Account Dimension Properties

The account dimension defines the chart of accounts for your model and how those accounts are calculated and aggregated.

Any dimension that is assigned the type A is considered an account dimension. Each model can have only one account-type dimension.

An account dimension has the following system-generated properties:

Property Name

Description

ACCTYPE

Account type. Can be INC for Income, EXP for Expense, AST for Asset, LEQ for Liabilities and Equity.

The account type cannot be blank.

RATETYPE

Used by the currency conversion business rules. Value is optional.

SCALING

Scaling options are Y or N. Used by EPMScaleData and Library view. Value is optional, but if a value is not defined, scaling is unavailable for the associated member ID.

The following property is required only if the account dimension is used in a consolidation model.

Property Name

Description

TYPELIM

Specifies that Automatic Adjustments details are created based on a generic value, rather than mentioning the member itself. Allows you to apply the same processing to several accounts having the same property value.

The following property is required only if the account dimension is used in an ownership model.

Property Name

Description

IS_INPUT

Flag for ownership accounts to be used in Method-based multipliers.

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