Special Edition Using Oracle® 11i

Chapter 11. Using Oracle General Ledger

In this chapter

• Introduction

• Relationship to Other Oracle Applications

• Discovering New Features in Release 11i

• Resolving Issues and Gaps

• Configuring the GL Application

• Processing Transactions

• Understanding Reports

Introduction

Oracle General Ledger (GL) performs the accounting and budgeting functions in the Oracle Applications suite. It is the central module of Oracle Applications because it owns the set of books that forms the basis for all other Financials modules. Receivables, Payables, Inventory, and Assets are the main subledgers of GL. GL shares the setup information with subledgers.

GL only receives transaction information and does not send any transaction information to other modules. The main transactions ...