About Subcubes

Several Financial Management methods work with subcubes. A subcube consists of all the cells that share the same members of these dimensions:

Year
Scenario
Entity
Value

There are two types of subcubes—currency subcubes and node subcubes. These types of subcubes differ in how they use Entity and Value dimension members:

A currency subcube contains cells that share applicable non-node Value dimension members. For currency subcubes, the parent of the Entity member is irrelevant. The applicable non-node Value dimension members are as follows:
- Members for user-defined currencies. There is one triplet of Value dimension members for each user-defined currency. For example, if an application contains a currency named USD, the currency’s triplet of Value dimension members is USD, USD Adjs, and USD Total.
- The triplet that points to the entity’s default currency. This triplet consists of the <Entity Currency>, <Entity Curr Adjs>, and <Entity Curr Total> Value members.
- [None] Value member.
  Note:
  The non-node Value dimension members that point to parent entities’ default currencies—<Parent Currency>, <Parent Curr Adjs>, and <Parent Curr Total>—are irrelevant to currency subcubes.
A node subcube contains cells that share a common node Value dimension member. For node subcubes, both parent and child Entity members must be specified. The node Value dimension members are as follows:
- [Contribution Total]
- [Contribution Adjs]
- [Contribution]
- [Elimination]
- [Proportion]
- [Parent Total]
- [Parent Adjs]
- [Parent]

The following list provides examples of subcube types:

Currency subcube: A currency subcube stores the cells for the year, Actual scenario, Connecticut entity, and USD currency. The USD currency is represented by the [USD], [USD Adjs], and [USD Total] Value dimension triplet.
Node subcube: A node subcube stores the cells for the year, Actual scenario, Connecticut child entity, UnitedStates parent entity, and [Contribution] Value dimension member.