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eliminated account

An account that is not found in the consolidated file.

embedded dashboard

A type of dashboard component that is created after building a dashboard. This is a dashboard build tactic to create dashboards within dashboards.

employee

A user responsible for specific business objects in an organization.

encoding

Creating, storing, and displaying text through a method for mapping bit combinations to characters. See also code page.

ending balance

The net residual balance in an account at the end of an accounting reporting period that is derived by adding up the transaction totals for the accounting period and then adding that total to the beginning balance in the account.

ending period

The closing period of enabling adjustment of the date range in a chart.

enterprise performance management (EPM)

Manages the business of monitoring performance with data analytics and insights across multiple operating systems and processes to improve business performance of the organization.

enterprise resource performance (ERP)

Runs all the operational pieces of day-to-day business in moving products to customers; a system that records and tracks all the financial properties of an organization, such as inventory costing and accounts payable.

entity

A dimension representing organizational units, such as legal entities, business units, divisions, subsidiaries, plants, regions, products, or other defined units.

equity beta

The riskiness of a stock, measured by the variance between its return and the market return and indicated by an index called beta.

Excel export item

An item that can be added to a OneStream Report Book. This is the Excel exported version of a cube view.

Excel outline level

A feature within Microsoft Excel that enables data to be grouped into different levels based on the column and row headings. OneStream allows this to be set on cube views through the header format properties.

exceptions

Values satisfying predefined conditions.

exchange rate

The value used to convert one currency to another.

exchange rate type

A tag for an exchange rate.

executive dashboards

Visual representations of key business metrics that are critical for efficient business management for executives.

executive reports

Concise reports that provide a summary of the most relevant data or results achieved in a specific period and are used to help executives make business-related decisions.

expense account

An account holding periodic and yearly values that cut net worth when they are positive.

explicit lock

When data locks in each entity due to the assigned workflow profile locking.

extensibility

Inheriting and extending dimension types to give business areas and different scenario types the level of detail they need within the same application.

Extensible Dimensionality

Business units can inherit standard dimensions from a common set that a corporation may maintain which enables organizations to extend those dimensions to suit their processes and reporting needs.

extensible documents (XF Docs)

A reporting tool in OneStream that includes OneStream data in Microsoft Office tools and text files.

extensible finance (XF)

Unifies and simplifies financial consolidation, planning, reporting, analytics, and financial data quality for sophisticated organizations.

external authentication provider

A third-party authentication source used to provide authentication services to applications.

extract, transform, and load (ETL)

Extracting data and migrating it to applications through data-source-specific programs.