Errata List for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

The following table lists corrections to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation.

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Page 37 (first Finally, we will discuss how you can use the
paragraph, last application to perform financial consolidation for a
sentence) company that is composed of multiple legal entities and you to objects created in the environment.
generate financial reports that explain the overall
performance of the organization.
Page 71, Table 3.1 Table replaced.
Page 82, Figure 3.12 Figure replaced.
Page 86, point 9 Enter the the description for the next dimension
("Financial Organization").
Page 100, line 3 To access the new application set, ZB_GMPLAN, click
on APSHELL, as shown in Figure 3.26, 10.
Page 112, 2nd Similarly, add a property called PRD_GRP to the
paragraph Product dimension, and create another customer
dimension with the technical name RB_CUSTOMER
and description "RB CUSTOMERS." Add the
PARENTH1 property to this dimension to maintain
hierarchy information for customers.
Page 114, Figure 3.36 Figure replaced.
Page 117, Under Rate: In these cases, the rate application is used to perform
currency translation to one reporting currency.
Finally, we will discuss the architecture of the NetWeaver version
of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and introduce
See new table, available as a separate download.
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Enter the the description for the next dimension ("Company").
To access the new application set, ZRB_GM_PLAN, click on
APSHELL, as shown in Figure 3.26, 10.
Similarly, create another customer dimension with the technical
name RB_CUSTOMER and description "RB CUSTOMERS". Add
the PARENTH1 property to this dimension to maintain hierarchy
information for customers. Please note that we do not add
PARENTH1 hierarchy as a property directly to the dimension, but
while entering data for a dimension. We add it as a column to the
Excel sheet in the maintain member sheet for a dimension and title
it PARENTH1. We will discuss the process of manually entering
data into a dimension in the next section.
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In these cases, the rate application is used to perform currency
translation to one reporting currency. In SAP BusinessObjects
Planning and Consolidation, we can report transactions in more
than one reporting currency.

The rate application (called RATE) is delivered as part of

 APSHELL. The exchange rate data in the RATE application needs
to either manually entered using input templates or loaded into the
application.
Page 120, point 3 You are now prompted to enter the new application You are now prompted to enter the new application name and
name and description. Enter "RB_GM_PLAN" as the description. Enter "ZRB_SALES_CMB" as the technical name and
technical name and "Gross Margin Planning" as the "Actual and Plan Sales Data" as the description for the application
description for the application (Fig 3.39, 3 and 4). (Fig 3.39, 3 and 4).
Page 256, 3rd bullet The TIMEID dimension must include the YEAR, The TIME dimension must include the YEAR, PERIOD, TIMEID,
PERIOD, TIMEID and MONTH-NUM properties. and MONTH-NUM properties.
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