Managing schedules in a financial close management system

US8738489B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Oracle International Corporation · US

Inventors

• John I. Clark · Seattle, US
• Shailesh Kumar · San Diego, US
• Fang Liu · Shanghai, CN
• David Battaglia · Sandy Hook, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 2010
• Grant date: May 27, 2014
• Expiry date: Dec 10, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and financial close management system are provided that manage a schedule. A schedule is a core object of the financial close management system, and is an expression of a template. Managing a schedule can include creating a new schedule, modifying an existing schedule, deleting an existing schedule, duplicating an existing schedule, validating an existing schedule, creating a template from an existing schedule, setting a status of an existing schedule, and importing and exporting an existing schedule. In addition, managing a schedule can include defining task type parameters that can be set during scheduling and setting task parameters of a schedule at a schedule level rather than a task level.