automatically be split across those processors. This can be done with Mass Additions, Generate Accounts, Depreciation, and has been enabled for the following masstransaction processes:

Mass Copy

Mass Retirement

Mass Transfer

Calculate Gains and Losses

Mass Reclassification

Mass Change

Upload Tax Book Interface

New User Interface for Mass Retirements

Mass Retirements now offers more versatile features. Create and review mass retirements andreinstatements before actually posting them to the system. This allows more flexibility andaccuracy when performing mass retirements and reinstatements.

Enhanced Mass Change

You can now perform backdated amortized adjustments through the Mass Change form andMass Copy Continue Despite Errors. Mass Copy will now continue processing all includedassets as specified by the user despite errors. The program will list all those transactions, whichfail to be copied and allow the user to make corrections on the failed transactions.


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MRC INQUIRY WINDOW HOOK TO FINANCIAL INQUIRY FORM

New Currency detail window to Financial Inquiry form, accessible from the books window toolsmenu, that displays reporting books amounts.

In the books window, when reporting books exists, access to the new window is from the toolsmenu. There is also an icon enabled on the toolbar. The new window show same data asnormally is viewed from the financial inquiry form from a reporting responsibility. The purposeis that reporting books data can be viewed without switching responsibility.

DEPRECIATION OVERRIDE NEED

Depreciation Override -- New feature.

This feature allows users to manually override the system calculated depreciation amounts andbonus amounts with the amounts users provided in the interface table.

This feature is enabled only when the profile option "FA: Enable Depreciation Override" is setto 'Yes'.

Users can override the depreciation and bonus amounts for depreciations, projections, what-ifanalysis and adjustments. But for amortized adjustments, bonus amounts cannot be appliedbecause of the current FA design.

CONCLUSION

This white paper will be re-visited by the authors if required, after a new minipack is beingreleased.


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February 8, 2003

Authors: Sridhar Yelisetty, G. Hari Narayanan, Swati Malik and Muralidharan RaghavanContributing Authors:

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