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Receipt batch
In Oracle Receivables a group of payments that you enter together to reduce data entry errors, share various default values, and to group them according to a common attribute. For example, you might add all payments from the same customer to a batch. Payments within the same batch share the same batch source and batch name. Receivables displays any differences between the control and actual counts and amounts.

Receipt batch source
A name that you use to refer to how your company accounts for receipts. Receipt batch sources relate your receipt batches to both the bank and the accounting information required for recording and posting your receipts.

Receipt class
Automatic receipt processing steps that you relate to your payment methods. You can choose whether to confirm, remit, and clear automatic receipts.

Receipt source
Your name for a source from which your company receives cash. Your receipt sources determine the accounting for payments that are associated with them. Receipts that you deposit in different banks belong in different payment sources.

Receivable activities
Predefined Receivables activities used to define the general ledger accounts with which you associate your receivables activities.

Responsibility
A level of authority set up by your system administrator in Oracle Applications. A responsibility lets you access a specific set of windows, menus, set of books, reports, and data in an Oracle application. Several users can share the same responsibility, and a
single user can have multiple responsibilities.

Retained Earnings
General Ledger automatically posts the net balance of all income and expense accounts from the prior year to the retained earnings account when you open the first period of the fiscal year. GL will automatically update the retained earnings as needed, when you post journal entries to the prior year.
If you have multiple companies or balancing entities within a set of books, General Ledger should automatically create a retained earnings account for each company or balancing entity.
If an auditable journal entry is needed at year end you can submit the Create Income Statements Closing Journals program.

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Security rules
(Order Management) The control over the steps in the order process where you no longer allow users to add, delete or cancel order or return lines or change order or return information.

Segments
The building blocks of your chart of accounts in Oracle General Ledger. You define the structure and meaning of individual segments when customizing a flexfield. Each account is comprised of multiple segments. Commonly used segments include company, cost center, department, account, and product.

Standard memo lines
A type of line that you assign to an invoice when the item is not an inventory item (for example, ’Consulting Services’). You define standard memo lines to speed data entry when creating your transactions.

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Unapplied payment
The status of a payment for which you can identify the customer, but you have not applied or placed on account all or part of the payment. For example, you receive a check for $1200.00 and you apply it to an open debit item for $1000.00. The remaining $200.00 is unapplied until you either apply the payment to a debit item or place the amount On Account.

Unearned discounts
Discounts your customers are allowed to take if they pay for their invoices after the discount date. (The discount date is determined by the payment terms.) You can specify at the system level whether you want to allow customers to take unearned discounts.

Unearned revenue
Revenue received and recorded as a liability or revenue before the revenue has been earned by providing goods or services to a customer.

Unidentified payment
The status of a payment for which the customer is unknown. Oracle Receivables retains unidentified payments for you to process further.

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Value set
A group of values and related attributes you assign to an account segment or to a descriptive flexfield segment. Values in each value set have the same maximum length, validation type, alphanumeric option, and so on.

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Write-off Limits
Limits that you set at the system and user levels for creating receipt write-offs. Oracle Receivables enforces the limits that you define when users write-off receipts. Users can only write off receipt balances within their user limit for a given currency and the total cumulative write-off amount cannot exceed the system level write-off limit.