Oracle Financial Reporting and Analysis Cloud 2017 Implementation Essentials — Question 9

Your client uses Resource Breakdown Structures (RBS) and Resource Mapping to associate amounts to resources. After making some changes to the resources at project level, forecasts are regenerated. After reviewing the cost amounts associated with the resources, you suspect that the cost association does not match your client's expectations.
Identify two valid rules based on which cost association works. (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. If one branch contains a user-defined resource type, precedence is given to the branch that contains a user-defined resource type.
• B. If a transaction maps to more than one level, Oracle PPM Cloud sums the precedence numbers for all resource type in the branch, and gives precedence to the resource element in the branch with the highest sum.
• C. If there is only one level in RBS to which the transaction maps, the cost amounts are mapped to that level.
• D. If the sum of precedence numbers is the same for more than one branch, precedence is given to the branch with the lowest number at the lowest level.

Correct answer: A, D

Explanation

Option A is correct because it states that branches with user-defined resource types take precedence, which is a fundamental rule of cost association. Option D is also valid as it explains that when precedence numbers are equal, the branch with the lowest value at the lowest level is favored. Options B and C are incorrect because they describe processes that do not directly relate to the prioritization rules for cost association.