Zero View and Settings in HFM

Hyperion Financial Management: Zero View and Default View Settings First of all, the aribute applies only to ow accounts (revenue, expense, and ow). The seng tells F! how to interpret "issing values. For the vast "a#ority of F! applica$ons, %ctual data is loaded &T'. For perfor"ance reasons we do not want to load eros, and so we suppress the" in the data load process. f a cell had a value last "onth, and there is no value in the current "onth, a seng of *&T'* tells F! that the "issing value should be interpreted as &T' ero. n order to acco"plish this, F! will derive a nega$ve value on a +eriodic basis, in order to arrive at a &T' ero. The sa"e holds true for data co"ing fro" #ournals. f you post a #ournal to an intersec$on in one period, and do not post any #ournals to the sa"e intersec$on in the next period, the ero-iewFor%d#s seng *&T'* tells F! to derive a nega$ve nu"ber in the ad#ust"ent node to arrive at a &T' ero for the intersec$on. This is the "ain reason why "ost F! users dont need reversing entries // F! will reverse the vast "a#ority of ad#ust"ents based on this seng. 0hen either is set to +eriodic, the situa$on is very di1erent. F! will interpret the "issing data as a +eriodic ero, and on a &T' basis it will si"ply carry forward the previous periods &T' a"ount. This is "ost co""on for +eriodic scenarios such as 2udget or Forecast.

One of the most common areas of confusion in Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) has been the Scenario application setting for the Default View and Zero Zero View View !eering bac" into the history of Hyperion Solutions# you will $nd this setting has e%isted in all the &onsolidation products# such as Hyperion 'nterprises 'nterpr ises missing *alues+ setting under &ategories ,hey are not new features features and are a fundamental to HFM

ZEROVIEFOR!D" !#D ZEROVIEFOR#O#!D"  ,here are two ZeroView settings in HFM ,he ZeroViewFor#onad$ is a setting which applies to the -'ntity &urrency. Value dimension ,he second is the ZeroViewFor!d$ which applies a setting to the -'ntity &urr /d0s. Value dimension member  ,he deri*ed data that results from the ZeroView settings commonly appears in HFM as a slightly grey numeric *alue# as opposed to a blac" display found with standard data 1efore we e%plain what it does# lets tal" about why we need it !art of Hyperion Financial Managements $nancial intelligence is its /ccount  ,ypes ,hese types help to manage data 2owing through the chart of accounts and support *ariance reporting 

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/sset 4iability 1alance Flow 5roup4abel &urrency 1alance3ecurring  ,he 3e*enue# '%pense and Flow /ccount types are referred to as 2ow+ accounts and tend to support !ro$t and 4oss reporting /s such# they are supported by the View dimension ,he View dimension allows data to be *iewed# "eyed or loaded as 6,D or !eriodic amounts Data entered as periodic sales of 78999 to all months would allow users to *iew December as !eriodic 78999 or 6,D 78:#999 

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 ,he ZeroView setting informs the HFM Scenario how to handle data for a 2ow account when no data is loaded to a !eriod ;o data is not a