group accounts
Intragroup PPE Construction: Why Your Consolidated Balance Sheet Is Overstating Fixed Assets — and How to Fix It
The group financial controller at a family-owned logistics and construction business had been running the consolidation for three years before…
Intercompany Eliminations in Multi-Currency Groups: How Foreign Exchange Affects Your Consolidation Adjustments
The finance director of a UK group with subsidiaries in Australia and Singapore described the problem with characteristic understatement: “The…
The Profit That Isn’t There: Eliminating Unrealised Intercompany Margins in a Manufacturing Group
It was the kind of discrepancy that looks small until you trace it back. The group finance manager at a…
How to Prepare a Consolidation Adjustment Schedule
Patrick had been running the group consolidation for two years when the audit firm changed. The outgoing team had known…
Intercompany Eliminations: A Complete Guide for Group Consolidation
When a parent company sells goods to its subsidiary, both sides of that transaction end up in the accounting records.…
Financial Consolidation for Property Groups: SPVs, Intercompany Loans, and Investment Property
David had built his property portfolio steadily over twelve years. What started as a single residential block held in a…
Financial Consolidation for E-commerce Groups: How Multi-Entity Online Retail Businesses Get Clean Group Accounts
A fast-growing online retailer typically starts life as a single entity. Then it expands into a second market, sets up…
10 Signs You’ve Outgrown Excel for Financial Consolidation
Nobody builds a consolidation model in Excel and thinks: this will break us eventually. They build it because it solves…
Financial Consolidation, Explained the Friendly Way
Financial consolidation has a reputation. Ask most accounting students or finance professionals about it and you will hear the same…
Financial Consolidation for Healthcare Groups: How Multi-Entity Medical Businesses Get Clean Group Accounts
The finance director of a mid-sized GP group had a problem she described as “reporting in four different languages.” Her…