In the US instance: Currently we have inventory purchasing activity done through GEAC which transfers the information to JDE (Canadian Instance) in a different reporting currency.

We plan to go live with US and then implement Canada. Canada is using JDE. Now, After we go live with oracle AP, would it be possible to interface AP directly with JDE and transfer accounting/journal information to JDE or does it have to be interfaced with GL for the same information to be passed to JDE?

This if from a functional standpoint.

Please advice. Thanks

Note: I'm not sure if its okay to discuss topics outside of lessons here. please advice if its acceptable.

The forum is dedicated to discuss lesson related inquiries and due to the shortage of time resources this policy is strictly followed.

I can share my thoughts on how accounting data is usually extracted from AP and could be transferred to external systems as pertains to the topics covered.

In R12 the AP module simply pass accounting events to SLA module.

The accounting is created by SLA module and accounting entries are then transferred from SLA to General Ledger module.
All this is covered in SLA videos.

Therefore the two logical places to pick up accounting data are: SLA table XE% and GL tables GL%.
GL tables makes up the best place to pick up the entries from as this way you only retrieve what is posted in GL and hence reflected in financial statements.
select * from gl_je_headers a, gl_je_lines b
where je_source = 'Payables'
and status = 'P' -- Posting flag
and ledger_id = <X>
(The SQL is written on the fly and not tested).

That was along the same line as I was thinking. Thanks a lot for the help :)

PS: Do you know of any good forums where I can raise these kind of concerns in the future? I do follow some of them, but it would be really helpful if you could suggest some.

Sorry for the late reply.
There are tons of forums out there. I have not tried them so I cannot say which one are better. forums.oracle.com and ittoolbox.com seems to be decent ones.