Drilling Down to Purchasing from Oracle General Ledger

From General Ledger, you can drill down to subledger details from the Account Inquiry, Journal Entry Inquiry, or Enter Journals windows for journals that have specific journal sources assigned to them. For example, if a journal source is Purchasing, you can drill down to the transaction details in Oracle Purchasing.

For instructions on accessing Purchasing subledger details from General Ledger, see: Drilling Down to Subledger Detail.

When you drill down from General Ledger, the Purchasing Receiving Accounting lines window will open. The first time you open this window, the following information will be displayed:

Transaction Date Entered Debit
Receipt Num Entered Credit
Transaction Type Currency Conversion Rate
Supplier Order Line
Debit Order Shipment
Credit Order Distribution
Entered Currency Accounting Date

Credit and Debit are the credit and debit entries from your general ledger journal entries, stated in your functional currency. Entered Credit and Entered Debit are the credits and debits in the purchase order currency.

When you select a detailed accounting line, the system displays the following information at the bottom of the window:

Item Order Type
Revision Order Num
Description Release Num
UOM Unit Price
Quantity  

When you drill down from General Ledger, the Purchasing Receiving Accounting lines window will open. When you select a detailed accounting line, the system displays additional information at the bottom of the window.

Note: The Credit and Debit fields are the credit and debit entries from your general ledger journal entries, stated in your functional currency. The Entered Credit and Entered Debit fields are the credits and debits in the purchase order currency.

Drilling Down Further

From the Purchasing Receiving Accounting lines window, you can drill down even further to view detail transactions or you can choose to view the underlying transaction accounting.

To drill down to detail transactions or to view transaction accounting:

  1. From the Purchasing Receiving Accounting lines window, select a detail accounting line.

  2. Choose the Show Transaction button to view detail transactions.

  3. Choose the Show Transaction Accounting button to view the transaction accounting.

    The View Receiving Accounting window opens. See: Viewing Accounting Lines.

Customizing the Drilldown Window

The drilldown window is a folder. You can easily customize the information that is displayed in the window, as described in the Oracle Applications User's Guide.

The drilldown window is a folder. You can easily customize the information that is displayed in the window.

See: Customizing the Presentation of Data in a Folder

When customizing the drilldown window, you can hide the columns that normally appear in the window and you can choose to display any additional columns that are available.

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