36 Time Dimension Table

This chapter provides information about Time Dimension Population in the Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation application and step-by-step instructions to use this section.

Business data commonly represents information as of a point in time (for example, a balance as of a point in time) or as of a particular span of time (for example, income for the month of March). The rollup of a particular balance depending on their nature could be a simple additive rollup wherein the child member balances are added up to arrive at the parent node balance (for example, Ending Balance) or non additive rollups wherein a node formula is used to specify how to rollup the child member balances (for example, 3 month rolling average).