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Financial Data Items

Chapter summary

This chapter describes how to create and maintain financial data items.

Who should read this chapter

You need to know the information in this chapter if you are one of the following:

• An administrator who creates financial data items for personal use and for distribution to users of the shared database that you administer

• A Budget workstation user who creates financial data items for personal use and uses financial data items that have been distributed to you

• An Analyst workstation user who, although unable to create or maintain financial data items, wishes to gain a basic understanding of financial data items

List of topics

This chapter includes the following topics:

• About Financial Data Items

• Creating Financial Data Items

• Specifying How Sparse Data is Handled in Financial Data Items

• Specifying Dimension Order for Financial Data Items

• Modifying Financial Data Items

• Copying Data in Financial Data Items