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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2024-09-20
Steps: Set Up Consolidations

Steps: Set Up Consolidations

  • Create a company hierarchy that includes all companies that are part of the consolidation. See Steps: Set Up Companies.
  • Review setup considerations for consolidations and eliminations.
You can:
  • Set up elimination rules for intercompany and interworktag transactions, noncontrolling interest (NCI), and equity pickup.
  • Generate reports to view detailed information about these eliminations:
    • Intercompany and interworktag.
    • Investment in subsidiary and subsidiary equity.
    • NCI.
  1. Select the legal companies that are part of the consolidation hierarchy, and define either of these percentages:
    • Ownership.
    • Claim on assets.
    Security:
    • Set Up: Consolidation
      domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
    • Set Up: Financial Accounting
      domain in the Common Financial Management functional area.
  2. Set up rules for using intercompany affiliate worktags to eliminate ledger accounts for the consolidation.
    Security:
    Set Up: Consolidation
    domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
  3. Define the equity method accounting rules that consolidation investor and investee companies use to eliminate equity pickup earnings.
  4. Record the equity earnings of consolidated subsidiaries onto the books of parent companies.
  5. Set up your tenant to calculate NCI.