Financial Statement Generator (FSG) in EBS
Explain how FSG allows finance users to build custom financial statements in EBS without technical development
The Financial Statement Generator (FSG) is EBS General Ledger's native tool for building custom, formatted financial reports — like a management P&L broken down by division, or a custom balance sheet variant — entirely through functional configuration, without requiring PL/SQL or Oracle Reports development. FSG reports are assembled from four core building blocks: Row Sets (defining which accounts/rows appear and how they're calculated, like 'Total Revenue' as a sum of specific natural account ranges), Column Sets (defining the time periods and comparison columns, like 'Actual vs Budget vs Prior Year'), Content Sets (defining which specific values — like which company or cost center — the report runs for, enabling one definition to generate many report instances), and optional Row Order/Display Sets for formatting refinement.
FSG is like a custom spreadsheet template a finance team builds once (defining which rows, which columns, which comparisons) that can then be automatically regenerated for each department (Content Set) every month with fresh numbers, without anyone needing to rebuild the spreadsheet structure each time.