12.3.1 Usage Examples of User-Defined Financial Elements

You may, of course, create additional user-defined Financial Elements for use in storing:

• Additional statistics that you source from an external system.
• Driver statistics that are built up through allocation rule processes and that you intend to use in subsequent allocation rules.
• Allocation rule outputs if, for example, you are building up cost pools or other intermediate balances that represent “in-process” balances that are not yet fully allocated to final multidimensional results.
• Final, fully allocated balances that you wish to report on (i.e., you may use a range of user-defined Financial Elements to build up a “reporting line” structure for fully allocated multidimensional profitability results).

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