Oracle financials handbook

This book/CD-ROM reference discusses the various products contained in Oracle Financials, with an emphasis on its accounting packages.

It provides detailed implementation instructions and advice.

It offers a blueprint for planning an implementation.

Readers should find accounting knowledge within the context of the Oracle products, coverage of key features in each product, and the key issues in successfully installing them.

They should also gain a practical plan for organizing, budgeting, staffing and managing an Oracle applications implementation, and learn about the ways in which package implementation differs from custom software development.

It also addresses when to modify the package to meet business requirements, and when to modify business practices to suit the package.

The CD-ROM contains useful software and reference materials to be provided by the Oracle Group.

This title is aimed at the planner level, rather than the user level.

Readers discover how tht packages work together, how to exploit their strong points and work around their weak points, and what it really takes to install and use them successfully. It should be helpful at every stage of the life cycle, from package selection through production and maintenance.

G. Seibert is the author of "Working With Oracle Development Tools" and "Oracle Data Processing - A Manager's Handbook".