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Multiple Reporting Currency Changes

Multiple Reporting Currency Changes:-
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Reporting sets of books from Release 11i will become subledger-level reporting
currencies that are assigned to a primary ledger unless the MRC_DEBUG profile option
is set to zero, in which case, the reporting set of books will become a journal-level
reporting currency in Release 12.

Note: A subledger-level reporting currency maintains a currency
representation of all subledger journals, GL journal entries, and
balances for the primary ledger.

A journal-level reporting currency, which can be assigned to a primary
ledger or secondary ledger, maintains a currency representation for GL
journals and balances in the primary or secondary ledger.

Multiple Reporting Currency Sets of Books

Release 11i multiple reporting currency (MRC) primary sets of books and assigned
reporting sets of books become primary ledgers with assigned reporting currencies in
Release 12. Both the primary ledger and its reporting currencies will be included in the
same accounting setup in Release 12. In addition, a data access set that includes the
primary ledger and all of its assigned reporting currencies will automatically be created
during the upgrade.

Reporting Sets of Books Assigned to Secondary Sets of Books

In Release 11i, reporting sets of books that are assigned to Payables and Receivables
secondary sets of books will be upgraded as subledger level secondary ledgers that are
assigned to the primary ledger.

Terminology Changes for Reporting Set of Books Options

The following discusses the terminology changes associated with the General Ledger
Reporting Currency Option:

Release 11i Option

Release 12 Option

Additional Details

Default Reporting

Default Rate Type

This option is displayed in the

Currency Translation Options

region of the Update

Reporting Currency page in

Release 12. This option

defaults from the Default

Reporting field of the Release

11i GL Conversion Rules

form. If no GL Conversion

Rules were specified, then this

option defaults from the

Default Reporting field of the

first record in the Conversion

Options window.

First MRC Period

First Future Conversion

Period

This option is displayed in the

Data Conversion Initiation

region of the Update

Reporting Currency page in

Release 12.

GL Conversion Rules

Journal Source and Category

Conversion

This option is displayed in the

Journal Source and Category

Conversion region of the

Update Reporting Currency

page in Release 12.

inherit check box

Retain Transaction Rate Type

This option is displayed in the

Currency Translation Options

region of the Update

Reporting Currency page in

Release 12. This option

defaults from the Inherit

check box in the Release 11i

GL Conversion Rules form. If

no GL Conversion Rules were

specified, then this option

defaults from the Inherit

check box from the first

record in the Conversion

Options window.

No Rate Action

Missing Conversion Rate

This option is displayed in the

Currency Translation Options

region of the Update

Reporting Currency page in

Release 12.

MRC: Maximum Days to Roll

Forward Conversion Rate

profile option

Number of Days to Find the

Last Rate

This option is displayed in the

Currency Translation Options

region of the Update

Reporting Currency page in

Release 12.

GL/MRC Journals: Inherit the

Journal Creator from the

Primary Book's Journal

profile option

Retain Journal Creator from

Source Ledger

This option is a Yes/No drop

down box that is displayed in

the Journal Conversion Rules

region of the Update

Reporting Currency page in

Release 12.

Reporting Book Initialization

Option:

Derive From Original

Transaction Rate

Use Initialization Rate

Retain Original Conversion

Rate Type:

Yes

No

This option is a Yes/No drop

down box that is displayed in

the Data Conversion

Initialization region of the

Update Reporting Currency

page in Release 12:

If the Release 11i setting

was Derive From

Original Transaction

Rate, then the Release 12

Option will be set to Yes.

If the Release 11i setting

was Use Initialization

Rate, then the Release 12

option will be set to No.

If Use Initialization Rate

specified, the Conversion

Date

Historical Conversion Rate

Date

This option is displayed in the

Historical Conversion region

of the Update Reporting

Currency page in Release 12.

If Use Initialization Rate

specified, the Conversion

Type

Historical Conversion Rate

Type

This option is displayed in the

Historical Conversion region

of the Update Reporting

Currency page in Release 12.


Deleted Profile Option

The Release 11i profile option called GL/MRC: Post Reporting Journals Automatically
has been removed in Release 12. By default, all reporting currency journals will be
automatically posted when posted in the source ledger.

