Definicja preparation for consolidation (EC-CS)

Co znaczy PREPARATION FOR CONSOLIDATION (EC-CS):

The preparation of reported financial data to ensure that such data can be passed on to the Consolidation application in a form in which it can then be processed.

These preparations are a prerequisite for the automatic transfer of data from the SAP applications Financial Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Materials Management and Sales and Distribution into the Consolidation application.

These systems, in which data is initially entered prior to consolidation, have the capability of managing the necessary account assignments in their documents and passing them on to the Consolidation application when data is transferred.

The following are examples of account assignments:

Subitem Partner unit Currency Acquisition year

Some of the functions involved in preparations for consolidation can also be used independently of the SAP Consolidation application to reconcile payables and receivables or revenue and expenditure between consolidation units, and to send data to the parent company's Consolidation system.