Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Tips And Techniques

Roll Forward

Retained earnings are basically just a roll forward. The purpose of roll forward rules is to pull the ending balances from the prior year into the beginning balance of the current year. It also pulls forward any prior period adjustments to beginning balance. So you can use this approach not just for retained earnings, but also fixed assets, debt schedules, and others.

If you have many roll forwards, you should build the common components into a custom dimension. As shown in Figure B-14, Ending Balances (ClosingBalance) should be the parent member of the beginning balance (OpeningBalance) and the activity. The roll forward logic then performs two calculations: (1) in the first period of the year, it pulls data from the ClosingBalance ...