Shared Members

Steve Pankrath

1. What is your idea?

The idea is to be able to show a member in an unbalanced hierarchy twice (or even more) in order to show correct overall company result.

2. What specific problem are you trying to find a solution to, or what new scenario would this idea respond to?

We are currently building a new reporting set incl. PnL structure in Board. We came across the problem, that a handful accounts are shown twice in our PnL structure. Among the structure they are first taken into account for example the calculation of EBITA and then taken out for the ADJ_EBIT calculation (in my example Acc_XX and Acc_YY). Please see my example down below.

ADJ_EBIT
  +EBITA
    +Sum1
      +Sum2
        +Acc_XX
        +Acc_12
    +Sum4
      +Acc_YY
      +Acc_65

  -Acc_XX
  -Acc_YY

It would be great to have the opportunity to show it like that. The second version of the entity member would just be a so called "shared member", which is basically just a copy of the original version.

 4. What is your role in your organization?

I am the repsonsible person for Board in our company in regards to further develop the system and administrate it.