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Calculation Scripts:-Session 7: Time Balance Reporting: It Defines The Consolidation of Members in The Dimension

This document discusses different dimension types in Essbase like Accounts, Time, Currency and Attributes and provides examples of how to use built-in functionality for Time dimensions like time balance reporting and calculating openings, additions, and endings over time. It also demonstrates how to set variance expense reporting to true for expense accounts to calculate variances between actual and budgeted amounts where lower actual expenses and higher non-expense amounts are favorable.

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Calculation Scripts:-Session 7: Time Balance Reporting: It Defines The Consolidation of Members in The Dimension

This document discusses different dimension types in Essbase like Accounts, Time, Currency and Attributes and provides examples of how to use built-in functionality for Time dimensions like time balance reporting and calculating openings, additions, and endings over time. It also demonstrates how to set variance expense reporting to true for expense accounts to calculate variances between actual and budgeted amounts where lower actual expenses and higher non-expense amounts are favorable.

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Calculation Scripts:- Session 7

We have different category of dimensions in Essbase, when we tag a dimension as


of a
specific type, the dimension can access built-in functionality of that dimension type.
In
Essbase we have following types of dimensions: None, Accounts, Time, Country,
Currency and
Attributes. For our Planning Applications by default the Account Dimension is tagged
of as of
type Accounts and Period of type Time. Lets discuss of the additional features
of Accounts and
Time dimension.

Time Balance Reporting: It defines the consolidation of members in the dimension


tagged
as Accounts across the dimension tagged as Time. Lets understand the same by an
Example,
if you remember we have created a Label only member named Inventory, blow is our
hierarchy
now.

Here is our data:

After running the default calc the values at Qtr1 will be:

This is because Opening inventory is marked as TB first and Ending as TB last.


Different
options for TB are None, First, Last, Average. First is used when you want parent
values in time
dimension to represent the first value, Last for the last value and Average is for the
Average
value. What if we have #Missing and Zero, we do have some Skip options: None,
Missing,
Zero and both. When Skip option is set to none, Zero and Missing values
are considered when
Parent values are calculated. (None is the default setting). When Missing is selected
then
#Missing values are excluded when Parent values are calculated. When Zero is
selected Zero
values are excluded and when #Missing and Zero is selected as Skip option then
both Missing
and Zero are executed when parent values are calculated. Lets complicate it a bit,
implement a
logic where we will create a calc script that calculates opening and additions. The
opening
inventory value is the ending inventory for the previous month. Additions are the
difference
between ending and opening inventory for the month. January opening inventory is
difference
between Januarys ending inventory and additions. Below is the data which we have
passed to
Essbase:

Here we expect values at the dark green cells, below is the calc script we can on this
data.

you will get this result after executing the above calc script of the data.

Expense Reporting: We always want our actual expense to be lower then


the budget
expense, other wise the variance is not in favor; on the other hand we always want
of profit or
non expense items to be higher then the budgeted one. To explain it in detail we
have added
one more sparse dimension "Scenario" to our outline, there are three non
aggregating child of
Scenario and we edited the member properties of Expense Account and Marked
them for
variance reporting.Set variance expense reporting to true for all the expense
accounts:

Here is the script which we are going to run on our database

The Accounts in Red are Expense Accounts, we Budget our GrossSales as 980 but
it came
out to be 1000 which is a good sign, so we have a positive Variance where as in
case of labor
we budgeted to spent 600 but we actually spent 800 that is unfavorable as a result
though
Actual are more then budget but still Variance is negative.

Apart from @VAR function we can also use @VARPER to calculate


variance percentages.

Cheers..!!!
Rahul
Posted 22nd May 2013 by Rahul Sharma

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