Overview

 

The scrubberJob also ensures that all transactions are balanced, and it generates required offsets with an offset generation process.

 

For transactions created via Financials documents, offsets should already be in place by automatically generating any required offsets when each document is submitted for approval. Prior to the batch process running, the offset transaction lines (such as offsets to cash) may be viewed within the General Ledger Pending Entries tab of a transaction document.

 

Financials uses the Offset Definition table to define how offsets should be generated for unbalanced transactions. This table uses information from the unbalanced transaction (such as the fiscal year and chart the transaction is being posted to and the balance type and document type associated with the transaction) to determine the object code to assign to offset entries. Transactions created in other systems may need to have offsets generated to ensure a balanced transaction.

Offset transactions are generated in the following cases:

•      The document type is not in the OFFSET_GENERATION_DOCUMENT_TYPES parameter.

•      The fiscal period is not included in the OFFSET_GENERATION_FISCAL_PERIODS parameter.

•      If otherwise eligible and the offset generation attribute for the Balance Type of the pending entry is Y.

Normally, offsets are applied to the same account as the transaction that generated the offset.

If the USE_FLEXIBLE_OFFSET_IND parameter is set to Y, then offset entries can be posted to another specified account in order to accommodate tracking offsets such as cash or liabilities in central designated accounts as opposed to tracking such offset entries in every account. The Offset Account document identifies the offset account for an offset object code and account number combination.

 

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