Ar (Accounts Receivable) Questionnaire: Client Name - CSC Project Name - Avr
Ar (Accounts Receivable) Questionnaire: Client Name - CSC Project Name - Avr
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction............................................................................................................5
1.1 Purpose............................................................................................................ 5
1.2 Approach.......................................................................................................... 5
2.0 Oracle Accounts Receivable Questionnaire.............................................................6
2.1 Oracle Accounts Receivable Functionality Questions......................................6
2.2 Interface Considerations.................................................................................15
2.3 Conversion Considerations............................................................................16
3.0 Additional Information..........................................................................................17
3.1 Control Considerations...................................................................................17
3.2 Technology Considerations............................................................................17
3.3 Configuration Considerations.........................................................................17
3.4 Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations.......................................................17
3.5 Open Issues and Future Considerations........................................................18
3.6 References and Related Documents..............................................................18
APPENDICES....................................................................................................................19
4.0 Appendices............................................................................................................20
4.1 Appendix A – Sample.....................................................................................20
4.2 Appendix B - [Title].........................................................................................23
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1.0 Introduction
Complete the introduction section to include the purpose, scope, target audience, responsibilities of the
Questionnaire. It is recommended that you record the dates and attendees of all sessions related to
requirement gathering.
This document contains the questionnaire for [Module Name]. This document will be used as a
requirement gathering tool as it pertains to implementing [Module Name].
1.1 Purpose
Briefly describe the purpose of the Questionnaire. Below is an example
The purpose of the Questionnaire is to document elements of the clients business to assist in determining
the desired future state in a way that facilitates creating the solution or setting up the application. This
document will provide background on the decisions made to configure [Oracle Module] in its current state.
It is primarily a tool for the application experts and becomes part of the documentation of the project
history.
1.2 Approach
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Interviewer(s)
Interviewee(s)
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Since Customers are a part of TCA, how do you wish to leverage the following TCA
functions-
Address Validation
Data Consistency & Data Maintenance
Controlling Purchasing and receiving by using the 'Function Security'
New Customer UI (User Interface)
2 Legal Entity, now in the TCA Are there Business flows in your organization that need a centralized set-up to be used
Architecture (in Rel12) across the E-Business Suite for reporting and other Legal compliance?
How do you plan to transition the 'Old' org-structure into the 'New' Legal Entity Model?
How will you use the 'Legal Entity derivation hierarchy' for Transactions & Receipts?
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3 SLA (Sub Ledger Accounting) in Receivables provide contextual data and Accounting Events to SLA. SLA in turn, generates
Receivables accounting entries (based on accounting definitions) and transfers them to GL. How do you
plan to integrate and reconcile the two?
Sync the AR AutoAccounting entries with the Accounting entries in SLA (using the
predefined accounting derivation rule)
Line Level Cash Application
4 MOAC (Multi-Org Access Control) in How do you plan to implement a 'Shared Service' operating model using MOAC?
Receivables
How do we propose the use the following MOAC functionalities-
(MOAC is an enhancement of the Multi-
Planning the new Org-enhancement capabilities in a single responsibility
Org feature in Oracle Applications)
Determine the usage and expanded scope of Standard reports
Set up Options & the newly enhanced Security profile
Do you have foreign sites that maintain their own customer masters?
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Customer Relationship type Are all of your customers in one master file or do you have many files that need to be
merged? (i.e. order entry, customer service, sales and marketing)
8 Customer Profiles
Do you have a requirement to group customers by profiles? (i.e. collector, credit rating or
Applicable Setups: limits, or statement cycles)
Customer Profiles Do you have a requirement to group customers by account status? (Used for the
Quickcodes: Account Status Report)
Account Status
System Profile Options:
AR: Auto Contact Numbering.
Is your credit limit based on individual order totals, customer bill-to address totals or
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customer totals?
Do you check credit upon booking of an order, picking the order or both?
10 Invoices
Please provide sample of your current invoices.
Applicable Setups:
Does the address on this Invoice have to fit an envelope window? If so, please provide
Organizations the envelope sample too.
Currencies & exchange rates
Transaction Types Do you have a requirement to invoice customers in foreign countries?
Batch Sources
Line Ordering & Grouping rules If so, who invoices customers in foreign countries?
Memo Lines
Recurring Invoices Do you have a requirement to invoice customers in foreign currency?
System Profile Options:
AR: Transaction batch source Do you have a requirement to produce pro-forma invoices for customs when shipping to
foreign countries?
AR: Default exchange rate type
AR: Change customer on Trx
Do you have a requirement to produce inter-company invoices?
AR: Show Billing Number
AR: Transaction Batch Source Do you have a requirement to produce recurring invoices?
AR: Update Due Date
Provide examples of how current lines print on an invoice. (i.e. product lines, service
lines, bundled products, BOM lines, freight)
Do you bill at the beginning of the revenue recognition schedule? (including deferred
revenue)
Do you have a requirement to batch invoices during invoice entry. (If you are importing
invoices from another system)
What is the current invoice and credit memo numbering strategy and what number are
you currently on?
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Review the Oracle Standard invoice and the invoice. Are there any additional fields that
you require to print the invoice?
11 Taxes
Please explain the tax requirements/implications for customer invoices. List all TAX
Applicable Setups: rates in use in your country by type (VAT, Offset VAT, Sales, etc.)
Tax Vendor Extension Do you need VAT Report, and at what frequency? Please provide sample of all the
Quickcodes reports you need regarding sales tax, withholding tax or VAT or other taxes
Tax rate exception reasons
Tax rate exemption reason Do you plan to use a tax vendor such as Vertex or Taxware to provide you with tax
Tax rates and tax codes rates?
Tax Locations
System Profile Options: Do you collect sales tax for all states?
Tax: Allow manual tax lines
Tax: Allow adhoc tax changes
Do you remit deferred sales taxes that are not due to the taxing authority until the cash
Tax: Allow override of customer
has been collected?
exemptions
Tax: Allow override of tax code
Do you tax freight?
Tax: Invoice freight items as
revenue What type of tax exemptions do you require for your customers?
Tax: Inventory item as freight
Tax: Calculate tax on Credit Do you have international customers?
memos Do you include discounts when calculating tax?
Tax: Use tax vendor
Do you calculate tax based upon a quantity?
Customer Entry
Sales tax interface
Tax Groups
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Transaction Types Please list your different revenue account descriptions and numbers.
Item Master
Tax Codes Do you book revenue by product, product family or product group?
Salespeople
System Profile Options: Do you have more than one receivables account? Please list.
AR: Use invoice accounting for
credit memos What types of transactions generate these receivables accounts? (i.e. product invoices,
misc invoice, service invoices)
Do you book all sales tax to one account, or an account for each state?
15 Document Sequence
Are there any legal requirements for document sequencing? If so, explain requirements.
Applicable Setups:
System Profile Option:
Sequential Numbering
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17 Payment Terms
Please list all Payment Terms (Net 15, Net 30, Immediate, Last Day of Month)?
Applicable Setups:
Please explain any approval process to issue new payment Terms? Who owns the
Payment Terms payment terms?
Receipt Classes Do you invoice in one currency but receive payment in another currency?
Payment Methods
Bank Accounts
Receipt Sources
Automatic Payments What is the volume of receipts?
Bank Charges
Lockbox What information does the customer provide to you on their receipt? (i.e. invoice
Autocash Rule Sets number, account number, customer name)
Receivable Activities
Quickcodes: Do you issue Bills of Exchange as a promise to pay specific amounts on invoices/debit
memos on a specific date?
Reverse payment reasons
System Profile Options:
How often is this information missing from receipts?
AR: Automatic Receipt Creation
Authority Do you have a requirement to use automatic lockboxes?
