Entity

The Entity dimension stores the entity hierarchy and represents the organizational structure of the company, such as the management and legal reporting structures. Entities can represent divisions, subsidiaries, plants, regions, countries, legal entities, business units, departments, or any organizational unit. You can define any number of entities.

The Entity dimension is the consolidation dimension of the system. Hierarchies in the Entity dimension reflect various consolidated views of the data. Various hierarchies can correspond to geographic consolidation, legal consolidation, or consolidation by activity. All relationships among individual member components that exist in an organization are stored and maintained in this dimension. Entities in an organization can be categorized as base, dependent, or parent entities. Base entities are at the bottom of the organization structure and do not own other entities. Dependent entities are owned by other entities in the organization. Parent entities contain one or more dependents that report directly to them.

You define properties for Entity dimension members, such as the base currency, and specify whether the entity allows adjustments and stores intercompany detail. See Defining Entity Members.