FM Data Model

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Financial Modeling

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Cost Model Definition

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Financial Modeling

Input Output
Staged Expenses Cleansed Expenses Groomed Expenses Cost Allocation Lines
and Unit Costs

Cleansing Conditions Grooming Conditions Allocation Rules

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Expense Stages itfm_gl_data_cleansed
Expense Lines after
Cleansing itfm_gl_data_groomed
itfm_gl_data_staged Expense Lines in buckets
Raw Expense Lines or
GL lines

THE OUTPUT
itfm_allocation_aggregate
Itfm_allocation_breakdown
itfm_allocation
Itfm_unit_costs

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Data Definition
fiscal_period
Generated using Fiscal
Calendar administrator

itfm_cost_model
Cost Models

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Chart of Accounts
itfm_itcoa_hierarchy
Cost model Hierarchy built
out of Segments

dollar
s
roll up

itfm_ca_segment_map
Segments – Captures
Source Transaction table

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Cleansing
•Clean up names, merge duplicates, remove irrelevant
records
itfm_gl_data_cleansed
•You can perform 3 Actions - Merge, Map and Delete Expense Lines with
cleansing rules applied

itfm_cleansing_condition
Rules having cleansing
Conditions

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Bucketing
•Combine related spending into manageable units (‘buckets’
or cost Pools) itfm_bucket
Bucket Definitions

itfm_gl_data_groomed
Expense Lines with
itfm_grooming_condition Buckets associated
Advanced Conditions-
condition_type=advance
d

itfm_grooming_condition
Accounts Dropped to
Bucket
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Allocation
•Define allocation rules for dividing spending in each bucket across accounts and roll it
up
Accounts sourced from Transaction
table of the Segment with conditional
builder and fiscal Validity

itfm_bucket_allocation_rule

itfm_rollup
Segment Rollups

itfm_rollup_override
Account Rollups

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Metric Weight Maps itfm_weight_maps

• Schedule Job generates weight map for metrics every month or every quarter based
on com.glide.fiscal_calendar.fiscal_unit property which is basis of allocation

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Review and Generate
• The cost lines are put in 3 tables - Itfm_allocation_aggregate, Itfm_allocation and
Itfm_allocation_breakdown(only for Controlled)

THE OUTPUT Cost Lines

itfm_allocation_aggregate
itfm_allocation
Itfm_allocation_breakdown
Itfm_unit_costs

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Financial Charging

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Statement Item and Breakdown Types

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Showback Statement Definition

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Showback Statement

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