Defining Submission Phases

Your review process requirements may vary by period. For example, the monthly close cycle might
require a single-phase review process for Balance Sheet and Profit/Loss data in January and
February. For a quarterly month such as March, the quarterly closing review process may require
multiple phased submission cycles for Balance Sheet and Profit/Loss data and supplemental data.

Your review process requirements may also vary by scenario. For example, the Actual scenario
might require only Balance Sheet and Profit/Loss accounts to be submitted for review. For the
Budget scenario, all accounts might be required, and for the Forecast scenario, only Profit/Loss
accounts and supplemental data might be required.

You can use a maximum of nine submission phases in the review process. For example, in the
Actual scenario, you might submit Balance Sheet and Profit/Loss accounts for review in Phase 1,
and supplemental data in Phase 2. In the Budget scenario, you might submit Intercompany data in
Phase 1, Balance Sheet and Profit/Loss accounts in Phase 2, and supplemental data in Phase 3.

You perform these tasks to set up submission phases:

 Set the application and dimension metadata attributes to use submission phases. See Defining
Application Settings.
o Set the UseSubmissionPhase application attribute to Y. By default, the setting for submission
phases is disabled, and you must set this attribute to enable phased submissions in the
application.
o Set SupportSubmissionPhaseForAccounts, SupportSubmissionPhaseForCustom, or
SupportSubmissionPhaseForICP attributes as required. You must define which dimensions
(Account, Custom, and ICP members) are enabled for process management. For example, if the
application needs submission by accounts and not for Custom or Intercompany (ICP)
dimensions, you can select the SupportSubmissionPhaseForAccounts attribute. You must enable
at least one dimension.
 Assign validation accounts. See Defining Application Settings.

The validation account is used in Process Control and for data locking. The validation account amount
must be zero before data can be promoted, approved, or locked.

If you do not want to use validation in Process Control or for data locking, leave the validation
account blank.

If you are using phased submissions, you can specify a separate validation account for each
submission phase. An application can have up to nine submission phases. For applications that use
phased submissions, the Validation Account setting identifies the validation account for phase 1.
Validation accounts 2 through 9 identify the remaining phases.

 Define submission groups and assign submission groups to dimension members. See Setting Up
Submission Groups.
 Assign submission groups to submission phases. See Assigning Submission Groups to Phases.