An exposure is any cash flow (actual or forecasted) that is not the result of a treasury transaction. Some examples of exposures are wages, sales, purchases, and bank fees. Exposures are recorded so a gap analysis of all cash flows for your company can be performed. Exposures plus the cash flows generated through Treasury deals represent the total cash flow requirements of a company.
Most exposures are available to Treasury through the Oracle Cash Management interface, and do not need to be defined here. For more information see: Oracle Cash Management User Guide or Online Help.
To record exposures other than those available through Oracle Cash Management, perform the following tasks:
Use the Exposure Types window to add your required exposure types.
In the Exposure Types window, select the company for which you are adding the exposure type.
Define a new product type under the deal type EXP in the Deal Types/Product Types/ Deal SubTypes window. See Adding Product Types for defining the product type. Select this value in the Name field LOV in the Exposure Types window.
Enter a description of the exposure type.
In the Freq field, enter the total number of days for the exposure. For example, enter 7 for wages that are paid weekly. If the exposure is infrequent or happens irregularly, leave this field blank.
In the GL Account field, enter the General Ledger account number in your accounting system that you want to use to account for this exposure type.
Save your work.