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Configuration - Create a Metric in the Account

Metrics define the measurements to meet in a covenant. You can apply platform metrics to any accounts in the platform, whereas you can only apply account metrics to a specific account.

Notes:

  • Only administrators can create account metrics.
  • Only Finance Active administrators can create platform metrics.

 

Prerequisites

Contact your Finance Active consultant to:

 

Navigate to the Account Metrics
  1. Log in to your Fairways Debt account and select a customer account, if relevant.
  2. Navigate to Applications Applications.png > Account Administration.
  3. Click Account > Account Metrics.

In this example, we log in to the Main City account.

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Create a Metric in the Account
  1. Click Add Metric.

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  1. Select a metric type.
Metric Type Description
Manual Metric Custom data to enter.
Formula Metric Custom computation formula to configure.

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  1. Complete the form with all relevant details.

Note: Fields marked with an asterisk * are mandatory.

Field Description
Name Metric name.
Description Additional details about the metric.
Format

Metric data type.

Note: Different formats display depending on the metric type selected.

Scope

Note: This field only displays for formula metrics.

Metric scope: either at entity level or at transaction level.

A transaction-level metric can be linked to any transaction within the perimeter to create a covenant.
When defining a formula metric at transaction level, indicators used in the formula will be retrieved at the transaction level, not the entity level.

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Field Description
Perimeters Borrower(s) to which the metric applies.

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Field Description
Formula

Note: This field only displays for formula metrics.

Metric computation formula.

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  1. Click Apply.

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The new metric displays in the Metrics section.
If you have entered a description, you can hover over the information icon InformationIcon.png in the Description column to view the corresponding data.

If you have entered a fomula, you can hover over the formula icon Formula_Icon.png in the Formula column to display the metric formula.

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Tip: Click the clock icon Clock_Icon.png on the top-right corner to view the change history on a dedicated panel.

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