Year & period as 1 or 2 dimensions

Up until now, I've created my Essbase cubes with 2 dimensions, 1 for "year" and 1 for "period" ( making period as details as I need to).
Is it better to have the year & period as 1 dimension rather than 2?
I'm about to start created some large cubes and dont want to have to refactor them in the future.
Thanks

There is no right or wrong answer to this question. Depending on the type of cube, the reporting requirements, data distribution, data format and calculation needs one format may be better than the other. There is also a matter of consistancy. If most of your cubes are set up one way, will it confuse users if another cube is different? One comment, if it is an ASO cube or a BSO cube in Version 11, then to take advantage of the date wizard, everything needs to be in one dimension. For ASO cubes this is no problem it is sometimes for a BSO cube

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