Consolidation Group

Definition

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

Use

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 multiple, parallel hierarchies of consolidation groups to structure the organizational units according to different perspectives (for example, regional or product-specific perspectives)

Structure

Each consolidation unit characteristic is assigned to a consolidation group characteristic.

Consolidation Unit Characteristics

Consolidation Group Characteristics

Company

Subgroup

Profit center

Profit center group
Posting to a consolidation group

You can not post directly to a consolidation group. If you, nevertheless, want to post values to a consolidation group (for example, for step consolidation or two-sided elimination), you need to create a dedicated consolidation unit (delta node). Then you insert the consolidation unit under Assigned End Node in the master data of the consolidation group. You can not assign a consolidation unit that is already used in the hierarchy.

The system automatically inserts the consolidation unit specified under Assigned End Node into the hierarchy as the first unit beneath the consolidation group. You should post values that are relevant for the consolidation group only to this consolidation unit.

Note Note

To make sure that only group-relevant values are posted to the dedicated consolidation unit, we recommend that you use the same name for both the consolidation group and its delta node.

End of the note.
Attributes of a consolidation group

The Attributes section in the master data of a consolidation group shows all of the consolidation units that belong to that consolidation group. In the attributes, you can define how each individual consolidation unit is consolidated within that group. For example, you specify the year and the period of first consolidation for each consolidation unit.