Guidelines for Working with a Cash Flow Engine

2.3 Guidelines for Working with a Cash Flow Engine

This topic describes an approach to designing and building applications based on your Security Role and the tasks it enables you to perform.

For CFE Administrators

CFE Administrators can perform the following steps to set up Cash Flow Engine:

Define the folders before creating the assumptions, rules, and processes.
Extend the Data Model, if required, by registering placeholder columns and tables.

For CFE Analysts

CFE Administrators and Analyst Users of Cash Flow Engine can perform the following steps to set up an application:

Activate one or multiple Currency
Define dimensions (such as business dimensions, and so on) using Dimension Management to build the main objects within the application.
Define Global, User, and Application Preferences
Define the Interest Rates and Economic Indicators
Create assumptions and rules.
Define Cash Flow Process and Cash Flow Edits Processes
Load the data.
Create and execute the batches
Validate the Cash Flow Engine Application Structure to ensure that the application structure confirms to Validation Rules.
Set up analysis views and other analytic tools so those with User and Viewer Roles can use them.
Analysis the results.

For CFE Auditor

All users, including CFE Auditor, can do most of the following: