Oracle General Ledger (GL) Question:

Overview of the Financial Statement Generator

Financial Statement Generator (FSG) is a powerful report building tool for Oracle General Ledger. With FSG, you can:

► Generate financial reports, such as income statements and balance

sheets, based upon data in your general ledger.

Note: If you have average balance processing enabled in your

set of books, you can report on functional, foreign?entered, or

translated average balances.

► Define segment value security rules to restrict financial

information contained in FSG report output generated by specific users and responsibilities.

Note: To apply segment value security rules, the profile option

FSG: Enforce Segment Value Security must be enabled. See: FSG:

Enforce Segment Value Security: page B ? 9

► Define your reports with reusable report objects, making it easy to create new reports from the components of reports you?ve already defined.

► Design custom financial reports to meet specific business needs.

► Print as many reports as you need, simultaneously.

► Print the same report for multiple companies, cost centers,
departments, or any other segment of your account structure, in the same report request.

► Schedule reports to run automatically.

► Produce ad hoc reports whenever you need them.

► Print reports to tab?delimited files for easy import into
client?based spreadsheet programs.In addition, you can use the Report Wizard feature of Applications Desktop Integrator to design and submit your financial repor