Account Dimension

The Account dimension represents a hierarchy of natural accounts. Accounts store financial data for entities and scenarios in an application, and provide the properties for Income Statement Accounts.. Each account has an Account type, such as Revenue or Expense, that defines its accounting behavior. Every application must include an Account dimension.

The Account dimension is usually defined as dense, so you cannot assign attributes to it unless it is changed to sparse for all application types. After migrating an application to a Dense/Sparse Optimized (DSO) application, where Account is a sparse dimension, you can create Custom attributes for the Account dimension. If you change a dimension from sparse to dense, all attributes and attribute values for that dimension are automatically deleted..

You define properties for Account dimension members, such as the Account type, the number of decimal places to display, and whether the account is an Intercompany Partner account. See Defining Accounts.