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Oracle Projects
Documentation Update
RELEASE 11.0.2
October 1998
Enabling the Information Age

Oracle Projects Document Update Release 11.0.2
Copyright E 1998, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Primary Authors: Janet Buchbinder, Joseph Murphy, Chris Panero
Contributors: Christopher Andrews, Geoffrey Arone, Peter Budelov, Neeraj
Garg, Hans Christian Hansen, Shreekar Inamdar, Connie Kim, Jeanne Lowell,
Elizabeth McDermott, Christina Ravaglia, Rob Wald
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About This Documentation Update
This document contains important information. Please read this
document for the latest updates and additions to your user’s guide. If
you have installed Release 11.0.2, read the whole document. If you have
not installed Release 1.0.2, read only the first sections, Oracle Projects
Post–Upgrade Steps for Release 11.0.1, and Burden Cost Accounting
Enhancements Documentation Supplement.
This documentation update contains the following three topics:
• Oracle Projects User’s Guide, Release 11.0.1
This section contains five post–upgrade steps. You must perform
these steps if you are upgrading to Oracle Projects Release 11.0.1
or later.
The post–upgrade steps perform corrections on data related to
bug numbers 620118, 630505, 634580, 661335, and 625628.
• Burden Cost Accounting Enhancements Documentation
Supplement (Release 11.0.1)
If you are applying the patch to bug number 685104, or Oracle
Projects Release 11.0.1 or later, read this section to learn about the
new enhancements to the Burden Cost Accounting feature that
was provided in Release 11.
In this section, we also present an updated overview of burden
cost accounting, and describe how to make use of the
enhancements when implementing burden cost accounting in
Oracle Projects.
• Oracle Web Employees and Oracle Projects Integration (Release
11.0.2)
Users can now enter project–related expense reports in Web
Employees with a web browser. Read this section to learn how to
set up Web Employees with Oracle Projects.
For information about the latest enhancements to the Time and Expense
Entry feature, read the Oracle Project Time and Expense Entry
Documentation Supplement included with this release.
Documentation Update 1
Additional Oracle Projects Post–Upgrade Steps for Release 11.0.1
The checklist below summarizes the steps to perform after you have
installed Release 11.0.1. The section that follows the checklist describes
these steps in detail.
These steps are in to be performed in addition to the steps outlined in the
Oracle Applications Upgrade Manual, Release 11. The steps outlined here
should be performed along with the Category 5 steps listed in the
Upgrade Manual. (Category 5 steps must be run before using the
application.)
For more information on step categories and how to use the checklist,
refer to the Preface of the Oracle Applications Upgrade Manual, Release 11.
Checklist of Post–Upgrade Steps for Release 11.0.1
Perform the following steps BEFORE anyone logs on to Oracle Projects.

✔ Steps Done by
- 1. Correct Accrued Revenue in Excess of MIS Manager

Funding Amounts (Bug #620118) and PA
Manager
- 2. Correct Expenditure Items for Scheduled MIS Manager
Payment Events (Bug #630505) and PA
Manager
- 3. Correct Overstated Revenue Resulting MIS Manager
from Negative Amount Events (Bug and PA
#634580) Manager
- 4. Correct Overstated Revenue Resulting MIS Manager

from Negative Amount Expenditure Items and PA
(Bug #661335) Manager
- 5. Correct Supplier Invoices with Functional MIS Manager

Currency Adjustment Amounts (Bug and PA
#625628) Manager
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Post–Upgrade Steps
Step 1 Correct Accrued Revenue in Excess of Funding Amounts (Bug

#620118)
Performed by: MIS Manager and PA Manager
Reference manual needed: No
Do before anyone uses: Oracle Projects
You need to perform this step only if you have Oracle Project Billing
installed and you have not applied the fix for bug #620118. If you have
already applied the fix for bug #620118, then you have already corrected
the data and can skip this step.
Prior to Release 11.0.1, some projects or project/tasks accrued revenue in
excess of hard limit funded agreements.
To find the accrued revenue, run the script pa620118.sql. To run the
script, type the following commands:
$ cd $PA_TOP/patch/110/sql
$ sqlplus <APPS username>/<APPS password>
SQL>@pa620118.sql
The script generates a report called pa620118.lst. This report lists

projects whose accrued revenue exceeds the funding amount (hard limit
agreements). The report identifies the project name, task name,
agreement name, and the exceeded amount.
To correct the data, create a write–off revenue event for each exceeded
amount shown in the report. Create the write–off revenue event for the
project or task, depending on the funding level.
See: Events (Oracle Projects User’s Guide)
Step 2 Correct Expenditure Items for Scheduled Payment Events (Bug

#630505)
installed and you have not applied the fix for bug #630505 to Oracle
Project Accounting Version 3.1 or Oracle Projects Version 4.1. If you
have already applied the fix for bug #630505, then you have already
corrected the data and can skip this step.
Bug #630505 pertains to the Generate Draft Invoice process. Prior to
Release 11.0.1, the process did not correctly use a FIFO method to mark
expenditure items as ”billed” for schedule payment events. The process
should mark as ”billed” only the expenditure items up to an amount
approximately equal to the scheduled payment event amount.
To find and correct the data incorrectly marked as ”billed”, run the
script pa630505.sql.
To run the script, type the following commands:
SQL>@pa630505.sql
The script prompts for the following parameters:

• Start Project Number
• End Project Number
The script pa630505.sql may take a long time to run. If it is likely to
encounter a large amount of data, you can use the Start Project Number
and End Project Number parameters to limit the size of each run.
Ensure that you run the script for all project ranges.
Step 3 Correct Overstated Revenue Resulting from Negative Amount Events

(Bug #634580)
Prior to Release 11.0.1, excess revenue was calculated from events with a
negative amount.
To find overstated revenue from negative amount events, run the script
pa634580.sql.
SQL>@pa634580.sql
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This script prompts for the following parameters:
projects whose revenue from negative amount events is overstated. The
report identifies the project number, task number, event number, and
event amount.
To correct the data, create a revenue write–off event for each overstated
amount. Then run the Generate Draft Revenue process for each project
listed.
See: Events (Oracle Projects User’s Guide)
Step 4 Correct Overstated Revenue Resulting from Negative Amount

Expenditure Items (Bug #661335)
Prior to Release 11.0.1, excess revenue was calculated from expenditure
items with a negative amount.
To find overstated revenue from negative amount expenditure items,
run the script pa661335.sql.
SQL>@pa661335.sql
The script prompts for the following parameters:

projects whose revenue from negative amount expenditure items is
overstated. The report identifies the project number, task number,
expenditure type, expenditure amount, and accrued revenue amount.
To correct the data, perform Recalculate Revenue expenditure
adjustments on the listed expenditure items. Then run the Generate
Draft Revenue process for each project listed.
See: Adjustments (Oracle Projects User’s Guide)
Step 5 Correct Supplier Invoices with Functional Currency Adjustment

Amounts (Bug# 625628)
Do before anyone uses: Oracle Projects and Oracle Payables
You need to perform this step only if you interface foreign currency
supplier invoices from Oracle Payables to Oracle Projects and you have
not applied the fix for bug #625628. If you have already applied the fix
for bug #625628, then you have already corrected the data and can skip
this step.
Prior to Release 11.0.1, expenditure adjustments in Oracle Projects that
affected foreign currency supplier invoices in Oracle Payables were not
interfaced correctly in the foreign currency.
To find the incorrect data, run the script pa625628.sql. To run the script,
type the following commands:
SQL>@pa625628.sql
The script generates a report called pa625628.out. This report lists

invoices in foreign currencies with interfaced adjustment amounts in the
functional currency. The report identifies the invoice number, supplier
name, distribution line number, functional currency distribution
amount, functional currency CDL amount, and foreign currency
distribution amount.
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To correct the data, use the Distributions window in Oracle Payables to
update the supplier invoice line distribution with the correct foreign
currency amount.
See: Adjusting Invoice Distributions (Oracle Payables User’s Guide)
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Oracle Projects
Burden Cost Accounting
Enhancements
Documentation Supplement
RELEASE 11.0.1
July 1998
Enabling the Information Age

Copyright E 1998, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Major Contributors: Christopher Andrews, Janet Buchbinder, Peter Budelov,
Hans Christian Hansen, Shreekar Inamdar, Jeanne Lowell, Elizabeth McDermott
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Contents
Burden Cost Accounting Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Terms Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Changes in This Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Reporting Requirements for Project Burdening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
GL and Upper Management Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Burdening Options for General Ledger Reporting . . . . . 10
Middle Management Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Project Management Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Burdening Options for Project Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Implementing Burdening to Fit Reporting Needs . . . . . . . . . 18
Implementing Burden Cost Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Maximum Detail (Setup A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Detail in Oracle Projects, One Sum in GL (Setup B) . . . . . . . . 21
Total Burdened Cost (Setup C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
No Project Burden Tracking in GL (Setup D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Revenue and Billing for Burden Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Index
Contents i
ii Oracle Projects Documentation Supplement
Burden Cost Accounting Enhancements
This document describes enhancements to the burden cost accounting
feature delivered in Oracle Projects, Release 11.
Burden Cost Accounting in Oracle Projects, Release 11

Prior to Release 11, Oracle Projects enabled you to include indirect
(”burden”) costs, such as fringe benefits and administrative costs, in
your total project costs. Each expenditure item stored in Oracle
Projects included the raw cost amount and the burdened cost amount
(raw cost + burden). For each expenditure, you could post raw cost to
the general ledger, and you could also post burdened cost (raw cost +
burden) to the general ledger.
In Release 11, burden cost accounting was added to Oracle Projects.
You now have the option to create a separate expenditure item, called a
burden transaction, when Oracle Projects calculates burden for an
expenditure item. This gives you the ability to post burden cost to
separate accounts in the general ledger. It also adds the option to post
burden cost to a separate, indirect project in Oracle Projects. This is
useful for reporting burden transactions within Oracle Projects.
In this document, we present an updated overview of burden cost
accounting, and describe how to make use of the enhancements when
implementing burden cost accounting in Oracle Projects.
Terms Used in This Document

Burden Overhead that is recovered (burdened) in a project
or projects.
In the examples in this document, overhead is the
sum of Burden 1 and Burden 2.
Burden Cost Expenditure types you set up specifically to
Code associate with burden cost codes. These
Expenditure expenditure types are used only for burden
Types transactions.
Contribution The difference between revenue and all costs
Margin attributable to projects. (The terms ”gross margin”
and ”gross profit” are sometimes used as
synonyms for ”contribution margin”.)
Burden Cost Accounting Enhancements 1

Corporate Corporate costs incurred when doing business.
Expenses Examples are interest expense, depreciation, and
other extraordinary costs.
Burden 2: In the examples in this document,
corporate expenses are referred to as ”Burden 2”.
Overhead The sum of Project Indirect Costs and/or
Corporate Expenses.
Project Indirect Operating costs of running a business that are not
Costs directly charged to a project. Examples are
stationery, fringe benefits, office space, and G&A
(general and administrative) costs.
Burden 1: In the examples in this document,
project indirect costs are referred to as ”Burden 1”.
Project Inventory The GL asset accounting flexfield to which project
costs are charged. In some installations, this type
of account may be referred to by the following
terms:
• CIP (Construction in Progress)
• Project WIP
Total Burdened Raw cost plus burden cost
Cost
Changes in This Release

In Oracle Projects Release 11, the burden cost accounting feature
included the following capabilities:
• Individual accounting for each burden cost code
• Generation of each summary burden transaction on a separate
transaction from the raw cost
• Generation of summary burden transactions on a separate
project/task in addition to the original expenditure
In this release, we provide additional functionality, including
processing burden cost rather than raw cost in the AutoAccounting
functions that process burden transactions.
Following are the changes that have been made in this release.
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Burden Amount in Reports and Processes
In Release 11, the following processes and reports used the raw cost
amount, rather than the burden cost amount, when processing or
displaying burden transactions:
• The Interface Usage and Miscellaneous Costs process
• The Cost Audit report (GL Cost Interface Audit)
• The Project Subledger Audit reports
These processes and reports have been updated so that they process
and report on the burden cost.
Expenditure Item Date

In Release 11, summary burden transactions were created using the
system date as the expenditure item date.
The expenditure item date now matches the latest week ending date
that precedes the PA period end date of the expenditures being
burdened.
Table 1 – 1 shows some examples of expenditure item dates for burden
transactions.
Length Expenditure
of Expenditure Item Date of
PA Cycle Start Burden
PA Period of Burdened Expenditures Period Day Transactions
Monday, 10/19 through Sunday, 10/25 1 Week Monday Sunday, 10/25
Monday, 10/12 through Sunday, 10/25 2 weeks Monday Sunday, 10/25
Thursday, 10/1 through Saturday, 10/31 1 month Monday Sunday, 10/25
Table 1 – 1 (Page 1 of 1) Expenditure item date for burden transactions
Distribution Process
The name of the process ”Create and Distribute Summarized Burden
Component Items” has been changed to ”Create and Distribute Burden
Transactions”. The output reports from this process have been
renamed accordingly, as follows:
• Distribute Burden Transactions Report
• Distribute Burden Transactions Exception Report

This process now distributes only burden transactions. It no longer
distributes usages, miscellaneous costs, and inventory items.
The Distribute Usage and Miscellaneous Transactions process has been
changed so that it no longer processes burden transactions. It now
processes usages, miscellaneous transactions, and Inventory and WIP
transactions that are not already costed or accounted.
Interface Process
The Interface Usage and Miscellaneous Transactions process still
processes burden transactions. This process now selects the burden
cost amount rather than the raw cost amount when processing burden
transactions.
Transaction Import
Transaction Import now allows burden transactions to be charged to
projects that are not set up for burdening –– that is, projects on which
the associated Project Type Costing Information does not have the
Burdened option enabled. This will make Transaction Import
consistent with expenditure entry, which allows entry of burden
transactions on all projects.
You can use Transaction Controls to prevent users from entering or
importing burden transactions on a project.
Burden Recalculation
In the Expenditure Adjustment window, you can mark transactions for
recalculation of burdened cost. Burdened cost recalculation has been
changed so that when it is selected for a burden transaction, no
recalculation of the burden amount takes place.

Reporting Requirements for Project Burdening
There are generally three levels of reporting requirements for project
costs, as shown in the figure below:
Figure 1 – 1
Project costs reporting
pyramid
GL and
Upper Management
Reporting
GL and Projects:
Middle Management Reporting
Project Management Reporting
Oracle Projects provides several ways to set up burdening to serve

project reporting needs. For example:
• You can show burden transactions individually a project, and
also record the detail transactions in the general ledger.
• You can charge burden costs to internal projects to provide
visibility within Oracle Projects of total recovered overhead
costs.
• You can choose not to view the individual burden transactions in
Oracle Projects, while charging total burdened cost to project
inventory in the general ledger.
GL and Upper Management Reporting

During the financial cycle, the financial reports (income statement and
balance sheet) provide a summary view of a company’s fiscal
performance. Before the beginning of a new fiscal year, the company
develops budgets for the coming year based on the prior year’s

performance, as well as expectations and plans for the coming fiscal
year. The accountants review the total budgeted burden costs such as
overhead, fringe, and G&A (general and administrative). They then
estimate, for each project type, the burden multipliers and basis (such
as labor hours) for applying the burden.
An overhead cost may be associated with the entire company and
therefore must be shared across organizations. A burden multiplier
algorithm can be implemented to distribute (burden) overhead costs to
selected organizations and/or projects. To monitor the burdening of
projects, the costing processes must capture the burden information.
Management reports must track the recovery of overhead, identify
overhead costs that have been insufficiently or excessively recovered
(”unders” and ”overs”), and show comparison ratios such as actual
revenue to actual total cost, and budget to actual cost.
In the income statement and balance sheet in Figure 1 – 2 and
Figure 1 – 3, overhead is recovered at the general ledger level. These
statements do not reflect the use of project burdening.
Figure 1 – 2
Income statement
showing overhead INCOME STATEMENT
recovered in GL
Revenue 100
Direct Cost of Projects <30>

Contribution Margin 1 70
Burden 1 Cost (Project Indirect Cost) <10>

Burden 2 Cost (Corporate Expense) <27>
PROFIT 33
====

Figure 1 – 3
Balance sheet showing
overhead recovered in BALANCE SHEET
GL Assets
Project Inventory 200
Construction in Progress (CIP) 138
TOTAL ASSETS 338
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Liabilities
Accounts Payable 75
Equity
Owners’ Shares & Retained Earnings 230
”Raw Cost” Profit 33
263
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY 338

===
In these financial statements, project expenditures are charged directly

to projects and are subtracted from revenue to produce the
Contribution Margin 1. Overhead (project indirect cost) is subtracted
from Contribution Margin 1 to produce Contribution Margin 2.
Corporate expense is then subtracted, to determine the profit.
If overhead is recovered at the project level, expense components of the
income statement are reclassified as direct project cost elements. This
provides management with an alternative view of the cost of doing
business.
Burden Multiplier Algorithm

The cost of doing business may vary from department to department
or from project to project. How you apply burden costs can be driven
directly by how much overhead an organization or project incurs. You
typically determine the burden multiplier based on a forecast of the
amount of overhead cost incurred.
Following is an example of a burden multiplier algorithm:

Cost Element Cost Reference / Formula
Raw Labor (1 hour) 10 A
Burden 1 (30%) 3 B = A x .3
Burden 2 (69%) 9 C = (A+B) x .69
Total Labor 22 D=A+B+C
Table 1 – 2 (Page 1 of 1) Burden multiplier algorithm
In this algorithm, indirect costs (Burden 1) are weighted at a rate of

30% of an employee’s hour of labor. Burden 2 is weighted at 69% of a
labor hour after Burden 1 is applied.
If the algorithm shown in Table 1 – 2 were implemented in Oracle
Projects, the financial statements would be restated to show overhead
recovery, as shown in Figure 1 – 4 and Figure 1 – 5.
Figure 1 – 4 Reclassified
income statement
INCOME STATEMENT
Revenue 100
Cost of Projects
(Total Cost Incurred Including Overhead) <58>
Burden 1 Cost <10>

Less:
Recovered Income Statement 7
Recovered Balance Sheet 2
<1>
Burden 2 Cost <27>

Less:
Recovered Income Statement 21
Recovered Balance Sheet 5
<1>
PROFIT 40
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Figure 1 – 5 Reclassified
balance sheet
BALANCE SHEET
Assets
Project Inventory 200
Plus Burden Cost 5
205
Construction in Progress (CIP) 138
Plus Burden Cost 2
140
TOTAL ASSETS 345

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Liabilities
Accounts Payable 75
Equity
Owners’ Shares & Retained Earnings 230
Plus ”Burdened” Profit 40
270
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY 345

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Accounting Transactions for Burden Cost Reporting

Examples of typical payables, purchasing, and general ledger
transactions that result in cost reporting in the general ledger are
shown below:
Direct, Burden 1 and Burden 2 Costs Debit Account Credit Account
AP/PO Material Purchase – Raw Cost Cost of Project
AP Liability
AP/PO Stationery Purchase – Burden 1 Stationery
AP Liability
GL Interest Expense – Burden 2 Interest Expense
Bank
Table 1 – 3 (Page 1 of 1) Cost–related transactions

The following Oracle Projects transactions are used to offset the above
overhead entries. Labor hours are used as the cost basis for applying
overhead.
Generated Transactions Debit Account Credit Account
Labor Hour Labor Expense
Payroll Clearing
Burden 1 Project Burden 1
Burden 1 Recovered
Burden 2 Project Burden 2
Burden 2 Recovered
Table 1 – 4 (Page 1 of 1) Overhead offset entries
Burdening Options for General Ledger Accounting and Reporting

Oracle Projects provides the following options for accounting for and
reporting project burdening in the general ledger:
1. Track burden amount for each burden cost code
2. Show burdening in one account
3. Show total burdened cost as one sum
4. Show total burdened cost as one sum, and expense project burden
5. No burden tracking in GL
Following are descriptions of these options.
Note: In the examples in this document, we use a
three–segment general ledger account. The segments are
company, cost center, and account. Because all transactions
occur within the same company, the journal entries show only
the cost center segment and account.
GL Option 1: Track Burden Amount for Each Burden Cost Code
In this option, each burden transaction (Burden 1 and Burden 2 in our
example) is charged to a general ledger account set up for the
appropriate burden cost code. This provides visibility to overhead
recovery information at the burden cost code level.

The burden transactions can optionally be charged (debited) to the
same account as the raw cost, but the credit transaction will go to a
recovery account set up for each burden cost code.
Note: In Table 1 – 5 and the other tables illustrating generated
transactions, the ”Type of Account” column shows whether
each account is an income statement (I.S.) or balance sheet
(B.S.) account. This information illustrates our examples only.
Your installation may have different requirements, and
therefore your AutoAccounting setup may be different.
Type
Generated of
Transactions Cost Center Segment Account Dr. Cr. Acct
Labor Costs Project Organization Project Expense 20 I.S.
Expenditure Org. Payroll Clearing 20 I.S.
Burden 1 Project Organization Project Burden 1 6 I.S.
Expenditure Org. Burden 1 Recovered 6 I.S.
Burden 2 Project Organization Project Burden 2 18 I.S.
Usage Cost Project Organization Project Expense 100 I.S.
Expenditure Org. Usage Clearing 100 I.S.
Table 1 – 5 (Page 1 of 1) Track each burden cost code
GL Option 2: Show Burdening in One Account

In this option, burden is accounted for separately from raw cost, for
reconciliation and reporting purposes. It is recovered in one recovery
account. A separate account is not required for each burden cost code.
The balance in the Burden Recovered account is the summary burden
cost. The Project Inventory balance is total burdened cost (raw cost +
burden cost).
Type
Generated of
Labor Costs Project Org. Project Inventory 20 B.S.
Table 1 – 6 (Page 1 of 2) Burdening in one account

Type
Generated of
Overhead Project Org. Project Inventory 24 B.S.

(Burden 1 and
Burden 2)
Expenditure Org. Burden Recovered 24 I.S.
Usage Cost Project Org. Project Inventory 100 B.S.
Table 1 – 6 (Page 2 of 2) Burdening in one account
GL Option 3: Show Total Burdened Cost as One Sum

As in GL option 2, the net balance in the Burden Recovered account is
the summary burden cost (24), and the Project Inventory balance is the
total burdened cost (Labor=44, Usage=100). However, the amount for
each burden cost code is not visible in the general ledger.
Type
Generated of
Raw Cost:
Labor Costs Expenditure Org. Burden Recovered 20 I.S.
Usage Cost Expenditure Org. Usage Expense 100 I.S.
Total Burdened Cost:
Expenditure Org. Usage Transferred Out 100 I.S.
Table 1 – 7 (Page 1 of 1) Total burdened cost as one sum
GL Option 4: Show Total Burdened Cost as One Sum, and Expense

Project Burden
For this option, total burdened cost is shown as one sum, as in GL
option 3. In addition, total overhead costs, summarized by burden cost

code, are accounted as expense. With this method, the Project
Inventory account shows the total burdened cost, but details of the
burden (by burden cost code) are stored separately for burden recovery
purposes.
Type
Generated of
Raw Cost:
Labor Costs Expenditure Org. Burden Recovered 20 I.S.
Usage Cost Expenditure Org. Usage Expense 100 I.S.
Total Burdened Cost:
Expenditure Org. Usage Transferred Out 100 I.S.
Total Overhead Costs:
Burden 1 Expenditure Org. Burden 1 Expense 6 I.S.
Burden 2 Expenditure Org. Burden 2 Expense 18 I.S.
Table 1 – 8 (Page 1 of 1) Expense project burden
GL Option 5: No Burden Tracking in GL

In this option, the project managers need to track burden but upper
and accounting managers do not.
Using this option, the burden cost journals in the general ledger net to
zero. Only the raw cost is shown in the Project Inventory balance.

Type
Generated of
Total Burdened Expenditure Org. Burden Recovered 24 I.S.

Cost
Usage Cost Expenditure Org. Usage Clearing 100 I.S.
Table 1 – 9 (Page 1 of 1) No burden tracking In GL
Middle Management Reporting

As shown in Figure 1 – 1, middle management relies both Oracle
Projects and the general ledger for their required information.
A division or department manager looks for project information at the
summary projects level. This manager may want to see total project
burdening by burden cost code (Burden 1 and Burden 2), as shown
below:
All Projects Total
Revenue 60
Raw Cost <18>
Burden 1 <5>
Burden 2 <17>
Contribution Margin 20
Table 1 – 10 (Page 1 of 1) Total project burdening by burden cost code
Or, the division or department manager may want to see only the total
burdened costs of all projects, as shown below:

All Projects Total
Revenue 60
Total Cost of Projects <40>
Table 1 – 11 (Page 1 of 1) Total project burdening
Project Management Reporting

During a project life cycle, project managers review project information
in the Oracle Projects application. They review comparison ratios
(revenue to cost, budget to actual, etc.) for each project and/or for all
projects in a division or department.
The project manager and accounting manager may want to view the
same level of detail for projects as for GL accounts, or their needs may
be different.
A project manager is concerned about revenue and cost on an
individual project basis. How is the project doing compared to the
budget? When burden recovered in the project, at the expenditure item
level, the project manager can review total project cost on an ongoing
basis.
A project manager may want to see the burden cost on a project by
burden cost code (Burden 1 and Burden 2), or may only want to see
total burdened cost (raw + burden).
Burdening Options for Project Reporting

Oracle Projects provides flexible options to provide solutions for
different project reporting requirements. Some examples of these
requirements are:
• Burden costs are visible on each project
• Budgeting is done by burden cost code
• Only total cost needs to be visible on a project
• A project requires separation of raw cost and burden cost for a
complete project management picture

The following burdening options are provided by Oracle Projects for
project reporting.
1. Burden transactions on the original project/task
2. Total burdened cost and separate burden transactions
3. Total burdened cost only
These options are described below.
In the examples, labor costs are burdened with Burden 1 and Burden 2,
and usage costs are not burdened. This rule is for these examples only
–– In practice, usage can be burdened. The examples are designed this
way because
• it is a common practice to burden labor but not usage, and
• with this scenario we can illustrate how both burdened and
non–burdened transactions are handled in each example.
Projects Option 1: Burden transactions on the original project/task
In this option, summarized burden transactions are shown on the same
project/task as the original expenditures.
Using this option, the project manager can view the total project cost,
and can also view the burden costs separately from the raw cost.
Table 1 – 12 shows this information as it might be viewed in Project
Status Inquiry or in a custom report.
Project ABC Cost Raw Cost Burdened Cost
Labor Cost (Employee 1) 10 10
Burden 1 (30%) 0 6
Burden 2 (69%) 0 18
Total Labor Cost 20 44
Usage Cost 100 100
Total Burdened Cost 120 144
Table 1 – 12 (Page 1 of 1) Burden transactions on the original project/task

Projects Option 2: Total burdened cost and separate burden
transactions
In this option, the project shows total burdened cost for each burdened
expenditure. Summarized burden transactions are shown on a
separate project.
Using this option, analysis and reporting on burden are done on an
overview basis, not project by project. Budgeting can be done by
burden cost code on the separate project. This enables
budget–to–actual analysis of the overall project burden.
Usage Cost 100 100
Total Project Cost 120 144
Table 1 – 13 (Page 1 of 1) Total burdened cost on the original project
The details of the total burdened cost are visible in database views, as
shown in Table 1 – 14. Custom solutions can be developed for
individual implementations to report the required details.
Project ABC Total Cost Breakdown
Revenue 4
Total Cost <3> Raw 1.5

Burden 1 0.4
Burden 2 1.1
Table 1 – 14 (Page 1 of 1) Cost breakdown of total burdened cost
A separate project, Project XYZ, is set up to collect burden transactions

on Project ABC and other projects. Table 1 – 15 shows the burden costs
collected by project XYZ for the labor cost incurred on project ABC.
In this table, the burden costs are displayed in the Burdened
Cost/Burden Element column. While the amounts represent only the

burden element, they would be displayed in the Burdened Cost column
when viewed in the Project Status Inquiry window.
Burdened Cost
Project XYZ Cost Raw Cost /Burden Element
Burden 1 (30%) 0 6
Burden 2 (69%) 0 18
Table 1 – 15 (Page 1 of 1) Summary burden transactions on a separate project
Project Option 3: Total burdened cost only

In this option, the project shows total burdened cost. Separate burden
transactions are not created.
You can use this option when the project manager does not need to
view the burden transactions. Total burdened cost provides the
information required to manage the project.
Usage Cost 100 100
Total Project Cost 120 144
Table 1 – 16 (Page 1 of 1) Total burdened cost
Implementing Burdening to Fit Reporting Needs

The following table shows which pairs of options (Projects and GL) can
be implemented to work together. The table shows which setup
solution to use for each valid combination.

GL 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Options: By Burden One One Sum Expensed Not
Cost Code Account Tracked
Oracle Projects Options:
1. Burden transactions on Setup A Setup A n/a n/a Setup D

the original project
2. Total burdened cost n/a n/a Setup B Setup B Setup D

and separate burden
transactions
3. Total burdened cost n/a n/a Setup C n/a Setup D
Table 1 – 17 (Page 1 of 1) Valid combinations of burdening options

Implementing Burden Cost Accounting
This section tells you how to set up these entities for each of the valid
combinations shown in Table 1 – 17.
Entities That Affect Burdening

How a project is burdened depends on the setup of the following
entities:
1. Burden Cost Code Expenditure Types
The expenditure types you set up to associate with burden cost
codes are used only for burden transactions. These expenditure
types are referred to as burden cost code expenditure types.
2. Burden Cost Codes
3. Burden Structures
When you define burden structures, you associate expenditure
types with each cost base you enter. Therefore, although an
expenditure type can be associated with multiple expenditure type
classes, the burden structure is based on the expenditure type, not
the expenditure type class.
4. Burden Schedules
5. Project Types
6. AutoAccounting for raw, burden, and/or total burdened cost
The instructions that follow tell you how to set up these entities for
each project burdening solution.
Maximum Detail (Setup A)

This solution provides maximum visibility of burden costs on the
original project, and shows details of the recovered burden in the
general ledger.
Use this implementation to set up GL options 1 and 2 with Projects
option 1, as shown in Table 1 – 17.
In the Expenditure Types window, create an expenditure type for each
of the burden cost codes you plan to use. Each expenditure type must
have the expenditure type class ”Burden Transaction”. If you define

each expenditure type with the same name as the corresponding
burden cost code, it will make it easier to reconcile and set up
AutoAccounting for your burden costs.
Assign the burden cost code expenditure types to burden cost codes in
the Burden Cost Codes window.
3. Burden Structures and Burden Schedules
Create burden structures that map the different burden cost codes to
cost bases and expenditure types. Create burden schedules that use
appropriate burden multipliers.
4. Project Types
Define one or more project types with the following options selected in
the Costing Information region:
• Enable the ”Burdened” check box and select a burden schedule
• Enable the ”Burden Cost as Separate Expenditure Item” check
box. This selection generates summarized burden transactions
on the same project/task where expenditures are incurred.
5. AutoAccounting
Set up AutoAccounting rules for all raw and burden costs.
Warning: Do not enable the rules for Total Burden Cost for
this option.
Detail in Oracle Projects, One Sum in GL (Setup B)

With this solution, you report overall burden cost by burden cost code
in Oracle Projects. In the general ledger, burden cost will be tracked as
one sum. This solution implements Projects option 2, combined with
either GL option 3 or GL option 4 (see Table 1 – 17).
Create an expenditure type for each of the burden cost codes you plan
to use. Each expenditure type must have the expenditure type class
”Burden Transaction”. If you define each expenditure type with the
same name as the corresponding burden cost code, it will make it
easier to reconcile and set up AutoAccounting for your burden costs.

Assign the burden cost code expenditure types to burden cost codes in
the Burden Cost Codes window. This step is necessary only if you
have created expenditure types for burdening in step 1 above.
3. Burden Structures and Burden Schedules
Create burden structures that incorporate the multiple burden cost
codes. Create burden schedules that use appropriate burden
multipliers.
4. Project Types
• Enable the ”Burden Cost on Same Expenditure Item” option and
the ”Account for Burden Cost Components” check box. This
selection generates summarized burden transactions on a
separate project as well as total burdened cost on the original
expenditure.
• Enter a project/task for the burden transactions.
5. AutoAccounting
Set up AutoAccounting rules for all raw, burden, and total burdened
costs.
Total Burdened Cost (Setup C)

With this solution, total burdened cost will be shown on the project.
The general ledger will show total burdened cost as one sum.
This solution implements Projects option 3 with GL option 3 (see
Table 1 – 17).
multipliers.
2. Project Types

• Enable the ”Burden Cost on Same Expenditure Item” check box.
This selection generates total burdened cost balances on each
burdened expenditure item.
3. AutoAccounting
Set up AutoAccounting rules for all raw, burden, and total burdened
costs. Burden transaction accounting is configured to handle one off,
manual, or imported burden transactions.
No Project Burden Tracking in GL (Setup D)

With this solution, there is no tracking in the general ledger of burden
recovered on projects. This solution implements GL option 5 in
Table 1 – 17.
Steps 1 and 2 below are required if the you require visibility of burden
transactions on the project. If you only want to report by summary
burden cost codes, then these steps are not necessary. For reporting
purposes, the individual burden expenditures are available internally.
Create an expenditure type for each of the burden cost codes you plan
to use. Each expenditure type must have the expenditure type class
”Burden Transaction”. If you define each expenditure type with the
same name as the corresponding burden cost code, it will make it
easier to assign expenditure types correctly.
Assign the new expenditure types to burden cost codes in the Burden
Cost Codes window.
multipliers.
4. Project Types

• Projects option 1: If you want to view burden costs as separate
transactions on the same project, enable the ”Burden Cost as
Separate Expenditure Item” check box. This selection generates
summarized burden transactions on the same project where
expenditures are incurred.
• Projects option 2: If you want to view burden costs on the same
project, and collect summary burden transactions on a different
project, enable the ”Burden Cost on Same Expenditure Item”
option and the ”Account for Burden Cost Components” check
box, and enter the project and task name. This selection
generates summarized burden transactions on a separate project
while generating total burdened cost on the original expenditure.
5. AutoAccounting
Set up AutoAccounting rules for all raw and burden costs.
Although this solution does not require general ledger tracking of
burden recovery, Oracle Projects will still interface the burden
transactions to the general ledger. To create a net zero transaction, set
up AutoAccounting to post the debit and credit to the same account.
Warning: Do not enable the rules for Total Burden Cost for
this option.

Revenue and Billing for Burden Transactions
Including Burden Transactions in Revenue and Invoices

All expenditure types that will be used on a project must be included in
the bill rate schedule that will be used by that project. If they are not,
you will receive an error message when you generate invoices or
revenue.
The expenditure type ”Burden Transaction” is a non–labor expenditure
type. To include burden transactions in revenue and invoice
calculations, you must include Burden Transactions as an expenditure
type when you set up the non–labor bill rate schedule.
Markup is based on the raw cost amount, except in the case of burden
transactions, where markup is based on burden cost. If you need to
distinguish the bill rate or markup for each type of cost base, then you
must define burden cost codes and expenditure types for each category.
For example, if all expenditures are burdened with General and
Administrative burden, but you want to distinguish the labor value of
this burden on an invoice, or mark it up differently, you must create a
G&A burden cost code expenditure type for labor. (Burden cost code
expenditure types are defined under Entities that Affect Burdening:
page 20.
Revenue and Billing for Burdened Labor

If your employee bill rates are based on quantity and hours, then
burden cost does not affect revenue and billing. However, if you bill
for labor based on markup, you may need to distinguish labor burden
cost by defining burden cost codes and expenditure types for labor.
Revenue Burdening Using Revenue or Invoice Schedules

If you use revenue or invoice schedules and you want the burden
transaction to be revenue burdened, then you must include the burden
expenditure types in the burden structures that are used for revenue
and invoicing.
Showing Non–Labor Burden Transactions on an Invoice

If you show burden transactions for non–labor expenditures on a
project invoice, the ”quantity” for burden transactions will be
displayed as zero.

Index
A burden transactions (continued)
interface process, 4
algorithm, burden multiplier, 7 on an invoice, 25
recalculation, 4
revenue, 25
Transaction Import, 4
B burdening
balance sheet, burden cost accounting, 7, 9 accounting transactions, 9
billing algorithm, 7
burden transactions, 25 balance sheet example, 7, 9
burdened labor, 25 budgeting, 5, 15, 17
burden transactions on a separate project, 17,
burden, 1 24
recalculation, 4 cost basis, 10
Burden 1, 2, 8 expenditure type class, 20
Burden 2, 2, 8 GL reporting, 10
burden cost. See burden income statement example, 6, 8
burden cost accounting middle management reporting, 14
changes in this release, 2 project management reporting, 15
in Release 11, 1 project WIP, 12, 13
prior to Release 11, 1 reporting requirements, 5
revenue, 25
burden cost reporting. See burdening
setup, 20
burden multiplier algorithm, 7
burdening setup, 20, 21, 22, 23
burden reporting AutoAccounting, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
GL and upper management, 5 burden cost codes, 20, 21, 22, 23
middle management, 14 burden schedules, 20, 21, 22
project managers, 15 burden structures, 20, 21, 22, 23
burden transaction, expenditure types, 1 expenditure types, 20, 21, 23
burden transactions project types, 20, 21, 22, 23
billing, 25 burdening setup options
burden cost amount, 3 for GL reporting, 10
distribution process, 3 for projects reporting, 15
expenditure item date, 3 GL and Projects combinations, 18
Index – 1
C O
changes in this release, 2 overhead, 2
contribution margin, 1
corporate expenses, 2
P
processes
Create and Distribute Burden Transactions, 3
D Create and Distribute Summarized Burden
depreciation. See corporate expenses Component Items, 3
Distribute Usage and Miscellaneous
Transactions, 3
Interface Usage and Miscellaneous Costs, 3
E Interface Usage and Miscellaneous
Transactions, 4
expenditure item date, 3
project costs, reporting requirements, 5
expenditure type class, burdening, 20
project indirect costs, 2, 8
expenditure types, burden cost codes, 1
project inventory, 2
F R
fringe benefits. See project indirect costs recalculation of burden, 4
reports
Cost Audit, 3
GL Cost Interface Audit, 3
G Project Subledger Audit, 3
glossary of terms, 1 revenue
gross margin. See contribution margin burden transactions, 25
burdened labor, 25
gross profit. See contribution margin
T
I total burdened cost, 2
income statement, burden cost accounting, 6, 8 transaction controls, burden transactions, 4
interest expense. See corporate expenses Transaction Import, burden transactions, 4
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About This Documentation Supplement
This documentation supports the Oracle Web Employees and Oracle
Projects Integration, a new feature in Release 11 of Oracle Applications,
and available in Release 11.0.2 or later. If you install Release 11.0.2,
employees can record Oracle Projects information on expense reports
entered in Web Employees. Once imported as invoices into Payables
using Invoice Import, the project–related invoices can be paid and
posted. The invoices are then interfaced to Oracle Projects for project
burdening and tracking.
This Oracle Web Employees and Oracle Projects integration document
is new for Release 11.0.2, and the relevant, previously released
documentation has been updated to reflect this new feature. This
updated documentation replaces Payables and Projects online help for
these topics, and replaces the documentation in the Oracle Payables
User’s Guide, Release 11, and the Oracle Projects User’s Guide, Release 11,
for those topics. Use this documentation supplement with your Oracle
Payables User’s Guide, Release 11, and the Oracle Projects User’s Guide,
Release 11.
Note: Unless otherwise specified, references in this document are to
the Oracle Payables User’s Guide, Release 11, or the Oracle Projects User’s
Guide, Release 11. You can locate these topics by consulting the index in
either the Oracle Payables User’s Guide or the Oracle Projects User’s Guide.
Contents
About This Documentation Supplement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Oracle Payables Documentation

Setting Up Oracle Projects with Web Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Oracle Projects Integration with Payables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Entering Project–Related Invoices and Expense Reports . . . 3
Adding or Modifying Project Information on Invoices . . . . . 7
Expense Reporting Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The Predefined Expense Reporting Workflow Definition . . 9
Setting Up The Expense Reporting Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Expense Report Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Expense Report Templates Window Reference . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Payables Invoice Import Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting Up Web Expense Reports Using
Web Application Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Invoice Import Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Invoice Import Exceptions Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Invoice Import Prepayments Applied Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Invoice Import Interface Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Payables Invoice Import Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Understanding the Invoice Import Interface Tables . . . . . . . 73
Table Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Setting Up Invoice Import to Import
Non–Oracle Invoices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Contents v
Oracle Projects Documentation
Updates to Oracle Projects for Integration
with Web Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Profile Option—PA: Allow Project
Time and Expense Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Profile Option—PA: Expense Report Invoices Per Set . . . . . . 105
Profile Option—PA: AutoApprove Expense Reports . . . . . . 105
Process—PRC: Interface Expense Reports from Payables . . 106
Expenditure Access, Project User, and
AutoApproval Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Routing Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Using the Account Generator in Oracle Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Setting Up the Account Generator Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Workflow: Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation . . 114
Workflow: Project Expense Report Account Generator . . . . 119
Process Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Using the Segment Lookup Set Value Function . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Testing a Customized Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Assigning a Process to a Flexfield Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Setting the Profile Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Using AutoAccounting with Account Generator Processes . . . . 132
Assigning a Value to a Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Assigning an Attribute Parameter to a Segment . . . . . . . . . . 134
Deriving a Segment Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
SQL Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Integrating Expense Reports with Oracle Payables . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Setting Up in Payables and Oracle Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Processing Expense Reports Created in Oracle Projects . . . . 140
Processing Expense Reports Created in Web Employees . . . 146
Advances and Prepayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Adjusting Expense Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Purging Expense Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Viewing Expense Reports in Oracle Payables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Index
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Setting Up Oracle Projects with Web Employees
Web Employees integrates with Oracle Projects so that users can enter
project–related expense reports with a web browser. To integrate Web
Employees with Oracle Projects complete the following steps in either
Payables or Oracle Projects.
" To integrate Oracle Projects with Web Employees:

1. Enable employees to enter project–related expense report via
Web Employees (Oracle Projects).
To enable an employee to enter project–related expense reports via
Web Employees, set the PA:Allow Project Time and Expense Entry
profile option to Yes. For a description of this profile option see,
PA:Allow Project Time and Expense Entry: page 104.
2. Customize the Project Expense Report Account Generator (Oracle
Projects).
The Project Expense Report Account Generator – an Oracle Projects
workflow process – determines the account for each project–related
expense line created in Web Employees. The default logic of the
Project Expense Report Account Generator returns the CCID (Code
Combination ID) of the employee who incurred the project–related
expenses. You can customize the Project Expense Report Account
Generator. For instructions on how to customize this process see,
Default Account Generator for Web Employees: page 119.
3. (Optional) Set the PA:AutoApprove Expense Reports Profile
Option (Oracle Projects).
To have project–related expense reports approved automatically set
the PA:AutoApprove Expense Reports profile option to Yes. For a
description of this profile option see, PA:AutoApprove Expense
Reports: page 105.
4. (Optional) Set up Transaction Controls (Oracle Projects).
For information on how to set up transaction controls to validate
expense report receipts see: Transaction Controls in the Oracle
Projects User’s Guide.
5. (Optional) Write the Summary–Level Validation Extension
(Payables).
During the expense reporting process Web Employees calls the
CustomValidateLine API (in Payables). You can customize this API
to perform custom receipt–level validation. This API is included in
the $AP_TOP/admin/sql/apwdfcfs.pls file.
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6. Define a project–related expense report template (Payables).
• In the Expense Report Templates window associate a list of
Projects expenditure types with expense items.
See: Expense Report Templates: page 38.
7. (Optional) Customize the DetermineMgrInvolvement API
See: To Customize the DetermineMgrInvolvement API: page 16.
8. Set the WebExpenses:Enable Project profile option to ’Yes’
(Payables).
• Use the System Administrator responsibility to navigate to the
System Profile Values window.
• Enter ’Yes’ for the WebExpenses:Enable Projects profile option.
2 Oracle Web Employees and Oracle Projects Integration

Oracle Projects Integration with Payables
If you have installed Oracle Projects, you can record project
information on supplier invoices, expense reports entered in the
Invoices window, and on Web Employees employee expense reports
which Payables converts into invoices. For each transaction, Payables
records the project name, task, and expenditure information. The
Account Generator creates an expense account for each invoice
distribution that has projects information. Project–related transactions
are interfaced back to Projects where the transactions are recorded and
associated with particular projects.
This document includes the following topics:
• Entering Project–Related Invoices and Expense Reports: page 3
• Adding or Modifying Projects Information on Invoices: page 7
See Also
Using the Account Generator in Oracle Projects: page 111
Entering Project–Related Invoices and Expense Reports

This discussion gives a brief overview of the ways in which you can
add Projects information to expense reports and invoices. For detailed
information on Payables Integration with Projects, see the Payables and
Expense Report sections of the ”Integration with Other Oracle
Applications” chapter in the Oracle Projects User’s Guide.
You can enter projects information on supplier invoices. These
transactions are interfaced to Oracle Projects as supplier invoices. You
can enter projects information on supplier invoices in one of the
following ways:
• Use the Invoices window and the Distributions window to enter
an invoice, and include projects information. You can specify
projects information either by using a project–related
Distribution Set or by entering the project information manually.
• Match an invoice to a project–related purchase order.
• Assign a project–related Distribution Set to a recurring invoice
template.
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• In the Distributions window, add Projects information to any
existing supplier invoice you have entered or imported.
You can enter projects information on expense reports. These
transactions are interfaced to Oracle Projects as expense reports. You
can enter projects information on expense reports in the following
ways:
• Employees enter projects information on an expense report in the
Enter Receipts window in Web Employees.
• Import expense reports from Projects.
• In the Distributions window, add projects information to any
invoice you have entered or imported. This includes expense
reports you entered in the Invoices window (invoice type of
Expense Report), and expense reports you have entered in either
the Payables Expense Reports window or Web Employees and
that you have imported.
Note: Only Web Employees expense reports are processed by
the Expense Reporting Workflow, and any changes you make
to an expense report after import will not be included in
Workflow.
Entering Project–Related Invoices and Distributions

In the Invoices window, when you enter a project–related invoice, enter
the projects information, either manually in the projects fields, or by
entering a project–related Distribution Set for the invoice. These
project values default to the Distributions window where you can
override them, and where you can additionally add a value for
Quantity.
If you match to a purchase order, then Payables automatically copies
any projects information from the purchase order to the invoice
distribution.
You can also import through the Payables Open Interface tables
projects–related invoices from other systems.
Note: Project fields will not appear in the Invoices window or
Distributions window if you have not installed Oracle Projects.

Creating Project–Related Recurring Invoices
When you set up a recurring invoice template, assign a project–related
distribution set to the template. All invoices created by the template
will have the project information. You can override these values in the
Distributions window after Payables creates the recurring invoice.
Entering Project–Related Web Employees Expense Reports

This section gives you an overview of the Web Employees
project–related expense report process. Each step refers you to
documentation where you can find more information on the step.
1. Set up Payables, Web Employees, and Oracle Projects to process
project–related Web Employee expense reports.
See: Setting Up Oracle Projects with Web Employees: page 1.
2. In Web Employees, an employee enters an expense report with
project–related receipts, either online (the Create New Expense
Report function) or disconnected (the Upload Expense Spreadsheet
function). For each project–related receipt, the employee enters a
project number and a task number.
When the employee submits the expense report in Web Employees,
the system validates the project–related information, and then
saves the expense report information in the Payables Invoice
Import tables. If an expense line fails validation, Web Employees
displays an error message on the View Receipts window. An
employee must correct all errors before saving or submitting an
expense report.
3. Once the expense report is submitted, the system starts the
Expense Reporting Workflow process. Workflow uses the Project
Expense Report Account Generator to assign an expense account to
each project–related item on the expense report.
See: Default Account Generator for Web Employees: page 119.
4. The Accounts Payable department (AP) reviews, audits, adjusts,
and approves expense reports entered via Web Employees using
the Expense Report window in Payables. Note that project fields
are not available in this window.
After AP approves the expense report, it is ready for import. Any
unverified receipts are subject to short payment during the
workflow process.
See: Expense Reporting Workflow: page 9.
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5. You submit Payables Invoice Import to convert the expense report
into an invoice. Select Self–Service Applications as the Source
parameter to create invoices from entered in Web Employees. An
expense report entered in Web Employees is not eligible for import
until the Manager (Spending) Approval Process and the AP
Approval Process complete successfully.
See: Expense Reporting Workflow: page 9.
See: Payables Invoice Import Program: page 46.
If expense reports could not be imported, Payables prints the
Invoice Import Rejections Report. If the expense report is rejected,
correct the problems and resubmit Payables Invoice Import.
See: Invoice Import Report: page 63.
6. In the Payables Invoice Workbench, you can adjust project
information in the Distributions window.
See: Adding or Modifying Projects Information on Invoices: page
7.
7. In Payables, approve and pay the invoice.
See Also
Oracle Web Employees Expense Reporting
Importing Expense Reports from Oracle Projects

When you enter expense reports in Oracle Projects or Oracle Personal
Time and Expense (PTE), you can load them into Payables. You then
submit the Payables Invoice Import process to creates invoices from the
expense report information. You can then approve and pay the
invoices. For detailed information on importing Projects expense
reports, see: Integrating Expense Reports with Oracle Payables (Oracle
Projects User’s Guide).
Entering Project–Related Expense Reports in Payables

There are no project fields in the Expense Reports window. You can
enter expense reports in the Invoice Workbench. Enter an invoice with
the invoice type of Expense Report, enter an employee’s name as the
supplier, and enter projects information, either by using a

project–related Distribution Set, or by manually entering projects
information. The system automatically builds the expense account for
the distribution based on the projects information on the distribution.
Adding or Modifying Project Information on Invoices

In the Distributions window, you can update or add project
information on invoices, or expense reports that you have entered in
Payables. After you post the invoice in Payables, you can interface
them to Projects.
Adjusting Project–Related Invoices

If the project–related invoice is not posted, then in Oracle Payables you
can make any adjustments that you can to any other unposted invoice.
See: Adjusting Invoices.
If the invoice has already posted and interfaced to Projects, you can no
longer adjust the total amount of the invoice. After interfacing the
invoice to Projects, to make a change to an invoice distribution, you
should add a reversing distribution with the incorrect information, and
then add a new distribution with the correct information.
For example, if you entered a distribution for $500, with cost center 444
in the expense account, and you want to change the cost center to 445.
Press the Reverse button to create a new distribution with the same
information as the distribution you want to replace, including cost
center 444, but an amount of –$500. Then add a new distribution for
$500 with cost center 445. For more information see: Adjusting
Expense Reports, and Adjustments, Supplier Invoice Adjustments in
Payables (Oracle Projects User’s Guide).
If you have interfaced the invoice from Payables to Projects, then from
Oracle Projects, you can make net–zero adjustments to Payables
invoices based on regular Payables invoice update restrictions. These
changes are recorded in both Payables and Projects, so they do not get
interfaced back to Projects.
In Payables you can cancel an invoice after interfacing it to Oracle
Projects. However, if you have made net zero adjustments in Oracle
Projects, you must interface these to Payables before you can cancel the
invoice.
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Adjusting expense account information
The Account Generator creates an expense account for each invoice
distribution that has projects information. If you change the project
information on the invoice distribution, the system rebuilds the
distribution accounts based on the new project information. You can
override the account that Account Generator builds only if you enable
the profile option: PA:Allow Override of PA Distributions in AP/PO.
You can make these changes in either Payables or in Projects if the
invoice has already been interfaced to Projects. For detailed
information, see: Accounting Transactions Created by the Account
Generator, and Implementing the Account Generator for
Project–Related Payable Invoices in Oracle Projects (Oracle Projects
User’s Guide)

Expense Reporting Workflow
Oracle Web Employees includes a predefined Oracle Workflow (.wft)
file that you can use with Expense Reporting. Use the Oracle Workflow
server component and the Oracle Workflow Builder client component
to implement Oracle Workflow for use with Expense Reporting.
This discussion includes the following topics:
• The Predefined Expense Reporting Workflow Definition: page 9
• Setting Up The Expense Reporting Workflow: page 28
The Predefined Expense Reporting Workflow Definition

The Expense Reporting Workflow definition (.wft) file is
automatically loaded into the database under the APPS account
when you install Oracle Web Employees. From the Oracle
Workflow Builder program, you can open the definition file by
providing the username, password, and database. Show the AP
Expense Report item type and choose OK.
AP Standard Expense Report Process (Parent)
Note: You cannot replace this workflow with a new workflow

process.
The Expense Reporting Workflow definition file contains the
following ten Oracle Workflow Process–type activities:
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Server Side Validation Process
Populates for each expense report record all remaining required

columns in AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS and
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES.
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS:
• Builds EMPLOYEE_CCID.
• Sets SOURCE to ”WebExpense” from
”NonValidatedWebExpense” after the columns have been
populated by this activity. The Expense Reports window in
Payables can query records with the source of ”WebExpense”,
but not ”NonValidatedWebExpense.”
• Determines and sets EXPENSE_CHECK_ADDRESS_FLAG
based on values defined in HR_EMPLOYEES_CURRENT_V and
then FINANCIALS_SYSTEM_PARAMETERS.
• Determines and sets APPLY_ADVANCES_DEFAULT based on
values defined in AP_SYSTEM_PARAMETERS and on whether
there are any available advances for the employee.
• Determines and sets AWT_GROUP_ID.
• Determines and sets DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE,
DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_DATE, and
DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE.
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES:
• Builds CODE_COMBINATION_ID.
☞ Attention: An employee creates a project–related expense line

by associating a project number and a task number to an
expense item in Web Employees. The DoAPValidation activity

in the (Payables) Server–Side Validation process calls a
workflow process in Oracle Projects whenever it reaches a
project–related expense line. The Project Expense Report Account
Generator determines the account for each project–related
expense line submitted via Web Employees. Note that the
default behavior of the Project Expense Report Account Generator
is to assign the CCID of the employee who incurred the
expenses to each project–related expense line. For instructions
on how to customize this process see Account Generator for
Web Employees: page 119.
• Sets AWT_GROUP_ID to the value for AWT_GROUP_ID in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS.
• Determines and sets RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG.
• Determines and sets JUSTIFICATION_REQUIRED_FLAG.
☞ Attention: The Server Side Validation process also calls the

DoCustomValidation function. You may want to customize
this process to include any custom validation in your Expense
Reporting workflow. For example, if you do not want to use
AP Approval, then in the AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES
table, set both the JUSTIFICATION_REQUIRED_FLAG and the
RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG to N for all lines. Or, if you want
AP Approval to be required for expense reports above a certain
amount, then set both the JUSTIFICATION_REQUIRED_FLAG
and the RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG to N on expense reports
below the amount.
The DoCustomValidation function is located in the
following directory:
$AP_TOP/patch/110/sql/apwxwfcb.pls
The DoCustomValidation function is named:
AP_WEB_EXPENSE_CUST_WF.DoCustomValidation
☞ Attention: If you use the DoCustomValidation function to

perform custom processing for your expense reports, place any
custom code in a directory protected from an upgrade prior to
the upgrade. After the upgrade, if appropriate, reapply any
custom code.
Warning: If you customize the predefined Workflow
definition, do not modify the Payables Validation activity of the
Server Side Validation process. This activity populates all
missing required columns in AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS
and AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES. If this activity does not
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complete successfully, you may encounter data corruption
errors.
process.

Manager (Spending) Approval Process
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• Finds the appropriate Approver(s) for each expense report. The
Approver(s) for an expense report is based on the Find Approver
Method.
• Determines the level of manager involvement necessary for an
expense report. For a detailed description of this procedure, see
Level of Manager Involvement Activity: page 14.
• Processes the Approver’s response (request for approval sent by
Request Approval Process) to request for approval.
• Verifies the authority of the Approver once approval is obtained.
For a detailed description of how this verification works, see The
Verify Authority Activity: page 17.
• If sum of missing receipt items is greater than user–defined limit,
requests approval confirmation from Approver.
• Processes Approver response to approval confirmation.
• Determines if proof of payment is required regardless of whether
the employee indicates that original receipts are missing. If
proof of payment is not required for items where the employee
indicates that receipts are missing, then it sets the
RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG column value to N for all items
where receipts are required but the employee indicated that
receipts are missing. If proof of payment is required, then the
RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG column value is not updated for
those items where receipts are required and the flag is set to Y.
☞ Attention: The Manager (Spending) Approval Process checks

the SUPERVISOR_ID column in HR_EMPLOYEES_CURRENT_V
and the AP_WEB_SIGNING_LIMITS table to obtain the
approver(s) for an expense report, and to verify the spending
authority of an approver(s). If you want to store spending
authority in other (custom) tables, you need to customize the
Find Approver activity and the Verify Authority activity of this
process.
process.
Level of Manager Involvement Activity

For each expense report entered via Web Employees, the Level of
Manager Involvement workflow activity determines whether:
• manager approval is necessary.
• manager notification is necessary.

• no manager involvement is necessary.
The Level of Manager Involvement activity calls the
DetermineMgrInvolvement API; this API establishes what level of
manager involvement is necessary. For a description of the default
behavior of this API see The DetermineMgrInvolvement API: page 15.
You can customize this API to control manager involvement in the
expense reporting process. For a description of how to do this, see: To
Customize the DetermineMgrInvolvement API: page 16.
The DetermineMgrInvolvement API

Expense reports entered via Web Employees consist of positive receipts
(expense lines), and/or negative receipts (credit lines). Receipts are
project–related or non–project–related. See Expense Reports with
Project–Related Receipts (on page 15) for an explanation of the default
behavior of the DetermineMgrInvolvement API when expense reports
contain project–related receipts.
If an expense report contains no project–related receipts, then the
DetermineMgrInvolvement API requires manager approval whenever
an expense report contains one or more positive expense lines. If an
expense report contains only credit lines, then the default behavior
requires only manager notification. This ensures that manager approval
is necessary for every expense report that contains an expense line,
even if the total amount of an expense report is less than or equal to
zero. For example, an expense report that consists of one expense line
of 400 and one credit line of 500 would require manager approval, even
though the total amount of the expense report is negative (–100).
Note that employees can enter credit lines, i.e., receipts with negative
totals, only if the the value for the WebExpenses:Allow Credit Lines
profile option is set to ’Yes’.
Expense Reports with Project–Related Receipts
Employees can create expense reports with project–related receipts in
Web Employees. The default behavior of the Level of Manager
Involvement activity depends on whether an expense report contains all,
some, or no project–related receipts.
• If an expense report contains all project–related receipts, then the
Level of Manager Involvement activity calls the AutoApproval
client extension in Oracle Projects. The PA:AutoApprove
Expense Report profile option controls the default behavior of
this client extension. If the AutoApproval extension returns
’Yes’, the Level of Manager Involvement activity gives manager
approval to the expense report. If the AutoApproval extension
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returns ’No’, the Level of Manager Involvement activity requires
that a manager approve the expense report.
You can customize the AutoApproval client extension in Oracle
Projects to define specific rules concerning which expense
reports qualify for automatic (manager) approval. For additional
information, see PA:AutoApprove Expense Reports: page 105,
and Expenditure Access, Project User, and AutoApproval
Extension: page 107.
• If an expense report contains both project–related and
non–project–related receipts, then the Level of Manager
Involvement activity calls the AutoApproval API in Oracle
Projects, and also calls the DetermineMgrInvolvement API in
Payables. The activity compares the results from both APIs, and
uses the stricter of the two to determine the level of manager
involvement for the expense report. For example, if the result of
the AutoApproval API in Oracle Projects is ’Bypass’, and the
result of the DetermineMgrInvolvement API in Payables is
’Notification’, then the level of manager involvement is
’Notification’. If the results of the AutoApproval API in Oracle
Projects is ’Approval Required’, and the result of the
DetermineMgrInvolvement API in Payables is ’Bypass’, then the
level of manager involvement is ’Approval Required’.
• If an expense report contains no project–related receipts, then the
Level of Manager Involvement activity calls only the
DetermineMgrInvolvement API.
To Customize the DetermineMgrInvolvement API

You can customize the DetermineMgrInvolvement API. The
DetermineMgrInvolvement API is located in the following directory:
$AP_TOP/patch/110/sql/apwxwfcb.pls
The DetermineMgrInvolvement API is named:
AP_WEB_EXPENSE_CUST_WF.DetermineMgrInvolvement
You can have the DetermineMgrInvolvement return one of three
possible values:
• NOTIFICATION_ONLY
• APPROVAL_REQUIRED
• BYPASS_APPROVAL

The DetermineMgrInvolvement API contains some sample code, which
is commented out, to facilitate customization. The sample code, if
enabled, enforces the following rules:
• For expense reports where the sum of expense lines is greater
than or equal to 500, manager approval is required.
• For expense reports where the sum of expense lines is greater
than or equal to 100 (and less than 500), only manager
notification is required.
• For expense reports where the sum of expense lines is less than
100, there is no manager involvement.
You can customize this API by increasing or decreasing the values
assigned to the variables l_approval_req_amount and
l_notify_only_amount. You must also add and remove the
necessary comment delimiters to make the sample logic in this API
control the Level of Manager Involvement activity.
☞ Attention: If you customize the DetermineMgrInvolvement

API , place any custom code in a directory protected from an
upgrade prior to the upgrade. After the upgrade, if
appropriate, reapply any custom code.
The Verify Authority Activity

The Verify Authority activity checks whether a manager has the
authority to approve an expense report. If a manager does not have the
authority to approve an expense report, the Manager Approval process
requests approval from another manager. (Note that a manager can
reject an expense report even though she does not have the authority to
approve it.)
(expense lines), and/or negative receipts (credit lines). The Verify
Authority activity compares the sum of the (positive) expense lines in
an expense report to the signing limit of the approver. The activity
ignores credit lines. This ensures that a manager with a signing limit of
1000 cannot approve an expense report that contains an expense line of
1200 and a credit line of 1000, even though the total amount of the
expense report (200) falls below her signing limit. Since the sum of the
expense lines (1200) exceeds her signing limit total (1000), the Verify
Authority activity determines that she cannot approve the expense
report. If a manager does not have the authority to approve an expense
report, then the Manager Approval process returns to the Find
Approver activity. The Find Approver method identifies another
manager and requests approval from her. This process continues until
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a manager with the necessary signing limit approves the expense
report.
Note that employees can enter credit lines, i.e., negative receipts, only if
the the value for the WebExpenses:Allow Credit Lines profile option is
’Yes’.
Request Approval Process
• Notifies Approver(s) from whom approval is required.

• Copies direct manager on notification requesting approval (if
direct manager is not an Approver).
• Calls the No Manager Response Process if manager does not
respond to request for approval within specified Timeout period.
process.

Third Party Expense Report Process
• If an employee submits an expense report on behalf of another

employee, this process determines if approval is required by the
employee for whom the expense report was submitted. If
approval is required, the employee for whom the expense report
was entered receives a notification requesting approval. If
approval is not required, the employee receives only a
notification indicating that an expense report has been submitted
on her behalf.
process.
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Rejection Process
• If an expense report is rejected by management after accounts

payable (AP) has reviewed it, AP receives a notification. If AP
has received receipts for an expense report that has been rejected
by management, AP can determine what to do with those
receipts.
• Informs the preparer that the expense report has been rejected by
management. The preparer can then use the Modify Expense
Reports function in Web Employees to restore the rejected
expense report. When an employee restores a rejected expense
report, the employee can review and edit, then either save,
cancel, or resubmit the expense report.
• Deletes the rejected expense report if no action is taken by the
preparer within a specified period of time.
process.

No Manager Response Process
• After a user–defined number of notifications to Approver

without response, notifies expense report preparer of other
approval options. Options include: resend to approver, or
request approval from the original approver’s manager.
• Processes response to provided approval options chosen by
preparer.
process.
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AP Approval Process
• Approves as ready for Payables Invoice Import all expense

reports where all receipt items do not require justification or
original receipts. At this point, the Oracle Workflow process, in
its standard configuration, is complete for those expense reports
that: 1) do not require accounting review, and 2) have been
approved by management during the Manager (Spending)
Approval Process.
• To approve an expense report as ready for Payables Invoice
Import, the Oracle Workflow process sets the
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS.SOURCE column to
SelfService.
• Notifies AP of expense reports with receipts where justification
is required but no original receipts are required. See also:
Reviewing, Auditing, and Approving Oracle Web Employees
Expense Reports
☞ Attention: Once management approves an expense report

during the Manager (Spending) Approval Process, the
Workflow process determines if accounting review is required,
and, if so, it checks if accounting review has occurred. If
accounting review is required, and it has not been completed,
the Workflow process sets itself in deferred status and waits for
accounting review to be performed. You can perform

accounting review in the Payables Expense Reports window.
Once accounting review has been performed, you must run the
Workflow Background Process to restart the Workflow process
from deferred status. If the Workflow Background Process
determines that accounting review has been performed, the
Workflow process can continue towards completion. If the
Workflow process for an expense report does not complete, the
expense report cannot be imported using Payables Invoice
Import.
Suggestion: You should set the Workflow Background Process
to run periodically to check for accounting review. See: Setting
Up Background Workflow Engines (Oracle Workflow Guide).
• Approves as ready for Payables Invoice Import all expense
reports where all receipts have been verified by accounting, there
have been no adjustments or shortpays, and the expense report
has been approved by management during Manager (Spending)
Approval Process.
• Determines if AP performed an adjustment to an expense report
item, and if so, notifies preparer of AP adjustment based on
receipt item where expense is not reimbursable under
organization spending policy.
• Determines if any unverified receipts exist where receipt is
required for an Expense Item, and if so, calls the Shortpay
Unverified Receipt Items Process.
Suggestion: If you do not require accounting review, you can
use the DoCustomValidation function in the Server Side
Validation process to set the RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG
column value to N and the JUSTIFICATION_REQUIRED_FLAG
column value to N for an expense report. You can set these
flags to N for all expense reports, or for only those expense
reports below a certain amount threshold.
☞ Attention: If you use the DoCustomValidation function to

perform custom processing for your expense reports, place any
custom code in a directory protected from upgrade prior to the
upgrade. After the upgrade, if appropriate, reapply any
custom code.
process.
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The Credit Lines Only Activity
(expense lines), and/or negative receipts (credit lines). An employee
generally enters a positive receipt to request reimbursement for an
expense. An employee enters a negative receipt to report the refund of
a previously reimbursed expense, for example, the refund of an unused
airline ticket. The Credit Lines Only activity automatically gives
Accounts Payable approval to an expense report that contains only
credit lines. If an expense report contains only credit lines this activity
changes the value of AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS.SOURCE to
SelfService, making the expense report eligible for Invoice Import.
☞ Attention: Employees can enter credit lines, (i.e., negative

receipts), only if the the value for the WebExpenses:Allow
Credit Lines profile option is set to ’Yes’.
Shortpay Unverified Receipt Items Process
• Creates new expense reports for items subject to shortpay. An

expense report can be shortpaid for missing required receipts
and for policy violation. If all required receipts are not verified
by AP, then a new expense report is created that consists of the

sum of all receipt–required items where receipt has not been
verified by AP. If AP indicates that an item is subject to shortpay
due to a lack of information provided by the employee (policy
violation), then a new expense report is created for the sum of all
expense items with a policy violation. The expense report
number for each new expense report created by the shortpay
process is the original expense report number appended with –n
(n is the number of instances where a new expense report is
created due to short pay). See also: Reviewing, Auditing, and
Approving Oracle Web Employees Expense Reports, and
Modifying and Reviewing Existing Expense Reports.
• If the shortpay is due to unverified required receipts, this process
calls the Missing Receipts Shortpay Process.
• If the shortpay is due to policy violation, calls the Policy
Violation Shortpay Process.
• Approves as ready for Payables Invoice Import the original
expense report that consists of the remaining items that are not
subject to shortpay. At this point, the Oracle Workflow process,
in its standard configuration, is complete for the original expense
report.
• To approve an expense report as ready for Payables Invoice
Import, the Oracle Workflow process sets the
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS.SOURCE column to
SelfService.
process.
Policy Violation Shortpay Process
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• Informs preparer of policy violation shortpay and provides
response options to shortpay. The preparer has two options: 1)
delete the new expense report; or 2) provide AP with the
additional information required by the reimbursement policy.
• If the employee submits additional information (option 2) for the
policy violation, AP is notified of the information and the AP
Standard Expense Report Process is called to start at the AP
Approval Process.
process.
Missing Receipts Shortpay Process
• Informs preparer of unverified required receipt shortpay, and

provides response options to the shortpay. The preparer has
three options: 1) delete the new expense report; 2) submit the
original receipts to accounting; or 3) forward the new expense
report to management for approval indicating that original
receipts are not available.
process.

See Also
Oracle Workflow Guide
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Setting Up The Expense Reporting Workflow
You can customize the predefined Workflow file and implement it for
Expense Reporting. For details on the file and its Process–type
activities, see the previous section: The Predefined Expense Reporting
Workflow Definition: page 9.
" To set up the Expense Reporting Workflow:

1. Install and set up Oracle Web Employees. See: Oracle Self–Service
Web Applications Implementation Manual and Setting Up Web
Employees Expense Reporting.
☞ Attention: You must install and set up Oracle Web Employees

before setting up the Expense Reporting workflow.
2. Install the Oracle Workflow Builder client component program.
See: Oracle Workflow Installation Guide.
3. Open the Expense Reporting Workflow definition (.wft) file. The
Expense Reporting Workflow definition (.wft) file is automatically
loaded into the database under the APPS account when you install
Oracle Web Employees. From the Oracle Workflow Builder
program, you can open the definition file by providing the
username, password, and database. Show the AP Expense Report
item type and choose OK.
4. Define System Administrator and AP Roles. See: Defining System
Administrator and AP Roles: page 30.
5. Choose your Find Approver Method. See: Choosing Your Find
Approver Method: page 31.
6. Set Workflow Timeouts. See: Set Workflow Timeouts: page 32.
7. Set Workflow Activity Attributes. See: Setting Workflow Activity
Attributes: page 33.
8. Customize Workflow Messages (optional but recommended). See:
Customizing Workflow Messages: page 34.
9. Load the AP_WEB_SIGNING_LIMITS table. See: Loading Signing
Limits: page 36.
10. (Optional) Customize the following client extensions:
• DoCustomValidation (Server Side Validation Process)
• FindApprover (Manager Spending Approval Process)
• VerifyAuthority (Manager Spending Approval Process)

• DetermineMgrInvolvement (Manager Spending Approval
Process)
11. Submit the Workflow Background Process.
From the Oracle Applications System Administrator responsibility,
submit the Workflow Background Process concurrent program. Set
the Resubmission interval to indicate how often you would like to
check for accounting review for expense reports that require this
activity.
☞ Attention: Oracle Workflow, in its standard configuration,

sets itself in deferred status for all Web Employees–entered
expense reports that require accounting review that have
already been approved by management. Once management
approves an expense report during the Manager (Spending)
Approval Process, the Workflow process determines if
accounting review is required, and, if so, it checks if accounting
review has occurred. If accounting review is required, and it
has not been completed, the Workflow process sets itself in
deferred status and waits for accounting review to be
performed. Perform accounting review in the Payables
Expense Reports window. See: Reviewing, Auditing, and
Approving Oracle Web Employees Expense Reports. Once
accounting review has been performed, you must run the
Workflow Background Process to restart the Workflow process
from deferred status. If the Workflow Background Process
determines that accounting review has been performed, the
Workflow process can continue towards completion. If the
Workflow process for an expense report does not complete, the
expense report cannot be imported using Payables Invoice
Import.
☞ Attention: If accounting review is not required, the Workflow

process continues to completion. If accounting review is
required, and it has already been completed, the Workflow
process continues to completion without setting itself in
deferred status.
See Also
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Defining System Administrator and AP Roles
Prerequisite
❑ Load the System Administrator and AP roles by choosing the
File–Load All Roles command from the Oracle Workflow Builder
client program.
" To define System Administrator and AP roles:

1. In the Process – Server Side Validation Process window, define the
Performer–type role for System Administrator for the following
Notice–type activities:
• Inform Sys Admin of Payables Validation Failure
• Inform Sys Admin of Custom Validation Failure
2. In the Process – Manager (Spending) Approval Process window,
define the Performer–type role for System Administrator for the
following Notice–type activity:
• Inform System Administrator – No Approver
3. In the Process – Manager (Spending) Approval Process window,
define the Performer–type role for AP for the following
Notice–type activity:
• Inform AP Mgr Approved ShortPay With Missing Receipts
4. In the Process – AP Approval Process window, define the
Performer–type role for AP for the following Notice–type activity:
• Request AP To Review Spending Policy Compliance
5. For the System: Error item type, in the Process – AP Custom
Default Error window, define the Performer–type role for System
Administrator for the following Notice–type activity:
• AP Custom Default Error Notification
6. In the Process – Rejection Process window, define the Performer
type – role for AP for the following Notice–type activity:
• Inform AP Exp Rpt They Reviewed Is Mgr Rejected
7. In the Process – Policy Violation Shortpay Process window, define
the Performer type – role for AP for the following Notice–type
activity:
• Provide AP With Missing Info To Rectify Policy Shortpay

See Also
Choosing your Find Approver Method
" To choose your Find Approver method:

Open/edit the Manager (Spending) Approval Process and edit the
properties of the Find Approver activity. Select the Find Approver
attribute value and choose the appropriate Find Approver Method.
There are three predefined methods for Find Approver:
• Go Directly to Person with Signing Authority: If the expense
report cost center is the same as the default employee cost center,
this method requires only the approval of the person who has
appropriate signing authority within the employee’s
organization. If the direct manager does not have appropriate
signing authority, then the direct manager is notified of the
preparer’s expense report.
If the expense report cost center is different from the default
employee cost center and an Overriding Approver is entered,
this method requires only the approval of the person within the
Overriding Approver’s organization with appropriate signing
authority. The direct manager is notified of the preparer’s
expense report.
• Go Up Management Chain: If the expense report cost center is
the same as the default employee cost center, this method
requires the approval of everyone within the management chain
of the preparer up to and including the person with appropriate
signing authority.
employee cost center and an Overriding Approver is entered for
an expense report, approval is required from everyone within the
Overriding Approver’s management chain up to and including
the person with appropriate signing authority. The direct
manager is notified of the preparer’s expense report.
• One Stop Then Go Directly: If the expense report cost center is
the same as the default employee cost center, this method
requires the approval of the preparer’s direct manager and the
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person within the preparer’s organization with appropriate
signing authority.
employee cost center and an Overriding Approver is entered,
approval is required from the Overriding Approver and the
person with appropriate signing authority within the Overriding
Approver’s organization. The direct manager is notified of the
preparer’s expense report.
See Also
Setting Workflow Timeouts

You must define the Timeout value for the following activities
(including Notification–type activities) and processes. For more
information, see: Process Window (Oracle Workflow Guide).
• Inform Sys Admin of Payables Validation Failure
• Inform preparer – No Manager Response
• Inform Sys Admin of Custom Validation Failure (if custom
validation used)
• Inform Preparer Policy Violation Shortpay Req More Info
• Verify With Mgr the Amt Approved With NO Receipt
• Find Approver
• Wait for Resubmission
• Request Employee Approval (if expense report is prepared on
behalf of another employee)
• Request Approval from APPROVER
• For the System: Error item type and the AP Custom Default
Error Process, the AP Custom Default Error Notification
• Inform System Administrator – No Approver
• Inform Preparer of Shortpay Due To Missing Receipts

See Also
Setting Workflow Activity Attributes

You must define the attribute value for the following activities
(including Notification–type and Function–type activities). For more
information, see: Oracle Workflow Guide.
" To set Workflow activity attributes:

1. In the Process – No Manager Response Process window for the
Notify Preparer When Resend Count Equals Limit activity, you can
define the Attribute Value for Number of times to notify manager.
This Attribute Value helps the Expense Reporting workflow
determine how many times in total to send a request for approval
before the preparer is given other approval options.
2. In the Process – Manager (Spending) Approval Process window for
the Sum of Exp Lines With Missing Receipts Exceeds AP Limit
activity, you can define the Attribute Value for AP Limit of Sum of
Missing Receipt Expense Lines. This Attribute Value helps the
Expense Reporting workflow determine when to request the
Approver to confirm approval of an expense report if an expense
report with missing receipt items is approved by the Approver.
3. In the Process – AP Approval Process window for the AP Expense
Report Review Complete activity, you can define the Attribute
Value for Time Interval Between Checks (in number of hours or
fraction of hours) to determine how often the Oracle Workflow
Background Engine checks for completion of Accounts Payable
review (if required for an expense report).
4. In the Process – Third Party Expense Report Process window, for
the Loop Counter activity, you can define the Attribute Loop Limit
(number of times) to determine how many times the Request
Employee Approval activity should perform before the approval is
no longer required and the expense report continues to the next
step in the Manager (Spending) Approval Process.
5. In the Process – Third Party Expense Report Process window, for
the Employee Approval Required activity, you can define whether
the approval is required of an employee for whom another
employee (preparer) submits an expense report. If you select Yes,
after a preparer submits an expense report on behalf of another
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employee, approval is required by the employee for whom the
expense report was entered. If the employee approves, the
approval process continues based on the Find Approver Method.
If you select No, after a preparer submits an expense report on
behalf of another employee, the employee for whom the expense
report was entered receives only a notification, and the approval
process continues based on the Find Approver Method.
6. In the Manager (Spending) Approval Process window, for the
Payment Req Proof Of Even If Mgr Approved Receipt Missing
activity, you can define whether you always require proof of
payment for all items for which you have defined receipt is
required, even in those cases where an employee submits an
expense report indicating that original receipts are missing and
management approves the expense report. If proof of payment is
not required for items where the employee indicates that receipts
are missing, then the RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG is set to N for
all items where receipts are required but the employee indicated
that receipts are missing. If proof of payment is required, then the
RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG is not updated for those items where
receipts are required (value set to Y) and the employee indicates
that receipts are missing.
See Also
The Predefined Expense Reporting Workflow Definition: page 9
Customizing Workflow Messages

You can customize the following Expense Reporting Workflow
messages in the Workflow Builder program:
• Oracle Payables Validation Failure. Sent to System
Administrator if Payables Validation activity fails.
• CC Direct Manager. Sent to direct manager of employee if
employee submitted expense report for cost center where cost
center for expense report is not the default employee cost center.
This message is also sent to the direct manager if the direct
manager is not an approver.

• Custom Validation Failure. Sent to System Administrator if
Custom Validation activity fails.
• Expense Report Adjustment. Sent to preparer if expense report
adjusted.
• Exp Rpt Has Been Mgr Rejected but AP Reviewed. Sent to AP if
rejected by management after reviewed by AP.
• Expense Report Manager Approved. Sent to preparer if the
expense report has been approved by management.
• Expense Report Rejection. Sent to preparer if expense report
rejected by Approver.
• Inform Employee Expense Report Submitted by Preparer. Sent
to employee if an expense report was prepared by another
employee on her behalf.
• Inform Preparer Exp Report Approval Has Been Forwarded.
Sent to preparer if the last required manager to approve expense
report does not have sufficient authority and that approval is
being requested from the next highest employee in the
management chain.
• No Approver. Sent to System Administrator if no Approver
returned by GetApprover function.
• No Manager Response. Sent to preparer if no response from
Approver to request for approval.
• Request AP Review Policy. Sent to AP to request review for
expense report with at least one receipt with justification
required but not receipts required.
• Request Employee Approval. Sent to employee if an expense
report was prepared on her behalf; requests approval for expense
report.
• Request Expense Report Approval. Sent to Approver to request
approval for expense report.
• Verify With Manager Approval Amount. Sent to Approver to
request confirmation of approval for expense report where sum
of missing receipts exceeds user–defined threshold amount.
• Inform AP that Mgr Has Approved Shortpay With No Receipts.
Sent to AP for an expense report where a manager has approved
a new expense report with missing original receipts created by
the shortpay process.
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• Inform Preparer Missing Receipts Shortpay. Sent to preparer if
expense report shortpaid due to unverified receipts.
• Inform Preparer Policy Violation Shortpay Req More Info. Sent
to preparer to request more information for a new expense
report created by the Policy Violation Shortpay Process.
• Provide AP More Info to Rectify Policy Shortpay. Sent to AP
once preparer provides more information for a new expense
report created by the Policy Violation Shortpay Process.
See Also
Loading Signing Limits

The AP_WEB_SIGNING_LIMITS table maintains records of employee
signing limits. Workflow can reference this table when it processes
Payables and Web Employees transactions. For example, Workflow
uses this table to find the employees with appropriate signing authority
for each expense report entered using Oracle Web Employees. The
AP_WEB_SIGNING_LIMITS table includes the following columns:
AP_WEB_SIGNING_LIMITS
DOCUMENT_TYPE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
EMPLOYEE_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
COST_CENTER NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
SIGNING_LIMIT NUMBER
LAST_UPDATE_DATE NOT NULL DATE
LAST_UPDATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN NUMBER(15)
CREATION_DATE DATE
Table 1 – 1 (Page 1 of 2)

AP_WEB_SIGNING_LIMITS
CREATED_BY NUMBER(15)
ORG_ID NUMBER(15)
If an employee has signing authority for more than one cost center, you
must insert one record in this table for each unique combination of
DOCUMENT_TYPE, COST_CENTER, EMPLOYEE_ID, and ORG_ID.
The value for DOCUMENT_TYPE for the AP Expense Report item type
is APEXP. The ORG_ID column is null unless you are implementing in
a multi–organization database.
You can enter and adjust signing limits for any employee in the Signing
Limits window in Payables.
See Also
Signing Limits
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Expense Report Templates
Use this window to define templates based on the expense report forms
you regularly use in your company. You can define default values for
expense items, and you can then choose those items from a list of
values when you enter expense reports. During Payables Invoice
Import, Payables uses the expense item information to create invoice
distributions.
You define expense report templates for types of expense reports you
use in your company. For example, define a Salesperson template to
use when you enter expense reports for your salespeople. On that
template, define expense items that are reimbursable, such as meals,
airfare, and hotel. However, you do not need to define a mileage
expense item because your salespeople have car allowances.
Expense Report Templates for Web Employees

If Oracle Web Employees is installed, employees can enter expense
reports using a standard web browser. Only templates that have the
’Enable for Self–Service Users’ option checked are available for use
with Web Employees.
In addition to defining a list of expense items that appear on the list of
values for the Expense Type field, a self–service enabled template
defines the values of several self–service interface attributes. Each of
these attributes controls a specific aspect of the Enter Receipts window
of Web Employees. For example, you can associate each expense item
with an icon, and designate the order in which these icons appear on
the Enter Receipts window. When a user selects an icon, the associated
expense item appears in the Expense Type field. (Note that the expense
items defined by a template appear under the heading ’expense type’ in
the Enter Receipts window.) For complete descriptions of all the
self–service interface attributes, see: Self–Service Interface Attributes:
page 43.
Project–Related Expense Report Templates

Employees can enter project–related expense reports via Web
Employees. To create a project–related expense report in Web
Employees, an employee must choose project–related expense items
from the list of values on the Enter Receipts window. To create
project–related expense items, you associate expense items with Oracle
Projects expenditure types in the Expense Report Templates window.
Employees can then associate a Project Number and a Task Number

with the project–related expense items when they enter expense reports
in Web Employees.
Each Oracle Projects expenditure type is assigned a unit of measure,
i.e., a currency, hours, miles. When defining a template you can only
use expenditure types that have currency as a unit of measure in the
Expense Report Templates window. Expenditure types with cost rates
are not displayed in the Expense Report Template window. The list of
values for the Projects Expenditure Type field contains only
expenditure types that have currency as a unit of measure.
Only the names defined in the Expense Item fields of a self–service
enabled template appear on the list of values in the Enter Receipts
window of Web Employees. To have the Oracle Projects Expenditure
Types appear in this list of values, establish a separate template where
the expense item names, or the Friendly Prompts, are identical to the
expenditure type names. Instruct users who enter project–related
expense reports to use this template.
☞ Attention: Note that users cannot enter or view

project–related information in the Payables Expense Reports
window.
Defining Expense Report Templates
Prerequisites:
❑ Define your chart of accounts. See: Defining Your Chart of
Accounts (Oracle General Ledger User’s Guide).
❑ Define your chart of accounts. See: Defining Your Accounting
Classification Code Structure (Oracle General Ledger User’s Guide).
❑ Define your tax names if you associate tax names with your
expense report items. See: Tax Names.
" To define an expense report template:

1. In the Expense Report Templates window, enter a Template Name
and Description. Optionally enter an Inactive Date.
2. To make an expense report template available for use in Web
Employees, check the ’Enable for Self–Service Users’ option.
3. Enter a list of expense items (for example, airfare, meals, hotel,
etc.).
4. Choose a Type for each expense item.
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5. For each expense item, optionally enable the Includes Tax check
box .
6. For each expense item, optionally enter a Tax Name .
7. Optional enter one or more GL Account segments for each expense
item.
8. Save your work.
" To define the values of the Self–Service Interface Attributes:

For each expense item on a self–service enabled template, you can
optionally define one or more of the Self–Service Interface Attributes.
1. To have an expense item appear as an expense type on every
self–service enabled template, check the Viewable From All
Templates option.
2. To require employees to provide a justification when reporting a
certain expense item, enable the Justification Required check box
for that expense item.
3. To require that employees submit a receipt for an expense type
when the reported amount exceeds a certain limit, enter a number
in the Receipt Required Above field.
4. To associate an expense item with a icon that appears on the Enter
Receipts window, enter the name of an image file in the Image File
Name field. To specify the placement of an icon relative to the
other icons, enter a number in Sequence field.
5. To have a name appear on the status bar of a browser when a
mouse is over an icon, enter a name in the Friendly Prompt field.
Note that the name you enter in the Friendly Prompt field appears
in the list of values on the Enter Receipts page. If you enter a name
different from the expense item name in the Friendly Prompt field,
then the expense item name (as displayed on the template) does
not appear in the list of values.
6. To have the Calculate Amount button appear when a user chooses
an expense item, enable the Calculate Amount check box. Note
that a user extension must be developed before this option can be
enabled. For a description of this user extension see, Calculate
Amount Button.
For complete descriptions of all the Self–Service Interface Attributes
see: Self–Service Interface Attributes: page 43.

