Standard Profitability Cost and Revenue Layers

When the drivers are created in a model, they are assigned to a cost or revenue layer, or both.

The cost and revenue members are treated as two separate layers of financial data. The cost layer reflects outgoing values from the model (such as expenses, rent, salaries, and so on). The revenue layer represents incoming values (such as sales earned, product or maintenance revenue, and so on).

Although the layers may be virtually identical in structure, each layer uses different drivers and assignments and produce different results. In general, you work with one layer at a time.

See Defining Drivers and Formulas for Standard Profitability Models.