Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Tips And Techniques

Organization by Period and Structures

When deciding to write rules for customizing the consolidation, you will very likely need to use the Organization by Period functionality. This enables the most recent consolidation structure to coexist with past structures in the same application. Organizational structures can change for many reasons, including acquisitions, disposals, mergers, and reorganizations—all of the reasons we are modifying the rules in our consolidation. It is unusual to see an application with custom consolidation rules that is not using Organization by Period. Because of the way Organization by Period and Periodic consolidation handle “no data” values or missing values, it is a best practice to use these when building statutory ...