Question on Time Characteristics across Applications

Hi, I'm wondering how TIme Characteristics should be modeled across 2 different applications like Sales and Financials. For example take Sales Reporting which is based on Calendar and a FI Reporting application based on Fiscal. If I wanted to report on the 2 providers I would need like time characteristics.
Should the Sales Providers contain all of the Calendar Time Characteristics(9) and the FI Providers contain all of the Fiscal and Calendar Time Characteristics(13)? This is about 13 Characteristics which seems excessive for the time dimension? Any other comments on this topic are greatly appreciated!

Hi, Thanks for the reply.
I am trying to get a feel whether I should be comfortable adding both Calendar and Fiscal Time Characteristics in an InfoCube. (That's about 13 Characteristics in the Time Dimension).
We would be having a MultiProvider wtih both sales and FI data so I need like time characteristics to tie the data together. Our FI Data is alway reported as Fiscal, and we report our Sales Data on Calendar. So if I need to report FI data combined with Sales Data I would also need to have the Calendar Time Characteristics in the FI Cube.
So does this scenario sound correct?
Thanks,

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