Organizational Units ‘Business Area’ and ‘Consolidation Business Area’
In the ‘Enterprise Structure’ Implementation Guide, business areas and consolidation business areas are defined as organizational units.
For information on the organizational unit ‘business area’, please refer to the relevant FI documentation.
Consolidation business areas are organizational units formed for a fixed area of activity or responsibility within a group. For business area consolidation, you need to assign business areas to consolidation business areas. You can summarize data by defining an N:1 relationship (refer to ‘Segment Reporting’ in Business Reporting). However, if you require variable ‘subgroup creation’ down to the detail level in Consolidation, you will need to retain the same level of detail in the assignments.
The following provides an overview of the assignments:
