Consolidation (EC-CS)

Identifies which types of organizational units are consolidated. Feasible are consolidations based on companies, business areas, profit centers, divisions or branches, the objects of internal cost accounting, and so forth.

Which consolidation type is chosen does not affect the consolidation steps that are taken during consolidation, such as interunit elimination, elimination of interunit profits/losses, etc. This means that all consolidation types are handled in the same manner.

The integration feature of Consolidation with SAP's transaction applications supports data collection for the consolidation types 'company consolidation', 'business area consolidation' and 'profit center consolidation'. Therefore, these types are refered to as integrated consolidation types.