Chapter 9. Currency Conversion and Multiple Languages

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

  • Enable multiple currency conversion for analysis and reporting.

  • Add multiple language translation to existing dimensions, measure groups, measures, and calculated members.

In Chapter 8, you learned how to use the Business Intelligence Wizard to create a financial accounting dimension and how to manage aggregation for rolling up and summing financial accounting measures over time to support the special requirements for financial analysis. All of the financial measure values for all of the measure groups that you have created so far have been displaying the values in U.S. dollars and only English language terminology has been displayed for dimension attribute ...

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