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Sound financial reporting starts with a complete, consistent, and correct trial balance. If you suspect there may be errors or omissions on the trial balance that uncertainty can result in management being in the uncomfortable position of doubting the quality and integrity of the roll-up corporate financial statements. This is a tough position to be in especially for external and tax reporting where errors can be costly and damaging. The solution to this uncertainty lies in borrowing a few key procedures that your auditors routinely perform to assure the correctness of period end trial balances. In this webinar, we will look at five of the most common and effective audit procedures to ensure rock sound financial reporting. Learning Objectives: After completion of this program you will be able to:  Objective 1: Identify some of the most common errors and omissions in trial balances. Objective 2: Understand how to perform five of the most common procedures auditors perform on period end …

During a traditional audit, users of Oracle E-Business Suite run into the same pain point: they struggle to identify and extract accurate data out because there are not adequate controls around reporting. The data usually ends up coming from multiple places, the level of detail needed isn’t found in the system, and significant time is spent by high-dollar resources to prepare for the audit. However, there are ways to leverage EBS to run industry-standard audit procedures and proactively identify areas of non-compliance in advance for a smoother process. In this session, explore the recommended year-round practices and tools available to ace your audit.

Vendor prices can fluctuate, sometimes significantly over time, resulting in unintended higher costs. A periodic price analysis should be performed to determine there are no overcharges or no discrepancies depending on the operating unit and inventory delivery site. A sudden price change may also indicate an expired contract or a significant, unnoticed increase. This session will review key Oracle reports to leverage your purchasing across the business, and to identify inventory item cost savings opportunities.

Recent, unparalleled, changes in financial reporting requirements from the SEC, GAAP, and IFRS have transformed the way companies comply with regulatory requirements. Core financial reporting for Mergers and Acquisitions, financial instruments, pensions, and other key accounting transactions and balance types, have been relegated to manual spreadsheet reconciliations, transformations, and consolidations. The good news is that all this is no longer necessary with the use of Secondary Ledgers. Secondary ledgers are used to capture both a corporate and second representation of the same legal entity.

Cross-validation rules (CVRs) determine which segment values in your chart of accounts (or other key flexfields) can be used together. A CVR controls the valid values that may be used in conjunction with other values. In this session, learn how to set up CVRs, understand the criteria for designing a chart of accounts that minimizes the number and complexity of your CVRs, and examine the top seven things to remember when designing cross-validation rules.

A useful chart of accounts (COA) provides flexibility for recording and reporting financial information, allows uniform management, and enhances communication. Eight fundamental criteria for COA design in Oracle E-Business Suite will allow your business to create a forward-thinking chart of accounts to optimize growth and flexibility, while minimizing maintenance. This master class will go through the COA basics, define COA changes, outline the COA ecosystem, and provide best practices on designing your own chart of accounts.

Preparing adjusting entries usually involves a lot of journal entries, staff input and tedious work. Not anymore. As a more efficient processing of adjustments, adjustment-only secondary ledgers reflect only adjustments without affecting your primary ledger, allowing entries to be made discretely. Explore the benefits of using adjustment ledgers, complete with a step-by-step setup guide.

Automation continues to transform whole industries – and finance and audit are no exception. Specific to the financial audit, most of the high-volume, routine, non-judgmental activities in real time are being transformed by software, leaving audit professionals more time to do what they do best: analyze results and make expert judgement calls. This webinar focuses on the framework and standards under which audits are currently conducted, and will showcase real-world examples where automation streamlines workflows to transform the entire audit process.

A useful chart of accounts (COA) provides flexibility for recording and reporting financial information, allows uniform management, and enhances communication. Five fundamental criteria for COA design in Oracle® E-Business Suite will allow your business to create a forward-thinking chart of accounts to optimize growth and flexibility, while minimizing maintenance.

