Financial Reporting in Oracle R12 FSGs and Report Manager

Presented by: Lee Briggs

March 21, 2013

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Agenda

• Introductions

• Overview of Report Manager

• Required Setups

– Applications

– PC Settings

• Tutorial

• Tricks of the Trade

• Summary

Lee Briggs | Director, Financial Management Practice

• Professional Summary

– Coordinator of the Desktop Integrator Special Internet Group (OAUG)

– Director of the BizTech Financial Management Practice, specializing in the design, implementation and project management of Oracle Financials projects.

– 35+ Full Implementations of Oracle Financials (11.0.3 thru R12.1.3)

– Background in training, analysis and project management.

– Multiple Presenter at Collaborate and OpenWorld

• Qualification Summary

– Oracle Certified Specialist in General Ledger

– Oracle Certified Specialist in Accounts Payable

– Masters Degree in Management Studies

– Bachelors (with Honors) in Accounting and Finance

Mobile: (215) 208-7909 Email: LBriggs@BizTech.com Twitter: @BTLeeBriggs Website: www.BizTech.com

Prior Experience:

Project Experience:

• Professional Services Firm – Professional Services firm focused on Oracle applications and

technology – Oracle Platinum Partner – Highest Level of certification – Specialized Pillar Partner in BI/EPM, EBS, CRM, and Core Technology – Over 400 successful Oracle implementations over the past 15 years – NY, PA, NJ, VA offices with Regional, Global, and International clients – 100+ Consulting Resources

• Centers of Excellence across key solutions and industries – Solutions: Oracle Applications, Technology, BI/EPM, and Managed

Services – Industries: Financial, Professional, Business Services; Communications

and Media; Manufacturing; Distribution; Public Sector, Government; Healthcare and Life Sciences

• BizTech Software Solutions : BizTech Integrators, BizTech Insight Accelerators, BizTech Reporting Foundation

• Oracle License Reseller

About BizTech

Overview of Report Manager

• Integrated Reporting Module within Oracle eBusiness Suite

• Provides an online repository for Financial and Standard Reports

• Personalized look and feel to all reports

• Accessed through a web browser, rather than Java forms

• Securitized by user

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Required Setups

• Patch up!!

– 11.5.10 – Patchset FRM.H

– R12.0 – Patchset FRM.A

– R12.1 – Patchset FRM.B

• Browsers

– Report Manager users MUST run Internet Explorer for full functionality (Note 1077728.1)

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Required Setups

• Ensure Desktop Integrators (Web ADI in 11i) are fully configured

– Great Presentation from Collaborate 2011 which details all configurations

• Desktop Integrator – “You mean I can load data from a spreadsheet straight into an interface?”

• Available at http://www.biztech.com/collaborate11-oaug-session-presentations/

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Internet Explorer Settings

• Navigate to Tools -> Internet Options and choose the Security tab

• Select Local Intranet and choose the Custom Level button.

– Set the option “Initialize and script Active X controls not marked as safe” to "Prompt" or "Enable".

– Set “File download” to enabled.

– Set “Allow Status bar updates via script” to “Enable”.

– Set “Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe” to prompt

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Excel 2010 Settings

• Click File -> Options

• Click 'Trust Center' link in the 'Excel Options' window.

• Click 'Trust Center Settings...' button.

• In the 'Trust Center' window click 'Macro Settings' link from the menu on the left.

• Under 'Macro Settings' check 'Disable all macros with notification'.

• Under 'Developer Macro Settings' check 'Trust Access to the VBA project object model'.

• Click 'OK' button to close the 'Trust Center' window.

• Click 'OK' button to return to the spreadsheet.

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Excel 2007 Settings

• Click the Office Button (top-left button in the window)

• Click the 'Excel Options' button.

• Click 'Trust Center' link from the menu on the left.

• Click 'Trust Center Settings...' button.

• In the 'Trust Center' window click 'Macro Settings' link from the menu on the left.

• Under 'Macro Settings' check 'Disable all macros with notification'.

• Under 'Developer Macro Settings' check 'Trust Access to the VBA project object model'.

• Click 'OK' button to close the 'Trust Center' window.

• Click 'OK' button to return to the spreadsheet.

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Excel 2003 Settings

• On the Tools menu, point to Macro and then click Security.

• In the Security dialog box, click the Trusted Sources tab.

• Click to select the Trust access to Visual Basic Project check box.

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Tutorial

• Update GL Superuser Responsibility

• Submit an FSG (with Generic Template)

• View Output

• Create an FSG Template

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Update GL Super User Responsibility

• “Report Manager Super User” is a “valid” responsibility

– Doesn’t have all drill-down permissions that may be needed

• “General Ledger Super User” responsibility has the drilldown permissions, but no Report Manager access

• SOLUTION – Add the “RptMgr SuperUser” menu to GL_SUPERUSER menu (then log off and on)

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Update GL Super User Responsibility

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Update GL Super User Responsibility

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Submit an FSG

• Navigation

– Report Manager > Financial Report Submission

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Submit an FSG Step 1 – Submission Parameters

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Submit an FSG Step 2 – Publishing Parameters

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Submit an FSG Step 3 – Storage Location

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Submit an FSG Step 4 – Presentation

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Submit an FSG Step 5 – Review

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Monitor Requests

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View Output in Report Manager

• Navigation

– Report Manager > Repository Management

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View Output in Report Manager

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View Output in Report Manager

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Create an FSG Template

• Navigation

– Report Manager > Financial Report Template Editor

• Each FSG that you want to use in Report Manager HAS to have it’s own template

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Create an FSG Template

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Create an FSG Template

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Basic Excel Formatting

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Moving Line Descriptions away from the left

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Uploading Template

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Running the FSG with the new Template

• Almost same process as before

– Picking the new template

– Report Manager remembers the last folder you saved the report

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Submit an FSG Step 1 – Submission Parameters

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Submit an FSG Step 2 – Publishing Parameters

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Submit an FSG Step 3 – Storage Location

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Submit an FSG Step 4 – Presentation

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Submit an FSG Step 5 – Review

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Sample Output

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Tricks of the Trade

• Update the FSG definitions

– Remove all underline formatting from the rowsets

• FSG will insert a line (row) with “-” or “_”, which will look messy

• Remove that formatting, and let native Excel formatting take care of it

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Tricks of the Trade

• Only use Report Manager for “Management Reporting” once numbers are final

– Analysts should continue to submit FSGs through General Ledger

• Content Sets can work

– Use Sequential Content Sets

– Oracle Support is working on getting parallel content sets working

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Tricks of the Trade

• Avoid logos

– Display nicely in PDF and HTML outputs

– Lose proportions and colors in Excel format

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Tricks of the Trade

• Decide on your Report Repository structure early

• Ledger

– Financial Reports (FSG) • Income Statement

• Balance Sheet

• Trend Analysis

– Operations Reports (Standard) • Module 1

• Module 2

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Tricks of the Trade

• Fed up with running the same report multiple times for different segment values?

• Report Manager’s Security Workbench allows you to put security on Value Sets

– Run the report once

– Users with access to Company 100 will only be able to see Company 100

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Summary

• Overview of Report Manager

• Required Setups

– Applications

– PC Settings

• Tutorial

• Tricks of the Trade

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Upcoming Presentations

• Collaborate 2013

– Financial Reporting in Oracle R12 - FSGs and Report Manager (ADI SIG, April 7th, 2:30pm)

– Exploring the Mystery that is AGIS (April 10th, 11am)

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Contact Information

Lee Briggs

Director, Financial

Management Practice

c. 215 208 7909

Twitter: @BTLeeBriggs

LBriggs@BizTech.com