" To define a project–related expense report template:
1. Query a self–service enabled expense report template, or define a
new self–service enabled template.
2. Associate Oracle Projects Expenditure Types with the expense
items on the template.
See Also
Expense Reports
Expense Report Template Listing
Expense Report Templates Window Reference

Template Name/Description. Name and description of the template.
Inactive Date. Date after which you can no longer use this template to
enter expense reports.
Expense Item. The name of an expense item as it appears on an
expense report, for example, Airfare or Meal. You can set up a
Miscellaneous expense item with no account so you can enter the
account during expense report entry.
Suggestion: Use unique first letters for each item so during
expense report entry you only need to enter the first letters of
items.
If you do not assign a Friendly Prompt then the value you enter here
will appear in the Expense Type poplist (in the Enter Receipts page of
Web Employees).
Type. Type of invoice distribution associated with an expense item.
When you submit Payables Invoice Import, Payables enters this value
in the Type field for the invoice distribution. For certain types of tax
reporting, such as Value Added Tax, Oracle Projects uses the Type to
relate tax distributions to the invoice item lines that were taxed. You
can enter the following types:
• Freight.
• Item. Goods or services.
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• Miscellaneous.
• Tax. Select Tax to define a tax expense.
Includes Tax. The Includes Tax check boxes on the Expense Report
Templates window control the default behavior of the Includes Tax
check boxes on the Expense Reports window and the Enter Receipts
window of Web Employees. If checked on the Expense Report
Templates window for an expense item, then by default the Includes
Tax check box is checked when a user chooses that expense item while
building an expense report. The user can override this default if she
wishes.
Note: You can enable the Includes Tax check box only if Auto
Tax Calculation is enabled at the line level.
For more information, see the Includes Tax option in the Expense
Reports Window Reference. See also: Automatic Tax Calculation
Overview.
Tax Name. Tax name associated with the expense item, for example,
Sales Tax. Payables provides a default value during expense report
entry based on the Tax Name Defaults hierarchy you defined in the
Payables Options window See: Defaulting Tax in Payables. During
expense report entry, if the hierarchy source Payables uses is Template,
then Payables will default the value from the expense report template,
even if the value is null. If Template is not the highest ranked source,
Payables may use a different tax name default source when you enter
expense reports. You can always override this tax name on an expense
report or the invoice distribution.
Oracle Projects requires a tax name for each Tax type expense item.
Note: If an expense item is associated to an inactive tax name,
then that expense item is unavailable for use when building an
expense report.
GL Account. Account associated with an expense item. You can enter
as many segments of an account as you want, leaving the other
segments blank. When you enter expense items on expense reports,
Oracle Projects uses the segments you define here to overwrite the
corresponding segments of an employee’s default expense account.
When you create an invoice from an expense report, Oracle Projects
creates invoice distributions with this account for each expense item.
Note: An expense item is project–related when a user associates
a project number and a task number to an expense item in Web
Employees. The Project Expense Report Account Generator
defined in Oracle Projects assigns an account to each
project–related expense item. The value in the GL Account is

ignored for project–related expense types. For a description of
the Project Expense Report Account Generator see Account
Generator for Web Expenses: page 119
Projects Expenditure Type. Name of Oracle Projects expenditure type
associated with an expense item. You define expenditure types in the
Expenditure Types window of Oracle Projects.
Self–Service Interface Attributes

If you have installed Oracle Web Employees, use the Self–Service
Interface Attributes region to define additional attributes for expense
types that employees can use to enter expense reports in Oracle Web
Employees. Payables does not use the fields in this region unless you
install Oracle Web Employees. You use Oracle Workflow to manage the
approval process for Oracle Web Employees expense reports. For more
information, see: Oracle Web Employees Expense Reporting
Integration.
Friendly Prompt. This name is displayed in the Expense Type poplist.
If you associate an image file name with an expense item, the Friendly
Prompt name appears in the status bar of a browser when a mouse is
over the expense type icon. Note that in the Enter Receipts page,
images are alphabetized by the Friendly Prompt name unless they are
assigned a value in the Sequence field.
Image File Name. If you want employees to be able to automatically
enter this expense item by clicking on an image, then enter the filename
of the binary image that you want to appear in Oracle Web Employees.
For example, you can enter the filename of a binary image of an
airplane that employees can click on to automatically enter Air Travel
as an expense item.
The binary image can be any type supported by the employee’s web
browser and should include the proper MIME type file extension, for
example ”.jpg” or ”.gif”. Payables will search for the file name you
enter in the /OA_MEDIA/<language>/ virtual path defined in the
Web listener configuration under Oracle Application Server.
The following .gif files are provided with Web Employees for you to
use as Expense Item icons:
File Name Icon File Name Icon

FNDIBRKF Breakfast FNDISUPL Office Supplies
FNDILNCH Lunch FNDIPHON Phone Charges
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File Name Icon File Name Icon
FNDIDINR Dinner FNDICELL Cellular Phone Charges
FNDIAIR Airfare FNDIRAIL Rail Transportation (modern)
FNDICARR Car Rental FNDIRAI1 Rail Transportation (steam)
FNDIENTR Entertainment FNDIMODM Modem Charges
FNDIGAS Gas FNDIBOOK Books and Magazines
FNDILODG Lodging FNDIFERY Ferry Transportation
FNDIMILG Mileage FNDIPARK Parking
FNDITAXI Taxi (Yellow) FNDIMISC Miscellaneous Expenses
FNDITAXB Taxi (Black)
Table 1 – 2 (Page 2 of 2) Web Employees Image Files
To enter an Image File Name for an Expense Item, enter its file name
(for example, FNDIAIR) without the filename extension (i.e., .gif).
☞ Attention: The number of buttons that are viewable within a

browser window without scrolling is limited by the monitor
resolution and the size of the web browser window.
Viewable From All Templates. Enable this option if you want this
expense item to be viewable in Oracle Web Employees regardless of the
template the employee selects.
Receipt Required Above. If you want to require employees to submit
receipts for this expense type, then enter the amount above which a
receipt is required. For example, if you want employees to submit
receipts for an expense type if the expense is more than $20, then enter
20. If you leave this field null, a receipt is never required. If you enter
zero, a receipt is always required for all expenses. You can only enter a
positive value in this field.
Note: If you enter a value greater than zero, this control
applies only if the reimbursement currency is in your
functional currency. If you enter a value in this field and the
employee enters an expense report with a reimbursement
currency different from your functional currency, a receipt is
always required.
The View Receipts page indicates for each expense type whether
employees are required to submit a receipt. If an employee does not
submit an original receipt for an expense item that is required, the
expense item is subject to shortpay. You can configure Oracle

Workflow to prevent payment for expense items for which your
accounting department has not received required receipts.
Calculate Amount. If you define Descriptive Flexfield values for this
expense type, check the Calculate Amount check box if you want to
display a Calculate Amount button with any Descriptive Flexfield
segments that are displayed for this expense type on the Enter Receipts
page. You can write programmatic extensions in PL/SQL to calculate
the expense amount when the user chooses the Calculate Amount
button. For more information see: Descriptive Flexfields in the Enter
Receipts window.
Justification Required. Enter Yes for this field if you want to require
employees to enter the Justification field in the Enter Receipts page for
this expense type. For example, you can require employees to enter the
Justification field for Meal expense types. Employees cannot submit
expense reports that are missing required justifications.
Sequence. If you want to order expense type icons, enter a unique
sequence number to assign a location to the expense type icon.
Expense type icons appear in the following order: The Enter Receipts
page displays icons with consecutive numbers together, starting with
the lowest sequence numbers first. The remaining images appear
alphabetically by Friendly Prompt.
See Also
Expense Reports
Expense Report Template Listing
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Payables Invoice Import Program
Use Payables Invoice Import to create Payables invoices from expense
reports you enter in Payables, Oracle Web Employees, or Oracle
Projects. You can also use Payables Invoice Import to import invoices
from other accounting systems. You can then use Payables to pay these
invoices and create journal entries for general ledger posting.
Figure 1 – 1 below illustrates the Payables Invoice Import Process.
When you import invoices, Payables records the source of the imported
invoices and the imported invoice details. Payables Invoice Import
verifies all your expense report and invoice information to ensure it
creates valid, fully–distributed invoices, ready for approval and
payment. If the expense report or invoice information fails validation,
Payables Invoice Import does not create an invoice from the
information and reports the exception on the Payables Invoice Import
Exceptions Report. Payables will not import an invoice or expense
report more than once.
☞ Attention: If you are importing invoices from an external

system, note that beginning with Payables Release 12 you will
be able to import external invoices only through the Payables
Open Interface Import process. During Release 11 you should
plan to move existing processes from the Payables Invoice
Import Interface Tables to the Payables Open Interface Tables.
We recommend that if you are implementing any new Payables
Invoice Import processes that you use only the Payables Open
Interface Tables and the Payables Open Interface Import
process. See: Payables Open Interface Program.

Figure 1 – 1 The Payables Invoice Import Process
Enter Expense Reports

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Loads automatically Loads automatically Interface Expense using SQL*Loader
into Interface Tables into Interface Tables Reports to Payables
Web Employees Payables Projects External Invoice

Expense Report Expense Report Expense Report Information
Source = Self Service Source = Payables Expense Source = Oracle Projects Source = <User–defined>
Report
Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables

AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES
Payables Invoice Import
Invoice Invoice Invoice Invoice

Type = Expense Report Type = Expense Report Type = Expense Report Type = Standard
Invoice Tables
AP_INVOICES
AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS
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This discussion covers the following topics:
• Importing Expense Reports from Payables or Oracle Web
Employees: page 48
• Importing Expense Reports from Oracle Projects: page 50
• Importing Invoices from Other Accounting Systems: page 53
• Purging Expense Reports or Invoices You Have Imported: page
58
• Payables Invoice Import Parameters: page 55
• Resolving Payables Invoice Import Exceptions: page 58
See Also
Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables: page 71
Creating Invoices from Payables and Web Employees Expense Reports

When you enter expense reports using the Expense Reports window in
Payables, or in Web Employees, Payables automatically saves the
expense information in the Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables.
When you submit Payables Invoice Import, Payables creates invoices
from the expense reports. Payables processes all expense reports
entered since the last time you submitted Payables Invoice Import.
If you enable the Automatically Create Employee As Supplier Payables
option, Payables automatically creates suppliers and supplier sites for
employees who are not already suppliers. If you do not enable this
option, you must manually enter the employee as a supplier before
submitting Payables Invoice Import.
Prerequisites
❑ Enter expense reports in Payables or Web Employees. See:
Entering Expense Reports, or see the Web Employees online help.
❑ If the Create Employee As Supplier Payables option is not enabled,
manually enter the employee as a supplier in the Suppliers
window. See: Entering Suppliers.

" To submit Payables Invoice Import for expense reports entered in
Payables or Web Employees:
1. In the Submit Request window, choose Payables Invoice Import as
the Name.
2. Enter the report parameters. For more information on report
parameters, see: Payables Invoice Import Parameters: page 55. If
you use batch control, enter a Batch Name.
• Select Payables Expense Reports for the Source to create invoices
from expense reports entered in Payables.
• Select Self Service for the Source to create invoices from expense
reports entered in Web Employees.
Optionally enter or modify the GL Date to override all expense
report GL Dates.
If you want to purge expense reports from the Payables Invoice
Import Interface Tables, enter the date criteria you want Payables
to use. Payables will delete all records for expense reports that
were entered before this date and have already been imported.
3. Choose OK to save the parameters. In the Submit Request
window, choose Submit to submit Payables Invoice Import for all
Payables expense reports or all of Self Service expense reports in
the system that have not yet been imported. Payables creates
invoices with the following attributes:
• Type is Expense Report.
• Invoice Number is from the Expense Report Invoice Number.
• Invoice distributions are based on the expense Items.
• Scheduled payments are based on payment terms defined in the
Payables Options window.
• Payment Method is defined in the Financials Options window.
When the program is complete, you can query the new invoices in
the Invoice workbench. The new invoices are ready for the normal
process of approval and payment.
Payables automatically produces the following reports so you can
review the invoices that Payables Invoice Import successfully
created, and the invoices that Payables Invoice Import was unable
to import:
• Payables Invoice Import Report: page 63
• Payables Invoice Import Exceptions Report: page 64
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• Payables Invoice Import Prepayments Applied Report: page 69
IMPORTING PAYABLES EXPENSE REPORT RESTRICTIONS:

NO AUTOMATIC SUPPLIERS IF PAYMENT METHOD IS
ELECTRONIC. If your Financials option for payment method is
Electronic, Payables does not automatically create suppliers because
you must manually enter bank information for them.
See Also
Entering Expense Reports
Financials Options
Entering Employees as Suppliers
Payables Options
Importing Expense Reports from Oracle Projects

Oracle Projects integrates with Oracle Projects so that you can create
Payables invoices based on expense reports entered in Oracle Projects
and Oracle Personal Time and Expense. We recommend that you
submit a streamlined process from the Submit Processes window in
Oracle Projects to combine the following processes in one step: 1)
transfer expense reports to Oracle Payables, 2) submit Payables Invoice
Import, and 3) Tieback Invoices from Oracle Payables. However, you
can submit these processes individually.
Oracle Projects generates the GL account for each expense report
expense item using the accounting rules you have defined. After you
transfer the expense report to the Payables Invoice Import Interface
Tables, you can submit Payables Invoice Import to create an invoice
from the expense report.
If you enable the Automatically Create Employee As Supplier Payables
option, Payables automatically creates suppliers and supplier sites for
employees who are not already suppliers. If you do not enable this
option, you must manually enter the employees as a suppliers before
submitting Payables Invoice Import.

Prerequisites
❑ Enter expense reports in Oracle Projects.
❑ Run Oracle Projects Distribute Expense Report Costs Process to
calculate the amount and generate accounts.
❑ Submit Oracle Projects Interface Expense Reports to Payables
process to transfer expense reports to the Payables Invoice Interface
Tables.
❑ If the Create Employee As Supplier Payables option is not enabled,
manually enter the employee as a supplier in the Suppliers
" To submit Payables Invoice Import for expense reports entered in

Oracle Projects:
1. In the Submit Request window, choose the Request as the Type,
and select Payables Invoice Import as the Name.
parameters, see Payables Invoice Import Parameters: page 55. Do
not enter a batch name. Select Oracle Projects for the Source.
Leave the GL Date field empty.
If you want to purge expense reports from the Payables Invoice
Import Interface Tables, enter the date criteria you want Payables
to use. Payables will delete all Oracle Projects expense reports that
were entered before this date and have already been imported and
tied back to the original expense report in Oracle Projects.
3. Choose OK to submit Payables Invoice Import for all Oracle
Projects expense reports in the system that have not yet been
imported. Payables creates invoices with the following attributes:
• Type is Expense Report.
• Supplier name is Employee Name.
• Invoice Date is Week Ending Date.
• Invoice Number is the expenditure batch name from Oracle
Projects appended to a unique identifier for the expense report.
• Invoice distributions are based on cost distribution of expense
report items. Also, each invoice distribution in Payables
includes,expenditure item information, such as project
information, amount, and account coding.
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• Invoice Liability account is based on accounting rules in Oracle
Projects.
Payables Options window.
• Payment Method is from the Financials Options window.
• If the supplier is a US federally reportable 1099 supplier,
Payables enters the Income Tax type for each invoice
distribution.
review the invoices that Payables Invoice Import successfully
created, and the invoices that Payables Invoice Import was unable
to import:
• Payables Invoice Import Prepayments Applied Report: page 69
4. You then submit the Oracle Projects Tieback Expense Reports from
Payables process to tieback expense report costs to ensure that your
Oracle Projects data loaded successfully.
IMPORTING EXPENSE REPORTS FROM ORACLE PROJECTS RESTRICTIONS:

PURGING: You cannot purge an Oracle Projects expense report in
Payables until you submit the Oracle Projects Tieback Expense Reports
process to link the invoice created for the expense report to the original
expense report, and automatically update the purge flag on the expense
report record in Payables to Yes.
See Also
Payables Options
Defining Financials Options
Integrating Expense Reports with Oracle Payables (Oracle Projects

User’s Guide)

Distribute Expense Report Costs (Oracle Projects User’s Guide)
Interface Expense Reports (Oracle Projects User’s Guide)
Tieback Expense Reports from Payables (Oracle Projects User’s Guide)
Importing Invoices from Other Accounting Systems

Use Payables Invoice Import to import invoices from any accounting
system. Before you can create invoices from invoice information from
other accounting systems, you must define a Payables QuickCode for
the source of the invoice information.
Load the invoice information you want to import into the Payables
Invoice Import Interface Tables, including valid supplier name,
supplier site, Source QuickCode, and invoice distributions. You do not,
however, enter an employee name/number. When you submit
Payables Invoice Import, Payables validates the information you
loaded into the tables and creates invoices for the invoice information
you loaded.
☞ Attention: If you are importing invoices from an external

system, note that beginning with Payables Release 12 you will
be able to import external invoices only through the Payables
Open Interface Import process. During Release 11 you should
plan to move existing processes from the Payables Invoice
Import Interface Tables to the Payables Open Interface Tables.
We recommend that if you are implementing any new Payables
Invoice Import processes that you use only the Payables Open
Interface Tables and the Payables Open Interface Import
process. See: Payables Open Interface Program.
Prerequisites
❑ Create or modify the invoice flat file that contains the information
you want to import. See: Setting Up Payables to Import
Non–Oracle Invoices: page 101.
❑ Run SQL*Loader. Indicate your control file as the SQL*Loader
control file, your invoice flat file as the SQL*Loader input file, and
your Payables SQL*Plus username and password as the database
sign on. For more information see: Setting Up Payables to Import
Non–Oracle Invoices: page 101 and Oracle8 Server Utilities.
❑ Define a Payables QuickCode to identify the source of the invoices.
See: Setting Up Payables to Import Non–Oracle Invoices: page 101,
and QuickCodes.
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❑ Enter Suppliers and Supplier sites in the Payables Suppliers
❑ Enter code combinations for expense and liability accounts in the
Define Accounting Flexfield Combination window.
❑ If you want to purge your interim records from the Payables
Invoice Import Interface Tables, set the purgeable flag in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS to Yes.
" To submit Payables Invoice Import for invoices entered in external

accounting systems.
1. In the Submit Request window, choose Request as the Type, and
select Payables Invoice Import as the Name.
parameters, see Payables Invoice Import Parameters: page 55. If
you use batch control, enter a Batch Name. In the Source field,
select the source name you defined in the Payables QuickCodes
window. Leave the GL Date field empty.
If you want to purge all records from the Payables Invoice Import
Interface Tables, and you have set the purgeable flags in the Tables
to Yes, enter the Purge Date you want Payables to use. Payables
will delete all records for invoices and expense reports that were
entered before this date and have already been imported.
3. Choose OK to submit Payables Invoice Import for all invoices in
the system that have not yet been imported. Payables creates
invoices with the following attributes:
• Type is Standard.
• Invoice Number is the same as the one you specified in the flat
file.
Payables Options window
• Payment Method is from the Financials Options window
• If the supplier is a US federally reportable 1099 supplier,
Payables enters the Income Tax type for each invoice distribution

review the invoices Payables Invoice Import successfully created,
and the invoices Payables Invoice Import was unable to import:
Use SQL*Plus to correct any exceptions before resubmitting
Payables Invoice Import.
IMPORTING INVOICES FROM OTHER ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS RESTRICTIONS:

SOURCE QUICKCODE. When you load an invoice record into the
Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables, make certain that the Source
QuickCode you specify is identical to the code in the Payables
QuickCodes window.
See Also
Payables Options
Defining Financials Options
Payables Invoice Import Parameters

Batch Name. Payables groups the invoices created from the expense
reports you import and creates an invoice batch with the batch name
you enter. You can enter a batch name only if you have enabled the
Use Batch Control Payables option. Payables verifies that the batch
name you enter is unique.
Suggestion: A systematic naming convention for batches
helps you to file your physical documents and quickly retrieve
them later.
Summarize Report. Payables automatically prints two reports when
you submit Payables Invoice Import: the Payables Invoice Import
Report, and the Payables Invoice Import Exceptions Report. This
option controls the level of detail on the Payables Invoice Import
Report.
• Yes. Submit the Payables Invoice Import Report in summary. A
summary report shows the total number and dollar amount of
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invoices created from expense reports, and the total number and
dollar amount of advances applied to expense reports.
• No. Submit the Payables Invoice Import Report in detail. A
detail report shows information about each of the expense
reports from which Payables Invoice Import created invoices, as
well as the total number and dollar amount of invoices. The
detail report also shows all the advances you applied to each
expense report.
Both versions of the Payables Invoice Import Report also list any
exceptions Payables finds during an import.
Source. Enter the name of the source of the expense reports, or the
user–defined name of the external invoices. Payables automatically
creates invoices from the source you enter.
• Payables Expense Reports. Expense reports entered in Oracle
Payables. This corresponds to a value of XpenseXpress in the
Source column in the Payables Invoice Import interface tables.
• Oracle Projects. Expense reports transferred from Oracle
Projects to the Payables Invoice Import Interface tables. These
may include expense reports originally entered in Oracle
Personal Time and Expense.
• Self Service. Expense reports entered in Web Employees.
• User–defined. External invoices transferred to the Payables
Invoice Import Interface tables.
GL Date: You can enter a GL Date only if the source you select is
Payables Expense Report or Self Service. The date you enter must be in
an Open or Future period or Payables will not create invoices from the
expense reports. If you import invoices from Oracle Projects, Payables
uses the GL Date you entered in Projects.
For expense reports, the default GL Date Payables enters depends on
the GL Date Payables option defined in the Payables Options window.
If the GL Date Payables option is Invoice or Receipt–Invoice, Payables
enters the Period Ending Date of the expense report as the default GL
Date for all imported expense reports. If the GL Date Payables option
is System or Receipt–System, Payables enters the system date as the
default GL Date for all imported expense reports. You can override
this default when you submit the Payables Invoice Import Report.
☞ Attention: If you are using encumbrance accounting, you

must enter a GL Date in a period that is within the latest open
encumbrance year. (See also: Budgetary Control In Payables).

Transfer Descriptive Flexfield. Enter Yes if you want to import
Descriptive Flexfield details for the source you select. If you enter Yes,
Payables transfers any Descriptive Flexfield information you have
defined for the expense report you are importing, and creates invoices
and invoice distributions with the same Descriptive Flexfield details.
☞ Attention: If you choose to transfer Descriptive Flexfield

details for expense reports or invoices, you should enable the
corresponding invoice and invoice distribution Descriptive
Flexfield segments. If you do not enable the segments, you will
not be able to view your Descriptive Flexfield details in the
Invoice workbench.
You should also ensure that the value sets you define for your
invoice and invoice distribution Descriptive Flexfield segments
match the value sets for your expense report header and lines
Descriptive Flexfield segments. If they do not match, when
you navigate to the Descriptive Flexfield fields in the Invoice
Workbench, Payables will prompt you to enter valid values.
Purge Date. Enter the date you want Payables to use to purge expense
reports or invoices from the Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables.
Payables does not delete any expense reports or invoices for which it
has not yet created invoices.
If the source is Payables Expense Report, Payables deletes all records
for expense reports that were entered before this date and have already
been imported.
If the source is Oracle Projects, Payables deletes all records for Oracle
Projects expense reports that were entered before this date, have
already been imported and tied back to the original expense report in
Oracle Projects, and have the purgeable flag in the Payables Invoice
Import Interface Tables set to Yes.
If the source is user–defined, Payables deletes all invoice records that
have already been imported and have a purgeable flag in the Payables
Invoice Import Interface Tables set to Yes.
See Also
Tieback Expense Reports from Payables (Oracle Projects User’s Guide)
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Purging Expense Reports or Invoices You Have Imported
When you submit Payables Invoice Import for any source, enter a
Purge Date to have Payables delete information from the Payables
Invoice Import Tables. All transactions entered before the Purge Date
will be deleted if they meet specific criteria that varies by source:
• Payables Expense Reports: To purge Payables expense reports
from the Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables, enter the
purge date you want Payables to use. Payables will delete all
records for Payables expense reports that were entered before
this date and have already been imported.
• Oracle Projects: To purge Oracle Projects expense reports from
the Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables, enter the purge
date you want Payables to use. Payables will delete all Oracle
Projects expense reports that were entered before this date and
have already been imported and tied back to the original
expense report in Oracle Projects.
• User–defined: To purge all records from the Payables Invoice
Import Interface Tables, set the purgeable flags in the Tables to
Yes, and enter the purge date you want Payables to use.
Payables will delete all records for expense reports and invoices
that were entered before this date and have been imported.
• Self Service: To purge Web Employees expense reports from the
Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables, enter the purge date
you want Payables to use. Payables will delete all records for
Web Employees expense reports that were entered before this
date and have already been imported.
Resolving Payables Invoice Import Exceptions

Information may not import properly for a variety of reasons, including
duplicate invoice numbers or invalid suppliers. When you submit
Payables Invoice Import, Payables automatically prints the Payables
Invoice Import Exceptions Report. This report lists employee and
expense report information for each expense report for which Payables
did not create an invoice. If you import invoices, the report lists
supplier and invoice information for each invoice that Payables did not
import. For detailed information on all exceptions, see Payables
Invoice Import Exceptions Report: page 64.
1. Review the Payables Invoice Import Exceptions Report to identify
the reason(s) your information did not import properly. Determine

the exact nature of the problem by consulting the Payables Invoice
Import Exceptions Report: page 64.
2. If the import process fails for records with a source of Oracle
Projects or a User–defined source, you may need to correct the
problem outside of Payables.
• Oracle Projects: The tieback process updates all expense reports
as rejected in Oracle Projects. Correct rejected expense reports in
Oracle Projects.
• User–defined: Fix invoice problems in the flat file and reload
with SQL*Loader, or use SQL*Plus to correct problems directly
in the Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables.
3. Resubmit Payables Invoice Import.
Review the Payables Invoice Import Exceptions Report to confirm
that you resolved the problems that had prevented import.
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Setting Up Web Expense Reports Using Web Application Dictionary
If your employees are using the Expense Reports responsibility of Web
Employees to enter expense reports, and to view their expense report
history, the content of the web pages for these Expense Reports
functions can be configured using a tool called Web Applications
Dictionary. Web Applications Dictionary is a module of Oracle
Applications.
The following table describes Regions in Web Applications Dictionary
that you can use to modify the field prompt names for Web pages that
are displayed using functions of the Expense Reports responsibility. To
modify prompt names, modify the region item Long Label in the
Region Items window.
Note: If you update a prompt on one page, update it on any
other pages that use the same prompt. For example, if you
update a prompt on the Enter Receipts page, then also update
it on the View Receipts page, the wizard, and the spreadsheet.
Web Application Dictionary Region ID Description
AP_WEB_EXP_ST Start Report page of the Create New Expense

Report function.
AP_WEB_EXP_ER Enter Receipts page of the Create New Expense
Report function. Also used by the Upload
Expense Spreadsheet function, and the Modify
Expense Reports function.
AP_WEB_EXP_VIEW_REC View Receipts page of the Create New Expense
Report function. Also used by the Upload
AP_WEB_EXP_SUMMARY Expense Summary page of the Create New
Expense Report function. Also used by the
Upload Expense Spreadsheet function, and the
Modify Expense Reports function.
AP_WEB_EXP_WIZ All wizard windows for the Create New
Expense Report function. Enter Receipts
wizard windows are also used by the Upload

AP_WEB_DISC_EXP The expense spreadsheet prompt region.

Modify the region items of this region if you
have modified values in the expense
spreadsheet.
AP_WEB_DISC_UPLOAD The Upload Expense Spreadsheet page of the
Upload Expense Spreadsheet function.
AP_WEB_RESTORE_REP The Modify Expense Reports page of the
Modify Expense Reports function.
The following table describes Regions in Web Applications Dictionary

that you can update to customize how search results are displayed for:
• the View Expense Report History function

• the View Projects and Tasks function
• the Project Number list of values
• the Task Number list of values
Update the region items for the region to control what columns to
display, what column description to display, the order in which
columns are displayed, and whether or not a column should be a
search attribute.
ICX_AP_EXP_RPT_NEW_D Page 1 of the View Expense Report History

function.
ICX_AP_EXP_LINES_D Page 2 of the View Expense Report History
function. This page is a view of the expense
report details.
AP_WEB_PA_PROJ_TASK The Projects and Tasks page of the View
Projects and Tasks function.
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AP_WEB_PA_TASKS_LOV The list of values for the Task Number field on

the Enter Receipts window.
AP_WEB_PA_PROJECTS_LOV The list of values for the Project Number field
on the Enter Receipts window.
See Also
Web Applications Dictionary, Product Configurator, and Object Navigator

User’s Guide

Invoice Import Report
Use this report to review detailed information for each invoice Oracle
Projects imports during Payables Invoice Import. You can also review
the total number and amount of invoices that Oracle Projects
successfully imported. Oracle Projects creates invoices from Payables
expense reports, Web Employees expense reports, and Oracle Projects
expense reports, or from invoices from other accounting systems.
You can submit the Invoice Import report in summary or in detail by
using the Summarize Report parameter when you submit Payables
Invoice Import. The summary report displays only the total number
and amount of imported invoices.
Oracle Projects also provides an Invoice Import Exceptions report with
the Invoice Import report. This exceptions report lists employees or
suppliers with expense reports or invoices that Oracle Projects was not
able to import. See also: Invoice Import Exceptions Report: page 64.
Report Submission
Oracle Projects automatically prints this report when you submit the
Payables Invoice Import process. See: Payables Invoice Import
Program: page 46.
Selected Report Headings

Source. Source of the imported invoices.
• Payables Expense Reports. Expense reports entered in the
Payables Expense Report window.
• Self Service. Expense reports entered via Web Employees.
• Oracle Projects. Expense reports entered in Oracle Projects or
Oracle Personal Time and Expense.
• User–defined. Externally created invoices transferred to
Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables.
Total. Total amount of an imported invoice.
Description. Partial description of an imported invoice.
Period End Date. Date of an expense report.
Hold. The hold name if you entered a hold on an expense report.
Oracle Projects applies this hold to the invoice created from the
expense report.
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Apply Advance. Oracle Projects prints Yes if an advance was applied
to the imported invoice. You can review additional details regarding
any prepayment applications at the bottom of this report. If for some
reason Oracle Projects was unable to apply a prepayment, Oracle
Projects displays the reason.
If you enable the Automatic Offsets Payables option, Oracle Projects
may not be able to create an offsetting accounts payable liability
account and will not apply the prepayment. Oracle Projects will print
”Not applied, cannot build invoice dist liability account” if the account
it is trying to build is an invalid account. Oracle Projects needs to
create a reversal of the original prepayment distribution when you
apply a prepayment to an invoice.
See Also
QuickCodes
Automatic OffsetsFund Accounting
Invoice Import Exceptions Report

Use this report to review the exceptions that occurred during the
Payables Invoice Import process. You can use Invoice Import to import
expense reports from Payables or Oracle Projects or to import invoices
from another accounting system. If you import expense reports, Oracle
Projects lists employee and expense report information for each
expense report for which Oracle Projects did not create an invoice. If
you import invoices, Oracle Projects lists supplier and invoice
information for each invoice that Oracle Projects did not import.
Oracle Projects also displays the reason why Oracle Projects did not
create an invoice from an expense report or why Payables did not
import an invoice from another accounting system.
Report Submission
Oracle Projects prints this report automatically when you submit the
Payables Invoice Import process. See: Payables Invoice Import
Program: page 46. Oracle Projects prints this report only if it identifies
exceptions during import.

Name. Name of supplier or employee for whom Payables did not
create an invoice.
Total. Total amount of an expense report or invoice.
Period End Date. Date entered for an expense report.
Invoice Number. Oracle Projects displays the invoice number for an
expense report or invoice. If this is an expense report you entered in
Payables, the invoice number may be the same as the Date. In the
Payables Expense Report window, the default for invoice number is the
Date.
Exception Reason:
• Addr Line [1–3] Too Large. Invoice Import attempted to create a
supplier from an employee and Address Line 1–3 for the
employee home address exceeds 35 characters.
• City/State/Country] Too Large. Invoice Import attempted to
create a supplier from an employee and the City/State/Country
for the employee home address exceeds 25 characters.
• Create As Supplier. You are using manual supplier number
entry and you did not enter the employee as a supplier before
submitting Invoice Import.
• Create Duplicate Supplier. You are trying to create an invoice
from an expense report for an employee name that is not already
a supplier and a supplier name already exists for the same
employee name.
• Create EFT Site. The Financials option for payment method is
Electronic. The employee exists as a supplier in Oracle Projects,
but is missing a supplier site complete with bank information.
• Create EFT Supplier. The Financials option for payment
method is Electronic and the employee does not already exist in
Oracle Projects as a supplier complete with supplier sites and
bank information.
• Duplicate Report. The invoice number already exists for an
employee or supplier.
• Future Date. The expense report date, the accounting date
which determines the period in which your general ledger
recognizes an invoice expense and liability, is in a closed period
and is after the date you entered an expense report.
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If the expense report date is in a closed period but before the
date you entered an expense report, Oracle Projects creates an
invoice from this expense report so it does not appear on the
Exceptions Report.
• No Exchange Rate. The Payables option Require Exchange Rate
Entry is Yes and the expense report is in a foreign currency and
has no exchange rate information.
• No Home Address. The expense report is being sent to the
employee’s home address, but there is no home address defined
for the employee.
• No Location. You entered an employee as a supplier without
entering a location.
• No Office Address. The expense report is being sent to the
employee’s office address, but there is no office address defined
for the employee.
• No Withholding on Site. Supplier site does not have the Allow
Withholding Tax option enabled and you tried to import an
invoice that a) has an invoice distribution with an automatic
withholding tax group assigned to it, b) has an invoice
distribution with a line type of Withholding Tax, or c) has a
withholding tax group assigned to it.
• Not A Supplier. The Payables option Automatically Create
Employee as Supplier is not enabled, and the employee does not
already exist in Oracle Projects as a supplier.
• Zip Code Too Large. Invoice Import attempted to create a
supplier from an employee on an expense report and the Zip
Code for the employee home address exceeds 20 characters.
Oracle Projects Exceptions

In addition to the standard exception codes above, Oracle Projects also
displays the following exception codes for expense reports you try to
import from Oracle Projects:
• Beyond Encumbrance Year. You are using encumbrance
accounting, and the expense report has a GL Date in a period
that is beyond the latest encumbrance year.
• Combination Missing. The expense report has no Liability
Account. Unlike an expense report you enter in Oracle Projects,
Oracle Projects must specify a liability account when entering an
expense report.

