Choose Consolidation Methods
Audience: Admins who manage models with consolidation.
The consolidation methods determines how subsidiary accounts roll up to parent company's.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
- Your model must have the consolidation capability. Contact us for more information.
- Security:ModelandConsolidation.
- 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
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): - From the sheet toolbar, click Settings.
- Select the radio button next to the method you want activated.
- 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.
- 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.
- If you choose Full:
- From the Minority Interest Account drop-down, choose the system account that holds the calculated adjustment.
- From the General Ledger Account, choose the net income account used to calculate the adjustment. This should be the parent net income account.
- Click.Apply
- Save the sheet.