Data reconciliation using OBIEE/Answers

Hi
I am new to OBIEE. I am trying to use the OBIEE and Answers for the reconciliation of the accounting entries with transaction data, However This leads to two facts one transaction lines and accounting lines. I can make the transaction lines also dimension. But in such case can I compare the transaction amounts with accounting amounts something like
Transaction Total – Accounting total – difference .
Thanks a lot in advance.

Hi
Still I am not ready with complete data model. However I Can explain. we have the customer, transaction types, date , Currency as dimensions. These dimensions are linked to the transaction Fact where we have the transaction amount like Invoice amount for each Transactions, open balance for each TXtransaction. We have another child table to the transaction table called accounting distribution table. Now i can build two differnt star one for transaction as fact and another one as Accounting flex. In such a case in we join both fact in presentationlayer to get the transaction amount and accounting amount compared. Also another question is can we have the both facts in the same schema. Or any other approach?
Thanks a lot in advance
raj

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