You need to comply with an alphabet soup of statutory, regulatory and compliance requirements in a single Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) environment. How do you manage to stay on top of constant changes in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), International Accounting Standards (IAS), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and still run your business? During this webinar with eprentise Vice President of Finance Brian Lewis, CPA, learn how your organization can be in global compliance in EBS.

Moving to a shared services model reduces costs and optimizes performance, but in order to recognize the value, the organization has to be ready to modify data and processes. Silos in particular create challenges between disparate parts of the business, resulting in increased costs, risks, or failures. This session will focus on how standardizing data streamlines business processes, and how eliminating silos allows companies to share data effectively and communicate across the organization. Explore the initiatives and challenges for companies moving toward enterprise-wide shared service center (SSC) operations, and create a roadmap to implement an effective SSC by understanding the critical success factors needed, building globalization strategies, and removing or replacing the processes and operations that create silos.

Preparing adjusting entries usually involves a lot of journal entries, staff input and tedious work. Not anymore. As a more efficient processing of adjustments, adjustment-only secondary ledgers reflect only adjustments without affecting your primary ledger, allowing entries to be made discretely. Explore the benefits of using adjustment ledgers, complete with a step-by-step setup guide.

Join this session with Alyssa Johnson, Vice President of Enterprise Applications at Keste, as we discuss the Cloud options including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS and the best use cases for each. We will also discuss how upgrades and a hybrid Cloud approach can often be the next best step on your Cloud journey. Finally, see how to design a Cloud roadmap utilizing universal cloud credits to accomplish your organization’s goals and transform your business.

This webinar with Jeff Dunford, Vice President of Apps Associates, reviews some of the challenges of a reimplementation and migrating data though some real-life experiences from a system integrator’s perspective and lessons learned across many different clients.

In this webinar presented by guest speaker Gordon Halley of ConfigSnapshot, we will explore both general configuration and customization within EBS to look at how these can be managed during different types of change, such as changing the business structure, or chart of accounts, upgrades, patching, and more.

In this information session, learn how to best interpret the GDPR regulation and to evaluate some of the different approaches for your EBS environment. We will examine many of the main stumbling blocks and review a proven technology to go through the full lifecycle from consent to data removal, resulting in complete GDPR compliance for companies on EBS.

So your future direction doesn’t include Oracle® E-Business Suite. Your business is moving to Oracle Cloud, migrating to another system, or undergoing an acquisition/divestiture with a company on a different ERP. Your business depends on making the transition with minimum disruption. Post-transition ERP posture must be ready instantly after the change, and key data must be aligned to the new system BEFORE the changeover to avoid a costly transition. To leave EBS, there are steps to take NOW for a smoother exit.

The accounting standard for recognizing revenue is changing – is your organization prepared for ASC 606? Explore the top options available to prepare for the upcoming transition period during this webinar with Seamus Moran from Oracle, Hari Mundhra and Gourav Rathi from Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Tom Buechler from eprentise. This panel discussion moderated by eprentise CEO Helene Abrams will provide an overview of the new standard, highlight the areas of significant changes to be ready for, and discuss the recommended approaches for your organization, all in a Q&A format.

To improve process efficiencies and reporting, Arby’s Restaurant Group, with EiS Technologies and eprentise, converted their legal entity fields and process within E-Business Suite. The conversion effort transformed Arby’s chart of accounts from using the cost center field and its parent-child relationships to using a company field to become legal entity. The presentation describes the stages of the conversion process lifecycle including planning, testing, and implementation, as well as General Ledger configurations to consider.

Companies using Oracle® E-Business Suite might face a situation where the business may require the accounting calendar setup to be changed as a result of being acquired, or complying with a statutory requirement.  For example, companies operating in India received a mandate that their calendar must change from an April to March fiscal year to January to December. This change may take place as early as 2018. Companies who have been acquired may find that they need to match their new parent company’s calendar for their financial reporting. In another scenario, a company that is going from public to private would need to have a short calendar year so that their financials reflect the change in ownership mid-year.