Synchronized Options for Primary and Reporting Sets of Books

In Release 11i, users could change settings for certain options on a primary set of books
independently of its reporting set of books. The upgrade will preserve the Release 11i
settings, but in Release 12 these options cannot be manually updated for reporting
currencies because the reporting currency will inherit its settings from its source ledger.
If you modify any of the ledger options for the source ledger after the upgrade, the
settings on the reporting currency will automatically be changed to be synchronized
with the source ledger. Be aware that you may not be able to revert to certain Release 11
i configurations once options are changed. The following summarizes all of the ledger
options that will be automatically changed for the reporting currency if updated in the
source ledger in Release 12:

• Number of Future Enterable Periods

• Rounding Differences Account

• Reserve for Encumbrance Account

• Retained Earnings Account

• Intracompany Balancing Rules

• Enable Journal Entry Tax

• Journal Reversal Criteria Set

• Require Budget Journals option

• Period End Rate Type

• Period Average Rate Type

• Translation Adjustment Account

• Secondary Tracking Segment option (once enabled for a ledger, the Track by
Secondary Segment option cannot be disabled)

• Descriptive Flexfields

• Suspense Account

Reporting currencies in Release 12 will inherit the primary ledger's suspense posting
option. If suspense posting is enabled for the primary set of books and not enabled in
the reporting set of books in Release 11i, then in Release 12, the reporting currency will
have suspense posting enabled and use the same suspense account as the primary
ledger.

If suspense posting is not enabled for the primary set of books but enabled in the
reporting set of books in Release 11i, then in Release 12, the reporting currency will also
not have suspense posting enabled to be synchronized with its source ledger.

Different Average Balance Settings for Primary and Reporting Sets of Books

In Release 11i, users can set the Average Balances or Average Balance Consolidation
options for the primary set of books independently of the reporting set of books. In
Release 12, users can only set these options for the ledger and the reporting currency
will inherit the attribute from its source ledger. For upgrade cases, Oracle will preserve
the Release 11i configurations.

Note: If average balances is disabled in the primary ledger, but enabled for its reporting currency, General Ledger Posting will terminate with
an error when posting subsequent journals. Users will need to disable
the conversion of the reporting currency that has Average Balances
enabled to successfully post journals in the primary ledger.

Single-Reporting Set of Books Assigned to Multiple Primary Sets of Books

If you currently have multiple primary sets of books linked to one reporting set of
books in Release 11i, this configuration will be upgraded to multiple primary ledgers
that share the same reporting currency. You will not, however, be able to use some of
the new Release 12 features using this configuration. For example, you will not be able
to query accounting setups by the name of the upgraded reporting currency; you will
only be able to query accounting setups by the name of the primary ledger. Currency
translation in Release 12 is another feature that may not behave as intended with this
setup.

If multiple primary ledgers are linked to a single reporting currency, then the reporting
currency will synchronize its own settings to be synchronized with the primary ledger
that was most recently updated. For example, if you have different settings for suspense
posting where one primary ledger has it enabled and another does not, once you update
one of the primary ledgers, the shared reporting currency will inherit the settings from
the primary ledger that was last updated.

Be aware that users who had access to the reporting set of books in Release 11i will have
access to all of the reporting currencies for a single primary ledger. In addition, users
who had access to the primary ledger will now have access to the reporting currency as
well. This is required to prevent posting errors. In Release 12, the journals for both the
primary ledger and its reporting currencies will be grouped in the same journal batch.
In order to successfully post the batch, the user who initiates the posting process must
have access to both the primary ledger and its reporting currencies.

Reporting Set of Books Not Assigned to a Primary Set of Books

Accounting Setup Manager does not support unattached reporting set of books that are
not assigned to a source ledger. In Release 11i, if you had reporting sets of books that
were not assigned to a primary set of books, then in Release 12, those reporting sets of
books will be upgraded to primary ledgers. You can continue to use the upgraded
primary ledger for journal processing.

If you do not want these unattached reporting sets of books to be upgraded to primary
ledgers, then before the upgrade, you should assign the reporting set of books to a
primary set of books using the Assign Reporting Set of Books form in Release 11i.

