User's Manual

5-4 Oracle Financial Consolidation Hub User's Guide

Performance Foundation user interface; however, the Foundation tasks hide much

of the complexity that is not relevant for using Financial Consolidation Hub.

2. Provides some initial configuration for Financial Consolidation Hub.

Note: Some tasks may not be necessary depending on your specific

implementation of Financial Consolidation Hub. In such cases, update

the status of the task to Complete.

Initial Setup Tasks for Enterprise Performance Foundation

Perform the following initial steps before you perform the task in Foundation. The

following steps are recommended for the implementation of Financial Consolidation

Hub. Select the Enterprise Performance Foundation Administrator responsibility:

Set signage to Standard GAAP. Using the System Administrator responsibility,

navigate to Profile > System. Set the FEM: Signage profile option to Standard

General Accounting Principles. Using the EPF Administrator responsibility,

navigate to Processes Management > Requests > Submit Request. Run the Sign

Extended Account Types concurrent program .

2. Set negative format to using a negative sign. Using the System Administrator

responsibility, navigate to Profile > System. Set the Currency:Negative Format

profile option to –XXX. FCH reports will now represent negative numbers using the

negative sign. If any other options are selected, negative numbers in the Excel

reports in Financial Consolidation Hub will not properly be read as numbers.

3. Grant the Enterprise Performance Foundation access to your users. Using the

Enterprise Performance Foundation Administrator responsibility, navigate to

Administration > Security. Grant read/write access to the Default and Data

Integration folders to your users.

Task 1: Processing Keys

Task 1 must be the first thing you do in Financial Consolidation Hub. For Task 1,

identify the dimensions that you will use.

Note:

If you are using other Oracle products that sit on top of

Enterprise Performance Foundation, you must consider all of the

dimensions that must be enabled for Enterprise Performance

Foundation for all the products.