Define financial dimensions
This procedure shows how to add an entity backed financial dimension and a custom financial dimension. The guide uses the USMF demo company.
Create an entity backed financial dimension
- Go to General ledger > Chart of accounts > Dimensions > Financial dimensions.
- Click New.
- In the Use values from field, select a system-defined entity to base the financial dimension on.
- In the Dimension name field, type a value to describe the financial dimension. The name can be different than the system-defined entity but can't contain spaces or special characters.
- Click Activate. Activating the financial dimension updates the table with the financial dimension name and removes deleted dimensions. You can enter dimension values before you activate a financial dimension, but a financial dimension can't be used until it's activated.
- Click Close on the activation message.
- Click Activate. Dimension activation can be scheduled to run by batch at a specific date and time.
- Click Dimension values. Some dimension values are company specific. You can verify if they are company specific by if the company name is showing in the dimension values list.
Create a custom financial dimension
- Click New.
- In the Use values from field, select Custom dimension.
- In the Dimension name field, type a value to describe the financial dimension.
- The name can't contain spaces or special characters.
- You can specify an account mask to limit the amount and type of information that you can enter for dimension values.
- You can enter characters that remain the same for each dimension value, such as letters or a hyphen. You can also enter number signs (#) and ampersands (&) as placeholders for letters and numbers that will change every time that a dimension value is created. Use a number sign (#) as a placeholder for a number and an ampersand (&) as a placeholder for a letter. Example: To limit the dimension value to the letters CC and three numbers, you enter CC-### as the format mask.
- Click Activate. Activating the financial dimension updates the table with the financial dimension name and removes deleted dimensions. You can enter dimension values before you activate a financial dimension, but a financial dimension cannot be used until it is activated.
- Click Activate. Dimension activation can be scheduled to run by batch at a specific date and time.
- On Action pane, click Dimension values.
- Click New.
- In the Dimension value field, type a name to describe your financial dimension value.
- In the Description field, type a description that describes your financial dimension value.