COI Subsequent Consolidation SAP Help - correct Cons unit?

[Former Member]

The SAP Help for COI Subsequent Consolidation lines 17 and 18 in Purchase Method nominates cons unit A (the parent of the cons unit U which has earnings of -100 in the period).

refer: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/08/fd7b4070ebd462e10000000a155106/frameset.htm

The Items posted to are: Retained Earnings +40; and Net Income (Income Statement) -40.

The SAP Help seems inconsistent with what I see in our BCS system.

Aren't these lines the offsets / balancing entries for lines 3 and 4?

Should the SAP Help really be nominating cons unit U in lines 17 and 18?

[Former Member]

AFAIK, the system already calculate the subsequent consolidation correctly i.e. Retained Earnings +40; and Net Income (Income Statement) -40 as part of the Minority Interest (100%-(75%*80%)).

For your other question as below, I cannot see the journal entries in the provided link:

Aren't these lines the offsets / balancing entries for lines 3 and 4?

Should the SAP Help really be nominating cons unit U in lines 17 and 18?

[Former Member]

Thanks U-one.

The journal is shown in "Example", and I repost it here as the link goes only to the parent.

Line	CU	Partner	Item	Amount
1	U		MI-Currency Translation Differences (CTD)	-40
2	U		Currency Translation Difference	40
3	U		MI-Retained Earnings	-40
4	U		MI-Income Statement	40
5	U		Statistical Net Income	-100
6	U		Statistical Net Income – Offsetting Item	100
7	U		MI-Statistical Net Income	-40
8	U		MI-Statistical Net Income – Offsetting Item	40
9	U		Adjusted Statistical Net Income - Subsequent Consolidation	-100
10	U		MI-Adjusted Statistical Net Income - Subsequent Consolidation	-40
11	U		Statistical Offsetting Item	140
12	A		Adjusted Statistical Net Income – Equity Method	-80
13	A		MI-Adjusted Statistical Net Income - Equity Method	-20
14	A		Statistical Scope of Reported Data – Retained Earnings	-80
15	A		Statistical Scope of Reported Data – CTD	-80
16	A		Statistical Offsetting Item	260
17	A		Retained Earnings	40
18	A		Net Income (income statement)	-40

The amounts I understand.

Should lines 17 and 18 should nominate cons unit U rather than A?

[Former Member]

In my system, line 17 and 18 are assigned to cons unit U and not A like in the given example.

Regarding the question for line 3,4,

technically you can say that they offset each other. The RE should not be recognized as RE for the minority portion therefore the system deduct the RE and add the MI.

Hope it helps.

[dan_sullivan]

Because these are group level entries - posting level 30, it shouldn't matter what cons unit is on the lines, but more importantly is the group value reporting correctly. That's how I view these entries.