In an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment, multiple organizations can exist within a single instance. How does the data belonging to these organizations co-exist, and what are the challenges that companies face when they have to separate the data based on business reasons? With a focus on Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS), this session will explore the best ways to address complexities in ERP environments to achieve success when separating data.

In an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment, multiple organizations can exist within a single instance. How does the data belonging to these organizations co-exist, and what are the challenges that companies face when they have to separate the data based on business reasons? With a focus on Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS), this session will explore the best ways to address complexities in ERP environments to achieve success when separating data.

So your future direction doesn’t include Oracle® E-Business Suite. Your business is moving to Oracle Cloud, migrating to another system, or undergoing an acquisition/divestiture with a company on a different ERP. Your business depends on making the transition with minimum disruption. Post-transition ERP posture must be ready instantly after the change, and key data must be aligned to the new system BEFORE the changeover to avoid a costly transition. To leave EBS, there are steps to take NOW for a smoother exit.

A useful chart of accounts (COA) provides flexibility for recording and reporting financial information, allows uniform management, and enhances communication. Five fundamental criteria for COA design in Oracle® E-Business Suite will allow your business to create a forward-thinking chart of accounts to optimize growth and flexibility, while minimizing maintenance.

When going to a true functional currency, countries are eliminating the financial statement misstatement between Cumulative Translation Adjustment and foreign exchange gains and losses. For entities with Oracle® E-Business Suite, one of the most significant changes to be addressed is affecting the functional currency change within all ledgers – ledgers should be set up for each local currency.

Cross-validation rules (CVRs) determine which segment values in your chart of accounts (or other key flexfields) can be used together. A CVR controls the valid values that may be used in conjunction with other values. In this session with eprentise QA Manager Harrison Figura, learn how to set up CVRs, understand the criteria for designing a chart of accounts that minimizes the number and complexity of your CVRs, and examine the top seven things to remember when designing cross-validation rules.

For many organizations, making a change to their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Chart of Accounts (CoA) structure is a dreadful experience, and for good reason! Even the smallest change could have an unprecedented domino effect on your system, including on any type of customization (reports, forms, interfaces, etc.). In this live webinar, Oracle experts Binyamin Kamilar from Panaya and Helene Abrams from eprentise, will show you how to plan and make changes to your CoA structure, while cutting the cost and risk of such an impactful event.

Businesses that are going through a divestiture need to consider several key questions: What are we selling, and why? What data belongs to me, and how do I find it? As my business changes by the rules, how do I achieve agility? What are my options for divesting? This webinar will address potential business and IT issues affecting organizations that go through the divestiture process. The presentation will touch on key insights and outline approaches that can be used by both business and IT organizations to ensure success.

Achieve Business Transformation Through Your R12 Upgrade – EBS Upgrade Consulting Educational Live Webcast Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:00 pm EST KPMG is offering you a webcast where they’ll provide all the information you need about upgrading to Release 12. In addition, they’ll take your questions, provide answers, and address any concerns you have. This is your opportunity to take advantage of free consulting. This is not a sales webcast. It is not an eprentise webinar. What you’ll learn: Common myths on upgrade barriers – Unchangeable configurations (Example – Chart of Accounts) – Reorganization of your Legal Entities, Operating Units, etc. Upgrading along with business process change – Move toward Centralization and/or Shared Service models – Improve your instance-wide reporting with Analytic options – Educate and re-educate your users How to eliminate customizations and standardize functionality – Identify, catalog, and analyze your customizations – Consolidate multiple instances …

Changes in financial reporting requirements have transformed the fixed asset accounting framework. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) require fixed assets to be recorded at cost, but there are two accounting models – the cost model and the revaluation model. So what’s the difference, and when should you use each? This session featuring Brian Lewis, Corporate Controller at eprentise, will address fixed asset accounting and reporting under both models and how each is accounted for in Release 12.

