Assets Held for Sale

If you acquire a subsidiary with an intention for sale or if the intention for sale for a subsidiary arises while the subsidiary is part of the group, you must report the assets and liabilities for this company separately in the consolidated balance sheet. You can use the Financials, Group Close, Assets Held for Sale business function to specify the time of the intention for sale of a consolidation unit for specific consolidation groups and to reclassify all balance sheet items as two target items for assets held for sale and liabilities held for sale.

Due to the intention for sale, a consolidation-group-dependent revaluation of assets held for sale may also be required. However, you cannot post minority interest for this revaluation. This business function allows you to suppress reporting of minority interest for consolidation-group-dependent entries for the relevant document types.

As of the time of the intention for sale, the depreciation of assets must be suppressed. Using this business function, you can revoke the planned depreciation of assets or liabilities by consolidation group. You can also suppress the posting of depreciation adjustments in documents of tasks for the elimination of interunit profit/loss in transferred assets.

Discontinued Operations

When an entire business area discontinues operations, you have to report the equity holdings adjustments separately. You can use this business function to reclassify all income statement items as one single target item for discontinued operations as of the point in time when a consolidation unit discontinues operations.

For more information, see Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued Operations.

Handling of Key Figures with a Zero Value in Data Collection

You can specify that when the data collection methods Load from Data Stream or Copy are used with the update mode Delete All, the system is to ignore any data records in which all key figures are zero in the source environment.

For more information, see Control of Data Collection Using Update Mode.

Historical Currency Translation Without Consolidation of Investments

You can perform the historical currency translation based on additional financial data without having to activate the consolidation of investments.

For more information, see Historical Currency Translation According to Investments or Equity.

Document Type Assignment in the Balance Carryforward

In the Customizing settings for balance carryforwards, you can define a document type assignment. To do this, you assign an automatic target document type to a manual source document type. You can use this function to carry forward manual adjusting entries in the subsequent period to automatic document types with the same properties.

For more information, see Document Type Assignment for Balance Carryforwards.

Compare Investment to Equity

You can specify whether the function to compare investment to equity in the consolidation of investments is to display error messages or simply warning messages. If you reported the investment outside the particular consolidation group, it may be more beneficial to display a warning message rather than an error message.

For more information, see System Utilization.

Hiding Statistical Items in the Log of Consolidation of Investments

You can dynamically show or hide statistical items in the log for consolidation of investments.

For more information, see System Utilization.

Goodwill in Local Currency for Equity Method

When you use the equity method, you can carry goodwill in the local currency of the investee unit.

For more information, see Customizing for Goodwill in Local Currency.

Equity Method with Group Shares

You can perform the equity method with group shares.

For more information, see Subsequent Consolidation and Example: Subsequent Consolidation.

Consistency Check for Manual Document Types

You can use a report to check and correct the consistency in the control of document fields for manual document types with respect to the data model.

For more information, see Fixing or Hiding of Subassignments.