Downside of HFM Account breakdown by thousand of cost center

Hi HFM Expert,
I just want to know your opinion about HFM Account that breaksdown by thousands of Cost Center. The breakdown happen inside the account itself. What is the downside ? Assuming 1 account might have more than one cost center.
And compare with putting the cost center in a separate custom dimension, what is the pros and cons ?
If you have any supporting documents saying about this thing, i'd love to read.
thanks,
anna

Hello - my opionion would be to separate them - Account dimension would contain only your summarized HFM accounts/trial balance, and then a custom dimension for cost center.
When we were on the old Hyperion Enterprise system, we were forced to keep them in one dimension and use sub-accounts - but when we migrated to HFM, we split them up.
Here is a presentation I found that goes through this process and seems to suggest this as the best practice:  http://www.finitsolutions.com/docs/Collab08_HE_to_HFM_BestPractices_HFM_RCybulski_AApple.pdf
Having the cost center in a separate dimension I think does the following (1) simplifies the account structure - for instance if you add a new account, you don't have to add multiple accounts to capture all possible cost center combinations below it - all of the cost centers already exist.  Going the other way, if I add a new cost center, then I don't have to add it for every account - just one addition to the C1 dimension and I'm done.  (2) allows for easier pivoting and reporting analysis by cost center - say I want to see "Net Sales" by cost center - I can more easily see this in a report if my cost center is a separate dimension.
One drawback that we have by separating the dimensions is that we have to make sure the FDM mappings and Journal Entries maintain the proper cost center - so we have created HFM reports to check this - in other words, you want to make sure people aren't mapping data to invalid account/cost center combinations - "Sales Revenue" accounts may have only a few valid cost centers that they should be mapped to - it is easy for someone to make a mistake and map to something invalid.  There may be ways to handle this via the HFM rules - some of the board experts may weigh in on the best way to check for those type of errors.
--BRC

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