Using FSG’s & ADI

to Create / Review
Financial Statements
Andrew G. Diamond
DARC Corporation
Agenda

• Introduction

• Steps to create F/S’s

• How to generate F/S output

• F/S Analysis

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Keys to Success

• Become familiar w/your COA structure

– Know account ranges and parent accounts
– Print out COA listing and Rollup ranges

• Draft a hard copy of what you want your F/S to look

like

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What is a Row Set?

• Row Sets typically define row format and content.

They often include:
– Accounts
– Line item descriptions
– Row totals
– Row calculations

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Row Set:
Name/Description

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Row Set: Details

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Row Set: Account
Assignments

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Row Set: Calculations

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What is a Column Set?

• Column Sets typically define the format and content

of the columns in an FSG report
• Oracle provides seeded column sets, or you can build
your own

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Column Set Attributes

• The commonly assumed attributes for a column set

are:
– Time period (PTD, QTD, YTD, etc)
– Account type (Actual, Budget or Encumbrance)
• These two elements are defined by an Amount Type

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Column Set:
Name/Description

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Column Set: Buttons

• Create Heading button: Displays a graphical tool

used to design column set headings that appear on
report output (no content can be defined)
• Define Columns button: Allows you to create column
set content
• Build Column Set button: Displays a graphical tool
that allows both the design of column set headings
that appear on report output (such as width and
formatting) and the creation of some column set
content

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Column Set: Columns

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Column Set: Exceptions

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Report Output with
Exceptions

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What is a Row Order?

• Row Orders are used to control how detail rows are

displayed and/or sorted on a report

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Row Order

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P&L – No Row Order

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P&L – With Row Order

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What is a Content Set?

• Content Sets are used to override row/column

account assignments and display types to create
multiple variations of existing reports
• You can generate many similar reports in a single run
by using content sets

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Defining a Content Set

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P&L – With Content Set

• Using the PE (Page Expand) functionality, one FSG

can generate three separate P&L’s:
– One P&L for Co 01
– One P&L for Co 02
– One P&L for Co 99

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P&L Output – With
Content Set

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How do you define a FSG
Report?
• Reports are created by specifying a combination of
report components (ie Row Set, Column Set, etc).
Typically, values specified when defining a report
override values specified at the individual component
level
• The value entered in the Title field will appear at the
top of the report

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Defining a FSG Report

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Running FSG Reports

• FSG’s may be run from:

– Run Financial Reports form
– Concurrent Manager
• The name of the request is “Program - Run Financial
Statement Generator”
– ADI’s Request Center

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Run Financial Reports
form

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Concurrent Manager

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Request Center -
Submission

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Request Center –
Publishing

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Request Center – F/S Web
output

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Request Center – F/S
Excel output

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F/S Drilldown in Excel

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F/S drilldown – Detail
Accounts

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F/S drilldown – Journal
Details

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F/S drilldown – Add /
Remove Data Elements

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F/S drilldown – Multi-
Dimensional Analysis

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F/S drilldown – Subledger
Details

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F/S drilldown – Export to
Excel

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F/S drilldown – View Data
in Excel

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Tips

• You may Migrate FSG components from one

instance to another using “Program - FSG Transfer”
Concurrent Request
• Using the “AutoCopy” functionality, you may copy
existing FSG components
• Many Profile Options:
– ADI%
– FSG%
– GLDI%

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Questions? Questions?

• Andy Diamond
• Email: adiamond@darc.com

• DARC Corporation
• Web: http://www.darc.com

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Sample P&L

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