1. User's Guide
  2. Working with Standard Profitability and Cost Management Applications
  3. Calculating Standard Profitability Models
  4. Managing Calculations

Managing Calculations

After deploying the databases, you can calculate the model. Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management performs two calculations.

  • Direct Allocation calculates the results of direct assignments for source and destination intersections.

  • Genealogy calculates the allocation detail for source and destination intersections that are indirectly related rather than directly assigned to each other.

Because the direct allocation data is required for genealogy, it must be calculated first.

You can run the operations directly from the screen or schedule a suitable time.

Caution:

Before calculating a model, ensure that cost, revenue, and driver data have been loaded into Oracle Essbase; otherwise, the calculation scripts run using an empty data set.

Use the following procedures to manage calculations: