When you define a segment value for your natural account segment in the Segment Values window, you must also assign qualifiers which determine the account type (asset, liability, expense, revenue, or equity), whether budgeting is allowed, whether posting is allowed and other information specific to the segment value. For segments other than the natural account segment, you must specify if budgeting or posting are allowed for each value.
When you change the Budget Entry or Posting Allowed qualifiers for segment values that you already defined, you should also make a corresponding change to all accounts that include the value in the account code combination.
You can run the Segment Value Inheritance program to propagate these changes to all accounts that contain the changed segment value instead of changing all affected account code combinations individually in the GL Accounts window. See Segment Value Inheritance.
Note: Segment qualifiers can be defined for other Oracle Applications. These are listed in each Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide. Additional segment qualifiers can be defined for use by your custom programs.
You can define the following segment qualifiers for your Accounting Flexfield:
Account Type: Defines the account type for the natural account segment value. You can enter only valid account types.
Budget Entry Allowed: Indicates whether General Ledger should allow detailed budgeting to accounts with this segment value.
Posting Allowed: Indicates whether General Ledger should allow detailed posting to Accounting Flexfields with this segment value.
Reconciliation Flag: Indicates whether General Ledger should allow reconciliation for natural accounts that should balance to zero. You can enable or disable reconciliation for an account segment value or for specific account code combinations.
Other Segment Qualifiers: You can define additional segment qualifiers that are used by other Oracle Applications and your custom programs.
Enter a valid account type for this segment qualifier. This segment qualifier requires a value for the natural account segment only. Account code combinations have the same account type as the natural account segment value they include.
The default value for this field is Expense. Accept this value or change it to one of the other valid account types. Enter the type of your proprietary account (Asset, Liability, Owners' Equity, Revenue or Expense) or the type of your budgetary account (Budgetary Dr or Budgetary Cr) your segment value represents. Choose any proprietary balance sheet account type if you are defining a statistical account segment value. If you choose a proprietary income statement account type for a statistical account segment value, your statistical balance will zero-out at the end of the fiscal year.
If you assigned the wrong account type to your account, see Correcting Misclassified Account Types.
Enter Yes for Allow Budgeting Entry to perform detailed budgeting for accounts with this segment value. If you do not allow budgeting for a segment value, you cannot assign accounts with this segment value to budget organizations, and you cannot define budget formulas for those accounts.
If you are defining a parent segment value, you must enter No. You cannot enter budget amounts to a segment value that is a parent of other detail segment values where detail budgeting is already allowed.
Enter Yes for Allow Posting to allow detailed posting to accounts with this segment value. If you do not allow posting for a segment value, you cannot use accounts with this segment value when you enter journals, and you cannot use the accounts in recurring journals.
If you are defining a parent segment value by marking the Parent check box, enter No to Allow Posting and Budgeting. Parent values cannot be used for budgeting or posting.
Enter Payables, Receivables, or Yes for the Third Party Control Account to designate the account as a Control Account. Access to this account will be restricted to Oracle Payables, Receivables, and Inventory.
If you do not specify the account as a control account, you will be able to use the account for all Oracle Applications.
Additional Information: When journals are uploaded through Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator, the code combinations for the journals are validated using the value selected for the segment qualifier Third Party Control Account. If the value is selected as either Yes, Customer, Supplier, or Restrict Manual Journals, then the journal upload sends the following error message, "You cannot use control accounts. Please choose a different account." If the value for the account is selected as No, then the journal is successfully uploaded.
Enter Yes for Reconciliation Flag to allow reconciliation for natural accounts that should balance to zero.
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