General Ledger Foundation Accelerated Rel 9.1

The course focus is on leading students through the steps for successful implementation of PeopleSoft General Ledger while providing helpful information throughout. Students also learn how to best maintain PeopleSoft General Ledger and how to use its main features.

Through hands-on lab activities with relevant scenarios, participants learn how to establish ledgers and GL business units, enter and post journals to a ledger, enable and use journal audit logging, close year-end books, and create financial reports with PS/nVision. Other topics included in this course are interunit accounting, ChartField combination editing, PeopleSoft trees, spreadsheet journals, Financial Allocations and Financial Consolidations.

Learn To:

• Implement PeopleSoft General Ledger
• Create General Ledger Journals
• Perform Interim and Year-End Close
• Create, Maintain, and Utilize PeopleSoft Trees
• Create PS/nVision Reports
• Perform Financial Allocations and Consolidations

Audience

• Functional Implementer
• Reports Developer
• End Users
• Technical Consultant

Course Topics General Ledger Business Process Overview

• Describing the Basic Elements of PeopleSoft General Ledger
• Describing the Implementation Steps for PeopleSoft General Ledger
• Describing the PeopleSoft General Ledger Table Structure
• Describing the Integration Points between PeopleSoft General Ledger and Other PeopleSoft Applications

Creating the General Ledger Structure

• Establishing General Ledger Business Units
• Applying General Ledger TableSet Sharing

Setting Installation Options and Common Definitions

• Setting Installation Options
• Establishing User Preferences
• Establishing Account Types
• Creating Detail Calendars
• Defining Business Calendars
• Defining ChartFields and ChartField Values

Planning and Creating PeopleSoft Trees

• Defining the Significance of PeopleSoft Trees
• Defining Tree Manager Terminology
• Creating PeopleSoft Trees
• Modifying Trees Using Tree Manager
• Branching Trees
• Sharing Trees

Preparing for Journal Processing

• Defining Ledger Templates
• Defining Detail Ledgers
• Defining Ledger Groups
• Associating Ledgers with a Business Unit
• Maintaining Accounting Periods
• Defining Journal Entry Templates
• Defining Journal Sources, Classes, and SpeedTypes
• Enabling Journal Audit Logging for General Ledger

Implementing ChartField Combination Editing

• Defining ChartField Combination Edits
• Linking Combination Edits to Business Units
• Building the Combination Edit Data
• Maintaining Combination Edits
• Inquiring on Combination Edit Data

Process General Ledger Data

• Describing the Journal Process Flow
• Adding Journal Entries
• Reviewing Journals and Determining their Status
• Editing and Posting Journals

Maximizing PeopleSoft General Ledger Processing

• Copying Journals
• Unposting Journals
• Creating Standard Journals
• Selecting a Statistical Method
• Setting Up Suspense Error Handling
• Analyzing Financial Information

Importing Spreadsheet Journals

• Preparing your Workbook for Journal Import
• Configuring your Spreadsheet
• Copying Spreadsheet Journals
• Importing Spreadsheet Journals

Implementing Interunit and Intraunit Accounting

• Selecting an Appropriate InterUnit Approach
• Defining Interunit and Intraunit Transactions
• Performing Required Interunit and Intraunit Setup
• Reconciling Interunit Activity
• Unposting Interunit Journals

Performing Year-End Close

• Defining PeopleSoft General Ledger Interim Close
• Defining PeopleSoft General Ledger Year-End Close
• Defining ChartField Value Sets
• Defining Closing Rules
• Defining Closing Process Groups
• Running the Closing Process
• Running the Closing Trial Balance Report
• Archiving General Ledger Information

Reporting Results with PS/nVision

• Defining the PS/nVision Elements
• Creating PS/nVision Layouts
• Creating a Report Request
• Running PS/nVIsion Reports on the Web

Implementing Document Sequencing for General Ledger

• Defining Document Sequencing
• Preparing for Document Sequencing
• Processing Document Sequencing

Defining Summary Ledgers

• Analyzing Summary Ledger Requirements
• Setting Up Summary Ledgers
• Running Summary Ledgers
• Defining Summary Trees

Performing Financial Allocations

• Discussing the Business Uses of Financial Allocations
• Defining Allocation Steps
• Maintaining Allocation Steps
• Running the Allocation Process

Performing Financial Consolidations

• Discussing the Business Uses of Financial Consolidations
• Defining the Consolidation Setup
• Running the Consolidation Process
• Defining Subsidiary Ownership

Course Objectives

• Create and import spreadsheet journals
• Create and use business units and setIDs
• Set Installation Options and User Preferences
• Define and maintain ChartFields, ledgers, and calendars
• Create and maintain PeopleSoft trees
• Implement and use ChartField combination edits
• Open and close multiple business units and ledgers
• Enter and post journal entries to a ledger
• Set up and use interunit and intraunit accounting
• Perform interim and year-end close
• Create PS/nVision reports
• Use PS/nVision on the web
• Use Consolidations
• Run delivered reports and inquiries
• Use Allocations
• Create and use standard journal entries