Financial Management Dimensions

Dimensions describe an organization’s data and usually contain groups of related members. Examples of dimensions are Account, Entity, and Period. Oracle Hyperion Financial Management provides eight system-defined dimensions and enables you to populate an unlimited number of custom dimensions that you can apply to accounts.

The elements that comprise a dimension are called members. For example, GrossMargin and TotalRevenues are members of the Account dimension.

Dimension members are arranged in hierarchies. Upper-level members are called parent members, and a member immediately below a parent member is referred to as its child. All members below a parent are referred to as descendants. The bottom-level hierarchy members are called base-level members.

Not all data dimensions allow you to define hierarchies. For example, the Year dimension does not support hierarchies.

Data is entered into base-level members of dimensions and not into parent members. Values for parent-level members are aggregated from the children of the parent-level members. In some cases, data for base-level members is calculated.

The following sections describe the system-defined dimensions.