Customizing tool in consolidation. You use methods to control how the system calculates and posts automatic consolidation entries.

To be able to execute the tasks, assign the methods to the appropriate tasks or consolidation units.

The assignments are always based on the version and time:

The version dependency is established by task versions. There is a separate task version for each task category for which version-dependent assignments are required (such as the method or document type). In customizing, you must assign a task version to the version.

The following types of method assignments are available:

• Assignment of methods to tasks
• Assignment of methods to consolidation units
• Assignment of methods to consolidation units and consolidation groups
• Assignment of data transfer methods to tasks

You assign the methods to tasks with the following task categories:

• Interunit elimination
• Reclassification
• Allocation

You assign a method and document type when you create a new task:

You assign the methods to consolidation units with the following task categories:

• Validation
• Currency translation
• Data collection with flexible upload and manual data entry

You assign a method to a consolidation unit when creating a new task:

This type of assignment applies to: