NO.31 Your customer has three legal entities, 50 departments, and 10,000 natural accounts. They use intercompany entries. What is Oracle’s recommended practice when implementing a new chart of accounts? How many segments and what segment qualifiers should be used?
“A chart of accounts segment is a component of the account combination. Each segment has a value set attached to it to provide formatting and validation of the set of values used with that segment.” The qualifiers are used to identify the segments for reporting and processing purposes2. In this case, the company segment should be the primary balancing segment, which is used to balance journal entries and create trial balances. The department segment should be the cost center segment, which is used to track costs by organizational units. The natural account segment should be the natural account segment, which is used to classify transactions by account type. The intercompany segment should be the intercompany segment, which is used to identify transactions between different legal entities or business units.