Consolidation is only ever as sound as the master data beneath it. Before a single elimination runs, the model has to agree on what an entity is, what an account is, and where a posting lives. This is the structure we build — and the structure we look for first when a landscape isn't tying out.
Design · Nomenclature · Transparency
FS items — the financial-statement line every posting maps to.
Cost and P&L classification carried alongside the FS item.
Balance-sheet movements and functional-area breakdowns beneath each FS item.
What a posting is, and where in the consolidation it sits — PL00 through PL30.
Two-sided elimination of intercompany balances and P&L at unit level, trued up at the group.
Elimination of the parent's investment against subsidiary equity, at the group level.
A short review of the master data usually explains more than a month of reconciliations.
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