AR: Automatic Remittance
Creation Authority If you are already using a lockbox please provide examples of the lockbox reports or the
AR: Cash - Default Amount file if it is automated.
Applied
AR: Create Bank Charges Please list any non-invoice related receipts? (i.e. Cobra payments, employee expense
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19 Remittance Banks
Please provide remittance bank name(s), branch name(s), account number(s),
Applicable Setups: address(s).
Bank Accounts How do you determine which customer uses which remit-to address?
Remit-to Addresses
Receivable Activities Please provide adjustment limits for each user authorized to perform adjustments.
Quickcodes:
Adjustment Reasons
Approval Type
Adjustment Limits
System Profile Options:
AR: Cash - Allow Actions
AR: Override Adj Activity a/c opn
22 Aging
Will you require invoice line level detail on aging report?
Applicable Setups:
Will the following aging buckets fulfill requirement:
Aging Buckets
1. Current,
1. 1-30 days,
2. 31-60 days,
3. 61-90 days,
4. 90+ days.
23 Collection Process
Describe your collection process.
Applicable Setups:
Please list the names of collectors.
Collectors
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Quickcodes: Does each collector work with different groups of customers or any other grouping?
Collector follow-up actions Please list the groupings. (i.e. Territory, Credit Class, Volume)
Collector actions
Customer response reasons
Possible outcomes of customer
calls
24 Customer Statements
Please provide examples of customer statements.
Applicable Setups:
Do you have a requirement to send statements to customers?
Statement Cycles
Statement Messages How often will you send statements?
Customer Profiles
Will you send statements to all customer groups?
25 Dunning Process
Do you have a requirement to send dunning letters to customers who have an overdue
Applicable Setups: balance?
At what intervals are dunning letters sent (30 days, 60 days, etc.)
26 Commissions
Do you have a requirement to calculate commissions based on data from Oracle
Applicable Setups: Receivables?
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Territories Do you credit back commissions when product is returned or the invoice is adjusted?
System Profile Options:
AR: Allow Updates of Existing
Sales Credits
27 XML Reports (using XML Publisher) Do we plan to use the XML Publisher Templates for reporting?
28 Consolidated Billing Feature (replaced How do you propose to use the enhanced creation, presentation and consolidation
by Balance Forward Billing in Rel12) feature of Balance Forward Billing (BFB)?
(Also discuss BPA features) Do you wish to exclude specific customer sites and / or specific Invoices from the
customer account level bill?
Are you planning to use the BPA (Bill Presentment Architecture) formats for BFB?
29 Automated Refunds in AR How do we plan to use the 'Automated Refund' process for non-credit card transactions
in AR?
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Control Impact/
Business Process Control Concern/Risk Comments/Suggestions
Point Priority
Term Definition
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Term Definition
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APPENDICES
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Plants 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >15
Warehouses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >15
Systems Info
# of estimated 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >15
conversions
General Finance
Avg nbr of G/L Accts 40 80 120 160 200 300 500 800
per Chart
Bank Accounts
Currency
Currencies 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10>
Currency risk Corporate Entity Subsidiary
Risk mgmt method Reporting/Policy A/P,A/R Balanced Hedging Financial Hedging Transaction
Hedging
Financial Reporting
Management
reporting
Level Legal Entity Business Unit Profit Center Sales Hierarchy Customer Product
Hierarchy Product # Shipment Sales Region
Reporting periods
Tax
Types Sales tax Purchasing tax Use Tax Value added tax Consumption Tax
US Tax Determination Ship From Ship to Point of Order Acceptance Point of Order Entry Point of
Title Passage Product Category Exemption Certificate
Budgeting
Budget Level Cost Center Business Unit Sales Region Product # Legal Entity
Types of Paid Time Personal Lv Vacation Lv Sick Lv Holidays Bereavement Jury Duty Military
Off Other
Types of Leave Day w/o Pay Leaves of Absence- Short-term Leaves of Absence - Long-term
Without Pay Other