Introduction to the
Oracle Small Business Suite

 In this course, you will learn the basics of how a web-based business management application can provide an efficient and easy-to-use solution to run and grow a small to medium sized business. This course is divided into eight chapters. Each section will contain the following elements:  Objectives, Topics, and Exercises.

 As a means of illustration principles using a real-world example, this course will follow the opening of a fictional retail business, or the client’s own, if all the students are from the same organization.  Each chapter introduces new business activities that are tracked financially. Your challenge is to help the business thrive. The students will use the Oracle Small Business Suite to help keep track of business assets and profitability, to provide you with accounting and management and to give you the infrastructure and processes to support the business management needs.  

Chapter 1 New Business Setup

§         Ability to sign up for a new account

§         Ability to Navigate through the Oracle Small Business Suite

§         A basic understanding of accounting solutions available to businesses

§         A basic understanding of Balance Sheet and Income Statement Accounts

§         Ability to enter opening balances

Chapter 2 Preparing for Opening Day

§         Ability to enter transactions into Oracle Small Business

§         Understanding inventory vs. non-inventory items

§         Understanding prepaid expenses

Chapter 3 Grand Opening

§         Understand the sales cycle within Oracle Small Business

§         Understand how to enter discounted transactions

§         Learn how to create estimates and then create invoices

§         Knowing when to use cash sales vs. invoices

Chapter 4 Payroll

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