Business Intelligence Tutorial

Examining account properties

In this exercise you will examine special properties for members of the accounts dimension:

  1. On the Set Account Properties page, you can change the following properties for members of the Accounts dimension:

    Time Balance
    This property defines how a member's parent is calculated in the Time dimension. The parent can represent the value of the first member. The default value of None allows an existing calculation associated with the member to determine the parent. Other values include First (the first value in a time period), Last (the last value in a time period), or Average (an average of all the values in the time period).

    Skip
    This property determines whether to skip a member when calculating a parent.

    Variance Reporting
    In Variance Reporting, the difference between budget and actual data is calculated.

    Set Account Properties page
  2. For the Accounts dimension, you can set these properties for each member:
  3. Click Next and the Name Filters page is displayed.


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