Financial Consolidation Solution

Preparing accurate consolidated financial statements across a group of companies can be difficult. For many groups the financial consolidation process is traditionally done at year end only. Often the process is carried out by the finance team and auditors.

Financial Consolidation Process

Reasons for a Financial Consolidation System

Traditionally many companies have made use of excel for the financial consolidation. Excel based solutions may be fine for a once off an annual exercise. However Excel solutions are error prone. Furthermore all the consolidation rules have to be built manually.

As the internal and / or external reporting requirements become more demanding a dedicated consolidation system can really help save time. Just adding one of the following requirements would be very difficult and time consuming for excel models:

• Consolidate Monthly or quarterly
• Consolidate Budget and Forecasts as well as actuals
• Group structure changes
• Plan for sales / acquisitions
• Different charts of accounts in group companies
• Matrix reporting

Corporate Planner has developed a complete Corporate Performance Management solution. The platform is generic and is used by all sectors. The core ethos of Corporate Planner is that the finance teams run the system.

Corporate Planner – Financial Consolidation

The Corporate Planner financial consolidation application enables all group companies to streamline their consolidation process.

• Enables fast close
• Independently certified and award winning consolidation application
• A work flow guides the user is setting up the system
• Add companies and account codes from simple dialogue boxes (or import into system)
• Data can be imported directly from ERP systems
• Direct integration and drill down to invoices available
• Supports multiple charts of accounts
• Different accounting formats for subsidiaries and group companies e.g. UK GAAP, IFRS etc
• Multiple Currencies, can cope with historic rates
• Group structures dependent upon time period
• Actual, budget and forecast consolidations
• Automatic eliminations and manual posting options
• Standard consolidation reports pre-installed with the application.
• Matrix reporting (consolidation of segments, regions etc)