FI-LC: Consolidation of Business Areas
Description
The Consolidation System has been enhanced with the option to consolidate on business area level. To do this, cross-business area postings with the trading partner business area are assigned in the operative systems FI, FI-AA, CO, MM and SD.
In the Consolidation system, companies/business areas (or trading partner and trading partner business area) are substituted with a so-called consolidated company.
Changing the system parameters in Customizing
Execute the steps in chapter "Business Area Consolidation" in the
Implementation Guide for Preparations for Consolidation. Start with step 
Activate Business Area Balance Sheets .
Dependent functions
The following transactions automatically set up the trading partner
business area:
Transfers of a fixed asset to another business area
Inventory transfers into another trading partner business area
Purchase orders to members of a consolidation group, which refer to the
purchase order number.
Further notes
If you want to transfer the data for a consolidation of business areas from
the Extended G/L by rollup, this database must contain the following
fields:
RASSC - trading partner
SBUSA - trading partner business area
As a reference for the definition of a rollup, please use the standard rollup 1-FILC-1.
When activating the update of the consolidation of business areas, you should activate the writing of journal entries (single lines) in Ledger Maintenance. Then, for every G/L document, an additional consolidation document is generated, which can be used to check how companies and business areas were substituted.