Manual Data Entry of Additional Financial Data

Use

Additional financial data is required either as an alternative or in addition to the data in the totals database (that is, in addition to, or instead of, the balance sheet, the income statement, and similar data).

The following table lists which additional financial data is required for each function:

Function	Additional Financial Data
Capitalization and valuation allowances	Assets and liabilities
Historical currency translation	Investment and equity data
Elimination of interunit profit and loss in transferred inventory	Data concerning the group-internal sales of goods and services: Inventory data Supplier data Supplier share
Elimination of interunit profit and loss in transferred assets	Noncurrent assets Asset transfers Asset matching(*)
Consolidation of investments	Investments Equity Equity holdings adjustments Goodwill Goodwill inheritance() Sequence of activities() Activity number matching for investment and equity data() Activity number matching for equity and equity holdings adjustment data()

*) This is not true additional financial data, but rather an auxiliary function in manual data entry.

Integration

With validation of additional financial data you can compare the monetary values of the additional financial data to the values in the totals database (when respective totals data exists).

Prerequisites

In the data basis , you have created (or had the system automatically generate) InfoProviders for the data streams to be used to record additional financial data (for example, InfoProviders for supplier data, inventory data, supplier shares, investments, equity, and goodwill).

You have completed all customizing settings for all consolidation functions you will use for recording additional financial data (for example, for elimination of interunit profit/loss in transferred inventory and for consolidation of investments).

Features

For the functions listed above, you can manually enter the respective additional financial data using fixed data entry layouts.

You need to enter the additional financial data directly after you have entered the reported financial data.

You execute the task for entering additional financial data in the Consolidation Monitor (along with the other data entry tasks).

You can collect additional financial data for a single consolidation unit or for an entire consolidation group. Since goodwill is group-dependent, you run goodwill entry for a consolidation group.

Activities

A. Customizing Manual Entry of Additional Financial Data

Defining a Data Collection Method

In a data collection method you specify which additional financial data you want to record with the data entry task.

In the process view of the workbench, choose Consolidation Functions ® Data Collection ® Data Collection Method . Choose Display in the context menu.

In the lower left area of the workbench, create a new data collection method or change an existing one.

On the screen of data collection methods, specify which additional financial data is to be recorded:

Choose the Insert symbol to add a new row to the table.

Choose a data stream for the additional financial data (for example, for inventory data and supplier data).

Choose Manual Data Entry as the data collection procedure for these data streams.

Save the data collection method.

Defining a Task

In the process view of the workbench, choose Consolidation Functions ® Data Collection ® Task . Choose Display in the context menu.

In the lower left area of the workbench, create a new task or change an existing one.

Specify the required data on the task screen. When doing this, go to the Assign Methods group box and choose the existing data collection method that provides for entry of additional financial data.

Save the task.

B. Entry of Additional Financial Data

Run the Consolidation Monitor.

Execute (in update mode) the task for entering additional financial data either for one consolidation unit or one consolidation group.

On the data entry overview screen, choose which additional financial data you want to enter (for example, supplier data). Then choose the Execute symbol.

Now, proceed as described in the following sections that discuss each type of additional financial data.

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You can also enter comments for additional financial data .