Is there any documentation available on OOTB Financial Categories

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Is there any documentation available on OOTB Financial Categories in ERP GL, which eventually helps user to assign correct Categories to correct accounts in GL. Any descriptive Documentation would be really helpful in this sceanrisceanrio

RVohra · Answer

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Bhaskar Konar · Answer

Hi @User_7AIAG,

Oracle provides documentation on how to assign Financial Categories to natural accounts and explains that these categories are used by the prebuilt GL Balance Sheet and GL Profitability metrics in Fusion ERP Analytics. The documentation also includes a spreadsheet listing the predefined (OOTB) Financial Categories used by the prebuilt metrics.

However, I'm not aware of any Oracle documentation that provides a detailed business description or prescriptive guidance on which OOTB Financial Category should be assigned to which type of natural account. In practice, the mapping is typically determined based on your organization's Chart of Accounts and reporting requirements.

You may find the following Oracle documentation helpful as a starting point:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/analytics/26r2/faiae/prerequisites-fusion-erp-analytics.html

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/G55130_01/trans/G49537-02/reference-fusion-erp-analytics.pdf

- This includes predefined Financial Categories Spreadsheet - attached below

If you're looking for guidance on mapping specific natural accounts to the predefined Financial Categories, that guidance is generally based on accounting and reporting requirements rather than a prescriptive Oracle mapping document.

Financial_Categories_Used_in_GL_Metrics_and_KPIs.xlsx

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