Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and financial close management system are provided that manage a schedule. A schedule is a core object of the financial close management system, and is an expression of a template. Managing a schedule can include creating a new schedule, modifying an existing schedule, deleting an existing schedule, duplicating an existing schedule, validating an existing schedule, creating a template from an existing schedule, setting a status of an existing schedule, and importing and exporting an existing schedule. In addition, managing a schedule can include defining task type parameters that can be set during scheduling and setting task parameters of a schedule at a schedule level rather than a task level.

Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided for filtering of custom attributes. A custom attribute is an attribute of an object defined by a user. Once a user has defined one or more custom attributes, the user can filter a set of objects based on a criteria that includes a value for one or more custom attributes. The filtering can be dynamic so that when the set of objects is modified (such as creating a new object, deleting an existing object, or modifying an existing object), the filter is automatically updated. Furthermore, a filtering criteria can be based on the set of objects present in the system, so that any filter that is defined returns at least one object. In addition, once a filter is applied, any additional filter applied to the original filter can have a filtering criteria based on the subset of objects returned by the original filter.

Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and financial close management system are provided that includes a integration framework that allows an end user to leverage services or interfaces from external applications as part of a business process, such as a financial close process, of a financial close management system. The integration framework can integrate a task that requires the user to interact with a user interface of an external application (identified as an “end user task”) with the financial close management system. The integration framework can also integrate a task that runs without any user interaction required, and that interacts with a web service of an external application (identified as a “system automated task”) with the financial close management system.

Abstract: A method for dynamically filtering a plurality of accounts in an Account Reconciliation Management System may include determining a plurality of attributes, and receiving a selection of a first attribute in the plurality of attributes. The method may also include determining a plurality of values associated with a value type of the first attribute. The method may additionally include determining a plurality of operands associated with the first attribute. The method may further include receiving a selection of a first operand and a selection of a first value, and creating a filter expression based on the first attribute, the first value, and the first operand, and filtering the plurality of accounts. The method may additionally include determining that a second attribute in the plurality of attributes is not associated with any of the remaining accounts, and removing the second attribute from the plurality of attributes.

Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and financial close management system are provided that includes a integration framework that allows an end user to leverage services or interfaces from external applications as part of a business process, such as a financial close process, of a financial close management system. The integration framework can integrate a task that requires the user to interact with a user interface of an external application (identified as an “end user task”) with the financial close management system. The integration framework can also integrate a task that runs without any user interaction required, and that interacts with a web service of an external application (identified as a “system automated task”) with the financial close management system.

Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system are provided for filtering of custom attributes. A custom attribute is an attribute of an object defined by a user. Once a user has defined one or more custom attributes, the user can filter a set of objects based on a criteria that includes a value for one or more custom attributes. The filtering can be dynamic so that when the set of objects is modified (such as creating a new object, deleting an existing object, or modifying an existing object), the filter is automatically updated. Furthermore, a filtering criteria can be based on the set of objects present in the system, so that any filter that is defined returns at least one object. In addition, once a filter is applied, any additional filter applied to the original filter can have a filtering criteria based on the subset of objects returned by the original filter.

Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and financial close management system are provided that manage a schedule. A schedule is a core object of the financial close management system, and is an expression of a template. Managing a schedule can include creating a new schedule, modifying an existing schedule, deleting an existing schedule, duplicating an existing schedule, validating an existing schedule, creating a template from an existing schedule, setting a status of an existing schedule, and importing and exporting an existing schedule. In addition, managing a schedule can include defining task type parameters that can be set during scheduling and setting task parameters of a schedule at a schedule level rather than a task level.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger employing double wall tubing comprising concentric inner and outer tubes, the inner and outer tubes are disposed within apertures of spaced tube sheets and connected thereto by roller expansion of the tubes. To maintain venting of the air space between the tubes, a split wall ferrule is located over the inner tube and within the outer tube in the region of the tube sheet to which the outer tube is connected. The ferrule, which has a length sufficient to traverse the thickness of the tube sheet, transmits expansion forces exerted on the interior of the inner tube to the outer tube so as to expand the outer tube to connect it to the tube sheet. The split in the ferrule wall forms a passageway that connects the air space between the tubes to the space between the tube sheets.

Abstract: A water heater comprises an elongated vessel having a heat exchanger that occupies a substantial portion at one end and leaves a minimum volume storage and blending zone at the other end of the vessel. Water is recirculated through the heat exchanger, preferably continuously, through a recirculation conduit that takes water through its inlet essentially solely from the outlet end of the heat exchange zone and returns it to the inlet end, the intake of the recirculation conduit being located at the lower end of the volume storage and immediately above an apertured partition extending across the interior of the vessel immediately above the heat exchanger. The temperature sensor of the control thermostat is received within a tunnel secured to the partition. The tunnel has two side outlet openings away from the aperture so that the thermostat is always subject to the hottest water just above the heat exchanger for fast and accurate control of the heating fluid on failure of the circulating pump.

Abstract: A water heater comprises an elongated vessel having a heat exchanger that occupies a substantial portion at one end and leaves a minimum volume storage and blending zone at the other end of the vessel. Water is recirculated through the heat exchanger, preferably continuously, through a recirculation conduit that takes water through its inlet essentially solely from the outlet end of the heat exchange zone and returns it to the inlet end, the intake of the recirculation conduit being located very close to the end of the heat exchanger. The temperature sensor of the control thermostat is received entirely within the recirculation conduit so that it is responsive to a high velocity flow of water drawn from the heat exchange zone.