Working with Account Intelligence

In this section, you will learn how to use the Dimension Wizard and the Account Intelligence features of the Business Intelligence Wizard to add financial analysis to the AdventureWorks cube. The Account Intelligence features depend on the relational table used to create the Account dimension. This relational table must contain a record for each account and a parent-child relationship that defines the hierarchy of the chart of accounts. It must also contain a column with the unary operators that determine how an account aggregates into its parent account. Additionally, the table must contain a column specifying the member’s account type. When adding Account Intelligence to your Account dimension, you will identify ...

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