HOPEX IRM (ERM, Internal Control, LDC) > HOPEX IRM Common Features > Managing your IRM Environment > The Organization > Managing Business Lines
Managing Business Lines
*A business line is a skill or grouping of skills of interest for the enterprise. It corresponds for example to major product segments, to distribution channels or to business activities.
The business lines overview presents the different businesses carried out by the enterprise.
Accessing business lines
To access the different organization business lines:
*In the HOPEX IRM desktop, click My Environment > My Organization > My Business Lines.
From this page you can view trees of business lines of the organization, consult their properties and create new objects.
*The list of business lines owned by a business line is accessible in the properties page of the business line, section Sub-Business Lines.
To access characteristics of a business line:
*Expand the Characteristics section of the properties pane of the business line that interests you.
Specifying business line scope
A business line can be implemented by:
• Org-Units: for more details, see Managing Entities.
• Applications: for more details, see Managing Applications.
• Risks
A business line can be connected to different component types by, for example, Business Processes and Organizational Processes, which use services of the business line. For more details, see Managing Processes.
Defining gross incomes in HOPEX LDC
The HOPEX IRM desktop enables the Incident and Loss Administrator to enter gross incomes for the organization so as to perform a BIA analysis.
*For more details on this report, see BIA Approach.
Gross Incomes are linked to business lines.
To create a gross income:
1. Click My Environment > My Organization > Gross Incomes.
2. Click New and open the property page of the income created.
3. Select a Business Line in the corresponding field.
4. Select a Begin Date and Date Date to define a time period.
5. Enter a Revenue Amount.