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Manual Numbering A numbering option to let someone assign numbers manually to documents, employees, and suppliers.

Many-to-Many Attribute In Oracle Financial Analyzer, a relationship between one or more values of one base dimension with one or more values of a second base dimension. For example, if you have a Many-to-Many attribute definition where the first base dimension is Organization and the second base dimension is Line Item, then a single organization can be related to several line items, and a single line item can be related to several organizations.

Mass Additions In Oracle Assets, a feature that allows you to copy asset information from another system, such as Oracle Payables. Create Mass Additions for Oracle Assets creates mass addition lines for potential assets. You can review these mass addition lines in the Prepare Mass Additions window, and actually create an asset from the mass addition line by posting it to Oracle Assets.

Mass Additions In Oracle Payables, invoice distribution lines that you ransfer to Oracle Assets for creating assets. Oracle Payables only creates mass additions for invoice distribution lines that are marked for asset tracking. Invoice distribution lines distributed to Asset Accounting Flexfields are automatically marked for asset tracking. Oracle Assets does not convert the mass additions to assets until you complete all of the required information about the asset and post it in Oracle Assets.

MassAllocations A single journal entry formula that allocates revenues and expenses across a group of cost centers, departments, divisions, and so on. For example, you might want to allocate your employee benefit costs to each of your departments based on headcount in each department.

MassBudgeting A feature that allows you to build a complete budget using simple formulas based on actual results, other budget amounts, and statistics. For example, you may want to draft next year's budget using last year's actual results plus 10 percent or some other growth factor. With MassBudgeting? , you can apply one rule to a range of accounts.

Master Budget A budget that controls the authority of other budgets.

Mass Change A feature that allows you to change the prorate convention, depreciation method, life, rate, or capacity for a group of assets in a single transaction.

Mass Copy A feature that allows you to copy a group of asset transactions from your corporate book to a tax book. Use Initial Mass Copy to create a new tax book. Then use Periodic Mass Copy each period to update the tax book with new assets and transactions.

Mass Depreciation Adjustment A feature that allows you to adjust the depreciation expense in the previous fiscal year for all assets in a tax book. Oracle Assets adjusts the depreciation expense between the minimum and maximum depreciation amounts by a depreciation adjustment factor you specify.

Mass Purge See Archive , Purge , Restore .

Mass Revaluation See Revaluation

Mass Transfers A feature that allows you to transfer a group of assets between locations, employees, and general ledger depreciation expense accounts.

Maximum Depreciation Expense The maximum possible depreciation expense for an asset in a mass depreciation adjustment. The maximum depreciation expense for an asset is the greatest of the depreciation actually taken in the tax book, the amount needed to bring the accumulated depreciation up to the accumulated depreciation in the corporate book, or the amount needed to bring the accumulated depreciation up to the accumulated depreciation in the control book.

Message The text or data Oracle Alert sends when it finds an exception while checking an alert.

Message Distribution A line at the bottom of the toolbar that displays helpful hints, warning messages, and basic data entry errors.

Message Line A line on the bottom of a window that displays helpful hints or warning messages when you encounter an error.

Meta Data Data you enter in Oracle General Ledger to represent structures in Oracle Financial Analyzer. Meta data consists of the dimensions, segment range sets, hierarchies, financial data items, and financial data sets you define in Oracle General Ledger. When you load financial data from Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Financial Analyzer creates dimensions, dimension values, hierarchies, and variables based on the meta data.

Minimum Depreciation Expense The minimum possible depreciation expense for an asset in a mass depreciation adjustment. The minimum depreciation expense for an asset in a tax book is the amount needed to bring the accumulated depreciation up to the accumulated depreciation in the corporate book or control book, or zero, whichever is greater.

Min-Max Planning An inventory planning method used to determine when and how much to order based on a fixed user-entered minimum and maximum inventory levels.

Model A set of interrelated equations for calculating data in Oracle Financial Analyzer.

Move Transaction A transaction to move assemblies from operation to operation or within an operation on a discrete job or repetitive schedule.

Multi-Org See Multiple Organizations .

Multi-Source An AutoCreate? option that lets a buyer distribute the quantity of a single requisition line to several suppliers whenever the buyer wants to purchase the requisition line item from more than one supplier.

Multiple Organizations The ability to define multiple organizations and the relationships among them within a single installation of Oracle Applications. These organizations can be sets of books, business groups, legal entities, operating units, or inventory organizations.

Multiple Reporting Currencies A unique set of features embedded in Oracle Applications that allows you to maintain and report accounting records at the transaction level in more than one functional currency.

-- DianeMcHugh - 20 Jun 2007