Calculation Manager enables you to create, validate, deploy, and administer sophisticated multidimensional business rules. You can also create a business ruleset of two or more related rules (or rulesets) that you can launch simultaneously or sequentially. You typically create business rules and rulesets to:
Allocate costs among entities
Perform revenue modeling
Perform expense modeling
Prepare a balance sheet
Calculate cash flow
Calculate currency translation adjustments
Calculate group and minority interest
Calculate deferred taxes
Before you create a business rule or ruleset, you should be familiar with the database outline and the application with which you are working. Having this information will help you create your business rules more efficiently. You should also understand the following about your data:
How the data is stored and aggregated
At what level the data gets loaded into the database
The order of calculations to take place
The key assumptions that drive the calculations
You can create business rules using components like formulas, scripts, loops, data and member ranges, templates, and variables, including runtime prompt variables. (See Using Components to Design Business Rules and Templates (Financial Management, Planning, and Essbase Block Storage Application Users Only).) For users to launch the business rule in Planning, you, as the administrator, must give launch privileges to the rule for that location. Users do not need launch privileges to launch a business rule in Financial Management.