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Hyperion Financial Management: Create and Manage Applications

Configuring Application Settings

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Objectives

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to: Configure exchange rate and translation settings Configure consolidation settings Configure the validation account settings Configure security settings Configure audit settings Set document attachment limits


Configuring Exchange Rate and Translation Settings

Use the DefaultCurrency property to specify the default currency for the application.

Use the DefaultRateForFlowAccounts and DefaultRateForBalanceAccounts to specify the accounts used to store exchange rates for flow accounts and balance accounts.

Specify whether to use the PVA translation method.


PVA Method

The Periodic Value Add (PVA) method:

1. Translates just the YTD change from the previous period at the current

period’s exchange rate

2. Adds this to the previous month translated balance

Default Method PVA Method

Jan Feb Jan Feb

Exchange Rate 1:3 1:2 1:3 1:2

Local Currency YTD 50 75 50 75

Translated YTD 150 150 150 200

Current period increase/decrease at current period rate plus prior period balance

75 – 50 = 25

X 2

50

+ 150

200


Consolidation Settings

Org by Period Aggregation for Intercompany accounts Custom consolidation rules


Org by Period

Enable Org by Period if you need entity structures that vary from period to period.

Org by Period lets you mark entities as active or inactive for each period.— Example: Plant2 was sold in January, so you mark it as inactive from

February forward

February

Plant 1 Global Sales Plant 2

California Connecticut France Italy

United States Europe

GeographicalJanuary

Plant 1 Global Sales Plant 2

California Connecticut France Italy

United States Europe

Geographical


Intercompany Aggregations

The IntercompanyAggregationWeight property lets you specify a consolidation percentage for intercompany entities to their parent ICP Top.

A value of 1 represents 100% (for example, specify .5 for 50%).

ICP Top

Plant1

West Sales


Consolidation Rules

Enable Consolidation Rules if you need to write custom rules to override the default consolidation and elimination process.

If you select this option, you can define consolidation methods.

'*************************************************'* CONSOLIDATE ROUTINE *'*************************************************

Sub Consolidate()'================================================= '= Do not Consolidate if Equity Method = '=================================================' If Method <> "EQUITY" then' Call WriteToFile("Entity=" & Entity & " POWN=" & POWN & " PMIN=" & PMIN & "Account = " & Account) '------------------------------------------------- ' Default consolidation '-------------------------------------------------' Call HS.Con("",PCon,"") '------------------------------------------------- ' Eliminations '-------------------------------------------------' Select Case Account 'Account is variable from above Call DataUnit command '---------------------------------------------------- ' Standard I/C Elimination - does not apply if partner ' method is Equity


Configuring Validation Account Settings

The ValidationAccount property identifies the validation account for your application.

The validation account is used by Process Control and for data locking.

The validation account balance must be zero before data can be promoted or approved.


Configuring Security Settings

Securable dimensions include:— Account— Entity— Scenario— ICP— Custom dimensions

You can enable or disable security for each of these dimensions. You can enable or disable metadata filtering for the application.

Account ICPScenarioEntity

Custom1Custom1

Custom1Custom4


Metadata Filtering

Entity

Geographical

UnitedStates

California

1000

Plant1

WestSales

.

If users have access only to the children of California, the ancestors display but are not selectable.


Node Security

Parent option limits data access to these members.


Setting Document Attachment Limits

Document attachment size Number of attachments per user Number of characters for cell text


Summary

In this lesson, you should have learnedhow to: Configure exchange rate and

translation settings Configure consolidation settings Configure the validation account

settings Configure security settings Configure audit settings Set document attachment limits

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