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For future reference, the OAUG MFG Discrete Cost Sub-Committee conference calling schedule is:

• January 19th, 2010 - Virtual Trader / Intercompany Accounting and Eliminations With Oracle
• February 16th, 2010 - One Slice At a Time / Reporting Strategy for BI Publisher and OBIEE
• March 16th, 2010 - Flexfield Express / Changing your Key Cost Setups Without Reimplementing
• April 27th, 2010  (4th Tuesday) - Release 11i & 12:  Major Tables & Relationships for Costing, Part I
• May 18th, 2010 - Release 11i & 12:  Major Tables & Relationships for Costing, Part II
• June 15th, 2010 - ConfigSnapshot - BR100s/ EBS configuration management made simple
• July 20th, 2010 - Why Upgrade to Release 12? WIFM? Cost and Related Improvements
• August 17th, 2010 - Multi-Source Costing and Profit in Inventory Recognition In Oracle
• September 28th, 2010 (4th Tuesday) - Slim Down Your Cost Accounting with Lean! Practical Example in Oracle
• October 19th, 2010 - Mystery Speaker
• November 15th, 2010 - 70 Inventory Orgs?  5 Ledgers?  No Worries, Reconcile Your Inventory less than 60 Minutes!

For minutes of prior sessions please send an email to doug@volzconsulting.com

                 

Cost Management Charter  

"Share with Oracle Development our cost enhancement or improvement ideas, usability, functions and features"

 Goals:
1. Promote understanding of Cost Accounting and how Oracle Cost Management helps or does not help people get their job done
2. Create an active group of people interested in helping each other with cost related issues
3. Enlist the participation for Oracle Cost Development and other Oracle Development groups to:
    a.  increase the understanding of Oracle Development on the common issues facing their users
    b.  provide an resource to our user community to help solve important problems
    c.  improve the flow of critical application information, such as necessary patches, valuable new features and workarounds

Membership criteria:

Interested in costing solutions, challenges and workarounds.  You may be from any background, not just Finance or Accounting.  To get involved please contact Doug Volz the Sub Committee Chairman at davolz@comcast.net.

Helpful Tips:

If you have any helpful tips, designs or tricks that you use with Costing, please let us know so that we can share with the group.

Useful presentations and “how-to” documents:

  1. How to reconciliation Inventory and WIP to your inventory values and G/L

Reconcile Inventory 

2.  A/P Accruals – background information, how it works and how to reconcile.  Release 12 will have new features for the Inventory A/P Accruals, but before you get there this will help.

A/P Accruals     Accruals

 

Examples of SQL Reports that may be useful:

  1. SQL reporting example for the Purchase Price Variance Report

Price Variance Report

  1. SQL reporting example for the Invoice Price Variance Report

Invoice Price Variance Report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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