L06 accounts custom

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Configuring Accounts and Custom
Dimensions

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
• Set up accounts
• Set up custom dimensions
• Assign custom dimension members to accounts
• Audit data
• Set up Intercompany account properties

Overview: Accounts and Custom Dimensions
• The Account dimension defines the chart of accounts for
an application.
• Custom dimensions provide additional detail for accounts.
• Ten predefined account types provide built-in financial
intelligence.
Account Types
• Asset • Balance
• Liability • BalanceRecurring
• Revenue • CurrencyRate
• Expense • GroupLabel
• Flow • Dynamic

Setting Up Account Types and Hierarchies
Account types determine whether child values are added to or
subtracted from their parent value.
TotalRevenues are added to GrossMargin and TotalCosts are
subtracted.
GrossMargin
TotalRevenues
TotalCosts
Liability
Expense
Asset
Revenue
TangibleAssetsNet
TangibleAssets
TangibleAssetsDepr

Time Balance and Account Types
Total Revenues Revenue
Cash on Hand Asset
Quarter 1
50 75 50 175
100 150 75 75
Jan Feb Mar

Dynamic Account Type
Accounts that use the Dynamic account type have this
behavior:
• Results are calculated on the fly; data is not stored.
• Parent totals for accounts, custom dimensions, and time
periods are calculated dynamically; they are not
aggregated from children.
• Period-to-date views calculate correctly.

Group Label Account Type
Group Label
These accounts
are not aggregated
to a meaningful
value.
Statistical
TaxRate
SquareFootage
UnitPrice
UnitsSold

Setting Up Accounts and Custom Dimensions
The Sales account uses the
Custom1 dimension to capture
sales detail by product.
The Cash account uses the
Custom4 dimension to capture
cash flow detail.

Assigning Custom Members to Accounts
Custom1 members are
not valid for Cash.
ClosingBalance and its
descendants in Custom4
are valid for Cash.

Balance Sheet Accounts and Custom Dimensions
You can use custom dimension members to track movement
detail for balance sheet accounts.
ClosingBalance = OpeningBalance + Increases - Decreases

Custom Dimensions and Account Types
These members use
the default account
behavior.
These members need
to show monthly
values, not YTD
balances.
This member needs
to be subtracted from
closing balance.
ClosingBalance
OpeningBalance
Increases
Decreases

Setting Up Custom
Members for Balance Sheet Movement
• Use SwitchTypeForFlow to change the flow behavior for
custom members:
– If the associated account uses balance behavior, the custom
member switches to flow behavior.
– If the associated account uses flow behavior, the custom
member switches to balance behavior.
• Use SwitchSignForFlow to reverse the sign for custom
members.
This member needs
SwitchSignForFlow
to reverse the sign.
ClosingBalance
OpeningBalance
Increases
Decreases
These members need
SwitchTypeForFlow.

Auditing Data
• Enable the EnableDataAudit property to keep an audit trail
of changes made to an account.
• Data audit must also be enabled for the scenario of the
data

Intercompany Account Properties
These are the properties for intercompany accounts:
• IsICP
• PlugAcct
• ICPTopMember

Other Account Properties
• Additional account properties enable you to specify:
• Whether account data is calculated or input
• Whether account data is aggregated to the parent
• Whether data for custom dimensions is aggregated for the
account
• The number of decimal places
• Whether line-item detail is allowed
• Rules calculation information for the account
• The submission group for process control

Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned to:
• Set up accounts
• Set up custom dimensions
• Assign custom dimension members to accounts
• Audit data
• Set up Intercompany account properties

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