Oracle Financials Handbook (Oracle Press Series) [Paperback]

This book/CD-ROM reference discusses the various products contained in Oracle Financials, with an emphasis on its accounting packages. It provides detailed implementation instructions and advice. It offers a blueprint for planning an implementation. Readers should find accounting knowledge within the context of the Oracle products, coverage of key features in each product, and the key issues in successfully installing them. They should also gain a practical plan for organizing, budgeting, staffing and managing an Oracle applications implementation, and learn about the ways in which package implementation differs from custom software development. It also addresses when to modify the package to meet business requirements, and when to modify business practices to suit the package. The CD-ROM contains useful software and reference materials to be provided by the Oracle Group. This title is aimed at the planner level, rather than the user level. Readers discover how tht packages work together, how to exploit their strong points and work around their weak points, and what it really takes to install and use them successfully. It should be helpful at every stage of the life cycle, from package selection through production and maintenance. G. Seibert is the author of "Working With Oracle Development Tools" and "Oracle Data Processing - A Manager's Handbook".

Financials explained for business and technical people.
A large part of the book’s appeal will be interrelating business decisions and technical aspects in a way that both business people and technicians can understand.

The main purpose of the book is to share much of the knowledge and hindsight that has been accumulated by the authors during many years of successful Oracle Applications implementation projects.

Understand, Plan, and Migrate to Oracle Financials. Maximize your investment in Oracle's Integrated Corporate Financials System.

Oracle Financials is revolutionizing the fiscal practices of thousands of businesses worldwide. It can also transform your career when used in combination with the expert strategies, implementation advice, case studies, and secrets you'll find in Oracle Financials.

Written for financial managers, planners, and analysts by a team of advanced Oracle professionals, this official handbook takes you through every crucial task from the initial package implementation through production and maintenance.

Inside you'll learn how to:

- Install and master major products in the suite with an emphasis on the accounting modules
- Organize and manage Oracle Financials implementations
- Use Oracle Financials' modules separately and together, with an expert implementation blueprint as your example
- Develop and maintain custom extensions to the Oracle modules
- Modify the package to suit your business requirements
- Use Oracle's Self-Service Web Applications to give your suppliers, employees, and customers the information they need

Thousands of financial managers agree that using Oracle Financials makes good business sense. With this complete, officially endorsed handbook, you can maximize its features and profit from the results.

David James is an information technology consultantspecializing in finance and the Oracle E-Business Suite.

Graham Seibert is a financial consultant specializing in the implementation of Oracle Financials.

Simon Russell has worked for Oracle for the last seven years as an Applications technical consultant. All are coauthors of the previous edition of this book.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.