About Assured Display Formats

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When data for a certain period is entered or changed, what impact does it have on data for subsequent periods? The desirable answer is "none." However, when considering "Display Formats," we need to define more precisely what "none" means.

Take sales revenue as an example. We start with a situation where no data exists. The initial state of the data is as follows (assuming the fiscal year starts in January).

assured view per before

Entering the sales revenue for January changes the state of the data as follows. Note that the values for February and subsequent months are "unaffected."

assured view per after

Now, let’s see how the annual cumulative value of sales revenue is affected before and after the entry.

assured view ytd before
assured view ytd after

Changing the data for January from 0 to 100 has also changed the numbers for subsequent months. Since the cumulative value for February = value for January + value for February, and if the value for January is changed and the value for February is "unaffected," then it’s natural for the cumulative value for February to be affected.

Considering various cases about such impacts on subsequent periods, we find the following rules:

  • Over a single fiscal year, changing the numbers for a certain period can only leave the numbers for subsequent periods unchanged for one display format.

  • Which display format to choose for this purpose is arbitrary.

In fusion_place, this "display format unaffected by changes in preceding periods' numbers" is called the "Assured Display Format."

Which display format should be chosen as the assured display format may vary depending on the scenario. For example, in budget and actual management operations, it might be convenient to enter monthly values for the budget and annual cumulative values for actuals. In this case, you would choose "Monthly" as the assured display format for the "Budget" scenario and "Annual Cumulative" for the "Actuals."

Considering such needs, fusion_place allows specifying an assured display format for each scenario.