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Adaptive Planning
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Choose Consolidation Methods

Choose Consolidation Methods

Audience: Admins who manage models with consolidation.
The consolidation methods determines how subsidiary accounts roll up to parent company's.

Prerequisites

  • Your model must have the consolidation capability. Contact us for more information.
  • Security:
    Model
    and
    Consolidation
    .
  • Organize your levels so that subsidiaries roll up to parent companies.
Trigger Considerations
  • Full consolidation triggers at a specified percent of ownership.
  • Full consolidation follows a specific method. Once activated, it works for any level whose ownership falls within the range.
  • You must also activate a method for ownership ranges that fall below the trigger for Full. If Full triggers at 50%, you must choose a method for percentages below 50%.
Prerequisites For Full Consolidation
Net Income must be a rollup account with child accounts:
  • Net income (prior to adjustment).
  • System account for minority interest adjustment.

Navigation

Navigation Icon5.png From the nav menu click
Modeling
. From the
Others
menu, click
Consolidation Percentages
to open the sheet.

Choose and Define Methods

Watch the video
(0m 55s):

  1. From the sheet toolbar, click Settings.
  2. Select the radio button next to the method you want activated.
  3. In the From (%) field, enter the minimum percent of ownership that triggers the method. For example, if you enter 70%, any level that owns 70% or more triggers the method.
  4. The To (%) field, prefills to complete the 100% range through all activated methods. This defines the end of the ownership range for the method. In the example, any level that's owned 69.99% or less, follows the No Consolidation method.
  5. If you choose Full:
    1. From the Minority Interest Account drop-down, choose the system account that holds the calculated adjustment.
    2. From the General Ledger Account, choose the net income account used to calculate the adjustment. This should be the parent net income account.
  6. Click
    Apply
    .
  7. Save the sheet.