Corporate Governance - Governance, Risk, and Compliance Topic for Oracle Applications - page 53

In another example, growth in material costs may be estimated to be the current
standard costs extended by the projected volumes and adjusted for an inflationary
index of 2.5 percent. With the Hyperion product the collection and collation of the
planning assumptions is a highly collaborative process.
In order to enter planning assumptions click on the Supporting Detail icon on the
tool bar.
Constructing the Financial plan
When the previous year's data has been collected, the financial model established and
the planning assumptions have been gathered, you can construct the new financial
plan, as well as challenge the assumptions on which it is based.