Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS) is an integrated set of business applications for automating processes within the University. EBS workflow, business processes and reports help improve decision making, reduce costs and increase performance. For financial management, several modules are being used, namely General Ledger, Payables, Purchasing, i-Procurement and Cash Management. With EBS, authorised department users are able to (i) raise / approve purchase requisitions to buy goods and services from suppliers; (ii) enquire account balance, transaction details, purchase requisition and purchase orders online; (iii) view financial reports (distributed daily / monthly) on a web-based platform.