Global Accounting Engine Integration

Global Accounting Engine Integration:-
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This section describes details for users who integrated General Ledger with Global
Accounting Engine.

Single Secondary Set of Books Assigned to Multiple Primary Sets of Books.

If you are using the Global Accounting Engine and you have more than one main set of
books linked to the same multiple-posting set of books, this configuration will upgrade
to multiple primary ledgers (each in a different accounting setup) that have the same
secondary ledger assigned. You can continue to use this configuration in Release 12, but
you may not be able to use some new Release 12 features. For example, you will not be
able to query accounting setups in Accounting Setup Manager by the secondary ledger;
you will only be able to query accounting setups by the primary ledger. You will be able
to view the secondary ledger in all of the accounting setups for the shared primary
ledgers using Accounting Setup Manager.

Global Accounting Engine Dual Posting

The Global Accounting Engine Dual Posting solution in Release 11i allowed you to
transfer a single Payables or Receivables transaction to two sets of books using different
accounting rules. Because Global Accounting Engine Dual Posting only addressed
transactions from specific subledgers, such as Payables and Receivables, all other
transactions that require a second accounting representation could only be addressed
by the General Ledger Consolidation functionality to map and transfer these
transactions into a second set of books.

In Release 12, the main set of books are upgraded as a Primary Ledger, the posting set
of books are upgraded as a Subledger level Secondary Ledger, and Global Accounting
Engine is replaced by Subledger Accounting. If you used Global Accounting Engine to
transfer subledger transactions to the posting set of books, then in Release 12, Subledger
Accounting (SLA) automatically creates the accounting for these subledger transactions
in both the primary ledger and the subledger level secondary ledger simultaneously. If
you used the General Ledger Consolidation functionality to manually transfer other
subledger transactions to the posting set of books, then in Release 12, you can continue
to do this. With the new features in Release 12, however, you have two options to
automate this process.