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Financials for R12 -
Subledger Accounting & FAH
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Written by Sven van Leemput
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010 15:38 |
 FAH = Financials Accounting Hub
SLA = Subledger Accounting
What’s the difference?
From a technology perspective, there is zero difference.
XLA is the technical label for the FAH/SLA solution. XLA is the common framework which handles all accounting feeds into the E-Business Suite General Ledger. Therefore technically XLA = SLA = FAH.
So if FAH and SLA both use the exact same technology, why are they labelled differently? The difference is within the way how the technology should be used:
Subledger Accounting (SLA):
- Deals with the E-Business Suite subledger applications.
- Seeded event models which cannot be changed (extensions can be build using Custom Sources)
- Seeded accounting methods which can be customized (copied and modified) at will.
- Integral part of E-Business Suite Financials (R12 onwards).
Financials Accounting Hub (FAH):
- Deals with external (i.e. non-E-Business Suite) applications.
- No seeded event models – event models need to be build from scratch.
- No seeded accounting rules – accounting rules need to be build from scratch.
- Requires purchasing a separate license.
Cross-posted from sleemput.blogspot.com
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Comments
Hi,
Nice to see your explanation on this site..Can you please let me know where and how to post my issue with respect to FAH in this site.
Thanks
Rajesh
I have a doubt on customizing the SLA. Can we customize the SLA for choosing different Liability accounts for a vendor transaction.
For Example,
My Client has liability codes for broker commission payable, claims payable, and a liability accounts.
I have a vendor who is a broker for whom we can attach the broker commission payable as his liability account at the site level.
Requirement is
When we pay claims to the same vendor, system should pick the claims payable liability account.
Standard Approach, we can create one more site for the vendor. but we have 20 operating units and creating 20*4 sites for a vendor will be a big task for maintenance.
I would like to know whether we can customize the SLA to pick the Liability code according to the expense code?
Your response will help me to go for customization