A useful chart of accounts provides flexibility for recording and reporting financial information, brings structure for managing uniformly, and enhances communication. Learn the five fundamental design criteria and how to design your own chart of accounts.

Whether you are just getting started using Oracle Receivables or have been using it for years, there may be better ways to take advantage of the available features. Based on the experiences of guest speaker Cathy Cakebread with more than 70 clients, this presentation includes suggestions for “Best Practices” for optimally utilizing Oracle Receivables. This webinar will share all of the tips you need to know, including information about setup, cash application, Lockbox processing, period close processes, separation of duties and more. The presentation is applicable no matter which release you are using. Download Slides View VideoView Q&A Best Practices for Oracle Receivables from eprentise Best Practices for Oracle Receivables from eprentise on Vimeo. Do you have questions related to this webinar topic that you’d like to ask? Visit the LinkedIn Group EBS Answers to post your own inquiries, read feedback provided by the EBS community and participate in discussions. Join now at http:/ …

Do you want to discover the mysteries behind your audit and help your auditors find what they are looking for? Join E-Business Suite Security and Controls expert Jeffrey T. Hare, CPA CISA CIA, from ERP Risk Advisors, to hear the latest about what auditors are scrutinizing.

Learn about new R12 functionality that should be incorporated when you upgrade your Oracle E-Business Suite.

Nearly two-thirds of mergers fail to capitalize on potential synergy due to an inability to integrate or consolidate diverse cultures, processes and technologies. These companies experience a Value Gap – the unhappy coincidence of achieved value offset by unanticipated challenges, reducing value from the merger. By following six essential steps for post-merger success, you can overcome the Value Gap using Emergent Value – synergies after the deal is made that can add energy, creativity and create opportunities.

Preparing adjusting entries involves a lot of journal entries, staff input and tedious work. Not anymore. One of the exciting features in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 is the introduction of adjustments-only secondary ledgers. As a more efficient processing of adjustments, adjustment ledgers reflect only adjustments without affecting your primary ledger, allowing entries to be made discretely. In this webinar, join Brian Lewis, Corporate Controller at eprentise, as you explore the benefits of using adjustment ledgers, complete with a step-by-step setup guide.

For many organizations, making a change to their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Chart of Accounts (CoA) structure is a dreadful experience, and for good reason! Even the smallest change could have an unprecedented domino effect on your system, including on any type of customization (reports, forms, interfaces, etc.). In this live webinar, Oracle experts Binyamin Kamilar from Panaya and Helene Abrams from eprentise, will show you how to plan and make changes to your CoA structure, while cutting the cost and risk of such an impactful event.

11i supported revenue recognition through accounting rules which support defined schedules, but for many companies additional functionality is required. R12 introduces event and contingency based recognition. This presentation featuring guest speaker Karen Brownfield from Infosemantics explains the old and new methods with examples.

Learn the best practices when leveraging R12 Financials with guest speaker Alyssa Johnson from Rolta. Find out how to utilize the new Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC) functionality to improve processing efficiencies. See how your organization can best utilize the new features and functionalities in the financial subledgers. Also discover how your organization can best leverage Subledger Accounting, Primary and Secondary Ledgers, and Ledger Sets to efficiently handle multiple currencies, to provide consolidation views, to streamline financial reporting, to expedite data entry and to secure your financial data.

This presentation by guest speaker Susan Behn, Vice President at Infosemantics, covers the key topics that absolutely must be considered as part of an upgrade to Release 12 in key functional areas, while also touching on database and development topics.

Join guest speaker Dan Hotka, an experienced trainer and Oracle ACE Director, to learn about all of the new functions of the latest release of the Oracle Analytics (BI EE) product in this live-demo presentation.

Based on the book “The Little R12.1.3 Tuning and Troubleshooting Guide,” author and guest Speaker Mike Swing from TruTek will discuss ten ways to speed up your upgrade and speed up your system after the upgrade.

