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EIGHT STANDARD DIMENSIONS

FOUR CUSTOM DIMENSIONS

Scenario

Period

Year

View

Entity

Value

Account

Intercompany

Partner

SBU

Geographical

Area

Nature

Brand

HFM Reporting Dimensions

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Dimensions

Dimensions describe your organization’s data.

ACCOUNT

E.B.I.T.

Gross

Contribution

Margin

Gross Profit

Commission

Payables

Operative

Expenses

Depreciation

&

Amortization

Other fixed

cost of

structure

ENTITY

GROUP

001

007

008

009

011

012

017

.......

PERIOD

Quarter 1

January

February

March

.......Transportati

on

Salaries

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Dimension Hierarchies

E.B.I.T.

GROSS MARGIN

FULL COST OF

SALES

TOTAL

NET SALES

NET VALUE

PRODUCTION

OTHER

REVENUES

Parent of

Gross

Margin

600

200

400

900

500

Descendants of Gross Margin

Base of Gross Margin

Children of

Gross

MarginSERVICE PROCEEDS AND

COMMISSION PROCEEDS

100

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E.B.I.T.

GROSS MARGIN

FULL COST OF

SALES

TOTAL

NET SALES

NET VALUE

PRODUCTION

OTHER

REVENUES

600

200

400

900

500

Data is input to

base-level

membersData

aggregates to the parents

SERVICE PROCEEDS AND

COMMISSION PROCEEDS

100

Dimension and Data

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Scenario

These are the main Scenario

with final version of data

These are

Technical Scenarios

Example of Scenario for first

draft of data (not final version)

The Scenario dimension

represents a set of related

data, such as Actual, Budget,

Forecast or Plan.

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Year

The “Year” dimension represents

the year in which the data is

viewed. This dimension contains

also foreseen and past years

(historical data)

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Period

The “Period” dimension manages the parts / periods

in which the year can be subdivided. Some elements

are organized hierarchically. (i.e. the third quarter is

the sum of July, August and September)

The Months are the “Base members” of the Period

Dimension.

The Quarters, Half Year e Total Year are the “Parent

Members” of the “Period” dimension.

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View

The “View” dimension allows to view the

data with different frequencies (year to

date “YTD” or Periodic). This dimension

is typically pre-defined and associated to

a specific Scenario and kind of data

(P&L or Net Revenues - Sales).

In the running Reporting application, you

must load P&L data (and its related

“Other Information”) in Monthly / Periodic

“View” only for Budget Scenario. Other

data must be loaded in YTD “View”.

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Entity

The “Entity” dimension shows the organizational

structure of Poltrona Frau Group. “Base

members” can be “Legal Entity” / Company or

“Organizational Units” (for example DOS /

Stores).

Example of “Base Members” for the “Entity”

dimension.

Here appear the “Parent members” of this dimension

that allow to calculate different Consolidation

structures.

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ICP

The “ICP” dimension includes all Entities /

Companies defined “Intercompany

(Partner)” by the System Administrator.

The “Base members” of this dimension

have the same encoding and description

of “Entity” dimension.

For “Third Parties” transactions you have

to use the Intercompany element “[ICP

None]”.

This dimension has two “Parent

members”:

• “[ICP Entities]” that includes all

Intercompany transactions;

• “[ICP Top]” that includes both “Third

Parties” transaction and “Intercompany

(Partner)” ones.

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Account

The “Account” dimension defines the

chart of accounts for the application.

This dimension is organized in a

hierarchy that allows to obtain calculated

accounts, subtotals or margins until the

final results (at the level of the P&L

data).

For financial accounts (in currency), you

must make the data entry in thousands

of the local currency of your Company

(the so called “<Entity Currency>”).

The Costs must be book in absolute

value (without “-“).

Custom dimensions provide additional

detail for accounts.

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Custom 1 - Brand

In the running Reporting application the

Custom1 details the “Brand” dimension.

If this detail is not expected or not

available, you can select the generic or

neutral [None] element

These are some codes of the “Custom1 /

Brand” dimension

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Custom 2 – Strategic Business Unit

In the running Reporting application

the “Custom2” details the “Business /

Strategic Business Unit (SBU)”

dimension.

This detail is required for all financial

accounts (in currency)

These are some codes of the

“Custom2 / Business” dimension

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Custom 3 – Geographical Area

In the running Reporting application

the “Custom3” gives the detail for

Geographical Area

This detail is required for the Net

Revenues – Sales only.

For other accounts you can select the

generic or neutral “[None]” element

This is an example of the current

hierarchy of this dimension

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Custom 4 - Nature

In the running Reporting application

the “Custom4” dimension details the

nature of the data

This dimension is required for all

accounts

When you make the data entry you

must select the generic or neutral

“[None]” element while when you book

writings / journals (“Entity / Company

adjustments”) you have to select a

specific Nature contained in “Company

Adjustment” (“CompAdjs”) hierarchy

The “T_ADJ / Aggregate” and “TOTC4

/ Consolidate” elements are the main

“Parent members”

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Value

Entity Currency stores the original input or loaded value.

Contribution Total stores the value that aggregates to the parent.

These members store the intermediary values used to deriveContribution Total.

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Custom 4 and Value

Value

Custom4

Entity CurrencyEntity Currency

Adjustment

Entity Currency

Total

Parent Currency

or EUR (only for

foreign Entities /

Companies)

None - InputGiven input in

local currency

Given input

translated to Euro

Company-AdjJournal adjustment

in local currency

Adjustment amount

translated to Euro

T-Adj –

AggregateInput+/-Adjustment

in local currency

Input+/-Adjustment

translated to Euro

TotC4 -

Consolidate

Input+/-Adjustment

in local currency

Input+/-Adjustment

translated to Euro

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Custom 4 and Value - Example

Value

Custom4

Entity

Currency

Entity Currency

Adjustment

Entity Currency

Total

Parent Currency or

EUR

None - Input 217,40 158,92

Company-Adj 7,48 5,47

T-Adj –Aggregate 224,88 164,38

TotC4 - Consolidate 224,88 164,38

We can see a numeric example: the Entity U.S. “018 - CAPP - CAPP USA” enters on system 217.40

KUSD of Rents. Then it writes a Journal (Company adjustment) to increase this cost for 7.478 KUSD.

The rate used to translate from USD to Euro is 1.37

Correctly merging Values and Custom4 members, the Company will be able to find the following

results.