Loading HX YTD Data for Actuals

Question

Should my scenario be set to anything specific if I am loading HX YTD values for my income statement, balance sheet and stats and why? We have had some issues with the data loading accurately and have found that the if we load the data month by month it seems to work. However if we load multiple months the numbers seem to carry and mess up months either before or after that month.
We have set
Name- Actual
Def Parent #root
Def Freq MTD
Def View YTD
Zero View for NA Periodic
Zero View for Adj Periodic
Consolidate YTD is checked

Answer 1

This is an unusuall configuration, and one I would not recommend. If you load data YTD, I recommend making both ZeroView settings also YTD. The setting tells HFM that in the absence of a number loaded to an intersection, HFM should interpret the missing number as a YTD zero. In order to do that, HFM will derive a negative Periodic number equal to the prior period's YTD value.
The only time we see ZeroView set to Periodic is for forecasting/budgeting, where users will enter periodic amounts and they want HFM to assume the lack of a number implies zero on a Periodic basis. In this case, you are asking HFM to bring forward the prior period's YTD amount. This is also predicated on the idea that Actual data should be loaded YTD, to ensure that changes to data in prior periods gets captured - you do not want to reload prior periods.
It is very important to note that we do not want to load zeros to HFM which is why it is so important to get this setting right.
One more point: this setting only impacts flow accounts - it has no bearing on balance accounts.
--Chris