• Expense Account Missing. The expense report is missing some
or all of the expense account information.
• Invalid Combination. The expense report’s Liability Account is
invalid or inactive.
• Invalid Currency. The expense report currency is invalid in
Oracle Projects.
• Invalid Employee. You are trying to create an invoice for an
expense report for an employee who is invalid or inactive.
• Invalid Expense Account. The expense report has an expense
account that is inactive or invalid.
• Invalid Hold Code. The expense report has a hold code that is
invalid or inactive in Oracle Projects.
• Invalid Line Type. The expense report has an invalid line type
in Oracle Projects. Valid invoice distribution line types in Oracle
Projects are Item, Tax, Miscellaneous, and Freight.
• Invalid Rate Type. The foreign currency expense report has a
rate type that does not exist in Oracle Projects.
• Invalid Set of Books. The expense report has a Set of Books that
is different from the Set of Books you defined for your Oracle
Projects organization.
• Invalid Set of Books – Line. The expense report has an expense
line with a Set of Books that is different from the Set of Books
you defined for your Oracle Projects organization.
• Invalid Statistical Quantities. The expense report has invalid
statistical quantities. Oracle Projects lets you enter only positive
statistical quantities for positive distributions and negative
statistical quantities for negative distributions.
• Invalid Tax Code. The expense report has a tax name that does
not exist or is inactive in Oracle Projects.
• No Unit of Measure. The expense report has an invoice
distribution with a statistical quantity, but there is no unit of
measure. You must use Oracle General Ledger to define a unit of
measure and to be able to enter statistical quantities.
• Null Invoice Number. You are trying to create an invoice for an
expense report that does not have an invoice number.
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Other Accounting System Exceptions
In addition to the standard exceptions and the Oracle Projects
exceptions listed above, Oracle Projects also prints the following
exceptions for invoices you import from another accounting system:
• Doc Category Unneeded. Sequential Numbering is not enabled
and you have entered a document category for an invoice that
you are importing from another accounting system.
• Inactive Seq Assignment. The sequence for the document
category of the invoice you are importing is inactive.
• Invalid Doc Category. The document category you have entered
for this invoice is not valid or is inconsistent with the type of
invoice you are importing.
• Invalid Supplier Site. The invoice has a supplier site that is
invalid or does not exist in Oracle Projects.
• No Doc Category Override. The Allow Document Category
Override Payables option for invoices is not enabled and you
have entered a document category for an invoice you are
importing. Oracle Projects allows you to enter a document
category for an imported invoice only if you allow overriding of
the default category for the type of invoice you are importing.
• No Sequence Assignment. Sequential Numbering is enabled,
but no sequence is assigned to the document category for the
type of invoice you are importing.
• Manual Sequence Assigned. Sequential Numbering is enabled,
but the document category for the type of invoice you are
importing has a manual sequence assigned. Oracle Projects does
not support manually–entered sequential numbers for invoices
imported from another accounting system.
• Missing Supplier. You are trying to create an invoice based on
an invoice from another accounting system which has a supplier
that does not exist in Oracle Projects.
• Tax Line Required. You are trying to import an invoice from
another accounting system that has no tax distribution. You
must enter at least one tax distribution on an invoice if you have
the Require Tax Entry Payables option enabled.

See Also
Entering Employees as Suppliers
Financials Options
Payables Options
Approval
Foreign Currency Transactions
Voucher Numbers
Budgetary Control In Payables
Defining Sets of Books (Oracle General Ledger User’s Guide)
Enter Person (Oracle Human Resources User’s Guide)
Site Locations (Oracle Human Resources User’s Guide)
Invoice Import Prepayments Applied Report

Use this report to review the advances (prepayments) applied to
expense reports you import into Oracle Projects. Oracle Projects prints
a listing of all prepayments that were applied during Invoice Import.
Report Submission
Oracle Projects prints this report automatically when you submit the
Payables Invoice Import process and choose to apply advances. Oracle
Projects prints this report only if it applies prepayments to the expense
reports you import. See: Payables Invoice Import Program: page 46.

Amount Applied. The amount of the prepayment applied to this
imported invoice.
Invoice Amount Remaining. The invoice amount remaining after the
prepayment is applied.
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Prepayment Amount Unapplied. The amount of the prepayment
remaining after the prepayment is applied.
See Also
Prepayments
Applying Advances Against Expense Reports

Invoice Import Interface Tables
Note: The following list identifies the updates made to this section for
Release 11.0.2.
– Additional information has been provided for the SOURCE
column of the AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS table on
page 81.
– The descriptions of the REFERENCE_1 and the REFERENCE_2
columns of the AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS table have
been updated on page 86.
– Additional information has been provided for the
CODE_COMBINATION_ID column of the
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES table on page 92.
– The descriptions of the REFERENCE_1 and the REFERENCE_2
columns of the AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES table have been
updated on page 96.
– The section Web Employees and Project–Related Expense
Reports has been added on page 97.
The Payables Invoice Import Program uses these tables to create

invoices from expense reports you enter in Payables, Oracle Web
Employees, and Oracle Projects. The Payables Invoice Import Program
also uses these tables to import into Payables invoices that were
entered in your third party system. This section describes in detail how
to import invoices from another accounting system using SQL*Loader
and Payables Invoice Import.
Payables Invoice Import allows you to comply with government
requirements for the U.S. Standard General Ledger (USSGL). Payables
Invoice Import imports transaction code information for your invoices
and your Oracle General Ledger application uses the information to
create journal entries for the U.S. Standard General Ledger.
This discussion includes the following topics:
• Payables Invoice Import Definitions: page 72
• Understanding the Interface Tables: page 73
• Table Descriptions: page 74
• Setting Up Invoice Import to Import Non–Oracle Invoices: page
101
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• After Setting Up: page 103
See Also
Payables Invoice Import Program: page 46
Payables Invoice Import Definitions

To understand how Payables Invoice Import works, you should be
familiar with the following definitions.
Payables Invoice Import Program

The Payables process that you submit to import invoice information
from interface tables into the appropriate AP tables, thereby creating
invoices from the imported invoice information. You can use Payables
Invoice Import to create invoices from Payables, Oracle Projects, and
Oracle Web Employees expense reports or from invoice information
from another accounting system.
Invoice Import Interface Tables

The tables in Payables to which you load the invoice data in your
invoice flat file. You use SQL*Loader to load the invoice information
into these tables. The interface tables also store information for your
Payables, Oracle Projects, and Oracle Web Employees expense reports.
Import Program
The program that you create to compile invoice data from your
non–Oracle accounting system(s) and produce the invoice flat file that
you load into Payables.
Invoice Flat File

The output from your import program. The file must contain all the
necessary data, such as invoice number, invoice amount, and expense
accounts, for creating invoices in Payables.

Control File
The SQL*Loader file you create for loading the data in your invoice flat
file into the Invoice Import interface tables. The control file serves as a
guide for formatting the data in the invoice flat file into the standard
format used by the columns in the interface tables.
Understanding the Invoice Import Interface Tables

You use SQL*Loader to load invoice information into the interface
tables, AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS and AP_EXPENSE_
REPORT_LINES, for each invoice you want to create. When you
initiate importing invoices, Payables Invoice Import validates all
required invoice data in these tables. After it validates the information,
Payables Invoice Import creates invoices from the information in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS and invoice distributions from the
information in AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES.
The interface tables are organized by columns which Payables uses to
categorize and store specific invoice information. For example, invoice
source information is stored in the column called SOURCE in
NOT NULL Columns

You must enter values for all NOT NULL columns in the interface
tables to successfully create invoices and invoice distributions from
your imported invoice data.
NULL Columns
A column in the interface tables that must not have a value in order for
Payables Invoice Import to successfully create invoices from the
records in the tables.
Required Columns
In addition to the NOT NULL columns, there are columns in the
interface tables that require a value for Invoice Import.
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Conditionally Required Columns
Payables requires you to enter values in a conditionally required
column only if you have entered a value in another column on which
the column is dependent.
Optional Columns
You can use some columns in the interface tables to import additional
invoice information for the invoices created by Payables Invoice
Import. Payables Invoice Import imports the data that you load into
these optional columns, provided that the information passes the
validation checks that Payables Invoice Import requires.
Columns Not Used for Invoice Import

Payables Invoice Import does not use certain columns in the interface
tables for creating invoices from your other accounting systems.
Payables does not support importing any data from these columns and
you should leave these columns null for the records you load into the
table.
Table Descriptions
The following section describes the columns in the Invoice Import
interface tables and indicates the columns that require values for
importing invoices into Payables. For a complete description of the
Invoice Import interface tables, see: Table Definitions (Payables
Applications Technical Reference Manual).
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS
Column Name Null Type Comments
REPORT_HEADER_ID NOT NULL NUMBER Primary Key

EMPLOYEE_ID NUMBER Null
WEEK_END_DATE NOT NULL DATE
CREATION_DATE NOT NULL DATE Who column
CREATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER Who column
Table 1 – 5 AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS (Page 1 of 3)

LAST_UPDATE_DATE NOT NULL DATE Who column

LAST_UPDATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER Who column
VOUCHNO NOT NULL NUMBER Enter 0
TOTAL NOT NULL NUMBER
VENDOR_ID NUMBER(15) Required,
Foreign key:
PO_VENDORS
VENDOR_SITE_ID NUMBER(15) Required,
Foreign key:
PO_VENDOR_SITES
EXPENSE_CHECK_ VARCHAR2(30)
ADDRESS_FLAG
REFERENCE_1 VARCHAR(30) Projects reference
REFERENCE_2 VARCHAR2(30) Projects reference
INVOICE_NUM VARCHAR2(50) Required
EXPENSE_REPORT_ID NUMBER(15) Not used
ACCTS_PAY_ NUMBER(15) Required
CODE_COMBINATION_ID
SET_OF_BOOKS_ID NUMBER(15) Required
SOURCE VARCHAR2(25) Required
PURGEABLE_FLAG VARCHAR2(1) Y or N
ACCOUNTING_DATE DATE Required
MAXIMUM_ NUMBER Not used
AMOUNT_TO_APPLY
ADVANCE_INVOICE_ NUMBER(15) Not used
TO_APPLY
APPLY_ADVANCES_ VARCHAR2(4) Not used
DEFAULT
EMPLOYEE_CCID NUMBER Not used
DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(240)
REJECT_CODE VARCHAR2(25) Not used
HOLD_LOOKUP_CODE VARCHAR2(25)
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE1 – 15 VARCHAR2(150)
DEFAULT_ NOT NULL VARCHAR2(15)
CURRENCY_CODE
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DEFAULT_ VARCHAR2(30) Conditionally

EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE required
DEFAULT_ NUMBER Conditionally
EXCHANGE_RATE required
DEFAULT_ DATE Conditionally
EXCHANGE_DATE required
PAYMENT_ VARCHAR2(15) Optional
CURRENCY_CODE Foreign key:
FND_CURRENCIES.
CURRENCY_CODE
PAYMENT_ VARCHAR2(30) Optional
CROSS_RATE_TYPE
PAYMENT_ NUMBER Optional
CROSS_RATE
PAYMENT_CROSS_ DATE Optional
RATE_DATE
LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN NUMBER(15) Not used,
Who column
VOUCHER_NUM VARCHAR2(50)
USSGL_ VARCHAR2(30)
TRANSACTION_CODE
USSGL_ VARCHAR2(30) Not used
TRX_CODE_CONTEXT
DOC_CATEGORY_CODE VARCHAR2(30)
AWT_GROUP_ID NUMBER(15)
ORG_ID NUMBER(15)
WORKFLOW_ VARCHAR2(1) Web Expense
APPROVED_FLAG
FLEX_CONCATENATED VARCHAR2(240)
GLOBAL_ VARCHAR2(150) Optional
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
GLOBAL_ATTRIBUTE1–20 VARCHAR2(150) Optional
OVERRIDE_APPROVER_ID NUMBER(9) Web Expense
CORE_WF_STATUS_FLAG VARCHAR2(1) Not used

NOT NULL Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS)
CREATED_BY
Enter the ID of the person who loads this record into the table.
Payables Invoice Import transfers this ID to the AP_INVOICES and
AP_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES tables during import so that the creator
of the record becomes the invoice and scheduled payment creator.
Similarly, if you enter a HOLD_LOOKUP_CODE for the record,
Invoice Import transfers this ID to the AP_HOLDS tables so that the
record creator of the record becomes the hold creator.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.CREATED_BY,
AP_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES.CREATED_BY,
AP_HOLDS.CREATED_BY
CREATION_DATE
Enter the date on which you load this record into the table. Payables
uses this date for reference and audit purposes. When Invoice Import
creates an invoice from this record, it does not use this date as the
creation date for the invoice; it uses the system date at the time you
submit Invoice Import.
Payables also uses this date to determine the records to purge if you
choose to purge records during import.
Validation: Must be in valid date format.
Destination: None
DEFAULT_CURRENCY_CODE
Enter the currency code for your invoice. To create foreign currency
invoices, enter a currency code that is different from your functional
currency code
If you enter a foreign currency code and you have enabled your
Require Exchange Rate Entry Payables option, you must enter a value
for DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE. You should also enter values for:
• DEFAULT_EXCHANGE _DATE
• DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE
Validation: If you enter a code for a foreign currency, you must
enter a valid currency code. You can obtain a list
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of valid currency codes from
FND_CURRENCIES.CURRENCY_CODE.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.INVOICE_CURRENCY_CODE
LAST_UPDATED_BY
Enter the ID of the person who last updated this record (usually the
same value as CREATED_BY).
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.LAST_UPDATED_BY, AP_
PAYMENT_SCHEDULES.LAST_UPDATED_BY,
AP_HOLDS_LAST_UPDATED_BY
LAST_UPDATE_DATE
Enter the last update date for this record (usually the same date as
CREATION_DATE). Payables uses this date for reference and audit
purposes only. When Invoice Import creates an invoice from a record
in this table, it does not use this date as the last update date for the
invoice; it uses the system date at the time you submit Invoice Import.
Destination: None
REPORT_HEADER_ID
Enter the ID number for each record you load to this table. Invoice
Import does not use this number as the invoice ID; instead, it uses the
number to uniquely identify the records in the table.
Validation: Must be unique for all records in the table.
Destination: None
Suggestion: We recommend that you use the Sequence
Generator, AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS_S, to obtain a
value for this column.
TOTAL
Enter the total amount of your invoice. If the amount you enter is
greater than or equal to zero, Invoice Import creates an invoice with the
invoice type Standard. If the amount you enter is less than zero,
Invoice Import creates a Credit type invoice.

If you wish to import a foreign currency invoice, you should enter this
amount in your foreign currency. Payables automatically converts the
foreign amount to your functional amount, based on the exchange rate
you enter for the invoice.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.INVOICE_AMOUNT
VOUCHNO
Enter 0 (zero) for all the records you load to this table. A value of zero
indicates that an invoice has not been created from the record. Invoice
Import only creates invoices for records with a zero value in this
column. When Invoice Import successfully creates an invoice, it
automatically updates this value to be the INVOICE_ID for the invoice
created from this record.
☞ Attention: This column does not hold the value for the
voucher number for an invoice. You enter the value for a
voucher number you want to assign to an imported invoice in
the VOUCHER_NUM column.
Validation: None
Destination: None
WEEK_END_DATE
Enter the date that you want to assign to your invoice as the invoice
date. This date also serves as the basis for the GL Date on the invoice
distributions created for this invoice, unless you specify a GL Date
when you initiate Invoice Import or enter a date in the
ACCOUNTING_DATE column.
If the WEEK_END_DATE is in a closed accounting period in the future,
Payables will not import the expense report and will list it on the
Invoice Import Exceptions report. If the WEEK_END_DATE is in a
closed period in the past, when Payables imports the expense report, it
will use the first day of the current accounting period as the GL date.
Validation: Must be in valid date format. If Payables uses this
date as the GL_DATE for the distributions created
for this invoice, the date you enter must be in an
open or future period.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.INVOICE_DATE
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NULL Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS)
EMPLOYEE_ID
Do not enter a value in this column. A value in this column indicates
that the record is used for an employee expense report.
Validation: Must be NULL
Destination: None
Required Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS)
ACCOUNTING_DATE
Enter the accounting date for your invoice. Invoice Import assigns this
accounting date to all the invoice distributions that it creates for this
invoice, unless you specify a GL Date when you submit Invoice Import.
Validation: Must be in valid date format and in a future or
open period.
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.ACCOUNTING_
DATE
ACCTS_PAY_CODE_COMBINATION_ID
Enter the Flexfield ID number for the accounts payable liability account
you want to assign to your invoice.
Validation: The ID you enter must be for a valid Flexfield
combination. You can obtain a list of valid
accounts from GL_CODE_
COMBINATIONS.CODE_COMBINATION_ID.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.ACCTS_PAY_CODE_
COMBINATION_ID
INVOICE_NUM
Enter the invoice number that you want to assign to the invoice created
in Payables from this record. If you choose to leave this column blank,
Payables uses the WEEK_END_DATE as the invoice number.
Validation: You must assign a unique number for the supplier
to the invoice. If you assign a duplicate number for
the supplier, Invoice Import does not create an

invoice from this record and lists this record on the
Invoice Import Exceptions Report.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.INVOICE_NUM
SET_OF_BOOKS_ID
Enter the appropriate set of books ID for your invoice.
Validation: The ID you enter must be for the set of books you
define in the Define Financials Options form.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.SET_OF_BOOKS_ID
SOURCE
Enter a value for AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS.SOURCE that you
have defined for invoices that you import from your other accounting
system. The source of a record determines the type of invoice created
from the record. For each record with the Source value you define for
your other accounting system, Payables Invoice Import creates an
invoice with either the type STANDARD or CREDIT. If the amount for
the record is positive or zero, Invoice Import creates a standard invoice.
If the amount is negative, Invoice Import creates a credit invoice.
The Source code name also determines which records will be selected
for import. You specify a value for Source when you initiate Invoice
Import.
Expense reports entered in Web Employees initially have a source of
NonValidatedWebExpense. If an expense report successfully completes
the Server Side Validation process of the Expense Reporting Workflow,
Workflow changes the source to WebExpense. When an expense report
has both manager and AP approval, then Workflow changes the source
to SelfService. During import or purge, users should select the Self
Service source to select records with the source of SelfService. Also
note that the Payables Expense Reports window will not display
expense reports with a source of NonValidatedWebExpense, and will
display only expense reports with a source of WebExpense,
XpenseXpress, or SelfService.
Expense reports entered in the Payables Expense Reports window have
a source of XpenseXpress.
Validation: If the record is an invoice, you must enter the name
exactly as you have defined the code in the
Payables QuickCodes window or Payables Invoice
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Import will not create an invoice from the record.
See: QuickCodes.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.SOURCE
VENDOR_ID
Enter the supplier ID for the supplier you wish to assign to the invoice
you are importing. If you have not yet entered the supplier for an
invoice you want to import, you must enter it in the Suppliers window.
Validation: The ID you enter must be for an existing, valid
supplier. You can obtain a list of valid values from
PO_VENDORS.VENDOR_ID.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.VENDOR_ID
VENDOR_SITE_ID
Enter the supplier site ID for the supplier site you wish to assign to the
invoice you are importing.
Validation: The ID you enter must be for an existing, valid
supplier site for the supplier you specify
(VENDOR_ID). You can obtain a list of valid
values for a supplier from
PO_VENDOR_SITES.VENDOR_SITE_ID.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.VENDOR_SITE_ID
Conditionally Required Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS)
DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_DATE
Enter a value in this column if you enter a foreign currency code in the
DEFAULT_CURRENCY_CODE column. The date you enter
determines the exchange rate for a foreign currency invoice with a
Spot, Corporate, Other, or user–defined rate type.
If the invoice currency has a fixed rate to your functional currency, then
during import Payables will override the value you enter with the
fixed–rate.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.EXCHANGE_DATE

DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE
This column is required if you enter a foreign currency code in the
DEFAULT_CURRENCY_CODE column and your Require Rate Entry
system option is enabled.
If you enter a value in this field, enter USER in the
DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE column. If you enter a type
other than USER in DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE, leave this
column NULL.
Validation: You must enter a value in this column if you enter
a foreign currency code for this record and your
Require Rate Entry system option is enabled. In
addition, if you enter User in the
DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE column,
you should enter a rate in this field.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.EXCHANGE_RATE
DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE
You should enter a value in this column if you enter a foreign currency
code in the DEFAULT_CURRENCY_CODE column. You can enter a
predefined or user–defined exchange rate type. The exchange rate type
determines which exchange rate you use. If you enter a type other than
USER, you should leave the DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE column
null.
Validation: You must enter a predefined (SPOT, CORPORATE,
USER, or OTHER) or user–defined rate type.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE
DOC_CATEGORY_CODE
If you are using Sequential Numbering, Invoice Import uses this
column to assign a document category to each invoice it creates. The
document category for an invoice determines whether Payables uses an
automatic sequential number or allows you to enter a manual
sequential number for an invoice.
For invoices with positive invoice amounts, Invoice Import assigns the
document category for standard invoices. For negative amount
invoices, Invoice Import assigns the credit invoice document category.
If you enable the Document Category Override Payables option, you
can enter the document category you want Invoice Import to assign, in
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place of the standard or credit document category, to the invoice
Validation: Do not enter a value in this column if you are using
Sequential Numbering and you do not enable the
Document Category Override Payables option for
your invoices. If you enter a value into this column
under these circumstances, Invoice Import
identifies the record as an exception and does not
create an invoice from the record.
In addition, if you are not using Sequential
Numbering, you should leave this column blank.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.DOC_CATEGORY_CODE
Optional Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS)
PAYMENT_CURRENCY_CODE
Currency code for the payment. If you do not provide a value, then
during import PAYMENT_CURRENCY_CODE will be set to the same
value as the INVOICE_CURRENCY_CODE, the
PAYMENT_CROSS_RATE will be set to 1, the
PAYMENT_CROSS_RATE_TYPE and the
PAYMENT_CROSS_RATE_DATE will both be null.
Validation: If the invoice currency is not a fixed rate currency,
this value must be the same as
INVOICE_CURRENCY_CODE. If the invoice
currency is a fixed–rate currency, such as UKS or
Euro, you can enter an associated fixed–rate
currency. This must be a valid currency code from
FND_CURRENCIES.CURRENCY_CODE.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.PAYMENT_CURRENCY_CODE
PAYMENT_CROSS_RATE_TYPE
If the invoice currency and payment currency are different currencies
and are both associates fixed–rate currencies, enter EMU_FIXED.
Otherwise, leave this value null.
Validation: If the invoice currency and payment currencies are
different fixed–rate currencies, then during import,
Payables will overwrite whatever value you enter

here with EMUFIXED. If the invoice and payment
currencies are the same, this value must be null.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.CROSS_RATE_TYPE
PAYMENT_CROSS_RATE
If the invoice currency and payment currency are different currencies
and are both associates fixed–rate currencies, you can enter the fixed
cross rate. If you leave this value null, Payables will provide the cross
rate during import.
Validation: If this value is different from the cross rate in the
GL_DAILY_RATES table, the fixed rate in the
GL_DAILY_RATES table will be used. If the
invoice currency and payment currency are the
same, you can enter 1 as the value.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.CROSS_RATE
PAYMENT_CROSS_RATE_DATE
Date cross rate between invoice currency and payment currency is
effective.
Validation: This value must be the exact cross rate in the
GL_DAILY_RATES table. If the values for
PAYMENT_CURRENCY_CODE and
INVOICE_CURRENCY_CODE are different, you
must enter a value for
PAYMENT_CROSS_RATE_DATE, and the two
currencies must have a fixed rate effective as of the
cross rate date or the invoice will be rejected.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.CROSS_RATE_DATE
ATTRIBUTE [1–15]
Enter Descriptive Flexfield information that you want to import for an
invoice. The structure of the information you enter in these columns
(datatypes, value sets) should match the structure of the Descriptive
Flexfield segments you have defined for your invoices or you will
experience validation problems when you try to access the information
in the invoice forms.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.ATTRIBUTE[1–15]
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ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
Enter the Descriptive Flexfield category for the Descriptive Flexfield
information you want to import.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
DESCRIPTION
Enter the description that you want to assign to the invoice created
from this record.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.DESCRIPTION
HOLD_LOOKUP_CODE
Enter the name of a hold reason that you want to assign to the invoice
created from this record. You can assign only one hold to the invoice
created from this record. Once Invoice Import create the invoices, you
can enter additional holds in the Holds window of the Invoice
Workbench
Payables Invoice Import transfers this code to AP_HOLDS, along with
INVOICE_ID for the invoice created from this record, to create a hold
on the invoice. You must release the hold before you can pay the
invoice.
Validation: The name you enter must be for an active Invoice
hold reason. You can obtain a listing of valid
Invoice hold listings from
AP_HOLD_CODES.HOLD_LOOKUP_CODE
(HOLD_TYPE = INVOICE HOLD REASON)
Destination: AP_HOLDS.HOLD_LOOKUP_CODE
REFERENCE_1
The Interface Expense Reports to Payables process populates the
REFERENCE_1 column with the Expenditure ID of an expense report
interfaced from Oracle Projects.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.REFERENCE_1

REFERENCE_2
REFERENCE_2 column with the Batch Name of an expense report
interfaced from Oracle Projects.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.REFERENCE_2
EXPENSE_CHECK_ADDRESS_FLAG
Address to which payment should be sent for an expense report. Enter
H for Home and O for Office. If you have set up Home or Office
supplier sites for the employee, Payables uses the address from
PO_VENDOR_SITES. If you have not set up a supplier for an
employee, and you automatically create suppliers for employees,
Payables creates the supplier and site using the Home address from
PER_ADDRESSES if the value is H, and creates the Office address from
HR_LOCATIONS if the value is O.
PURGEABLE_FLAG
Enter a value (Y or N) to indicate whether this record and records in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES with the same REPORT_HEADER_ID
are purgeable during Invoice Import. If you set this column to Y or
leave it null, you can purge these records when you submit Payables
Invoice Import.
Payables purges all records during import if the following criteria are
met:
• Payables Invoice Import successfully created an invoice from the
record (VOUCHNO <> 0)
• PURGEABLE_FLAG for the record set to Y or NULL
• SOURCE for the record is the same as the source parameter you
specify in the Submit Request window
• CREATION_DATE falls before the Purge Date parameter you
specify in the Submit Request window
Validation: Must be Y or N
Destination: None
USSGL_TRANSACTION_CODE
Enter the default transaction code you want to assign to an invoice.
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If you use Oracle Public Sector General Ledger with your Oracle Public
Sector Payables, you may be required to maintain US Standard General
Ledger information for your invoice transactions. Invoice Import
imports any USSGL information that you load into the interface tables
and assigns the information to the invoices it creates.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.USSGL_TRANSACTION_CODE
VOUCHER_NUM
Enter a value for the voucher number you want to apply to the invoice
created from this record. If you use manual Sequential Numbering,
this number should be unique.
Validation: If you use automatic Sequential Numbering,
Payables ignores any value you load into this
column and instead selects the next available
number for the numbering sequence assigned to
the document category for invoices imported from
other accounting systems. If you use manual
sequential numbering, Payables validates for
uniqueness but does not require the next available
number. If you do not enable the Sequential
Numbering profile option, the system does not
validate the number.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.VOUCHER_NUM
GLOBAL_ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.GLOBAL_
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
GLOBAL ATTRIBUTE [1–20]

(datatypes, value sets) must match the structure of the Descriptive
in the invoice windows.

Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES.GLOBAL_
ATTRIBUTE[1–20]
AWT_GROUP_ID
Internal identifier associated with the automatic withholding tax group
name. If you want to assign a withholding tax group to the
distribution, you do not need to enter a value here if you enter a value
for AWT_GROUP_NAME.
Validation: This must be a valid, active value in
AP_AWT_GROUPS.GROUP_ID
Destination: None.
ORG_ID
Internal identifier for organization, if you use Multi–organization
support.
Validation: This must be a valid, active organization.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.ORG_ID
FLEX_CONCATENATED
The GL account to which the distribution amount will be charged.
Validation: The account code combination must be valid and
in the exact flexfield structure you have defined for
your Set of Books, and must match a value for
GL_CODE_COMBINATIONS.CODE_
COMBINATION_ID.
Destination: AP_INVOICES.CODE_COMBINATION_ID
WORKFLOW_APPROVED_FLAG
If you have installed Oracle Self–Service Web Applications, Oracle
Workflow sets this flag after an expense report has been approved
during the workflow process.
Validation: None
Destination: None
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OVERRIDE_APPROVER_ID
If you have installed Oracle Self–Service Web Applications, Oracle
Workflow uses this value during the approval process.
Validation: None
Destination: None
CORE_WORKFLOW_STATUS_FLAG
This value will be used in a future release of Payables.
Validation: None
Destination: None
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES
REPORT_HEADER_ID NOT NULL NUMBER

LAST_UPDATE_DATE NOT NULL DATE Who column
LAST_UPDATED_BY NOT NULL NUMBER Who column
CODE_COMBINATION_ID NOT NULL NUMBER
ITEM_DESCRIPTION NOT NULL VARCHAR2(240)
SET_OF_BOOKS_ID NOT NULL NUMBER(15)
AMOUNT NUMBER
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY VARCHAR2(150)
ATTRIBUTE1 – 15 VARCHAR2(150)
CURRENCY_CODE NOT NULL VARCHAR2(15)
EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE VARCHAR2(30) Not used
EXCHANGE_RATE NUMBER Not used
EXCHANGE_DATE DATE Not used
VAT_CODE VARCHAR2(15)
LINE_TYPE_ NOT NULL VARCHAR2(25)
LOOKUP_CODE
LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN NUMBER(15) Not used,
Who column
CREATION_DATE DATE Required,
Who column
Table 1 – 6 AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES (Page 1 of 3)


CREATED_BY NUMBER(15) Required,
Who column
STAT_AMOUNT NUMBER
USSGL_ VARCHAR2(30)
TRANSACTION_CODE
USSGL_ VARCHAR2(30) Not used
TRX_CODE_CONTEXT
PROJECT_ VARCHAR2(30) Projects
ACCOUNTING_CONTEXT
PROJECT_ID NUMBER(15) Projects
TASK_ID NUMBER(15) Projects
EXPENDITURE_ NUMBER(15) Projects
ORGANIZATION_ID
EXPENDITURE_TYPE VARCHAR2(30) Projects
EXPENDITURE_ DATE Projects
ITEM_DATE
PA_QUANTITY NUMBER Projects
DISTRIBUTION_ NUMBER(15) Null
LINE_NUMBER
AWT_GROUP_ID NUMBER(15) Internal ID
Foreign key:
AP_AWT_GROUPS.
AWT_GROUP_ID
ORG_ID NUMBER(15)
RECEIPT_VERIFIED_FLAG VARCHAR2(1) Web Expense
JUSTIFICATION_ VARCHAR2(1) Web Expense
REQUIRED_FLAG
JUSTIFICATION VARCHAR2(240) Web Expense
RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG VARCHAR2(1) Web Expense
RECEIPT_MISSING_FLAG VARCHAR2(1) Web Expense
EXPENSE_GROUP VARCHAR2(80) Web Expense
START_EXPENSE_DATE DATE Web Expense
END_EXPENSE_DATE DATE Web Expense
RECEIPT_ VARCHAR2(15) Web Expense
CURRENCY_CODE
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RECEIPT_CONVERSION_ NUMBER Web Expense

RATE
DAILY_AMOUNT NUMBER Web Expense
RECEIPT_CURRENCY_ NUMBER Web Expense
AMOUNT
WEB_PARAMETER_ID NUMBER Web Expense
AMOUNT_INCLUDES_ VARCHAR2(1)
TAX_FLAG
ADJUSTMENT_REASON VARCHAR2(240) Web Expense
POLICY_SHORTPAY_FLAG VARCHAR2(1) Web Expense
GLOBAL_ VARCHAR2(150) Optional
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
GLOBAL_ATTRIBUTE1–20 VARCHAR2(150) Optional
NOT NULL Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES)
CODE_COMBINATION_ID
Enter the ID number for the account you want to charge this invoice
distribution to.
Validation: The ID you enter must be for a valid account
combination. You can obtain a list of valid
accounts from GL_CODE_
COMBINATIONS.CODE_COMBINATION_ID.
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.DIST_CODE_
COMBINATION_ID
☞ Attention: The Project Expense Report Account Generator

workflow process in Oracle Projects determines the value of
the CODE_COMBINATION_ID column for project–related
expense lines created in Web Employees. (An expense line is
project–related when a user assigns a project number and a task
number to a receipt in Web Employees.)
CURRENCY_CODE
Enter the currency code for the invoice distribution.

