Global Ledger CU65

This section contains enhancements in Infor CloudSuite Financials for 11.0.65.0.

Automated netting process of inter-entity accounts

You can now automate the netting process of inter-entity payable and receivable accounts. This action aids in the monthly reconciliation of these accounts. This job can run any time and generates the appropriate journal entries by entity.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • FinanceEnterpriseGroup
  • AccountingEntityGroupMember
  • AccountingEntity
  • AccountingUnit
  • GeneralLedgerTotal

Use these steps to test the new enhancement:

  1. Add this action to the JournalsMenu using ConfigConsole.
  2. Test for all accounting entity options.
  3. Verify totals and whether correct transactions are created for every accounting entity relation for a given accounting entity.
  4. Verify for period filters.

JT-1335484

Budget Analyst role enabled in Infor Go

Budget Analyst role can now use Infor Go to perform various budget scenario and journal searches and actions.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • Business Classes:
    • Scenario
    • BudgetTemplate
    • BudgetTemplateManual
    • BudgetGroup
    • BudgetTemplatePending
    • BudgetTemplateRecalculate
    • BudgetTemplateRemove
    • GeneralLedgerTotal
    • GeneralLedgerJournalControl
    • GeneralLedgerTransaction
    • GLTransactionComment
    • GLTransactionDetail
    • MobileBudgetPage
  • Web apps:
    • BudgetAnalyst
  • Pages:
    • MobileBudgetPage
    • MobileJournalsPage
  • Menus:
    • MobileBudgetingRoles
    • MobileGeneralLedgerMenu
    • MobileGeneralLedgerProcessing
    • MobileJournalsMenu

Use these steps to test the new enhancement:

  1. Sign in to Infor Go.
  2. Select 4.0 Harness4*CSF.
  3. Go to Budget Analyst.
  4. Go to Home Page.
  5. Go to Budget Scenarios.
  6. In Budget Scenarios, perform these actions:
    • Search Budget Scenario
    • Review Budget Scenario
    • Perform Budget Upload
    • Perform Incremental Load
    • Reset Budget Scenario
  7. Open a budget scenario, open Edit Templates, and perform these actions:
    • Edit Budget Template
    • Review Groups
  8. Go to Home Page and open Journals.
  9. In Journals, perform these actions:
    • Search
    • Update
    • Release
    • Manual Approval
    • Quick Post

JT-1353492

Staff Accountant role enabled in Infor Go

Staff Accountant role can now use Infor Go to perform various allocations and journal searches and actions.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • Business classes:
    • AllocationControl
    • Allocation
    • AllocationLine
    • GeneralLedgerHoldCode
    • EntityLedgerPeriod
    • GeneralLedgerTotal
    • GeneralLedgerJournalControl
    • GeneralLedgerTransaction
    • GLTransactionComment
    • GLTransactionDetail
  • Web apps:
    • StaffAccountant
  • Pages:
    • MobileStaffAccountant
  • Menus:
    • MGeneralLedgerMenu
    • MGeneralLedgerProcessing
    • MGeneralLedgerInquiries
    • MAllocationsMenu
    • MJournalsMenu
    • MPeriodClose

Use these steps to test the new enhancement:

  1. Sign in to Infor Go.
  2. Select 4.0 Harness4*CSF.
  3. Go to Staff Accountant.
  4. Go to Home Page.
  5. Go to Allocations.
  6. Perform these actions:
    • Search Allocations
    • Run Allocations
  7. Go to Home Page and click Journals.
  8. Perform these actions:
    • Search
    • Update
    • Release
    • Manual Approve
    • Quick Post
  9. Using the navigation menu, go to Processing > Journal > Hold Codes.
  10. Perform these actions:
    • Search
    • Create
    • Update Hold Codes
  11. Go to Home Page and click Period Status.
  12. Perform these actions:
    • Search
    • Update Period Status to Final Close
  13. Go to Home Page and click Totals.
  14. In Totals Report, perform a search.

JT-1355624

Calculate QTD and YTD aggregates and averages

You can now calculate QTD and YTD aggregates and averages for each month.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • modules/ad/bl/ADBAggregateBalance.busclass
  • modules/ad/ui/ADBAgregateBalance.busclass

Use these steps to test the new enhancement:

  1. From the Global Ledger menu, select My Reports > Average Daily Balance.
  2. Verify these new fields:
    • QTD Aggregate On Post Date
    • QTD Average On Post Date
    • YTD Aggregate On Post Date
    • YTD Average On Post Date.
  3. For data replication, sign in to the Administration Console role and select Database > Replication.
  4. Open the replication set for ADB.
  5. Open replication class for ADBAgregateBalance.
  6. In the Fields section, add new derived fields and save.
  7. Perform the Register All Schema action to include the new derived fields for data replication output.
  8. Perform a replication action and verify the data output.

JT-1360403

Auto reverse journal entries within current posting period

You can now auto-reverse journal entries within the current posting period.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • General Ledger Journal Control

Use these steps to test the new enhancement:

  1. Enable Auto Reverse Within Same Period on the finance enterprise group.
  2. Verify that the auto-reversal within the current posting period is allowed.

JT-1361562

Global Ledger Totals NetUnitsAmount was added to outbound BOD

There is a new field, Net Units Amount, in the FSM_ION_SyncSourceSystemGLMovement_Out BOD.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • FSM_ION_SyncSourceSystemGLMovement_Out.lpd

Use these steps to test the new enhancement:

  1. Create a service definition for the FSM_ION_SyncSourceSystemGLMovement BOD. Use the Service name GeneralLedgerTotalService.
  2. Create GeneralLedgerJournalControl, GeneralLedgerTransactions, and Release.
  3. Perform the Quick Post action on GeneralLedgerJournalControl.
  4. Verify that thework unit is created without errors.
  5. Verify correct Net Units Amount value in HeaderUserArea.

JT-1362829

Retained Earnings Journal enhancements made to Journal Reference report

These enhancements were made to the Retained Earnings Journal in the Journal Reference report:

  • Journal reference number is correctly generated for Retained Earnings Journal. This number is the second to last journal for the current year period when the Generate Year End Journals field is selected and the Reset Numeric Sequence field of Assign Journal Reference is BLANK / No Reset.
  • Functional amount is correctly generated.
  • Multiple Retained Earnings Journals can be generated when there are adjustment entries made for the current year. Journal reference number is assigned based on the order of generation of the Retained Earnings journals.
  • If Process Retained Earnings is selected, the generation of Income Statement Closing journal is not allowed.

Program/Business class/Process affected:

  • modules/GeneralLedger/bl/ReportingBasisYear.busclass
  • modules/GeneralLedger/ui/ReportingBasisYear.busclass

Use these steps to test the new enhancement:

  1. In the reporting basis, select Assign Journal Reference, Process Retained Earnings, and Generate Year End Journals.
  2. In Reporting Basis Year, perform the Process Retained Earnings action.
  3. After the Process Retained Earnings action is complete, perform the Generate Year End Journals action.
  4. After the Generate Year End Journals action is complete, in the reporting basis, perform the Assign Journal Reference Number action.
  5. To see the results, select Drill Around > Global Ledger Journal Reference or Global Ledger > My Reports > Journal Reference Report.
  6. Verify that the Processed Retained Earnings Journal record is included in the General Ledger Journal Control Ref, regardless of the value of the Rest Numeric Sequence option.
  7. In the Generate Year End Journals action, verify there is no option to create the Income Statement Closing Journal.
  8. Select Global Ledger > My Reports > Reporting Basis > Year End Journal Results
  9. Verify that the Income Statement Closing Journal panel is not available.

JT-1360331