Balancing Your Model
Once you run the Activity-Based Management engine, you need to balance your model. Model balancing is a reconciliation process that checks your results against your setup. You will also need to balance your job totals as described previously.
One of the more important aspects of balancing your job totals is examining the setup to assure that the data available for analysis is accurate. We provide a number of inquiry pages that enable you to review your balances. In addition, Object Navigator enables you to drill back from any object to the general ledger ChartFields, and Model Analyzer enables you to view all aspects of your model.
We provide various tools for reconciling your model:
Reconciliation engine combined with job total metadata.
Several inquiry pages.
Using the Reconciliation Engine and Job Total Metadata
One method for balancing your model is running the Reconciliation engine together with the job total metadata and balance rules metadata. We provide sample data specifically for this process.
To balance your model, run the Reconciliation engine, then review the results on the Job Totals page by selecting
Common Model Balance Errors
Common errors that may cause your model to be out of balance are:
Improper ledger-to-resource mappings.
Improper tree setup.
Improper effective dates.
Failure to rebuild the SQL after making changes to datamaps, constraints, or implicit pointers.