Validation: You must enter the same currency_code as you
enter for DEFAULT_CURRENCY_CODE in
Destination: AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES.CURRENCY_
CODE
ITEM_DESCRIPTION
Enter a description that you want to assign to the invoice distribution
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.DESCRIPTION
LAST_UPDATED_BY
Enter the ID of the person who last updated this record (usually the
same value as CREATED_BY).
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.LAST_
UPDATED_BY
LAST_UPDATE_DATE
Enter the last update date for this record (usually the same date as
CREATION_DATE). Payables uses this date for reference and audit
purposes only. When Invoice Import creates an invoice distribution
from a record in this table, it does not use this date as the last update
date for the invoice; it uses the system date at the time you submit
Invoice Import.
Validation: None
Destination: None
LINE_TYPE_LOOKUP_CODE
Enter the lookup code for the type of invoice distribution that you want
Invoice Import to create from this record.
Validation: The code you enter must be ITEM, TAX, MISC, or
FREIGHT. These lookup codes are stored in the
AP_LOOKUP_CODES table.
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Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.LINE_TYPE_
LOOKUP_CODE
REPORT_HEADER_ID
Enter the unique ID number you entered for each record in the
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS table. This number identifies the
invoice for this distribution.
Validation: The ID you enter must be an ID for an existing
record in AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS.
Destination: None
SET_OF_BOOKS_ID
Enter the appropriate set of books ID for your invoice distributions.
Validation: The ID you enter must be for the set of books you
define in the Define Financials Options form.
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.SET_OF_
BOOKS_ID
NULL Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES)
DISTRIBUTION_LINE_NUMBER
Do not enter a value in this column. Payables uses this column to
assign the DISTRIBUTION_LINE_NUMBER for the invoice
distribution created from this record. Before Invoice Import creates an
invoice distribution from this record, Payables updates this column
with a value and then copies the value to
AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS for the invoice distribution.
☞ Attention: Payables does not use this number to link the

invoice distribution created from a record in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES to the original record. Once
Invoice Import successfully creates an invoice distribution, you
can update the distribution number for the line.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.DISTRIBUTION_
LINE_NUMBER.

Required Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES)
CREATED_BY
Enter the ID of the person who loads this record into the table. Invoice
Import transfers this ID to the AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS table
during import so that the creator of the invoice distribution record
becomes the invoice distribution creator.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.CREATED_BY
CREATION_DATE
Enter the date on which you load this record into the table. Payables
uses this date for reference and audit purposes. When Invoice Import
creates an invoice distribution from this record, it does not use this date
as the creation date for the line; it uses the system date at the time you
submit Invoice Import.
Validation: Must be a valid date format
Destination: None
Optional Columns (AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES)
AMOUNT
Enter an amount for the invoice distribution created from this record.
Payables charges the amount you enter to the Accounting Flexfield you
specify for this record. You can enter any amount for an invoice
distribution; however, if the total amount of all the invoice
distributions does not equal the amount of the invoice, Payables places
the invoice on hold during Approval.
If you do not enter an amount for a record in this table, Invoice Import
creates an invoice distribution for the record and assigns the
Accounting Flexfield you specify to this line, but does not record an
amount for the line.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICES_DISTRIBUTIONS.AMOUNT
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ATTRIBUTE [1–15]
invoice distribution. The structure of the information you enter in
these columns (datatypes, value sets) should match the structure of the
Descriptive Flexfield segments you have defined for your invoices or
you will experience validation problems when you try to access the
information in the invoice forms.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.ATTRIBUTE
[1–15]
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
information you want to import for an invoice distribution.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.ATTRIBUTE_
CATEGORY
REFERENCE_1
REFERENCE_1 column with the Expenditure Item IDs of the expense
lines interfaced from Oracle Projects. The Interface Expense Reports to
Payables process populates the REFERENCE_1 column only if the
interface process is not summarized.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_DISTRIBUTIONS.REFERENCE_1
REFERENCE_2
REFERENCE_2 column with the Line Nums of expense lines interfaced
from Oracle Projects. The Interface Expense Reports to Payables
process populates the REFERENCE_2 column only if the interface
process is not summarized.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_DISTRIBUTIONS.REFERENCE_2

Projects Columns
Enter project information from Oracle Projects in the following columns
if you want to associate the invoice distribution (created from this
record) with a project in Oracle Projects.
• DISTRIBUTION_LINE_NUMBER
• EXPENDITURE_ITEM_DATE
• EXPENDITURE_ORGANIZATION_ID
• EXPENDITURE_TYPE
• PA_QUANTITY
• PROJECT_ACCOUNTING_CONTEXT
• PROJECT_ID
• TASK_ID
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.[Projects
Columns]
Web Employees and Project–Related Expense Reports

Employees can create project–related expense reports in Web
Employees. When an employee saves or submits a project–related
expense report, Web Employees populates four columns of the
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES table with project–related data. The table
below provides a description of the values that Web Employees inserts
into these five Projects columns.
Column Value
PROJECT_ID The unique identifier that corresponds to the
project number the employee enters.
TASK_ID The unique identifier that corresponds to the
task number the employee enters.
EXPENDITURE_ Unique identifier of the employee’s organization
ORGANIZATION_ID
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EXPENDITURE_TYPE Expenditure type that corresponds to the ex-
pense type the employee enters. The expense
report template defines which expenditure types
correspond to which expense types.
EXPENDITURE_ITEM_DATE Receipt date entered by employee. For receipts
that span a range of dates, Web Employees uses
the later date.
Table 1 – 7 (Page 2 of 2) Projects Columns populated by Web Employees
STAT_AMOUNT
Enter the quantity that you want to assign to the statistical unit for an
invoice distribution. When you post the invoice distribution to General
Ledger, Payables transfers this quantity along with the invoice
distribution.
Validation: The account segment for the invoice distribution
account must be defined in General Ledger to
support statistical units of measure.
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.STAT_AMOUNT
USSGL_TRANSACTION_CODE
Enter the transaction code you want to assign to an invoice
distribution.
If you use Oracle Public Sector General Ledger with your Oracle Public
Sector Payables, you may be required to maintain US Standard General
Ledger information for all your invoice transactions. Invoice Import
imports any USSGL information that you enter into the interface tables
and assigns the information to the invoices it creates. When you post
your invoices to Oracle Public Sector General Ledger from Oracle
Public Sector Payables, Oracle Public Sector Payables transfers the
USSGL information associated with your invoice distributions.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.USSGL_
TRANSACTION_CODE.
VAT_CODE
Enter the tax name you want to assign to the invoice distribution
If you do not enter a value, then during invoice import, the system will
assign a Tax Name value to the distribution based on the Tax Name

Defaults hierarchy you defined in the Payables Options window. See:
Defaulting Tax in Payables.
Validation: The tax name you enter must be a valid tax name
with a type of Sales, Use, or user–defined. If you
enter an invalid tax name in this column, Invoice
Import identifies the record as an exception and
does not create an invoice distribution. If you have
enabled the Enforce Tax From Account Payables
option, and your expense or asset account for this
distribution has a tax name associated with it, you
must enter the correct tax name. See: Deriving Tax
From a Natural Account.
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.VAT_CODE
GLOBAL_ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.GLOBAL_
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
GLOBAL ATTRIBUTE [1–20]

(datatypes, value sets) must match the structure of the Descriptive
in the invoice windows.
Validation: None
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.GLOBAL_
ATTRIBUTE[1–20]
AWT_GROUP_ID
Internal identifier associated with the automatic withholding tax group
name. If you want to assign a withholding tax group to the
distribution, you do not need to enter a value here if you enter a value
for AWT_GROUP_NAME.
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Validation: This must be a valid, active value in
AP_AWT_GROUPS.GROUP_ID
Destination: None.
ORG_ID
Internal identifier for organization, if you use Multi–organization
support.
Validation: This must be a valid, active organization.
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.ORG_ID
AMOUNT_INCLUDES_TAX_FLAG
If you use automatic tax calculation at the line level, the system uses
this value to calculate tax amounts for expense items. See: Entering
Taxes on Expense Reports.
Validation:
Destination: AP_INVOICE_DISTRIBUTIONS.AMOUNT_INCL
UDES_TAX_FLAG
Web Expense Columns

If you use Oracle Self–Service Web Applications, the system uses the
following columns to process expense reports entered by self–service
users:
• WEB_PARAMETER_ID*
• START_EXPENSE_DATE*
• RECEIPT_VERIFIED_FLAG*
• RECEIPT_REQUIRED_FLAG*
• RECEIPT_MISSING_FLAG*
• RECEIPT_CURRENCY_CODE*
• RECEIPT_CURRENCY_AMOUNT*
• RECEIPT_CONVERSION_RATE*
• POLICY_SHORTPAY_FLAG
• JUSTIFICATION_REQUIRED_FLAG
• JUSTIFICATION*
• EXPENSE_GROUP*

• END_EXPENSE_DATE*
• DAILY_AMOUNT*
• ADJUSTMENT_REASON*
* Values for columns with an asterisk are imported into the
AP_INVOICES columns with the same names to create audit records.
Setting Up Invoice Import to Import Non–Oracle Invoices

The following list summarizes the procedure for setting up Invoice
Import to import invoices from your other accounting systems into the
Payables Invoice Import Interface Tables. The rest of the section
explains each step in detail.
Step 1 Define an Invoice Import Source

Use the QuickCodes window to define a QuickCode for the source of
your Invoice Import. Use any name for the source, except Payables
Expense Reports and Oracle Projects. These are predefined sources
that you use to create invoices from expense reports entered in
Payables, Oracle Web Employees, and Oracle Projects. Enter Source as
your QuickCode Type for the code you define.
You use SQL*Loader to enter this Source code in the SOURCE column
of the AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS table. When you submit
Invoice Import for this source, you enter this QuickCode as the source
parameter.
Step 2 Create a Program for Generating an Invoice Flat File

To load invoice information into Payables via SQL*Loader, first create a
program that produces a flat file containing the invoice details you
want to bring into Payables.
For each invoice, the program should include values in the flat file to
populate the following foreign key columns in
• VENDOR_ID
• VENDOR_SITE_ID
• ACCTS_PAY_CODE_COMBINATION_ID
For each invoice distribution, include the value to populate the
Accounting Flexfield column in AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES:
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• CODE_COMBINATION_ID
In addition, if you are importing foreign currency invoices, include
information to populate the following columns in
• DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE_TYPE
• DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_RATE
• DEFAULT_EXCHANGE_DATE
If this exchange rate information is the same for all invoices and invoice
distributions you import, you can include this information in your
SQL*Loader control file instead.
Finally, ensure that your invoice flat file has the appropriate
information to populate AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS and
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES as indicated in the preceding table
descriptions. If a value is note required for a column, you may leave
the column empty.
Step 3 Create SQL*Loader Control File

Read the SQL*Loader documentation to learn how to write a
SQL*Loader control file. The file you write will vary greatly depending
on the nature and format of the invoice flat file you use. Your control
file must populate AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS and
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES as indicated in the previous table
descriptions. See also: SQL*Loader (ORACLE8 Server Utilities Guide)
You should code your control file to populate the SOURCE column in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS with the Source code exactly as
you defined it in the QuickCodes window.
In addition, EMPLOYEE_ID must be NULL and VOUCHNO must be
zero (0) for each invoice you want to import. Payables only imports
invoices that have a value of 0 in the VOUCHNO column.
If all your invoices are in the same currency, you can hard code the
value for DEFAULT_CURRENCY_CODE in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS and CURRENCY_CODE in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES in your control file.
You may also want to hard code a value for PURGEABLE_FLAG in
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS to indicate whether the records are
purgeable. When you submit Invoice Import, you can choose to delete
all purgeable records from the interface tables. A record is purgeable if
Invoice Import has successfully created an invoice from the record and
the PURGEABLE_FLAG is set to Y or NULL. Consider that you may

not want to make these interim records purgeable because they provide
an audit trail from your newly created invoices back to the original
invoices in your other accounting system.
After Setting Up
Once you have successfully completed the set up steps, you can load
your invoice information from your flat file into the interface tables and
use Payables Invoice Import to create invoices from the invoice
information.
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Updates to Oracle Projects for Integration with Web Employees
This section of the documentation update contains:
• New profile options, PA: Allow Project Time and Expense Entry
and PA: Expense Report Invoices Per Set
• A new process, Interface Expense Reports from Payables
• An existing extension, Expenditure Access, Project User, and
AutoApproval Extension.
• An existing extension, Routing Extension
• Replacement pages for the section titled Integrating Expense
Reports with Oracle Payables: pages 12–20 through 12–34 in the
Oracle Projects User’s Guide
• Replacement pages for the section titled Using the Account
Generator in Oracle Projects: pages 16–286 through 16–304 in the
Profile Option—PA: Allow Project Time and Expense Entry

Purpose Indicates whether a specified employee can enter
project–related expenses (that is, expenses associated with a project and
task) in the Enter Receipts window of Oracle Web Employees.
This profile option integrates with the project user procedure. See:
Expenditure Access, Project User, and AutoApproval Extension:
page 107.
Internal name PA_TIME_EXP_PROJ_USER
View and update privileges The system administrator can view and
update this profile option at all levels.
Values
Yes The user can enter project–related expenses in
Oracle Web Employees.
No (Default) Employees can enter only those expenses
that are not associated with a project and task.
(No value) Equivalent to No

Profile Option—PA: Expense Report Invoices Per Set
Purpose Indicates the number of expense report invoices (entered in
Oracle Web Employees or Payables) to process in each set. This profile
option affects the process PRC: Interface Expense Reports from
Payables.
The set of expenditures is processed before the work is committed. For
example, the PRC: Interface Expense Reports from Payables process
does the following before committing the set to the database:
• Selects the invoices and invoice distribution lines
• Interfaces from Payables
Internal name PA_NUM_WEB_EXP_PER_SET
update this profile option at all levels.
Values You can use any numeric value to set the profile option, as long
as the value does not cause your system to exceed memory and
database rollback segment sizes, and is large enough to avoid
unnecessary database access. If you do not set a value, most processes
use a default of 500, but the actual default value depends on the
operating system.
Profile Option—PA: AutoApprove Expense Reports

Purpose Indicates whether to automatically approve expense reports
submitted from Web Employees, the project time and expense windows
in Oracle Projects, or Oracle Personal Time and Expense. This profile
option integrates with the autoapproval procedure. See: Expenditure
Access, Project User, and AutoApproval Extension: page 107.
Internal name PTE_AUTOAPPROVE_ER
update this profile option at the application level.
Yes Oracle Projects automatically changes the expense
report status to Approved. You do not need to
route or review your expense reports.
No (Default) Expense reports are not automatically
approved. They require review and approval.
(No value) Equivalent to No
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Process—PRC: Interface Expense Reports from Payables
Note: Two processes in Oracle Projects have very similar
names. This process gets expense report information from
Payables.
This process creates pre–approved expense report batches from
expense report information entered in Web Employees or in the
Invoices window (in Payables). The data from expense reports entered
in Web Employees does not reside in your invoice tables until you run
Payables Invoice Import. Expense reports entered in the Invoices
window are saved directly into the invoice tables and do not need to be
imported.
Oracle Projects identifies expense report batches that you create from
Web Employees with a source of Oracle Payables.
Oracle Projects generates transactions with a source of Oracle Payables.
The Allow Adjustments option is enabled for this source, but allows
only net zero adjustments. Reversals and recalculations of burdened
costs are not allowed.
Prerequisites
For expense reports entered in Web Employees:
• If the Automatically Create Employee As Supplier option is
disabled in Payables, open the Supplier window and enter the
employee as a supplier.
Note: Employees must be designated as suppliers. If they are
not, the interface program will not post the invoice.
• Run the Payables Invoice Import program. See: Payables Invoice
Import Program Oracle Payables User’s Guide.
• Run the Payables Transfer to General Ledger program in
Payables. For more information, see: Interfacing Invoices to
Oracle General Ledger: page 146.
For expense reports entered in the Invoices window (in Payables), run
the Payables Transfer to General Ledger program (in Payables). For
more information, see: Interfacing Invoices to Oracle General Ledger:
page 146.

Submitting the process
Project Number Enter the number of the project whose invoice
distribution lines you want to transfer. Leave the line blank to select all
eligible invoice distribution lines for all projects.
Batch Name Enter a name for the pre–approved expenditure batch;
Oracle Projects appends ER<interface ID> to the end of all batch names.
If you do not enter a name, Oracle Projects creates one in the format
AP–<request ID>ER<interface ID>.
End GL Date Enter the General Ledger date through which you want
this process to select invoice distribution lines. If you leave this
parameter blank, the process selects all eligible invoice distribution
lines.
End Expenditure Item Date Enter the date through which you want
this process to select invoice distribution lines. If you leave this
parameter blank, the process selects all eligible invoice distribution
lines.
Reports
This process creates two reports:
Transfer Expense Reports Report Lists the invoice distribution lines
that Oracle Projects received successfully, as well as a summary of the
total number and cost of the distribution lines.
Transfer Expense Reports Exception Report Lists invoice distribution
lines that were not received successfully, and the reason for the failure
of each.
Expenditure Access, Project User, and AutoApproval Extension

The Expenditure Access, Project User, and AutoApproval Extension
contains three procedures:
• Use the expenditure access procedure to restrict the actions that
users can perform on online expenditures.
• Use the project user procedure to indicate whether an employee
is an Oracle Projects user.
• Use the autoapproval procedure to define conditions under
which expense reports are approved automatically.
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Writing the Expenditure Access, Project User, and AutoApproval Extension
To implement this extension, you modify one or more procedures that
are contained in a template package (pa_client_extn_pte) provided
with Oracle Projects. The package contains three procedures:
• The procedure pte_access_option contains default logic to allow
employees to enter both timecards and expense reports. (This
procedure is not used for integration with Web Employees.)
• The procedure check_time_exp_proj_user contains default logic
to read the value of the PA_TIME_EXP_PROJ_USER profile
option.
• The procedure get_exp_autoapproval contains default logic to
read the values of the AutoApproval profile options.
Print and review the following files before you write your extension.
The files are located in the Oracle Projects admin/sql directory.
PAXPTEEB.pls The Expenditure Access, Project User, and
AutoApproval Extension Package Body Template
contains the procedure that you modify to
implement time or expense extensions. You can
define as many extensions as you want with this
package or within the predefined procedure.
PAXPTEES.pls The Expenditure Access, Project User, and
AutoApproval Extension Package Specification
Template. If you create procedures outside the
predefined procedures within the package, you
must also modify this file to include the new
procedures.
Package.Procedure pa_client_extn_pte.pte_access_option
This procedure is not used for integration with Web Employees.
Package.Procedure pa_client_extn_pte.check_time_exp_proj_user
Oracle Projects provides the following parameters for the project user
procedure:

Parameter Usage Type Description
x_person_id IN NUMBER Identifies the employee
x_approved IN/ VARCHAR2 Indicates the value of the
OUT PA: Allow Project Time and
Expense Entry profile option
(Y or N)
x_msg_text OUT VARCHAR2 User–defined error message
text
Table 1 – 8 Parameters for the Project User Procedure
Package.Procedure pa_client_extn_pte.get_exp_autoapproval
Oracle Projects provides the following parameters for the expenditure
autoapproval procedure:
X_source IN VARCHAR2 Identifies the source of the
expenditure
X_exp_class_code IN VARCHAR2 Identifies the expenditure
class (OT for timecards and
OE for expense reports)
X_txn_id IN NUMBER System–generated identifier
of the expenditure (passed
in by the form). For
expenditures created in
Oracle Projects, this is the
expenditure ID.
X_exp_ending_date IN DATE Ending date of the
expenditure week
X_approved IN/ VARCHAR2 Value of the AutoApproval

OUT profile option
Table 1 – 9 Parameters for the AutoApproval Procedure
Routing Extension
Use the routing extension to set the business rules for routing expense
reports for approval. For example, expense reports that contain
entertainment expenses could be routed to the project manager of the
charged project.
Note: For Project Time and Expense and Oracle Personal Time
and Expense, the routing extension also applies to timecards.
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Writing the Routing Extension
To implement the routing extension, you modify a procedure that is
contained in a template package provided with Oracle Projects. The
name of the package is paroutingx, and the name of the procedure is
route_to_extension. The package contains default logic to route all
expenditures to an employee’s current supervisor (as defined in the
Human Resources tables).
Print and review the following files before you write your routing
extensions. The files are located in the Oracle Projects admin/sql
directory.
PAXTRTEB.pls The Routing Extension Package Body Template
contains the procedure that you modify to
implement routing extensions. You can define as
many extensions as you want with this package or
within the predefined procedure.
PAXTRTES.pls Routing Extension Package Specification Template.
If you create procedures outside the predefined
procedure within the package, you must also
modify this file to include the new procedures.
Package.Procedure paroutingx.route_to_extension
Oracle Projects provides the following parameters for the routing
extension. Oracle Projects passes all values from the expenditure being
processed.
X_expenditure_id IN NUMBER System–generated identifier of

the expenditure
X_incurred_ IN NUMBER Identifies the employee who
by_person_id performed the work or incurred
the expenses
X_expenditure_ IN DATE Ending date of the expenditure
end_date week
X_exp_class_code IN VARCHAR2 Identifies expense reports (the
expenditure type) as OE
X_route_to_ OUT NUMBER Identifies the employee to whom
person_id expenditure is to be routed
Table 1 – 10 Parameters for the Routing Extension

Using the Account Generator in Oracle Projects
When you enter project information in Purchasing and Payables,
account generator processes create account code combinations for use in
Purchasing requisitions and purchase orders and Payables supplier
invoices. This section:
• Lists the accounts created by the Purchasing account generators:
see: page 111
• Describes how to customize the account generator workflow
processes used to integrate Oracle Projects with Payables: see:
page 114
• Provides information on assigning and deriving values: see:
page 132
As you read this chapter, you will also want to refer to Oracle
Applications Flexfields Guide and Oracle Workflow Guide.
Generating Accounts for Oracle Purchasing

Purchasing uses item types to generate account numbers for all
requisitions and purchase orders, whether they are project–related or
not. Purchasing provides a set of default account generator processes
for the accounts it needs to build. You do not need to do anything
within Oracle Projects to generate accounts for Purchasing.
The account generator workflows in Purchasing generate the following
accounts:
• Purchase Order Charge Account
• Purchase Order Budget Account
• Purchase Order Variance Account
• Purchase Order Accrual Account
• Requisition Charge Account
• Requisition Budget Account
• Requisition Variance Account
• Requisition Accrual Account
Purchasing provides default account generator processes for these
accounts. If you want to derive the accounts based on project
information, you must change the default processes so that they use the
project information. For more information, see: Using the Account
Generator in Oracle Purchasing Oracle Purchasing User’s Guide.
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How charge accounts are derived for invoices and expense reports
depends on whether you are entering an invoice or expense report that
contains project and task information:
Application and Item Method for Deriving the Charge Account
Payables invoices Payables (Invoices window) calls the Project Supplier

Invoice Account Generation workflow.
Web Employees and Payables Web Employees (Enter Receipts window) or Payables
expense reports (Invoices window) calls the Project Expense Report
Account Generator workflow.
This section and the sections that follow describe how to use the account
generation workflows to build account code combinations. You need:
• An account number for each set of books that uses a unique
accounting flexfield structure
• An account generation process for each accounting flexfield
structure and set of books
Upgrading from Release 10. In Release 10, several Oracle
Applications products used FlexBuilder to derive account code
combinations. In Release 11, FlexBuilder is replaced by the
Account Generator. If you used FlexBuilder in Release 10, you
must set up Account Generator as part of your upgrade. To
plan the upgrade, follow the guidelines in the FlexBuilder
chapter of the Oracle Applications Upgrade Preparation Manual.
Each Account Generator is an item type within Oracle Workflow. Oracle
Projects comes with the following item types (workflows) and processes:
Item Type (Workflow) Processes
Project Supplier Invoice Generate Default Account

Account Generation Generate Account Using FlexBuilder Rules
Sample Process for Account Generation
Project Expense Report Default Account Generator for Expense Reports

Account Generator Sample Account Generator for Expense Reports
The Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation workflow generates

accounts for supplier invoices.

