Special Calendar in Oracle Payables

Special Calendar window to define periods that payables uses for automatic withholding tax, recurring invoices, payment terms and for the key indicators report. For example if you monitor staff productivity weekly, use this window to define weekly periods for the key indicators calendar type.

The report run display only check box indicates that a key indicators report has been run for this period. The check box is not applicable to payment terms, withholding tax, or recurring invoices calendar types.

The periods you define in the Special Calendar window are completely seperate from the periods you define in the Accounting Calendar window for your AP accounting periods.

TO Setup Special Calendar

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Setup/Calendar/Special Calendar

1. In the special calendar window,select the type of calendar we want to define
Recurring Invoice
Withholding Tax
Payment Terms
Key Indicator

Enter a calendar name and description. You will select this name from a list of values when you assign a special calendar to a key indicator report, a recurring invoice template, a withholding tax type tax code, or payment terms.

Enter the number of periods per year. For example if you use a 12 month period calendar enter 12.

Enter period name example Jan, Feb, Mar etc or Q1, Q2,Q3,Q4.
Enter in the Year field the calendar year in which period occurs.

Enter numbers in the Sequence fields to indicate the order that the periods occur in. The sequence numbers of a period should represent the sequence of the period in a regular calendar. May through December 2007 should be sequenced 5 through 12, and January 2008 should be sequenced 1.

Enter the from dates and the to dates for the period. Periods within a year cannot overlap.

Payables displays the system name for the period by combining the accounting period name you entered with the last two digits of the from date. Payables lists system names whenever you select a period name from a list of values.

If you are defining a payment terms calendar, enter a due date for each period. For invoices with terms date that fall anywhere with the period, a due date defines the date on which these invoices become due.

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