Budgetary Control Subject Areas, Folders, and Attributes

To create real-time analyses for Budgetary Control, you should be familiar with the subject areas.

Subject Areas

To create an analysis, you begin by selecting a subject area from which you select columns of information to include in the analysis. For example, for an ad hoc analysis of transactions consuming budget, you begin by selecting a Budgetary Control - Transactions Real Time subject area. Subject areas are based around a business object or fact.

Budgetary Control has two budgetary control specific subject areas:

• Budgetary Control - Balances Real Time

• Budgetary Control - Transactions Real Time

Folders

Each subject area has one fact folder and a number of dimension folders. Fact folders contain attributes that can be measured, meaning that they are numeric values like journal debit and credit amounts. Fact folders are usually at the end of the list of folders and are usually named after the subject area. Dimension folders contain attribute and hierarchical columns like journal name and accounting period.

Some folders appear in more than one subject area, such as Time. These are referred to as common folders or common dimensions.

Attributes

Finally, each dimension folder contains attributes (columns), such as balance type and posting date. This figure illustrates the structure of subject areas, folders, and attributes.

In the preceding figure, the following components are shown:

• Subject area: Budgetary Control - Transactions Real Time

• Dimension - Presentation Folder: Request Details

• Dimension - Attributes: Funds Status, Funds Status Code, Justification, Name, and Override Request

• Fact - Presentation Folder: Control Budget Account

• Fact - Measures: Budget Account Description, Chart of Accounts, Concatenated Segments, and Enabled