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MIT Data Warehouse Balances by Fiscal Period


Tables are listed by alphabetical order. Clicking on a table name will display the fields/columns found in that table.


Table Name

Description

Type

Primary Provider

Sensitivity

Load Frequency

Last Load Date

TIME_MONTH

Monthly calendar information. For use in joining tables to include a time dimension to the report. Use the Time_Month_Key to join.

Dimension

PUBLIC

As Needed

03-MAY-2024

PROJECT

Contains a record for each project work breakdown structure element (WBS Element). Can be used for browsing, establishing limits on fact table queries and providing descriptive information about WBS Elements.

Dimension

SAP Financial

SENSITIVE

Daily

03-MAY-2024

COST_COLLECTOR

Contains Master data information about all three types of cost collectors (Cost Centers, Internal Orders, & Projects/WBS Elements). It only contains the fields common to all three. Cost Collector is a term synonymous with Cost Object.

Dimension

SAP Financial

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024

BALANCES_BY_FISCAL_PERIOD

Contains summary financial information, balance, and department and institute budgets for Cost Collectors. To look at balances as of the end of a fiscal period, use this table. Join this table with TIME_MONTH to select the time period your interested in. (If you pick more than one Fiscal Period, create computed items to separate out FYTD_Amount, Cumulative_Amount and Institute_Budget by fiscal period. Otherwise the totals for these fields will be inflated.)

Fact

SAP Financial

SENSITIVE

Daily

03-MAY-2024

COST_CENTER

Contains MIT Cost Center Ids and related information. It can be used for browsing, establishing limits on fact table queries, and providing descriptive information about Cost Centers.

Dimension

SAP Financial

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024

PROJECT_OSP

Contains both Project information from SAP and additional information from COEUS

Dimension

OSP - MIT Office of Sponsored Programs

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024

BALANCE_SHEET_ACCOUNT

Sub set of cost collectors which represent balance sheet accounts.

Dimension

SAP Financial

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024

PROFIT_CENTER_HIERARCHY

Structure for creating reports which rollup by Profit Center or Profit Center Node. Taken from SAP's Profit Center Hierarchy.

Dimension

SAP Financial

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024

COST_COLLECTORS_ACCESSIBLE

Contains Master data information about all three types of cost objects (Cost Centers, Internal Orders, & Projects/WBS Elements). It contains the fields common to all three, and additional fields such as surcharge percentage and overrun information. This table will only return information about cost collectors that you have been granted access to.

Dimension

SAP Financial

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024

PROFIT_CENTER

Profit Center Dimension. Master data information on Profit Centers including name and id.

Dimension

SAP Financial

SENSITIVE

Daily

03-MAY-2024

FUND_ACCOUNT

Subset of cost collectors defined as Sponsored or Non-Sponsored Funds. (This table should not be confused with SAP funds or fund centers.)

Dimension

SAP Financial

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024

INTERNAL_ORDER

Internal Order Dimension. Contains Master data about all Internal Orders

Dimension

SAP Financial

SENSITIVE

Daily

03-MAY-2024

GL_ACCOUNT

GL Account & Cost Element Dimension. Roughly equivalent to the old Object Code

Dimension

SAP Financial

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024

GL_ACCOUNT_REPORT

GL Account and Cost Element Dimension with built-in mechanism for organizing in preset Cost Element (GL Account) groups, derived from Cost Element Hierarchies (groups) in SAP. The value in the field Report-Type describes the type of grouping as it is defined in SAP. IMPORTANT: "REPORT TYPE" MUST BE SPECIFIED as a limit, for the query to return correct results. For more details see: GL Account Overview

Dimension

SAP Financial

MIT ONLY

Daily

03-MAY-2024