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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Steps: Set Up Consolidation Companies

Steps: Set Up Consolidation Companies

  • Create a company hierarchy that includes all companies that are part of the consolidation.
  • Review setup considerations for consolidations and eliminations.
You can:
  • Set up ownership for investments in subsidiaries, noncontrolling interest (NCI), and elimination rules for equity pickup.
  • Generate reports to view detailed information about these eliminations:
    • Intercompany and interworktag.
    • Investment in subsidiary and subsidiary equity.
    • NCI.
  1. Select the legal companies that are part of the consolidation hierarchy, and define either of these percentages:
    • Ownership.
    • Income attribution.
    Security:
    • Set Up: Consolidation
      domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
    • Set Up: Financial Accounting
      domain in the Common Financial Management functional area.
  2. Set up rules for using intercompany affiliate worktags to eliminate ledger accounts for the consolidation.
    Security:
    Set Up: Consolidation
    domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
  3. If you're new to Workday, you don't have access to the
    Investment in Subsidiary/Subsidiary Equity (To Be Retired)
    tab on the
    Maintain Elimination Rules
    task.
    Security:
    Set Up: Consolidation
    domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
  4. Set up your tenant for NCI using either:
  5. Define the equity method accounting rules that consolidation investor and investee companies use to eliminate equity pickup earnings.
  6. View these eliminations by running the standard composite consolidated trial balance report:
    • Investment in subsidiary and subsidiary equity eliminations, including any NCI portion.
    • NCI activity.
    • Equity pickup.
    You can view equity pickup journals in a:
    • Standard trial balance report.
    • Composite consolidated trial balance report.