Leaves

A node which does not have any children is called a leaf.

Leaves are the only nodes that can be assigned to Maconomy information and thereby provide the figures to be summed on the parent levels above.

The type of hierarchy (see the description of the field “Type) determines which type of information can be assigned to the leaves. For instance, in a hierarchy of the type “Account,” you assign account numbers to the individual leaves, and the reports using the hierarchy in question will thus show information grouped by account numbers. In the case of our basic example, the type of information is locations, and therefore you can assign values from the Location dimension to the leaves. You can create hierarchies for a number of information types, including each of the G/L dimensions, jobs, activities, customers, vendors and more.

Returning to the example above, the boxes “Boston,” “Los Angeles,” “San Francisco,” “Miami,” “London,” “Manchester,” “Berlin,” and “Hamburg” are leaves, as they do not have any children. By assigning each of these leaves to a location created in the workspace Locations, we specify that each leaf should sum up figures from the location in question, that is, that the leaf “San Francisco” should sum up all figures posted to the location “SF,” the leaf “Los Angeles” should sum up all figures posted to the location “LA,” and so on. Due to the hierarchical structure, the node “California” will now sum up of the figures in the nodes “Los Angeles” and “San Francisco,” and the information is thereby aggregated all the way to the top level.