R12 incorporates a new legal entity structure to track intercompany transactions at a very detailed level. Thomas Simkiss from BizTech will discuss the set up required for the several types of Inter/Intra company accounting and walk through transactions to review the accounting for each.

A useful chart of accounts provides flexibility for recording and reporting financial information, brings structure for managing uniformly, and enhances communication. Learn the five fundamental design criteria and how to design your own chart of accounts.

Many organizations face challenges due to silos between disparate parts of the business, resulting in increased costs, risks or failures. Learn how to eliminate these information silos in Oracle E-Business Suite to share data effectively and communicate across the organization.

Your close needs to be quick, accurate and reliable. This presentation by Oracle Receivables Specialist Cathy Cakebread includes a step-by-step process with details for improving your close and a detailed reconciliation for Release 12 (and 11i too). Most of the concepts presented here are applicable for all releases of Oracle Receivables.

From an accounting operations perspective, closing the books at period end timely and accurately is always given high priority, but problems such as accounting entries recorded to the wrong account, last-minute adjustments and reconciliation issues tend to slow down the process. eprentise and guest speaker Karen Kerames from Accenture discuss how the subledger account reconciliation tools in R12 can help to prevent those problems and avoid issues during the month-end close.

Gustavo Gonzalez from IT Convergence will preview Oracle Fusion’s different components and understand the main differences between Fusion Cloud and Fusion On-Premise.

Learn how to leverage E-Business Suite tax (eBtax) to solve complex tax compliance issues, optimize tax automation, minimize accounting and reduce manual overrides, all while simplifying your configuration.

From an accounting operations perspective, closing the books at period end timely and accurately is always given high priority, but problems such as accounting entries recorded to the wrong account, last-minute adjustments and reconciliation issues tend to slow down the process. eprentise and guest speaker Karen Kerames from Accenture discuss how the subledger account reconciliation tools in R12 can help to prevent those problems and avoid issues during the month-end close.

Learn the steps required to build your cost justification model, and you will be on your way to making the changes your organization needs to accomplish its business goals.

Learn how your organization can avoid reimplementation and still leverage the features of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.

Learn about new R12 functionality that should be incorporated when you upgrade your Oracle E-Business Suite.

Join eprentise as we discuss the impact the Release 12 Subledger Accounting Engine will have on the daily processing of accounting entries.

A lifecycle management strategy for Oracle E-Business Suite provides a mechanism for IT organizations to cut operational costs without hindering innovation and forward thinking. In this session, listen as three companies from More4EBS discuss strategies to help you rationalize your application portfolio to increase productivity, improve flexibility and adaptability, and better align IT with the business.

R12 is designed to eliminate the off-line spreadsheets, manual data reconciliations, and redundant information processing steps that hindered financial reporting in previous releases. If you treat R12 as though it were 11i, you will forego the significant time and resource savings that it enables. In this session you will learn six steps that every business should take to transform their manual and spreadsheet data processes by leveraging secondary ledgers, ledger sets, and other powerful new features of R12.

Review new features in Release 12 including Subledger Accounting and Ledger Sets that provide an added incentive to adopt a well-designed chart of accounts.

Learn now to use secondary ledgers in Oracle E-Business Suite R12 to account for mergers and acquisitions, financial instruments, pensions, and other key accounting transaction and balance types.

Mergers and acquisitions carry the added weight of introducing redundant systems that duplicate functionality. Learn how to overcome the value gap to take advantage of emergent synergies by aligning your transaction and transition efforts.

Learn the value of cross-validation rules and understand how to design a chart of accounts in Oracle E-Business Suite that minimizes the number and complexity of CVRs.

A financial and information services company reviews some of the technical and functional strategies required to operate a global enterprise using Oracle E-Business Suite.

Learn the five fundamental design criteria for chart of accounts design in Oracle E-Business Suite, as well as how to design your chart of accounts with R12 Subledger Accounting, Ledger Sets, and Secondary Ledgers in mind.