Overview

This chapter provides information on the subject areas with data you maintain in Oracle Financials Cloud. These subject areas, with their corresponding data, are available for you to use when creating and editing analyses and reports. The information for each subject area includes:

• Description of the subject area.

• Business questions that can be answered by data in the subject area, with a link to more detailed information about each business question.

• Job roles and duty roles that can be used to secure access to the subject area, with a link to more detailed information about each job role and duty role.

• Primary navigation to the work area that is represented by the subject area.

• Time reporting considerations in using the subject area, such as whether the subject area reports historical data or only the current data. Historical reporting refers to reporting on historical transactional data in a subject area. With a few exceptions, all dimensional data are current as of the primary transaction dates or system date.

• The lowest grain of transactional data in a subject area. The lowest transactional data grain determines how data are joined in a report.

• Special considerations, tips, and things to look out for in using the subject area to create analyses and reports.