1. User's Guide
  2. Getting Started with Profitability and Cost Management
  3. Profitability and Cost Management Applications
  4. About Profitability and Cost Management Applications

About Profitability and Cost Management Applications

Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management offers two different types of applications that are used in different ways.

  • Management Ledger Profitability and Cost Management Applications offers management reporting and modeling with data structured similarly to users' Oracle General Ledger or Oracle Hyperion Financial Management implementations. Allocations and other calculations required for management reporting outputs are performed using a freeform approach.

  • Detailed Profitability and Cost Management Applications provides a single step allocation of pools or rates to profit objects to a single source and destination, for the purpose of analyzing profitability. Detailed Profitability utilizes a relational database for model artifact storage, calculations, and reporting views.