Reporting Applications

Use this function to become familiar with the types of reporting applications available within Planning and Consolidation.

Features

Reporting applications hold financial data. The following table describes the different types of reporting applications and lists the required dimensions for each:

Type of Reporting Application	Description	Required Dimensions
Financial	Financial applications perform management and legal consolidation functions. They support data translations from local currencies to one or more reporting currencies, intercompany elimination calculations, and other calculations. When you create a financial application, you must choose an associated rate application (see the table within Non-reporting applications below). You can also choose to set up the following business rules: Currency conversion Account transformation Intercompany bookings US eliminations Carry-forward rules Validations	Account (A) Category (C) Entity (E) Time (T)
Consolidation	Consolidation applications perform more complicated legal consolidation functions than Financial applications. Consolidation can incorporate complex organizational structures involving full ownership, partial ownership, minority ownership and consolidation methods. Consolidation applications must reference an ownership application and a rate application (see the table within Non-reporting applications below). You can also choose to set up the following business rules: Currency conversion Account transformation Intercompany bookings US eliminations Carry-forward rules Validations Automatic adjustments	Account (A) Category (C) Entity (E) Time (T) Data Source (D)
Generic	Generic reporting applications have no special requirements other than the four required dimensions. Generic applications have no default business intelligence. Therefore, to apply logic, create it using script logic.	Account (A) Category (C) Entity (E) Time (T)

Type of Reporting Application

Description

Required Dimensions

Financial

Financial applications perform management and legal consolidation functions. They support data translations from local currencies to one or more reporting currencies, intercompany elimination calculations, and other calculations.

When you create a financial application, you must choose an associated rate application (see the table within Non-reporting applications below).

You can also choose to set up the following business rules:

Currency conversion
Account transformation
Intercompany bookings
US eliminations
Carry-forward rules
Validations

Account (A)

Category (C)

Entity (E)

Time (T)

Consolidation

Consolidation applications perform more complicated legal consolidation functions than Financial applications. Consolidation can incorporate complex organizational structures involving full ownership, partial ownership, minority ownership and consolidation methods.

Consolidation applications must reference an ownership application and a rate application (see the table within Non-reporting applications below).

You can also choose to set up the following business rules:

Currency conversion
Account transformation
Intercompany bookings
US eliminations
Carry-forward rules
Validations
Automatic adjustments

Account (A)

Category (C)

Entity (E)

Time (T)

Data Source (D)

Generic

Generic reporting applications have no special requirements other than the four required dimensions. Generic applications have no default business intelligence. Therefore, to apply logic, create it using script logic.

Account (A)

Category (C)

Entity (E)

Time (T)