When you define a segment value for your natural account segment in the Segment Values window, you must also assign qualifiers which determine the account type (asset, liability, expense, revenue, or
equity), whether budgeting is allowed, whether posting is allowed and other information specific to the segment value. For segments other than the natural account segment, you must specify if budgeting or
posting are allowed for each value.

When you change the Budget Entry or Posting Allowed qualifiers for segment values that you already defined, you should also make a corresponding change to all accounts that include the value in the
account code combination.

You can run the Segment Value Inheritance program to propagate these changes to all accounts that contain the changed segment value instead of changing all affected account code combinations individually in the GL Accounts window.

Note: Segment qualifiers can be defined for other Oracle Applications. These are listed in each Oracle Applications User’s Guide. Additional segment qualifiers can be defined for use by your custom programs.

You can define the following segment qualifiers for your Accounting Flexfield:

• Account Type: Defines the account type for the natural account segment value. You can enter only valid account types.
• Budget Entry Allowed: Indicates whether General Ledger should allow detailed budgeting to accounts with this segment value.
• Posting Allowed: Indicates whether General Ledger should allow detailed posting to Accounting Flexfields with this segment value.
• Reconciliation Flag: Indicates whether General Ledger should allow reconciliation for natural accounts that should balance to zero. You can enable or disable reconciliation for an account segment value or for specific accounting code combinations.
• Control Account: Control accounts are General Ledger accounts accessed from Oracle Payables, Receivables, and Inventory, for which the Global Accounting Engine automatically creates detailed balances. The control account segment qualifier lets you indicate which account segment values represent control accounts. You must define the control account segment qualifier before you can define accounting segments as control accounts.
• Other Segment Qualifiers: You can define additional segment qualifiers that are used by other Oracle Applications and your custom programs.