10.1.15 Additional Working Dimensions

Another reason you may wish to add a user-defined Key Processing Dimension is because you need an additional working dimension, that is, a dimension along which you do not intend to develop Management Accounting analytics. For example, you may wish to add a user-defined Key Processing Dimension for Cost Pool, Transaction, or Activity. These dimensions may be actively used within your allocation rules, but are typically in-process dimensions, that is, dimensions used as stepping stones along the path to fully allocated profitability dimensions.

Yet another reason you may wish to add Key Processing Dimensions is that you must map all of the dimensions present in your source General Ledger to OFSAA Key Processing Dimensions. If your source General Ledger has dimensions such as Company or Legal Entity, you may need to add these dimensions to your model. If a dimension present in your source General Ledger is “organizational” in nature (that is, Company or Legal Entity), it may be possible to concatenate such dimensions into the single OFSAA Organization Unit dimension as you design and build your ETL for loading source data for your OFSAA data model (ledger data, instrument data, or transaction summary data).