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Accounting Center is organized by several high-level workspaces areas that group together sets of related options for managing you can use to set up, maintain, and report on accounting activity. A descripton of each of these high-level workspaces follows. 

After you click one of these high-level options areas in Accounting Center's left navigation pane, a group of related options appear at the top of the that pane. You can then open choose a workspace, or alternately, can drill into the navigation pane options to down select the option for the workspace or entry panel that you want to use. After you choose the option for a workspace or panel, it appears in the space to the right of the navigation pane in the area called the workspace. A description of these high-level areas follows

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WRITERS NOTE: needs review. STEVEO. Anything to not mention? Report Viewer? Table Statistics? Participant Pool Processing?



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About the Transactions Area

In Transactions, you can manually create maintain transactions related to accounting activity. You can manage the following general types of transactions:

  • Adjustments. Manage cost adjustments and lot adjustments.
  • Cash. Manage cash activity.
  • Conversion. Manage transactions related to conversion to Eagle's accounting solutions.
  • Equity Method. Manage transactions related to the Equity Method of Accounting (EMA), used for investment in subsidiary, controlled, and affiliated entities. 
  • Expenses. Manage expense activity for use with Eagle's mutual fund accounting solution. 
  • Fund Investments. Manage transactions related to capital-based and share-based activity for use with Eagle's mutual fund accounting solution. 
  • Ledger. Manage ledger activity, such as maintaining accounting periods.
  • Manager Allocations. Manage manager allocations, used to pass through manager information on trades and voluntary corporate actions for downstream reporting and reconciliation.
  • Participant Pool Processing. Manage transactions for participant pool processing, where entities for participant pool accounts invest in master pool accounts where portfolio-related activity is posted.
  • Trades. Allows you to manage  Manage trade activity such as booking, canceling and rebooking, canceling trades, and managing pending transactions.
  • Transfers. Allows you to transfer data  Transfer information across or within portfoliosentities, such as interportfolio transfers.

About the Processing and Exceptions Area

in Processing and Exceptions, you can access the following tools without leaving Accounting Center:

  • Control Center. This  Use this exception-based processing tool tests to test the accuracy of accounting activity on a real time basis. 
  • Exceptions. Uses se Automation Center's Exceptions workspace to access, manage, and reconcile exceptions and manage exception rules related to accounting. 
  • Global Processes. Displays Display the Automation Center monitoring of accounting global processes and performs perform all accounting global processes.
  • Reconcilation. Helps Reconcile data to help your organization gain visibility and control by providing real-time matching, reconciliation, and exception processing on a single platform. 

About the Fund Accounting Area

In Fund Accounting, you can manage the day-to-day and month-end tasks available for use with Eagle's mutual fund accounting solution. You can manage activity for allocations, capital stock, distributions, SEC yield, and valuations.

About the Reports Area

Reports. Includes standard In Reports, you can access standard reports and system queries, along with research and what-if tools such as Position Viewer and Cash Projections Viewer.

About the Insurance Area

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  • Reports. Compliance Reports, Fund Accounting Reports, Investment Accounting Reports, and Ledger Reports comprise the reports in Eagle's standard report package that are available for use with Eagle's investment accounting and mutual fund accounting solutions. Reports specific to Eagle's insurance accounting solution
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  • Cash Projections Viewer. Allows you to generate cash flow projections. 
  • Position Viewer. Allows you to quickly research holdings without having to run individual reports. 
  • Report Viewer. Allows you to monitor and view the results of Eagle's legacy STAR Scheduler.
  • System Queries. Allows you to review data stored in specific database tables that meets your criteria.

About the Insurance Area

In Insurance, you can manage research, processing, and reporting tasks for use with Eagle's insurance accounting solution.

About the Setup Area

Setup. Includes set-up options In Setup, you can manage the following types of set-up and configuration tasks that you typically use perform on a one-time or infrequent basis. Here you find the Codes workspace that you can access in most Eagle Centers, along with accounting-specific portfolio and portfolio rules setup and maintenance panels that are also available in Portfolio Data Center. :

  • Admin. Manage high impact set-up and data maintenance tasks typically restricted for use by a system or database administrator.
  • Calendars. Manage setup for business calendars and earn thru  calendars used with accounting.
  • Codes. Use Metadata Center's Codes workspace to manage codes and code values used by Accounting Center.
  • Expense. Manage setup for expenses used with Eagle's mutual fund accounting solution. 
  • Fund Accounting. Manage setup for use with Eagle's mutual fund accounting solution. 
  • Insurance. Manage setup for Eagle's insurance accounting solution.
  • Ledger. Manage setup for ledger activity, such as maintaining Chart of Accounts, month end date rules, period close rules, and ledger profiles.
  • Participant Pool Accounting. Manage setup for participant pool processing.
  • Portfolio Rules. Manage accounting rules that you can apply at the entity/accounting basis level. Available in Accounting Center and Portfolio Data Center.
  • Portfolio Setup. Manage entities for use with investment and mutual fund accounting. Includes setup for portfolios, benchmarks, entity lists, reporting composites, master funds, and accounting bases. Available in Accounting Center and Portfolio Data Center.
  • Securities. Provides access to Issue Viewer and debt default periods. 
  • Sources. Use Metadata Center's Sources workspace to manage data sources used by Accounting Center.
  • System Statistics. Allows you to maintain table statistics.
  • Tax Rates. Manage setup for tax rates such as country, global, and state tax rates.