Essbase - (Accounts|Measures) Dimensions

About

Accounts dimensions are dimension that contains items that you want to measure, and makes Essbase built-in accounting functionality available.

Accounting classifications.

Ex:

• income
• expense
• profit
• inventory

Ex static Account:

• unit
• price
• sales

Articles Related

Calculations

For a dimension tagged as accounts dimension, you have two types of calculations :

• time balance
• and variance.

Rules when tagging a dimension as accounts

• You can tag only one dimension in an outline as accounts.
• All members in the accounts dimension inherit the accounts property.
• You can specify that members of the accounts dimension are calculated on the second pass through an outline.
• You can create an outline that does not have an accounts dimension.