The Project Expense Report Account Generator generates accounts for
expense reports entered in Web Employees or the Invoices window in
Payables.
The sample processes demonstrate how to use the item type to generate
the account code combinations. See: Process: Sample Process for
Account Generation: page 116 and Process: Sample Account Generator
for Expense Reports: page 121.
Prerequisites
Before using an account generator process with a production database in
Oracle Projects, you must:
1. Define your Accounting Flexfield structure for each set of books.
See: Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide.
2. Define the flexfield segment values and validation rules. See: Oracle
Applications Flexfields Guide.
3. Back up the workflow before you start to work with it. To do so,
copy the workflow to a local hard disk or networked server.
Because you cannot rename the workflow, plan to modify the
”original” process.
Note: Do not save a backup workflow to the database.
Workflows saved to the database overwrite the workflow of the
same name in the database.
4. For each set of books, customize the default process. Refer to the
sample customizations on page 116 and page 121 and in the Oracle
Workflow Guide.
You can create all the components for workflow in the Oracle
Workflow Builder except for the PL/SQL procedures called by the
function activities. For more information, see: Using
AutoAccounting with Account Generator Processes: page 132
5. Test the customizations.
See: Testing a Customized Process: page 129.
6. Choose the process for a flexfield structure, if necessary.
See: Assigning a Process to a Flexfield Structure: page 130.
7. Set the Account Generator: Purge Runtime Dat profile option. See
See: Setting the Profile Option: page 130.
8. Save the process in the Oracle Projects database.
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This section describes the processes and attributes of the workflows
supplied with Oracle Projects. It also provides information about
implementing and testing your workflows.
All the workflows and processes in this section generate account
numbers for use with Payables.
Workflow: Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation

The Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation workflow (item type)
contains these processes:
• Generate Account using FlexBuilder Rules
• Generate Default Account
• Sample Process for Account Generation
Process: Generate Account using FlexBuilder Rules

Purpose This process generates accounts for payables invoices.
Workflow Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation
If you used FlexBuilder in a previous release to generate account
combinations, this process replicates your FlexBuilder setup. You do not
have to change any of your predefined FlexBuilder rules or customize
the process. The process includes a function generated during your
upgrade from Release 10 to Release 11.
If you are upgrading from Release 10, follow the guidelines in the
FlexBuilder chapter of the Oracle Applications Upgrade Preparation
Manual.
If you want to change your FlexBuilder rules after you upgrade, you
must start with the Generate Default Account process to define your
rules.
Process: Generate Default Account

Purpose This process generates accounts for payables invoices.
Note: Back up the workflow before you start to work with it.
To do so, copy the workflow to a local hard disk or networked

server. Because you cannot rename the workflow, plan to
modify the ”original” process. Do not save a backup workflow
to the database. Workflows saved to the database overwrite the
workflow of the same name in the database.
The Payables invoice entry windows call the Generate Default Account
process for the invoice charge account. You must customize this process
or create a new one, using the Oracle Workflow Builder. If you do not,
the process returns an error message.
To customize the process, replace the dummy activity (node 2 in the
diagram below) with your customized procedure for account
generation. Do not delete a node or change the node order.
If you prefer to create a new process, copy the existing default process
and change its internal name and display name. You can then modify
the original default process and assign the process to the accounting
flexfield structure. See: Assigning an Account Generator Process to an
Accounting Flexfield Structure: page 130.
About the process attributes The workflow attributes (different from
the node attributes) for the Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation
workflow (item type) identify the supplier invoice for which the process
is generating a charge account number. For more information, see:
Process Attributes: page 124.
About the activity nodes The Generate default account process consists
of five activity nodes. In Figure 1 – 2, the process activity nodes are
numbered for reference in Table 1 – 11. The numbered circles are not
part of the process.
The workflow illustration and the table show the Display Name view.
To show the Display Name view in Workflow Builder, open the View
menu, choose Show Label, and then choose Display Name in Designer.
Figure 1 – 2 Generate Default Account Process
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Number and Node Description
1. Start Generating code This standard activity node starts the process.
combination
2. Dummy default account In its original (shipped) configuration, this node returns
generator an error message. You must replace this function with
your customized procedure. The result is Success (the
process branches to node 4) or Failure (the process
branches to node 3).
3. Abort generating Code This node ends the code combination process if the func-
Combinations tion in node 2 fails.
4. Validate Code This node contains the standard Flexfield function for
Combination validating a code combination. For this function to work,
the attribute value New code combinations must be set to
True.
5. End generating Code This standard activity node ends the process.
Combination
Table 1 – 11 Process: Generate Default Account

Workflow: Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation (Page 1 of 1)
Process: Sample Process for Account Generation

Purpose This sample process is an example only. It illustrates how to
generate accounts for payables invoices.
Note: You cannot use this sample process, even with
modification, in your database. You must modify the default
process.
The sample process shows how to use workflow functions and
attributes to derive account code combinations. It also demonstrates
several standard functions (Start, Compare Text, and Assign Value) that
you can use to generate account segments.
The sample also illustrates the use of SQL procedures, AutoAccounting
lookup sets, workflow attributes, and constants for Supplier Invoice
Account Generation.
the node attributes) for the Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation
workflow (item type) identify the supplier invoice for which the process

About the activity nodes The Sample Process for Account Generation
consists of eleven activity nodes. In the workflow diagram in
Figure 1 – 3, the process activity nodes are numbered for reference in
Table 1 – 12.
The workflow illustration and the descriptive table show the Comment
view. To show the Comment view in Workflow Builder, open the View
menu, choose Show Label, and then choose Comments in Designer.
Figure 1 – 3 Sample Process for Account Generation
Number and Node

(Notes are in parentheses) Description
1. Start generating code This standard activity node starts the process.
combination
2. Assign value to This node assigns a constant value, 01, to the Company
Company Segment using a segment.*
constant
Table 1 – 12 Process: Sample Process for Account Generation

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Number and Node
3. Is Project Type This node tests whether the project type is Overhead. The
Overhead? test value is set to the item attribute Project Type. The
(Uses the Compare Text reference value is the constant Overhead. The result is
function from the standard Equal (the project type is Overhead and the process
workflow) branches to node 6) or Not Equal (the project type is not
Overhead and the process branches to node 4).
4. Get segment value using This node looks up the Cost Center segment. The lookup
a lookup uses an AutoAccounting lookup set and an intermediate
(Executed only if the value (expenditure organization). The result is Success
project type is not (the process branches to node 5) or Failure (the process
Overhead) branches to node 11).
This node uses pa_acc_gen_wf_pkg.pa_seg_look-

up_set_value, a function that retrieves an intermediate
value from an AutoAccounting lookup set. See: Segment
Lookup Set Value Function: page 128.
5. Assign Lookup result to This node assigns the value found in node 4 to the cost
Cost Center Segment center segment. and then branches to node 7.*
6. Assign Flexfield2 If the project type is Overhead, this node assigns the valid
(parameter) to Cost Center value from Invoice Descriptive Flexfield Attribute 4 to the
Segment Cost Center segment.*
(Executed only if the
project type is Overhead)
7. Sample function to get This node uses a SQL procedure to derive the value for
segment value Using SQL the Account segment. If the process encounters an error
during any of the steps, the function branches to node 12.
The sample SQL package and procedure is in the file

PAXTMPFB.pls (located in the Oracle Projects admin/sql
directory). The SQL procedure name is pa_wf_fb_sam-
ple_pkg.pa_wf_sample_sql_fn. The procedure contains
detailed documentation.
The sample function derives and sets the segment value

in the Lookup Set Value attribute. If you write your own
functions, you should create and set your own attributes.
Note: When you define a SQL function, you can define

its attributes. The procedure reads the current values of
the item attributes, then uses the attributes to derive the
segment. However, the function in the sample process
does not require attributes.
8. Assign value to Account This node assigns a the segment value derived in Node 7
segment after SQL to the Account segment.*
function*


Number and Node
9. Validate Code This node contains the standard flexfield function for
Combination validating a code combination. For this function to work
correctly, the attribute value New code combinations must
be set to True.
10. End generating code This standard activity node ends the process.
combination
11. Abort Generating Code If the lookup fails in node 4, this standard flexfield func-
Combination tion ends the process. For more information, see: Ac-
count Generator in Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide.
12. Abort Generating Code If the sample SQL function fails in node 7, this standard
Combination flexfield function ends the code combination process. For
more information, see: Account Generator in Oracle Ap-
plications Flexfields Guide.
*Nodes 2. 5, 6, and 8 use the Assign Value to a Segment function, which is provided by
the standard flexfield workflow. For detailed information about this function, see
Account Generator Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide.

Workflow: Project Expense Report Account Generator

This workflow contains two processes:
• Default Account Generator for Expense Reports
• Sample Account Generator for Expense Reports
Process: Default Account Generator for Expense Reports

Purpose This process generates account numbers for expense reports
created in Web Employees and the Invoices window in Payables.
Workflow Project Expense Report Account Generator
When a user enters a project and task in an expense report in Web
Employees, Web Employees calls the Default Account Generator for
Expense Reports. This process returns the default CCID (code
combination identifier) when the employee was defined in HR. If the
employee does not have a default CCID, you will receive an error. For
more information, see: Entering a New Employee Oracle Human
Resources User’s Guide. If you want to derive the account based on other
criteria, modify the default process.
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Because you cannot rename the workflow, you will modify the
”original” process. If you prefer, you can create a new process.
" To modify the process:

1. Back up the workflow by copying it to a local hard disk or
networked server.
Do not save the backup workflow to the database. If you do, you
will overwrite the workflow in the database.
2. Modify the node Copy Values from Code Combination with your
customized procedure for account generation.
Note: Do not delete a node or change the node order.
3. Update your lookup set for information you will receive from Web
Employees expense reports.
" To create a new process:

1. Make a copy of the default process
2. Disable the copy by changing its internal name and display name.
Now you can modify the original default process.
3. Assign the process to the accounting flexfield structure. See:
Assigning a Process to a Flexfield Structure: page 130.
About the activity nodes This process consists of four activity nodes.
In Figure 1 – 4, the process activity nodes are numbered for reference in
Table 1 – 13. The numbered circles are not part of the process.
The workflow illustration and the descriptive table show the Display
Name view. To show the Display Name view in Workflow Builder, open
the View menu, choose Show Label, and then choose Display Name in
Designer.
Figure 1 – 4 Default Account Generator for Expense Reports

Number and Node
1. Start account generation This standard activity starts the process.
2. Start generating Code This node must be customized. It generates employee

Combination account information from the employee code combina-
tion identifier.
3. Validate Code This node contains the standard Flexfield function for
Combination validating a code combination. For this function to work,
the attribute value New code combinations must be set to
True.
4. End generating Code This standard activity node ends the process.
Combination
Table 1 – 13 Process: Default Account Generator for Expense Reports

Workflow: Project Expense Report Account Generator (Page 1 of 1)

the node attributes) for this workflow (item type) identify the expense
report for which the process is generating a charge account number. For
more information, see: Process Attributes: page 124.
Process: Sample Account Generator for Expense Reports

Purpose This sample process is an example only. It illustrates how to
generate accounts for expense reports created in Web Employees or the
Invoices window in Payables.
Workflow Project Expense Report Account Generator
Note: You cannot use this sample process, even with
modification, in your database. You must modify the default
process.
Expense reports created in Web Employees or the Invoices window in
Payables may contain project or task numbers that you want to collect
for Oracle Projects. This sample account generator routine generates
account numbers for the projects and tasks in these expense reports.
Part of the process (the Segment Lookup Set value nodes) requires some
setup in AutoAccounting. For more information, see: The Segment
Lookup Set Value Function: page 128 and Using AutoAccounting with
Account Generator Processes: page 132.
About the activity nodes The process activity nodes are numbered in
Figure 1 – 5 for reference in Table 1 – 14. The numbered circles are not
part of the process. Table 1 – 14 lists the attribute values for each node
in the sample routine. (To display the attribute values in Oracle
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Workflow Builder, double–click the node and then choose the Attributes
tab.)
The workflow illustration and the descriptive table show the Display
Name view. To show the Display Name view in Workflow Builder, open
the View menu, choose Show Label, and then choose Display Name in
Designer.
the node attributes) for the Project Expense Report Account Generator
workflow (item type) identify the expense report for which the process
Figure 1 – 5 Sample Account Generator for Expense Reports
Attribute Values
Number and Node

(Notes are in parentheses) Name Value Type Value Type
1. Start generating Code (none) (none) (none) (none)

Combination
(This standard activity node
starts the process.)
2. Assign Value to Segment Segment Identifier Constant Name Lookup

(Use a constant.) Segment Constant Services Company Text
Value Constant 01 Text
Replace existing value Constant True Lookup

Number and Node
3. Compare Text Test Value Item Attribute Project Type Text

(Is the project type Cost Plus?) Reference value Constant Cost Plus Text
4. Segment Lookup Set value Lookup Set Value Constant Organization to Dept Value Text
(If the project type is Cost Plus, Intermediate Value Item Attribute Expenditure Organization Text
use an attribute to assign the Name
segment value to the
Department segment.)

(If the project type is Cost Plus, Segment Constant Services Department Text
use an attribute to assign the Value Item Attribute Lookup Set Value Text
segment value to the Replace existing value Constant True Lookup
6. Abort Generating Code Error message Item Attribute Error Message Text
Combination
7. Segment Lookup Set Value Lookup Set Name Constant Organization to Dept Value Text
(If the project type is not Cost Intermediate Value Item Attribute Project Organization Name Text
Plus, use an attribute to assign
the value to the Department
segment.)

(If the project type is not Segment Constant Services Department Text
Cost Plus, use an attribute to Value Item Attribute Lookup Set Value Text
assign the value to the Replace existing value Constant True Lookup
9. Compare Text Test Value Constant Construction Text

(Check to see if the project type Reference Value Item Attribute Project Type Text
is Construction.)

(If the project type is Segment Constant Services Account Text
Construction, use a constant for Value Constant 1580 Text
the Account segment.) Replace existing value Constant True Lookup
11 Segment Lookup Set value Lookup Set Name Constant Exp Type/Indirect Cost Text
(If the project type is not Acct
Construction, use an attribute to Intermediate Value Item Attribute Expenditure Type Text
assign a segment value to the
Account segment.)
12. Assign Value to Segment Segment identifier Constant Name Lookup

(If the project type is not Segment Constant Services Account Text
Construction, assign the Value Item Attribute Lookup Set Value Text
Expenditure Type parameter Replace existing value Constant True Lookup
value to the Account segment.)
13. Abort generating Code Error message Item Attribute Error Message Text
Combination
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Number and Node
14. Assign Value to Segment Segment identifier Constant Name Lookup

(Use a constant for the Product Segment Constant Services Product Text
segment.) Value Constant 000 Text
Replace existing value Constant True Lookup
15. Validate Code Combination Validation Type Constant Generate Code Lookup
(The code combination is valid if Combination ID
it exists in the GL Account New code combinations Constant True Lookup
Number table. If the are allowed
combination is invalid, go to the
create a new combination and go
to the FND routine.
16. End generating Code (none) (none) (none) (none)

Combination (Success)
(This standard activity node
ends the process.)
Table 1 – 14 Process: Sample Account Generator for Expense Reports

Workflow: Project Expense Report Account Generator (Page 1 of 1)
Process Attributes
Attributes fully identify the supplier invoice or expense report for which
a process generates an account number.
You can view the characteristics of each attribute and add new
attributes, but you cannot modify existing attributes.
Table 1 – 15 lists the characteristics of the attributes for the default
processes described in this chapter.
You can view the attributes and their characteristics in graphic format
(in Oracle Workflow Builder) or in a text file (using a word processor.
" To view the attribute characteristics in Workflow Builder:

1. Use the Oracle Workflow Builder to open the workflow (item type)
whose attributes you want to view.
2. In the Navigator window, open the directory tree by clicking the +
next to the workflow.
3. Click the + next to Attributes.
4. Open the property window by double–clicking the icon for the
attribute whose characteristics you want to see.

5. Click the Attributes or Access tab to view different aspects of the
attribute.
" To view the attribute characteristics in a text file:

1. Use a word processor application to open the appropriate Oracle
Workflow file.
• Open PAAPINVW.wft to view the Project Supplier Invoice
Account Generation workflow.
• Open PAAPWEBX.wft to view the Project Expense Report
Account Generator workflow.
2. Use the find command in the word processor to locate PROJECT_ID
(the internal name of the first attribute).
The word processor goes to the PROJECT_ID text. The attributes for
the Project ID attribute and subsequent attributes are listed there.
Table 1 – 15 summarizes the attributes for the two workflows described
in this chapter:
Supp Exp Display Name and

Inv† Rpt‡ INTERNAL NAME Type Length
x x Project Id Number
PROJECT_ID
x x Task Id Number
TASK_ID
x x Expenditure Type Text 30

EXPENDITURE_TYPE
x x Supplier Identifier Number

VENDOR_ID
x x Billable Flag Text 1

BILLIABLE_ID
x x Project Class Code Text 30

CLASS_CODE
x x Expenditure Category Text 30

EXPENDITURE_CATEGORY
x x Direct Flag Text 1

DIRECT_FLAG
†Attributes of the Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation workflow
‡Attributes of the Project Expense Report Account Generator workflow
Table 1 – 15 Attributes for the Oracle Projects account generators (Page 1 of 4)
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x x Expenditure Item Date Date

EXPENDITURE_ITEM_DATE
x x Expenditure Organization Identifier Number

EXPENDITURE_ORGANIZATION_ID
x x Expenditure Organization Name Text 60

EXPENDITURE_ORG_NAME
x x Project Number Text 25

PROJECT_NUMBER
x x Project Organization Name Text 60

PROJECT_ORGANIZATION_NAME
x x Project Organization Identifier Number

PROJECT_ORGANIZATION_ID
x x Project Type Text 20

PROJECT_TYPE
x x Public Sector Flag Text 1

PUBLIC_SECTOR_FLAG
x x Revenue Category Text 30

REVENUE_CATEGORY
x x Task Number Text 25

TASK_NUMBER
x x Task Organization Name Text 60

NAME
x x Task Organization Identifier Number

TASK_ORGANIZATION_ID
x x Task Service Type Text 30

TASK_SERVICE_TYPE
x x Top Task Identifier Number

TOP_TASK_ID
x x Top Task Number Text 25

TOP_TASK_NUMBER
x Supplier Employee Number Text 30

VENDOR_EMPLOYEE_NUMBER
x Supplier Person Identifier Number

VENDOR_EMPLOYEE_ID

x Employee Number Text

EMPLOYEE_NUMBER
x Employee Identifier Text

EMPLOYEE_ID
x x Supplier Type Text 25

VENDOR_TYPE
x x Chart of Accounts ID Number

CHART_OF_ACCOUNTS_ID Default is
This attribute is present in all account 101
generator item types.
x Employee Account Identifier Number

EMPLOYEE_CCID
x Expense Type Number

EXPENSE_TYPE
x Expense Cost Center Text 240

EXPENSE_CC
x Calling Module Text 25

CALLING_MODULE
x x Lookup Set Value Text 25

LOOKUP_SET_VALUE
Stores the result of a lookup. See The
Segment Lookup Set Value Function: page
128.
x Function Transaction Code Text 30

TRANSACTION_CODE
x x Error Message Text 2000

ERROR_MESSAGE
x Attribute Category and Attribute 1–15 Text 150

(Invoice Descriptive Flexfield)
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
ATTRIBUTE1–15
These are the descriptive flexfield values
entered in the Payables invoice header.
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x Distribution Attr Category and Distribution Text 150

Attribute 1–15 (Inv Distn Desc Flexfield)
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
ATTRIBUTE1–15
These are descriptive flexfield values
entered for each Payables invoice
distribution.
x Attribute Category and Attribute 1–15 Text 150

(Expense Report Descriptive Flexfield)
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
ATTRIBUTE1–15
x Expense Line Attr Category and Attribute Text 150

1–15 (Exp Line Desc Flexfield)
ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY
ATTRIBUTE1–15
Using the Segment Lookup Set Value Function

The Segment Lookup Set Value function retrieves an intermediate value
from an AutoAccounting lookup set. The lookup set is defined in the
Oracle Projects AutoAccounting windows.
The function uses two attributes, Lookup Set Name and Intermediate
Value. The segment value that results from the combination of the
Lookup Set and the Intermediate Value is defined using the
AutoAccounting Lookup Sets window. The function derives the
segment value and assigns it to the attribute Lookup Set Value, which
you can then assign to a segment using the Assign Value to Segment
function.
The sample process for Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation
workflow (Figure 1 – 3 on page 117) uses this function in node 4 (Get
segment value using a lookup). The Lookup Set Name attribute is set to
SAMPLE_LOOKUP_SET. The Intermediate Value is the Expenditure
Organization Name, which is an item attribute. The function sets the
Lookup Set Value attribute, which is then assigned to the Cost Center
segment in Node 5.

Testing a Customized Process
You should test any process before using it on a production database.
To test a process, call the appropriate function in a PL/SQL block. There
are two test processes, one for invoices
(pa_acc_gen_wf_pkg.pa_inv_generate_account)and one for expense
reports (pa_acc_gen_wf_pkg.ap_er_generate_account).
Table 1 – 16 lists the function parameters.
For an example of how to test this function, see the procedure
pa_wf_fb_sample_pkg.test_ap_inv_account in the file PAXTMPFB.pls
in the admin/sql directory.
The return value is BOOLEAN. If the function returns the value FALSE,
an error has occurred during account generation. Use the value in
X_ERROR_MESSAGE to determine the error message.
If the value of X_RETURN_CCID is –1, the code combination that was
created uses rules that do not yet exist.
Parameter Name Type Mode
P_PROJECT_ID NUMBER(15) IN
P_TASK_ID NUMBER(15) IN
P_EXPENDITURE_TYPE VARCHAR2(30) IN
P_VENDOR_ID NUMBER IN
P_EXPENDITURE_ORGANIZATION_ID NUMBER(15) IN
P_EXPENDITURE_ITEM_DATE DATE IN
P_BILLABLE_FLAG VARCHAR2(1) IN
P_CHART_OF_ACCOUNTS_ID NUMBER IN
P_ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY1 VARCHAR2(150) IN
P_ATTRIBUTE1 through P_ATTRIBUTE151 VARCHAR2(150) IN
P_DIST_ATTRIBUTE_CATEGORY2 VARCHAR2(150) IN
P_DIST_ATTRIBUTE1 through VARCHAR2(150) IN

P_DIST_ATTRIBUTE152
X_RETURN_CCID NUMBER(15) OUT
X_CONCAT_SEGS VARCHAR2 OUT
Table 1 – 16 Parameters for the Test Function (Page 1 of 2)
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Parameter Name Type Mode
X_CONCAT_IDS VARCHAR2 OUT
X_CONCAT_DESCRS VARCHAR2 OUT
X_ERROR_MESSAGE VARCHAR2 OUT

1Descriptive flexfield values from each Payables invoice header
2Descriptive flexfield values from each each Payables invoice distribution
Table 1 – 16 Parameters for the Test Function (Page 2 of 2)
Assigning a Process to a Flexfield Structure

If you changed the name of a default or sample account generator
process, use the Account Generator Processes window (in the Flexfields
application) to associate the new name with the appropriate flexfield
structure and workflow (item type). For more information, see:
Choosing the Process for a Flexfield Structure (Oracle Applications
Flexfields Guide).
If you have not changed the name, you do not need to perform this step.
Setting the Profile Option

The Account Generator: Purge Runtime Data profile option indicates
whether to purge the data used to build account combinations as soon
as the account generator has completed.
For best performance, set this profile option to No and then purge the
runtime data in a separate operation. Setting the profile option to No
retains (in the Oracle Workflow tables) the data used by the account
generator to generate code combinations. To purge the data, run the
Purge Obsolete Workflow Runtime Data program after the account
generator process has executed successfully. The system administrator
can add this program to a request security group.
Setting this profile option to Yes purges the Oracle Workflow data as
soon as the account generator has completed, but may slow the
performance of the account generator.
Users can see and update this profile option.

This profile option is visible and can be updated at all levels.
For more information, see: Shared Profile Options Oracle Projects User’s
Guide and Test Your Account Generator Oracle Applications Flexfields
Guide.
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Using AutoAccounting with Account Generator Processes
Both the account generation processes in Oracle Workflow and
AutoAccounting in Oracle Projects can create account numbers
dynamically, based on transactions in Oracle Projects. This section
compares account generators to AutoAccounting, and provides
directions for:
• Assigning a constant or lookup value to a segment
• Assigning an attribute parameter to a segment
• Deriving a segment value
• Learning more about SQL functions to generate account codes
The differences between the two methods are summarized in the
following table:
Account Generator (Workflow)

Terms or Functionality Equivalent in AutoAccounting
Workflow Function
or
Item Type
Process Defining and assigning rules to segments
Attribute Parameter
Assigning a constant to a segment Assigning a constant AutoAccounting rule

to a segment
Assigning an attribute parameter to a Assigning an AutoAccounting rule that

segment uses a parameter, which becomes the seg-
ment value (a lookup set is not used)
Assigning a lookup set value to a segment Assigning an AutoAccounting rule that

passes a parameter to a lookup set to de-
termine the segment value
Deriving a segment value by using SQL Using an AutoAccounting rule that

statements or If conditions derives the intermediate value or segment
value via a SQL statement.
See Also
Converting from FlexBuilder Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide

Assigning a Value to a Segment
You can use an account generator to assign either a constant or lookup
set value to a segment.
Assigning a lookup set value to a segment uses an AutoAccounting rule
that passes a parameter to a lookup set. This function is used in node 4
of the sample process shown in Figure 1 – 3 on page 117.
" To assign a constant value to a segment:

1. Select the Assign Value to Segment function in the Standard
Flexfield workflow and then drag it to your account generation
process.
2. Connect the function to the prior and subsequent steps.
3. With the Assign Value to Segment function still highlighted, choose
Properties from the Edit menu.
4. In the Comment field, describe the action being performed
(optional).
5. Select the Attribute Values tab and enter values for each attribute.
6. For the Value attribute, select Constant as the Value Type. Enter the
constant under Value.
" To assign a lookup set value to a segment:

1. Open the the workflow (item type) and then open your process.
2. In the Navigator, open Functions for your workflow. Select the
Segment Lookup Set Value function and drag it to your account
generation process.
3. Connect the function to the prior and subsequent steps.
4. With the Segment Lookup Set Value function still highlighted,
choose Properties from the Edit menu.
5. Choose the Attribute Value tab and then select Lookup Set Name.
6. In the Value field, type the name of the lookup set that you want to
use.
7. Select Intermediate Value. Choose Item Attribute from the list of
values in the pop–up list to the left of the Value field.
8. For Value, choose an item from the list of values.
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9. Assign a value to the segment. For more information, see:
Assigning an Attribute Parameter to a Segment: page 134
For detailed information about assigning lookup set values, see Account
Generator Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide.
Assigning an Attribute Parameter to a Segment

This section describes how to use an account generator to assign an
attribute parameter to a segment.
" To assign an attribute to a segment:

1. Select the Assign Value to Segment function from the Standard
Flexfield workflow and then drag it to your account generation
process.
2. Connect this function to prior and subsequent steps.
3. With the Assign Value to Segment function still selected, choose
Properties from the Edit menu.
4. In the Comment field, describe the action being performed
(optional).
5. Select the Attribute Values tab.
6. For the Value attribute, select Item Attribute as the Value Type.
Then select the attribute whose value will be assigned to the
segment.
For detailed information about this function, see: Account Generator
Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide.
Deriving a Segment Value

SQL statements derive segment values using if/then logic. Node 7 in
Figure 1 – 3 on page 117 uses a SQL function.
For more information, see: SQL Functions: page 135.

SQL Functions
You must follow workflow standards when writing SQL procedures to
generate account codes. Within the procedure code, use calls to the
standard workflow functions to retrieve the required attributes. The
final value determined by the procedure is copied into one of the
attributes. The value can be then assigned to a segment.
A SQL function is illustrated in node 7 of the sample process in the
Project Supplier Invoice Account workflow. See: Sample Process for
Account Generation: page 116.
See Also
Overview of AutoAccounting Oracle Projects User’s Guide
Oracle Applications Flexfields Guide
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Integrating Expense Reports with Oracle Payables
Expense reports containing project and task information can be entered
in Oracle Projects, Oracle Web Employees, or Oracle Payables.
This section describes how to ensure that transactions resulting from
project–related expense reports are properly accounted for, and covers
the following topics:
• Overview
• Setting up in Payables and Oracle Projects: see page 138
• Processing expense reports created in Oracle Projects:
see page 140
• Processing expense reports created in Web Employees:
see page 146
Overview
Expense report data created in Oracle Projects or Web Employees is
sent to Payables. Payables creates invoices from the expense reports,
maintains and tracks payment, and then sends the accounting
transactions to Oracle General Ledger. Once these tasks are
accomplished, expense reports containing project and task information
can be sent to Oracle Projects.
Exactly how the transactions created by expense reports are ultimately
posted to General Ledger depends on how the expense report was
created originally.
Expense reports created or entered in Oracle Projects

All expense reports created in Oracle Projects contain project and task
information. Expense reports entered using one of the following
methods must be sent to Payables (for invoice creation and payment)
and then tied back to Oracle Projects:
• Entered in Oracle Personal Time and Expense and then uploaded
to Oracle Projects
• Imported into Oracle Projects from an external source, such as a
third–party application
• Entered in the project time and expense windows within Oracle
Projects. For more information about this method of entering
expense reports, see: Oracle Project Time and Expense Entry
Documentation Supplement.

Expense reports entered in Web Employees
Employees can include project and task information in an expense
report created in Oracle Web Employees. (Click the Enter Receipts tab
to display the window containing the Project Number and Task
Number fields. The window displays these fields if you select an
expense type that is associated with an Oracle Projects expenditure
type.)
Expense reports entered in Web Employees must be sent to Payables
and then to Oracle Projects. These expense reports have an
expenditure type class of Expense Report. Expense reports entered in
Web Employees do not need to be tied back to Oracle Projects.
For more information, see: Entering Project–Related Web Employees
Expense Reports: page 5.
Expense reports entered in Payables

You can enter project and task information on expense reports in the
Invoices window (enter Expense Report in the Type field).
Note: The supplier must be an employee. Otherwise, the
project–related information will not be interfaced to Oracle
Projects.
These expense reports entered in the Invoices window are assigned an
expenditure type class of Expense Report and are processed similarly
to expense reports entered in Web Employees.
The Expense Report window in Payables does not record project
information for expense report lines. Use the Invoices window instead.
Note: This chapter does not describe how expense reports
entered in Projects are processed. For more information, see:
Oracle Payables User’s Guide.
For all expense reports

You can use standard reports to track your expense reports as the
expense report information moves from one application to another.
You can also use Payables features to create advances (prepayments)
and adjustments, and then apply them against Oracle Projects expense
reports and invoices in Payables. See: Advances and Prepayments:
page 150 and Adjusting Expense Reports: page 152.
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See Also
Overview of Oracle Personal Time and Expense: Oracle Projects User’s

Guide
Transaction Import: Oracle Projects User’s Guide
Oracle Project Time and Expense Entry Documentation Supplement
Setting Up in Payables and Oracle Projects

Before you can interface project–related expense reports between
Oracle Projects, Payables, and Web Employees, you must carry out
certain tasks.
• In Payables:
– Define employees as suppliers
– Accept or override the employee address
– Determine the expense report cost account
• In the System Administrator responsibility, set profile options
(optional)
Define employees as suppliers

Before Payables can create invoices for an employee’s expense reports,
the employee must be defined as a supplier. You can either enable
Payables to create a supplier automatically for employees lacking a
supplier record or enter the employee manually as a supplier in the
Suppliers window.
If an employee is not a supplier, Payables does not create an invoice
and lists the expense report as an exception.
" To define employees as suppliers:

1. In Payables, open the Payables Options window.
Navigate to Setup> Options> Payables> Payables Options.
2. From the alternative area, choose Expense Report.
3. Select Automatically Create Employee as Supplier.

Accept or override the employee address
Payables sends the reimbursement to the employee’s default address
(Home or Office), which is set for the employee in HR. You can
override the Home or Office setting in the Expense Reports window in
Payables.
Payables uses the same value when creating a supplier record.
Determine the expense report cost account

For expense reports entered in Oracle Projects and adjustments made
to those expense reports, Oracle Projects uses AutoAccounting (not the
employee’s default expense account) to determine the expense report
cost account.
For expense reports entered in Web Employees and the Invoices
window, an account generator (the Project Expense Report Account
Generator, a process in Oracle Workflow) determines the expense
account for each transaction that includes project and task information.
The Default Account Generator for Expense Reports process used the
CCID (code combination identifier) entered for the employee in Human
Resources.
For more information about account generators, see: Using the Account
Generator in Oracle Projects on page 111. For more information about
AutoAccounting, see: AutoAccounting and the Account Generator
Oracle Projects User’s Guide.
Set profile options (optional)

Using the System Administrator responsibility, open the System Profile
Values window and set the following profile options:
• PA: Summarize Expense Report Lines specifies whether lines in
expense reports created in Oracle Projects are summarized by
code combination ID when you interface the expense reports to
Payables.
• PA: Allow Project Time and Expense Entry specifies whether a
user can enter project–related transactions in Web Employees.
For more information, see: Profile Option—PA: Allow Project
Time and Expense Entry: page 104.
• PA: Expense Report Invoices Per Set specifies the number of
Payables invoices to process each time the Interface Expense
Reports from Payables (a Payables process) is run. For more
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information, see Profile Option—PA: Expense Report Invoices
Per Set: page 105.
See Also
Implementing Oracle Payables for Projects Integration: Oracle Projects

User’s Guide
Updating Profile Options for Integration with Other Products: Oracle

Projects User’s Guide
Setting Up Employees and Organizations: Oracle Projects User’s Guide
Processing Expense Reports Created in Oracle Projects

To prepare for interfacing expense reports created in Oracle Projects,
you must first distribute the expense report costs. Then, you can send
the costed expense reports to Payables whenever you are ready and as
many times during an accounting period as you want.
This section covers the following topics:
• Distributing expense report costs: see page 141
• Sending expense reports to the Payables interface tables (using
the Interface Expense Reports to Payables process): see page 141
• Importing the expense report information in the tables (using the
Payables Invoice Import program) to create invoices and invoice
distribution lines: see page 142
• Tying back both accepted and rejected expense reports to Oracle
Projects (using the Tieback Expense Reports from Payables
process): see page 144
• Submitting the interface streamline processes: see page 145
• Transferring invoices to General Ledger (using the Payables
Transfer to General Ledger program): see page 146
Figure 1 – 6 illustrates the processing flow.

