16 Overview to Organization Report Structures
This chapter contains these topics:
16.1 Objectives
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To create a parent-child organization structure for reporting purposes
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To view a complete parent-child structure
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To print a report showing parent-child structures
16.2 About Organization Report Structures
An organization report structure is a method of grouping business units for reporting purposes. It provides more flexibility in using low-volume consolidations and FASTR reporting, enabling you to display summary-to-detail income statement information. It also facilitates printing of subtotals and roll-up totals.
You can create hierarchical structures for each business unit and across companies. Each structure can contain multiple levels of parent, child, and grandchild relationships.
For reporting purposes, you can organize the parent-child hierarchies based on structures you define for financial, geographical, or responsibility reporting. Parent-child hierarchies can be as simple or complex as you require.
For example, you could have the following hierarchy:
Figure 16-1 Reporting Structure Hierarchy Example
Description of "Figure 16-1 Reporting Structure Hierarchy Example"