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● Note that each hierarchy ID may have changes to the parent-child relationships, each of
which is effective in a unique timeframe. The date you enter in this field determines the
valid hierarchies for you to choose from.
● The chosen hierarchy definition (of the specified validity date) is applied to the data of all
periods selected for the report, implicitly providing restated values of data with the chosen
hierarchy.

Figure 208: Time Dependent Hierarchy

Time dependent hierarchies:

● Allow you to maintain just one hierarchy.
● Pick the relationship you need based on the report key date.
● You can also have multiple time-dependent hierarchies but only valid hierarchies appear in
the drop downs based on the key date.

Hierarchical Consolidation View

● This is primarily for management reporting.

● Hierarchical evaluations and flexible re-organization are required.
● The focus of these reports are on intercompany transactions for example posting level 20.
● In this scenario, a consolidation group does not need to be selected in the report prompts.
But consolidation unit, profit center, and / or segment hierarchies are required.

Based on the hierarchies of consolidation units, profit centers, and segments, you can display
the data for these organizational units eliminated and consolidated hierarchically.
In the hierarchy view, each enabled hierarchy has a virtual dimension with the suffix
Eliminated in the name at report runtime to provide elimination values at posting level 20 or
22 (Two-sided elimination entry).
Along the relevant hierarchies, a virtual elimination member is automatically generated
directly under each hierarchy node with a name <hierarchy node>_ELIM.

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Hierarchical Consolidation View: with the dimension consolidation unit for example, you can
either use the original dimension consolidation unit to show the contribution view, or choose
the dimension consolidation unit eliminated to show the consolidated data, including
eliminations between consolidation units (CUs) that share any parent node along the
specified CU hierarchy. Both consolidation unit and consolidation unit eliminated share the
same hierarchies.
Hierarchical Consolidation View: https://help.sap.com/viewer/
4ebf1502064b406c964b0911adfb3f01/1909.000/en-US/
b7c188a172644502b91d8a7bad078a42.html

Figure 209: Report Logic - Two Different Hierarchies for Consolidation Unit

In the preceding image, two different consolidation unit hierarchies are being used on the
same financial data. Either consolidation unit or consolidation unit eliminated can be used for
examples like the above.

Figure 210: Combining Views

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