An arbitrary group of multiple consolidation units and/or consolidation groups created for the purpose of consolidation and reporting.

You can use the characteristic with the role consolidation group to portray the structure of your corporate group. Depending on the complexity of your group, you can:

• Group the consolidation units into one consolidation group
• Create multiple consolidation groups and arrange them in a hierarchy.
• Build, in parallel, multiple hierarchies of consolidation groups to structure the organizational units according to different perspectives (for example, regional or product-specific perspectives)

Each characteristic consolidation unit is assigned to a characteristic consolidation group – see example: