7

Setting Up Entities, Calendars, and

Scenarios

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

• Set up entities
• Set up calendars
• Set up scenarios

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 Setting Up Entities

Entity Entity

[None] EastSales and [None]

WestSales occur Geographical
Geographical in alternate rollups.
Activity
UnitedStates
SalesServices
California
WestSales
Plant1
EastSales
WestSales
EmeaSales
Connecticut
EmeaService
EastSales
Manufacturing
Activity Development

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 Requirements for Entities

Before adding an entity, you should have this information:

• The parent to which the entity’s data rolls up
• The input currency for the entity
• Whether adjustments through journal should be allowed for
the entity
• The security class for the entity
• Whether the entity can be a partner in intercompany
transactions
• For statutory applications, the holding company
for the entity

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 Entities and Journals

• The AllowAdj property enables posting of journal

adjustments to the Ent Curr Adjs member for an entity.
• The AllowAdjFromChildren property enables posting of
journal adjustments to the Parent Adjustment and
Contribution Adjustment nodes of the Value dimension.

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 Entities and Intercompany Partners

Specifies whether the entity

is displayed as a member in
the ICP dimension

Specifies a security
class for the entity for
intercompany transactions

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 Entities and the ICP Dimension

The ICP dimension includes all members of the Entity

dimension for which the IsICP property is selected.

Members of the Entity dimension Members of the ICP dimension

California Plant1

IsICP
Plant1 member West Sales
attribute
West Sales selected

1000

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 Adding Currencies

• Every Financial Management application must include a

currency dimension.
• The currency dimension must include a currency for each
default currency assigned to an entity in the Entity
dimension.

Currency members

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 Setting Up Calendars

• The Financial Management calendar is defined by the

year, period, and view dimensions.
• You can customize the start year, number of years, base
periods, summary periods, and period-to-date views.
• You cannot modify the calendar dimensions for an
application after it is deployed.

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 Setting Up Scenarios

• The Scenario dimension represents a set of related data,

such as budget, actual, or forecast.
• Information for scenarios:
– Data frequency
– Default data view, periodic or year-to-date
– Periodic or YTD consolidation
– Process management options
– Enable or disable line-item detail
– Enable or disable data audit

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 Frequency and View

• The frequency of a scenario specifies the time period level

at which data can be input; for example, months or
quarters.
• The default data view for a scenario can be either periodic
values or year-to-date values.

Year to Date gives January February March Quarter 1

a running total.
Periodic 10 10 15 35
Year to Date 10 20 35 35

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 View and Missing Data

• Missing data can be interpreted as either zero for the

current period (Periodic) or as zero for year to date (YTD).
• You can specify separate settings for nonadjusted data
and for adjusted data.

Budget scenario uses Data for February is missing.

ZeroView=Periodic.
Forecast scenario uses
ZeroView=YTD.

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 Scenarios and Process Control

Process Control is enabled by scenario.

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned to:

• Set up entities
• Set up calendars
• Set up scenarios

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