Reporting Sets of Books with Disabled Relationships to a Primary Set of Books

In Release 11i, if you disabled a reporting set of books' relationship to its primary set of
books, that reporting set of books will still be upgraded as a disabled reporting currency
assigned to the upgraded primary ledger. This will ensure that historical information is
retained.

Reporting Sets of Books with Translated Currencies

In Release 11i, if you performed currency translation in a reporting set of books, then
the translated balances will upgrade to balance-level-reporting currencies in Release 12.
After upgrade, you can continue to run translation for these balance-level-reporting
currencies, but you will not be able to translate to new currencies. Also, you will not be
able to update the currency translation options for these balance-level-reporting
currencies, such as the period-end rate type, period-average rate type, and
cumulative-translation adjustment account.

Reporting Set of Books with Inconsistent Journal Conversion Rules

In Release 11i, the journal conversion rules defined for a reporting set of books
provided instructions to the General Ledger Posting program on converting specific
journal sources to a reporting currency. Typically, journals from MRC-enabled
subledger sources should not be converted using journal conversion rules because they
would automatically be converted at the subledger level. Having MRC-enabled
subledger sources also converted using journal conversion rules may result in double
counting; once at the subledger level and again at the general ledger level.

Prior to the upgrade, you should use the Assign Reporting Set of Books form to verify
that the journal conversion rules are correctly defined. The optional Preupgrade
Diagnosis Program will identify all sets of books that have inconsistent journal
conversion rules defined.

Reporting Set of Books with Inconsistent Setup across Products or Operating Units

Users may have reporting sets of books with inconsistent setup configurations between
different products and/or operating units in Release 11i. An example of this is an AR
book with three operating units enabled and an AP book with only two operating units
enabled. This type of configuration is not supported in Release 12. In Release 12
reporting currency conversion options are synchronized across all products and
operating units for that reporting currency.

If you wish to modify these configurations prior to the upgrade, refer to the optional
preupgrade diagnosis program discussed in the Release 12 Upgrade Guide, Appendix
B. Otherwise, the reporting sets of books will upgrade as-is, and you will not be able to
update the setup options for a specific product and/or operating unit after the upgrade.

Reporting Set of Books with Incomplete Setup for Products or Operating Units

Users may have reporting sets of books enabled only for a partial set of products and/or
operating units in Release 11i. All of the sets of books with missing setups are listed in
the optional preupgrade diagnostic program discussed in the Oracle Applications
Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.

Refer to the Release 11i Multiple Reporting Currencies User Manual to complete the
setup, otherwise each set of books will upgrade as-is, and users will not be able to
define the setup for a specific product and/or operating unit after the upgrade. For
those reporting sets of books not enabled for General Ledger, but enabled for other
subledger products, the upgrade will automatically create a default accounting setup
for General Ledger.

Move/Merge

In Release 11i, users needed to submit a separate move/merge request and a separate
move/merge reversal for a primary set of books and each of its reporting sets of books.

In Release 12, source ledgers and their assigned reporting currencies are more tightly
integrated and processing has been streamlined. In Release 12, if users submit a
move/merge request for the source ledger, the move/merge request will automatically
be submitted for all of its assigned reporting currencies. This also applies to move/merge reversals. If users subsequently reverse the move/merge request that was
submitted in Release 12, then the reversal will apply to both the source ledger and all of
its assigned reporting currencies. Users will not be able to submit separate move/merge
requests or move/merge reversals for the source ledger or its reporting currency.

Note: If a move/merge request that was submitted in Release 11i is later
reversed after upgrading to Release 12, then the reversal will only affect
the ledger or reporting currency that submitted the original
move/merge request. For example, if the original move/merge request
was submitted by the primary set of books, then reversing it in Release
12 will only affect the primary ledger. If users want to keep the
reporting currencies synchronized with the primary ledger after the
move/merge reversal, they will need to adjust reporting currency
balances by entering manual journal entries.

Note: The request names of upgraded move/merge requests that have
the same name within the same chart of accounts will be appended
with the Ledger ID.

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