The business structure is reflected in Apliqo FPM using the Company dimension and up to four additional business segments that can be used flexibly for cost centers, profit centers, departments, or locations for example. The business segment dimensions will define the level of detail data that is stored in the FIN General Ledger cube for reporting and analysis. And the level of detail that is planned for revenue, expenses and balance sheet.
To set up the Business Segment setup by navigating to Administration > Business Segments.
General Considerations
The business segments dimensions will contain a hierarchical structure of consolidated and leaf elements.
The consolidated elements sum up the assigned leaf elements. Only the lowest level (N or leaf elements) can store data. The minimum structure should include a root element (e.g. FIN Company Rollups), a dimension total (e.g. Total FIN Company) and a dummy element to store any data that is lacking the business segment detail. The "Total" element should always contain all numeric elements of the dimension so that no potential data points are missing when looking at the total.
The name of an element in the dimension can be an alpha-numeric string. If available the use of a technical code rather than just a description is recommended because an element cannot be renamed (it will have to be deleted and a new element created) and the element name also has to be unique within the dimension.
An unlimited amount of attributes can be stored for each dimension element for display or filtering purposes. There is three types of attributes: String (S), Numeric (N) and Alias (A, can be used instead of the element name and has hence to be unique as well).
The following attributes are mandatory: Description (S), Code and Description (A). For the company dimension in addition the attribute "CurrencyISOCode" (S) is mandatory and expected to hold a legal entities local currency ISO code (three digit, e.g. USD).
Related
Building the Business Segment Structure (deprecated)
Business Segments Security (deprecated)