Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Tips And Techniques

Dynamic

Dynamic rules define dynamically calculated accounts. You want this because you can take some ratios and metrics out of the consolidation, and secondly, you can create ratios that give the right values for parent members. For example, a normal account would add the children to a parent. If two expense accounts had .5 in each, they would sum to 1.0 at the parent. But you would not want a ratio to do that. You would expect that the parent recalculates the correct amount.

Let’s say you wanted to have a return-on-investment ratio in your application. If you took the income on a year-to-date basis divided by the investment, you would have the YTD number. But you would need to recalculate it to get the correct periodic number. You would not ...