Types of Organizations

Set of Books

A financial reporting entity that uses a particular chart of accounts,

functional currency, and accounting calendar. Oracle General Ledger

secures transaction information (such as journal entries and balances)

by set of books. When you use Oracle General Ledger, you choose a

responsibility that specifies a set of books. You then see information for

that set of books only.

财务报告实体，使用独立的会计科目，功能货币和会计日历。总账模块使用帐套屏蔽数据。

Business Group

The business group represents the highest level in the organization

structure, such as the consolidated enterprise, a major division, or an

operation company. The business group secures human resources

information. For example, when you request a list of employees, you

see all employees assigned to the business group of which your

organization is a part.

Multiple sets of books can share the same business group if they share

the same business group attributes, including HR flexfield structures.

Note: This is true in all applications except the HR

applications, which support more granular security by a

lower–level organization unit, the security profile.

业务组代表了组织架构中的最高级别，比如重组企业，大型部门，运营公司。用来屏蔽人类资源信息。

Legal Entity

A legal company for which you prepare fiscal or tax reports. You

assign tax identifiers and other legal entity information to this type of

organization.Overview 1 – 5

Note: There are currently only a few features provided for

legal entities, such as intrastat movement reports and

intercompany invoice generation.

法律实体是财务报告和税收报告的对象。目前法律实体的特征很少，只有省间运动报告和公司间发票产生。

Balancing Entity
Represents an accounting entity for which you prepare financial
statements. This is a segment in the Accounting Flexfield structure
(usually the Company segment) at which all accounting entries must
balance. There may be multiple companies within the same structure,
and each of these must balance within itself. Each legal entity can have
one or more balancing entities. You can use Flexfield Value Security
rules to restrict data entry of balancing segment values by legal entity
or operating unit.

Operating Unit
An organization that uses Oracle Cash Management,Order
Management and Shipping Execution, OraclePayables, Oracle
Purchasing, and Oracle Receivables. It may be a sales office, a division,
or a department. An operating unit is associated with a legal entity.
Information is secured by operating unit for these applications. Each
user sees information only for their operating unit. To run any of these
applications, you choose a responsibility associated with an
organization classified as an operating unit.

操作单元使用现金管理，订单管理，发运执行，应收，应付，采购。

可以是一个销售办公室，也可是一个部门。这些模块使用操作单元来屏蔽数据。

Inventory Organization
An organization for which you track inventory transactions and
balances, and/or an organization that manufactures or distributes
products. Examples include (but are not limited to) manufacturing
plants, warehouses, distribution centers, and sales offices. The
following applications secure information by inventory organization:
Oracle Inventory, Bills of Material, Engineering, Work in Process,
Master Scheduling/MRP, Capacity, and Purchasing receiving functions.
To run any of these applications, you must choose an organization that
has been classified as an inventory organization.
You create sets of books using the Define Set of Books window in
Oracle General Ledger. You define all other types of organizations
using the Define Organization window.

库存组织可以用来追踪库存事务处理，制造产品，分销产品。

可以是制造厂，仓库，分销中心，销售办公室。

库存，物料清单，工程，车间，物料计划，能力，采购接受。这些模块使用库存组织屏蔽数据。

HR Organization
HR organizations represent the basic work structure of any enterprise.
They usually represent the functional management, or reporting groups
that exist within a business group. In addition to these internal
organizations, you can define other organizations for tax and
government reporting purposes, or for third part payments.

Organizations in Oracle Projects
Oracle Projects allows you to define organization hierarchies to reflect
your company’s organizations structure. You can add Oracle
Projects–specific organization types to the organization hierarchy (for
example, projects organizations or Expenditure organizations) to help
you to better manage your project control requirements. You assign
project and expenditure hierarchies to operating units.

Asset Organizations
An asset organization is an organization that allows you to perform
asset–related activities for a specific Oracle Assets corporate
depreciation book. Oracle Assets uses only organizations designated as
asset organizations