Consolidation Unit (SAP Library - Consolidation (EC-CS))

Consolidation Unit

Definition

Smallest element in a corporate group structure that can be used as a basis of complete consolidation.

Use

This business object can have different contents: A consolidation unit can be such things as a company, business areas within a company, or profit centers within a company. What a consolidation unit is made up of depends on the consolidation type for which you are using the consolidation units.

Internal accounting transactions that are to be eliminated by consolidation are processed between the consolidation units. In an accounting transaction, a consolidation unit can be the triggering consolidation unit or the partner unit.

Structure

The consolidation unit depends on the dimension in which it was created. This means that the master record you create for a consolidation unit exists only in that dimension.

You make the following entries in the master record of a consolidation unit:

You enter master data such as the name, language key, correspondence data, local currency key, and the reason for inclusion
You enter attributes, for example the country. You can use these in reports and in addition in the consolidation functions validation, interunit elimination and reclassification.

Note

You can define your own attributes according to your special requirements, so-called custom attributes of the consolidation unit.

You assign control parameters such as the financial data type, translation method, tax rate, and data transfer method

Some of the master data and control parameters that you specify in the master record is valid only in dependency on other data. In particular, some data in the master record is date- and version-sensitive. The following table shows the dependencies for selected data (this list is incomplete):

Dependencies:

	Fiscal year effective	Period effective	Version	Period category	Ledger
Local currency	X
Financial data type	X
Data transfer method			Version for data entry
Validation			Version for data entry	X
Currency translation method	X	X	Version for currency translation
Fiscal year variant					X

Integration

A prerequisite for integrated data transfer in the case of company consolidations or profit center consolidations is that the organizational units in consolidation be based on the operational organizational units.

The maintenance screen of the consolidation hierarchy provides a function with which you can structure the organizational units. You create rules in Customizing in which you specify which codes and names you want the system to assign when you structure the organizational units.

See also: Copy Organizational Units in the Implementation Guide for SAP Consolidation

Assignment Between Operational Organizational Units and Consolidation Units

Operational Organizational Units	Consolidation Units
Company code	Company
Company code / Business area	Company / Consolidation business area
Company code / Profit center	Company / Profit center