Figure 1 – 6 Processing expense reports created in Oracle Projects
Costed Interface AP Import invoices

expense reports to
Expense Oracle Payables Interface
Reports Tables
Tie back AP Transfer GL

expense reports invoices
Invoice to GL Interface
Tables Tables
Oracle Projects Oracle Payables Oracle

(AP) General Ledger
(GL)
Distributing Expense Report Costs

You must run the Distribute Expense Report Costs process before you
interface expense reports with Payables. This process groups
expenditure items into batches of expense reports and determines the
expense account held in the cost distribution line.
Process: Interface Expense Reports to Payables

Note: There are two processes with very similar names. This
process sends expense report information to Payables.
This process collects eligible costed expense reports in Oracle Projects
and sends them to the Payables interface tables. Once loaded onto
these interface tables, the expense reports await further processing by
the Payables Invoice Import program.
When you send invoices to Payables, Oracle Projects sets the purgeable
flag for each expense report in Payables to No.
This process also sends costed adjustments to Web Employees expense
reports that you interfaced from Payables. Payables loads these
adjustments into the Payables invoice tables automatically, so you do
not need to run the Payables Invoice Import program.
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Before you interface expense reports to Payables, run the PRC:
Distribute Expense Report Costs process to distribute costs for any
adjustments you have made.
Note: If expense reports from any source fail to post to
Payables, you may need to redistribute costs (using the PRC:
Distribute Expense Report Costs process) before you send the
expense reports to Payables again.
For more information, see: Interface Expense Reports to Payables Oracle
How the accounting period is determined

The GL Date of the expense report cost determines the accounting
period in which a transaction is posted to a general ledger account. In
Oracle Projects, the GL Date for costs is the end date of the earliest
open or future GL Period that is on or after the latest PA Date of the
cost distribution lines included in an expense report. All cost
distribution lines for an expense report are sent together to Payables
and use the same GL date. This GL date becomes the GL date of the
invoice in Payables.
For more information, see: Date Processing in Oracle Projects Oracle
How the liability account is determined

The Interface Expense Reports to Payables process uses
AutoAccounting to determine the liability account when the expense
reports costs are distributed. (Oracle Projects does not use the
employee’s default expense account.) The process sends the
accounting transactions for expense reports to the Payables interface
tables.
Reports
Oracle Projects prints a report that lists the interfaced and rejected
expense reports. Correct the rejected expense reports and resubmit
them to Payables.
Program: Payables Invoice Import

Payables Invoice Import is a Payables program. For complete
information about the program, see: Payables Invoice Import Program
Oracle Payables User’s Guide.

The Payables Invoice Import program creates invoices and invoice
distribution lines from Oracle Projects expense report information that
you load into Payables interface tables. Payables imports the expense
report data into Payables invoice tables.
Note: Payables Invoice Import does not call Workflow. If you
manually populate the invoice import tables, you must supply
the accounting flexfield information.
If you submit the program from Payables, you must specify a source of
Oracle Projects. Leave the batch name and GL date blank. You can also
use one of the Oracle Projects streamline options to submit the Payables
Invoice Import program from Payables.
Payables identifies invoices you create from Oracle Projects expense
reports with a source of Oracle Projects.
Adjustments are a special case. You do not need to run Payables
Invoice Import for adjustments to expense reports already interfaced or
tied back from Payables.
Prerequisites
• Enter expense reports in Oracle Projects.
• Run the Oracle Projects PRC: Distribute Expense Report Costs
process to calculate the amount and generate accounts.
• Submit Oracle Projects PRC: Interface Expense Reports to
Payables process to transfer expense reports to the Payables
Invoice Interface Tables.
• If the Automatically Create Employee As Supplier option is not
enabled in Payables, manually enter the employee as a supplier
in the Supplier window.
" To import invoices:

1. In the Submit Request window, choose the Request Type and select
Payables Invoice Import.
2. Enter the report parameters.
Do not enter a batch name or a GL date field. Select Oracle Projects
for the source.
If you want to purge expense reports from the Invoice Import
Interface Tables, enter the date criteria you want Payables to use.
Payables will delete all Oracle Projects expense reports that were
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entered before this date and have already been imported and tied
back to the original expense report in Oracle Projects.
3. Choose OK.
the Invoices window. The new invoices are ready for approval and
payment.
Payables creates invoices with the following attributes:
Attribute Description
Type Expense report
Supplier Name Employee name
Invoice Date Week ending date
Invoice Number The expenditure batch name from Oracle Projects

appended to a unique identifier for the expense re-
port
Invoice Distributions Based on cost distribution of expense report items.

Each invoice distribution in Oracle Projects includes
expenditure item information, such as project in-
formation, amount, and account coding.
Invoice Liability Account Based on AutoAccounting rules in Oracle Projects
Scheduled Payments Based on payment terms defined in the Payables

Options window
Payment Method Method from the Financial Options window
Income Tax Type For federally reportable 1099 suppliers, Payables, the
income tax type for each invoice distribution
4. In Oracle Projects, run the PRC: Tieback Expense Reports from

Payables process.
Reports
them to Payables.
Process: Tieback Expense Reports from Payables

This process creates a link between the expense report in Oracle
Projects and the invoice in Payables, but does not tie back the invoice

details. (To view details, drill down in the Expenditures Inquiry
window. You can also query the invoice in the Invoices window in
Payables.)
The tieback process identifies expense reports rejected by Payables
Invoice Import. Correct the rejected expense reports and send them to
Payables again.
Tying back the invoices causes Oracle Projects to update the purgeable
flag for each expense report in the Payables interface tables from No to
Yes.
For more information, see: Tieback Expense Reports from Payables:
Reports
them to Payables.
Submitting the Interface Streamline Processes

A streamline process submit two or more one processes in one step.
You can use streamline processes to interface expense reports to
Payables, import the invoices, and tie back the invoices to Oracle
Projects.
If you need to perform a single function, such as interfacing expense
reports, you can use an individual process.
A streamline process submits each process sequentially.
" To submit a streamline process:

1. Open the Submit Request window.
2. For Submit Request, select PRC: Submit Interface Streamline
Processes option
3. Choose one of the following streamline options:
DXES Distribute and Interface Exp Report Costs to AP1
DXEU Distribute and Interface Exp Report Costs to AP2
XES Interface Expense Report Costs to AP1
XEU Interface Expense Report Costs to AP2
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DTE Distribute and Transfer Expense Report Costs to AP
ITES AP Invoice Import1 and Tieback Expense Reports
ITEU AP Invoice Import2 and Tieback Expense Reports

1Summarized reports that display expense report lines summarized by code
combination ID. See: PA: Summarize Expense Report Lines Oracle Projects User’s
Guide.
2Detailed report processes that generate an invoice distribution in Payables for each
detail expense report cost distribution line
For more information about streamline requests and options, see:

Submitting a Streamline Request Oracle Projects User’s Guide.
As noted in step 3, you can run either summarized or detailed reports.
You must use the same report mode, either summarized or detailed, to
interface expense report costs to Payables and then tie back those
expense reports, regardless of whether you submit a streamline process
or an individual process.
Some processes use a lot of system resources, so do not run streamline
processes that distribute costs (DXES, DXEU and DTE) during critical
processing times. Instead, run the distribution processes separately,
and then run the interface and tieback streamline processes later.
Program: Payables Transfer to General Ledger

After the Payables Invoice Import program creates invoices, and you
approve and pay them in Payables, use the Payables Transfer to
General Ledger program to send the invoice information to General
Ledger interface tables.
In General Ledger, you post the invoice interface data to update your
account balances. For detailed information about posting journals, see:
Payables Transfer to General Ledger (Posting) Oracle General Ledger
User’s Guide.
Processing Expense Reports Created in Web Employees

Note: Except as noted, the information in this section also
applies to expense reports created in the Invoices window (in
Payables).
Expense reports created in Oracle Web Employees go directly to the
Payables interface tables, making it unnecessary to run the Interface
Expense Reports to Payables process. Payables then creates the

appropriate accounting transactions, some of which result from
expense reports that contain project and task information. Payables
creates these project–related transactions based on business rules you
defined in the Project Expense Report Account Generator workflow.
You do not need to tie back project–related expense reports entered in
Web Employees. The Interface Expense Reports from Payables process
brings expense report details into Oracle Projects for expense reports
created in Web Employees.
You can adjust expense reports entered in Web Employees in either
Payables or Oracle Projects. You can also transfer or split expense
report items (net zero adjustments), recost the expense reports, and
then send the information to Payables. Payables ultimately posts these
adjusted transactions to General Ledger. For more information, see:
Adjusting Expense Reports: page 152.
Note: You can view expense report costs as commitments
before you interface the costs to Oracle Projects. (This is
similar to viewing supplier invoice costs as commitments.) For
more information, see Commitment Reporting in Oracle Projects
User’s Guide.
Expense reports submitted in Web Employees are routed according to
the AP Expense Report workflow (item type). For more information,
see Expense Reporting Workflow: page 9.
This section covers the following topics:
• Importing the expense report into the Payables Invoice table
(using the Payables Invoice Import program in Payables): see
page 148
• Interfacing invoices to Oracle General Ledger (using the
Payables Transfer to General Ledger program): see page 149
• Create pre–approved expense report batches from expense
reports entered in Web Employees (using the Interface Expense
Reports from Payables process): see page 149
Figure 1 – 7 illustrates the processing flow.
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Figure 1 – 7 Processing expense reports created in Web Employees
Oracle Payables (AP) Oracle Projects (PA)
AP AP After invoices are PA

Interface Import invoices Invoice posted in Payables,
interface expense Interface
Tables Tables reports from Payables
Tables
Enter project–related
expense reports in the Import transac-
Invoices window tions
PA
Expenditure
Items Table
Enter and submit

project–related Oracle Web Employees
expense reports
Interface
expense reports
to AP
See Also
Generating Accounts for Oracle Payables: page 112
Entering Project–Related Web Employees Expense Reports: page 5
Payables Invoice Import Program Oracle Payables User’s Guide
Program: Payables Invoice Import

Note: You do not need to run this program for expense reports
entered in the Invoices window. These expense reports are
saved directly to the Payables invoice tables.
The Payables Invoice Import program processes expense reports
created in Web Employees as well as those entered in Oracle Projects
and interfaced to Payables.

Payables identifies invoices created from Web Employees expense
reports with a source of Self Service.
Adjustments to expense reports created in Web Employees or the
Invoices window (in Payables) are loaded directly into the AP invoice
tables. You do not need to run Payables Invoice Import, either as an
individual process or as part of the streamline interface processes ITES
and ITES.
For prerequisites and procedures for importing project–related expense
reports from Web Employees, including , see: Payables Invoice Import
Program: page 46
Program: Payables Transfer to General Ledger

After the Payables Invoice Import program creates invoices, and the
invoices (expense reports) are approved and paid in Payables, use the
Payables Transfer to General Ledger program to send the invoice
information to the General Ledger interface tables.
In General Ledger, you post the invoice interface data to update your
account balances. For detailed information about posting journals, see:
Payables Transfer to General Ledger (Posting) Oracle General Ledger
User’s Guide.
Process: Interface Expense Reports from Payables

Note: There are two processes with very similar names. This
process gets expense report information from Payables.
After you post the invoice distribution lines to General Ledger, use the
Interface Expense Reports from Payables process to import the invoice
to Oracle Projects. This process calls the Transaction Import process,
which loads project–related invoice distribution lines, calculates the
burden amounts for the appropriate imported raw costs, and creates a
pre–approved expense report batch in Oracle Projects, based on the
project–related invoice distribution lines.
After you post the invoice distribution lines to General Ledger, use the
Interface Expense Reports from Payables process to import the invoice
to Oracle Projects. This process calls the Transaction Import process,
which:
• Loads project–related invoice distribution lines
• Calculates the burden amounts for the appropriate imported raw
costs
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• Creates a pre–approved expense report batch in Oracle Projects,
based on the project–related invoice distribution lines
Note: The process does not import descriptive flexfield
information entered in Web Employees or Payables.
Oracle Projects generates transactions with a source of Oracle Payables.
The Allow Adjustments option is enabled for the Oracle Payables
source, but only net zero adjustments are allowed. You cannot reverse
or recalculate burdened costs.
For information about the process parameters, see Process—Interface
Expense Reports from Payables: page 106.
Prerequisites
Before you run this process:
• Enter expense reports in Web Employees or the Invoices
window.
• Make sure that employees are designated as suppliers. (If they
are not, the interface program will not import the invoice).
Conversely, suppliers must be employees. See: Setting Up in
Payables and Oracle Projects: page 138.
• Run the Payables Transfer to General Ledger program in
Payables. For more information, see: Program: Payables Transfer
to General Ledger: page 146
Reports
This process prints a report that lists the interfaced and rejected invoice
distribution lines, as well as a summary of the total number and cost of
the distribution lines.
Correct the rejected invoice distribution lines (refer to the rejection
reasons shown on the report), and then resubmit the process.
Advances and Prepayments

After an expense report is loaded into Payables, you can create
prepayments and then use Payables to apply them against Oracle
Projects expense reports. An advance, or prepayment, refers to funds
advanced to an employee for travel or other expenses. When an
employee incurs an expense and submits an expense report, you reduce

the amount of the reimbursement by applying outstanding
prepayments to it.
You can apply prepayments to an expense report when the expense
report is in the Payables interface tables or when the expense report is
loaded in Payables as an invoice.
" To apply prepayments to expense reports:

1. Use Payables to enter a prepayment, approve it, and pay it (see
below).
2. Enter and approve the expense report in Oracle Projects and then
release the expense report batch.
3. Distribute expense reports and interface them to Payables using
Oracle Projects processes.
You can use the DTE Distribute and Interface Expense Report Costs
to AP streamline option.
4. Apply the prepayment to an expense report using the Expense
Report window in Payables (see below).
5. Run the Payables Invoice Import program and tie back invoices
from Payables to Oracle Projects. You can use either of the
following Oracle Projects interface streamline options:
• ITES: AP Invoice Import and Tieback Expense Reports
• ITEU: AP Invoice Import (Unsummarized Report) and Tieback
Expense Reports.
6. Review invoices and payments in Payables.
When you enter a prepayment, Payables automatically creates invoice
distributions and a scheduled payment. After you pay a prepayment,
you can apply the paid amount to an expense report or invoice to
reduce the amount you owe. Payables automatically creates reversing
distribution and payment schedule lines and updates the remaining
amount of the prepayment.
Use the Invoices window in Payables to create and approve
prepayments. You must approve and pay a prepayment before you can
apply it to an invoice. You can use the Payments window in Payables
to pay a prepayment.
Use the Expense Report window in Payables to apply a prepayment or
enter a hold against an expense report. You can apply prepayments
and holds to expense reports after you interface expense reports into
Payables, but before you run Payables Invoice Import and create
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invoices from the expense reports. You cannot change any information
for an Oracle Projects expense report in the Expense Report window;
you can only apply prepayments or holds.
You can also apply prepayments and holds to expense reports after you
run Payables Invoice Import when the expense reports are invoices in
Payables.
For more information, see: Prepayments Oracle Payables User’s Guide
Adjusting Expense Reports

How you adjust an expense report depends on which application was
used to create it.
Note: Adjustments interfaced to Payables appear on the same
invoice in Payables. Adjustments interfaced from Payables
appear in a separate expense report batch.
Adjusting expense reports created in Oracle Projects

If you created an expense report in Oracle Projects, you should
generally make the adjustments in Oracle Projects. You can adjust an
expense report in Oracle Projects at any time, but you cannot interface
adjustments to Payables until an invoice exists in Payables and you
have run the tieback process.
Interfacing expense reports links adjusting transactions in Oracle
Projects to the corresponding invoice in Payables. This linkage allows
you to reconcile all project–related expense reports in Payables, and
accurately account for your cash books if you use Cash Basis
Accounting.
Adjusting expense reports created in Web Employees

Note: The information in this section also applies to expense
reports created in the Invoices window (in Payables).
Expense reports created in Web Employees and the Invoices window
can be adjusted in both Oracle Projects and Payables:
• In Oracle Projects, you can transfer or split expense lines (net
zero adjustments). You cannot reverse expenditure items or
recalculate burdened costs.

• In Payables, you can:
– Modify line amount, project, task, or expense types by
reversing existing invoice distribution lines and then
creating new ones
– Cancel the invoice completely
Before you can make adjustments in Oracle Payables or cancel an
invoice in Payables, each application checks for outstanding
adjustments or cancellations in the other. If outstanding adjustments
exist, you must interface the adjustments before continuing.
You cannot adjust a Web Employees expense report if any of the
following conditions are true:
• The invoice has been cancelled in Payables
• Adjustments made to this invoice in Payables have not been sent
to Oracle Projects
• The item has been fully or partially prepaid
• The invoice has been fully or partially paid and either the Allow
Adjustments to Paid Invoices option is disabled, or discount
payment distributions have been associated with the invoice
• You are using cash basis accounting
For more information, see: Entering Invoices Oracle Payables User’s
Guide.
Purging Expense Reports

After you create invoices in Payables and then tie them back , you can
create more space in your database by purging imported Oracle
Projects expense reports from the Payables interface tables. To do so,
identify the date through which you want to purge expense reports
when you submit Payables Invoice Import. Payables purges the
expense reports during the import process.
For expense reports created in Web Employees, you can have the
Payables Invoice Import program purge imported information. The
purge occurs after the program creates invoices from expense report
information and the tieback process is complete.
It is a good practice to purge expense reports periodically.
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Viewing Expense Reports in Oracle Payables
After you successfully send expense reports to Payables and run the
Payables Invoice Import program, each expense report in Payables is
converted to a Payables invoice. You can view these expense reports in
Payables (just as you can any other invoice), as well as in Oracle
Projects.
To view invoices that have been created from Oracle Projects expense
reports, open the Invoices or Distributions window, query the project,
task, and expenditures. In other windows, query the information that
Oracle Projects passes to Payables:
• The employee name becomes the supplier name. The name
appears in uppercase when it is generated by the system in
Payables.
• The week ending date, or expenditure ending date, becomes the
invoice date in Payables.
• The total expense report cost becomes the total invoice amount
in Payables.
For each invoice distribution in Payables, you can also view
information for each expenditure item, such as the project information,
the amount, and the account coding.
To query the payment status of an employee’s expense report, use the
Find Invoices window and query by supplier name and invoice date.
See Example: Finding an expense report: page 155.
Note: You can use the Expense Report window in Payables to
view expense reports submitted from Web Employees. The
window also displays expense reports interfaced from Oracle
Projects to Payables. Note that the Expense Report window
does not display project and task information.
Interpreting invoice numbers

For expense reports entered in Oracle Projects, the invoice number is
the expenditure batch name (from Oracle Projects) plus an expense
report identifier. For example, the invoice number EX–DEN–125
R11–DEC–95 12:00:00–1000 is an invoice that was processed in the
expenditure batch of EX–DEN–125 R11–DEC–95 12:00:00, which is
identified by the number 1000.

Interpreting expense report batch names
For expense reports entered in Oracle Projects, the expenditure batch
name is a concatenation of the expenditure batch parameter, the type of
batch, and the creation date and time.
If you do specify an expenditure batch parameter when you submit the
Distribute Expense Report Costs process, the batch name prefix is ALL.
The letter R represents a regular expense report batch, and the letter A
represents an adjusted expense report batch. For example, a regular
expense report batch could be named
ALL R16–SEP–98 14:46:05 and a specific batch could be named
EX–HQ–D523 A16–SEP–98 12:00:05.
Example: Finding an expense report

Your employee, Amy Marlin, wants to know the status of an expense
report that she submitted on October 1, 1998. The expenditure ending
date of her expense report was 15–SEP–1998. Expense reports are
submitted to the local accounting staff for entry into Oracle Projects.
You don’t know when the expense report was entered in Oracle
Projects or sent to Payables.
In Payables, open the Find Invoices window by navigating to Invoices
> Inquiry > Invoices. In the Find Invoices window, enter ”%Marlin%”
in the supplier name field. Enter invoice dates beginning September 1,
1998. Choose the Find button.
The Invoices window displays all of Amy Marlin’s expense reports
with expenditure ending dates after August 31, 1998 that have been
sent to Payables. You will see if the expense report is in Payables, and
has been posted to General Ledger, approved, and paid. You can also
drill down to the individual distribution line items and see project
information.
If the Invoices window does not display the expense report, check to
see if the expense report has been sent to Payables but not yet
imported. Open the Expense Report window by navigating to Invoices
> Entry > Expense Reports. You can query by Employee Name or
Number.
See Also
Reviewing Invoices Oracle Payables User’s Guide
Oracle Projects 155

Managing Expense Reports Oracle Payables User’s Guide

Index
A C
account generator client extensions
AutoAccounting, and, 132 Expenditure Access, Project User, and
AutoApproval, 107
functions
Routing, 109
segment lookup set value, 128
SQL, 135 costs
distributing, 141
Oracle Payables, for, 112
GL date for, 142
Oracle Purchasing, for, 111
overview, 111
processes D
attributes, 124
backing up, 113, 114 distribution, 141
for expense reports, 119, 121
for supplier invoices, 114, 116 E
renaming, 130
segment lookup value, 128 employees
using FlexBuilder rules, 114 as suppliers, 138
purging runtime data, 130 entering employees as suppliers, 87
setting up, 114, 130 exceptions, resolving for Payables Invoice
testing, 129 Import, 58
expenditures
accounting transactions, expense reports, 142
approving, 107
adjustments, expense reports, 152 routing, 109
advances, 150 Expense Report Templates window
AP role, setting up, 30 defining
AP_WEB_SIGNING_LIMITS table, 36 expense report template, 39
project–related template, 41
approving expenditures, 105, 107
self–service interface attributes, 40
attributes window reference, 41
setting workflow activity attributes, 33 Expense Reporting workflow
workflow activity, 124 Credit Lines Only activity, 24
AutoAccounting Level of Manager Involvement activity, 14
account generator, and, 132 DetermineMgrInvolvement, 15
assigning values and parameters, 133 overview, 9
deriving values, 134 process descriptions, 9 to 37
retrieving lookup set value, 128 expense reports
using SQL functions, 135 adjusting, 152
Index – 1
advances, 150 interface tables
batches, naming, 155 AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS, 74
distributing costs, 141 AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES, 90
integrating with Oracle Payables, 136 Payables Invoice Import Interface
interfacing to overview, 46
Oracle General Ledger, 146, 149 purging data from, 58
Oracle Payables, 140 Payables Invoice Import tables, 71
Oracle Web Employees interfaces
setting up project–related templates, 38 Oracle General Ledger, 146, 149
setting up self–service templates, 38 Oracle Payables, 106, 140
Payables Invoice Import, 48 Invoice Import. See Payables Invoice Import
Payables Invoice Import Exceptions Report, Invoice Import Exceptions Report, 64
64 Invoice Import Prepayments Applied Report,
prepayments, 150 69
project–related, 5 Invoice Import Report, 63
purging, 153
invoices, Invoice Import Report, 63
templates
deactivating, 41
defining, 39
overview, 38
L
tying back from Oracle Payables, 144 liability account, 142
viewing in Oracle Payables, 154
extensions. See client extensions
M
messages, customizing workflow messages, 34
F
Find Approver method, choosing, 31 N
FlexBuilder, rules in account generator, 114 non–Oracle systems integration, 53
G O
GL date, expense reports, 142 Oracle Payables
account generators for, 114
advances (prepayments), 150
generating accounts for, 112
I integration, 136
importing, invoices, 142 viewing expense reports, 154
integration Oracle Projects
Oracle Payables, 136 entering invoices, 4
Oracle Projects, 3, 50 importing expense reports, 50
Oracle Purchasing, 111 Oracle Purchasing, generating accounts for, 111
Oracle Web Employees, 48 Oracle Web Application Dictionary, 60
Oracle Workflow, 44 Oracle Web Employees expense reporting
prerequisites, 138 adjusting field names, 60
Index – 2
customizing workflow messages, 34 source, 56
defining project–related templates, 41 prepayments
expense report templates, 38 creating, 150
expense reporting workflow, 9 Invoice Import Prepayment Applied Report,
project–related templates, 38 69
self–service interface attributes, defining, 40 processes
setting up See also programs, account generator
Web Application Dictionary, 60 processes
with Oracle Projects, 1 creating, 120
workflow, 28 Distribute Expense Report Costs, 141
Oracle Workflow Interface Expense Reports from Payables,
account generators, 111, 114 106, 149
applying holds to expense reports, 44 Interface Expense Reports to Oracle
Credit Lines Only activity, 24 Payables, 141
customizing messages, 34 modifying, 120
Payables Invoice Import, 142
DetermineMgrInvolvement API, 15
streamline. See streamline processes
expense reporting overview, 9
Tieback Invoices from Oracle Payables, 144
expense reporting processes, 9 to 37
Level of Manager Involvement activity, 14, profile options
17 Account Generator: Purge Runtime Data,
setting up 130
activity attributes, 33 PA: Allow Project Time and Expense Entry,
139
expense reporting workflow, 28
PA: Allow Time and Expense Entry, 104
workflow timeouts, 32
PA: AutoApprove Expense Reports, 105
Verify Authority activity, 17
PA: Expense Report Invoices Per Set, 105
PA: Summarize Expense Report Lines, 139
PA: Web Expenses Invoices Per Set, 139
P programs
See also processes
Payables Invoice Import, 142 Payables Invoice Import, 46, 142
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_HEADERS table, 74 Payables Transfer to General Ledger, 146, 149
AP_EXPENSE_REPORT_LINES table, 90 Workflow Background Process, 29
database tables, 71 Project Expense Report Account Generator, 119
definitions, 72 Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation,
importing 114
expense reports, 48, 50
purging
from external systems, 53 expense reports, 153
Invoice Import Exceptions Report, 64 imported invoices and expense reports, 57,
Invoice Import Prepayment Applied Report, 58
69 runtime data, 130
Invoice Import Report, 63
overview, 46
purging, 58
resolving exceptions, 58
R
setting up, 101 references, iii
Index – 3
reports and listings Oracle Projects, 143
interfaced expense reports, 142, 144 Self Service, 149
invoice distributions, 150 streamline processes, interfacing expense
Invoice Import Exceptions Report, 64 reports, 140
Invoice Import Prepayment Applied Report, suppliers
69 as employees, 138
Invoice Import Report, 63 employees, 87
routing expenditures, 109 invoice accounts for, 112
System Administrator role, setting up, 30
S
setting up T
account generators, 111 tables, AP_WEB_SIGNING_LIMITS, 36
AP and System Administrator Roles, 30 tie back, expense reports, 144
expense report templates, 38
timeouts, setting up for workflow activity, 32
expense reporting workflow, 28
transactions, 142
find approver method, 31
Oracle Projects with Web Employees, 1
Payables Invoice Import, 101
signing limits, 36 W
workflow activity timeouts, 32 window reference, Expense Report Templates,
signing limits, loading, 36 41
source windows, Expense Report Templates, 38
NonValidatedWebExpense, 81 window reference, 41
Payables Expense Reports, 81 Workflow Background Process, 29
Payables Invoice Import, 56 workflows
Self Service, 81 attributes, 124
WebExpense, 81 Project Expense Report Account Generator,
XpenseXpress, 81 119
sources Project Supplier Invoice Account Generation,
Oracle Payables, 150 114
Index – 4
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Checklist of Post–Upgrade Steps for Release 11.0.1

Perform the following steps BEFORE anyone logs on to Oracle Projects.

- 1. Correct Accrued Revenue in Excess of MIS Manager

- 4. Correct Overstated Revenue Resulting MIS Manager

- 5. Correct Supplier Invoices with Functional MIS Manager

Step 1 Correct Accrued Revenue in Excess of Funding Amounts (Bug

The script generates a report called pa620118.lst. This report lists

Step 2 Correct Expenditure Items for Scheduled Payment Events (Bug

The script prompts for the following parameters:

Step 3 Correct Overstated Revenue Resulting from Negative Amount Events

Step 4 Correct Overstated Revenue Resulting from Negative Amount

The script prompts for the following parameters:

Step 5 Correct Supplier Invoices with Functional Currency Adjustment

The script generates a report called pa625628.out. This report lists

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Expenditure Item Date

Monday, 10/19 through Sunday, 10/25 1 Week Monday Sunday, 10/25

Monday, 10/12 through Sunday, 10/25 2 weeks Monday Sunday, 10/25

Thursday, 10/1 through Saturday, 10/31 1 month Monday Sunday, 10/25

Table 1 – 1 (Page 1 of 1) Expenditure item date for burden transactions

Burden Cost Accounting Enhancements 3

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Project Management Reporting

Oracle Projects provides several ways to set up burdening to serve

GL and Upper Management Reporting

Burden Cost Accounting Enhancements 5

Direct Cost of Projects <30>

Burden 1 Cost (Project Indirect Cost) <10>

Burden 2 Cost (Corporate Expense) <27>

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TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY 338

In these financial statements, project expenditures are charged directly

Burden Multiplier Algorithm

Burden Cost Accounting Enhancements 7

Raw Labor (1 hour) 10 A

Total Labor 22 D=A+B+C

Table 1 – 2 (Page 1 of 1) Burden multiplier algorithm

In this algorithm, indirect costs (Burden 1) are weighted at a rate of

Burden 1 Cost <10>

Burden 2 Cost <27>

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TOTAL ASSETS 345

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY 345

Accounting Transactions for Burden Cost Reporting

Direct, Burden 1 and Burden 2 Costs Debit Account Credit Account

AP/PO Material Purchase – Raw Cost Cost of Project

AP/PO Stationery Purchase – Burden 1 Stationery

GL Interest Expense – Burden 2 Interest Expense

Table 1 – 3 (Page 1 of 1) Cost–related transactions