Project Accounting (AC) data mart

The Project Accounting data mart was designed as a business solution to compare activities within the organization. The Project Accounting data mart provides an analysis of Project Accounting that can compare department-to-department costs to identify profitability or inefficiency of activities within the organization. Regardless of what your activity is, the Project Accounting data mart provides the necessary analysis to make such decisions as whether to continue, discontinue, or re-engineer activities.

You can define the dimensions for the Project Accounting data mart on Activity Analysis Setup (ACDM.1).

The following dimensions are required for the Project Accounting data mart.

Dimension	Description
Activity	The Activity as defined in the Activity Based Management System. This dimension lets the user select the Activity Group, Activity Group List, or Group List. Activity Group is a group of Activities; the Activity Group List is a group of groups, and the Group List is a group of activities (any item with the object type of ACTVY).
Category	The Category is a chart of accounts for the Activity. This dimension lets the user select a Category Structure, which is comprised of detail and summary account categories. A Category Structure provides up to nine levels of summarization. The user defines the category structure in AC08.2
Periods	Period for analysis.
Years	Year for analysis.
Scenarios	Actual, Budgeted, Committed, and Variance are the Scenarios available.