Consolidation · Group finance FinanceOS module

Group Finance & Consolidation

When the board asks where a group figure comes from, can anyone answer without opening the consolidation workbook?

Group finance is the consolidated view across legal entities: currencies, intercompany, eliminations and the group result. In FinanceOS it is intended to read from the same canonical model the operational domains already use.

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Why today's systems do not close it

Three places the work leaks out.

Every entity reports in its own shape

Mapping happens per entity, per period, usually by the same person, and it is correct until that person is away.

Intercompany is discovered late

Differences between entities surface in the consolidation, which is the most expensive place to find them.

The group figure cannot be opened

It can be presented and defended, but not traced back to the transaction that produced it.

Capabilities

What it does, concretely.

Entity and structureLegal entities, ownership and reporting structure as governed data with change history.
Canonical projectionSource data from different systems projected into one finance model, with provenance kept.
Currency treatmentTranslation with source-true rates, and the translation effect shown rather than absorbed.
IntercompanyMatching between entities during the period, not only at consolidation.
EliminationsRules as configuration with an owner, and their effect visible per line.
Group and entity in one placeThe same data at two resolutions, so the explanation is a drill rather than a search.
Structural changeReorganisations and acquisitions handled as events, so comparability is stated rather than assumed.
End to end

How it runs.

EntitiesSeveral systems
ProjectionOne finance model
IntercompanyMatched during the period
TranslationSource-true rates
Group viewConsolidated
ExplanationDown to the source
Intercompany

A balance is not closed because it was eliminated.

Intercompany is not a footnote to consolidation but a cycle of its own, per partner pair and period. It does not end with the elimination but with a closure you can retrieve later.

Partner pair and periodEvery balance belongs to a partner pair and a period. That is the unit in which reconciliation, decision and closure happen.
The reported stateBoth sides report from their own posting system. The comparison shows where they mean the same thing — and where they do not.
A difference with an ownerEvery difference becomes a record with an owner and a deadline, not a line in a reconciliation file. The clearing stays on the balance.
Elimination with a remainderThe elimination builds on the reconciled state. What is left as a residual difference stays named — with a reason and a decision.
Evidence per partner pairWho confirmed, when, and on what basis stays retrievable. At the next close the work does not start again.
The rule stays the ruleThe charging basis, the terms and the corridors are owned where they are set. This cycle executes them; it does not replace them.

Where your posting system or your consolidation system carries intercompany natively, it stays there. This level works upstream: it carries the reconciled state and the evidence the elimination builds on. The full chain is on intercompany reconciliation.

Control and evidence

Who may do what, and what it leaves behind.

Who may see which entityGroup visibility and entity visibility are separate rights.
Rules are versionedAn elimination rule that changes does not silently rewrite the comparison period.
Explainability is the deliverableA group figure that cannot be traced is treated as incomplete.
Connected value

This module does not end here.

Each of these is a link. FinanceOS is worth more with every relevant domain that joins, because the domains work on one finance model instead of exchanging files.

Group FinanceAccounting & CloseFinanceOS module The entity close feeds the group view instead of preceding a second exercise. Group FinanceTreasury & Liquidity Liquidity read across the same entity structure the group reports in. Group FinanceMargin & ProfitabilityFinanceOS module Group profitability and entity profitability from the same allocation logic. Group FinancePlanning & CFO IntelligenceFinanceOS module Group planning and entity planning stop diverging by construction.

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Where this module takes part

Chains this module appears in.

Each chain starts with a business event and ends at a decision that is documented and closed. What this module contributes to it is stated on the chain.

Close exception → evidenceChain Carries the entity number into the group view and keeps the path back to transaction and decision. Intercompany reconciliationChain Runs the comparison per partner pair and period and holds what was reported, what was eliminated and what is still open.
Status

Where this module stands

Where this module stands

This module is part of FinanceOS and works on the same finance model, the same cross-functional capabilities and the same foundation as every other module. Its capabilities differ in maturity, and each one says which. What is not marked, we do not claim.

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