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You define dynamic hierarchies in the system to set up and report on entity hierarchies that cannot be managed by a fixed hierarchy.

While management reporting entity structures are fixed, and children roll up 100% to their associated parent, dynamic hierarchies support the legal structure of statutory consolidations that cannot be managed by a fixed hierarchy.

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The static hierarchies exist above the dynamic portion of a hierarchy, which is attached below a base-level member in the static hierarchy. The Groups dimension is used to identify consolidation sequences and for reporting.

  • The ownership relationships required for legal reporting may exceed a one-to-one relationship in their reporting structure, or they may change frequently.

  • There are two scenarios where you should define dynamic entity hierarchies:

    • If a child member is owned by more than one parent

    • If the child is partially owned by a parent (not 100%)

  • You use the Dynamic Hierarchy Editor (DHE) to define a dynamic hierarchy entity structure. The editor is a graphical tool that allows you to create period-specific hierarchies of corporate entities to use in statutory consolidation, or in cases where hierarchy changes for an application need to be tracked by Category and Time.

  • When you set up a Statutory application, the system tracks hierarchies for statutory reporting. Statutory applications have an upper-level static hierarchy associated with a Group or Currency-type dimension, called Groups.