---
title: "Elimination of Intercompany Profit or Loss in Current Assets"
source_url: https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/consolidation/consolidation-2/configuring-consolidation-apps/elimination-of-profit-or-loss-in-current-assets
language: en
last_updated: 2023-08-16
---
# Creating and Configuring the Elimination of Intercompany Profit or Loss in Current Assets

## Overview

- You can use the **Elimination of Intercompany Profit or Loss in Current Assets** app to eliminate intercompany profits and losses from sales and services between companies within a group.
- In this process, **intercompany relationships** are formed between the consolidation units within a consolidation group based on previously assigned **partner information** and the **investment relationships** within the company. The values that arise during interim elimination are posted to selected accounts.
- Optionally, the following functions can also be activated:
- Automatic reclassifications in the balance sheet and/or profit or loss statement
- Automatic posting of deferred taxes to the profit adjustment

## Configuring the Elimination of Intercompany Profit or Loss in Current Assets

To configure the app for **elimination of intercompany profit or loss in current assets**, click the app in the structure view and click **Edit** in the displayed dialog.

Configure the steps as described below.

### Settings

In the **Settings** step, specify general settings for consolidation.

Schritt 'Einstellungen'

#### Create postings

Time of consolidation

**Per month**

The app eliminates the intercompany transactions in each month of the consolidation period and creates monthly consolidation postings.

**Accumulated at the end of the period**

The app eliminates the intercompany transactions accumulated in the last month of the consolidation period and creates a consolidation posting only in the last month of the consolidation period.

{% info-box %}
For each consolidation unit that is deconsolidated during the consolidation period, an accumulated consolidation posting is carried out in the last month of inclusion in the consolidation area.
{% /info-box %}

#### Elimination options

Additional options for consolidation:

- Select the **Recognize deferred tax** option if deferred taxes arising from the elimination of intercompany profit or loss are to be recognized in current assets. The **Deferred Tax** step will then be displayed.
- Select the **Perform reclassification** option if account balances within the balance sheet and/or profit and loss statement are to be reclassified. The **Reclassifications** step will then be displayed.

#### Consolidation area and/or unit

Consolidation groups and/or units of the selected group for which the consolidation is to be performed

**By default**, **all** consolidation areas and units within the group are included in the consolidation.

If you only want to include certain consolidation groups and units in the consolidation, activate the **Individual selection** check box and select one of the following options:

- **Individual**\
\
In the table, select individual consolidation areas and/or consolidation units to be considered in the consolidation.
- **Exclude**\
\
In the table, select the consolidation areas and/or consolidation units that are to be excluded from consolidation.

{% info-box %}
If you choose **Individual** or **Exclude**, the app will perform no eliminations for intercompany transactions of the excluded consolidation units.
{% /info-box %}

### Adjustment levels

In the **Adjustment levels** step, specify the adjustment levels for consolidation.

Schritt 'Bewertungsebenen'

#### Basis

Adjustment level group containing all adjustment levels for **data imports** and **adjustment postings** which need to be considered during consolidation.

Please ensure that this adjustment level group contains the adjustment level for [proportioning](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/consolidation/consolidation-2/data-transfer-and-proportioning.md).

#### Target

Adjustment level for consolidation postings to be used for the postings.

### Elimination

In the **Elimination** step, specify the accounts and transaction types for the elimination of intercompany profit or loss.

Schritt 'Eliminierung'

#### Balance sheet elimination accounts

- Click **Add row** and select the balance sheet items and/or accounts that contain the intercompany profit or loss in current assets (inventories) from the **Account or item** dropdown list. As part of the elimination process, these amounts are reversed from the selected inventory accounts and eliminated from the service provider’s P&L statement.

- Then, for each account or item, select the **transaction type** to be used for the elimination posting.

#### P&L elimination account

- Select the **account** in the P&L statement from which the intercompany profit or loss is to be eliminated. This account relates to changes in inventory.
- Then select the **transaction type** to be used for the elimination posting.

### Deferred tax

The **Deferred tax** step is displayed as soon as you have activated the **Recognize deferred tax** option in the **Settings** step.

In the **Deferred tax** step, specify the accounts to which any deferral taxes should be posted.

Schritt 'Latente Steuern'

#### Balance sheet

Configure the **accounts** and **transaction** types for posting **deferred tax assets** and **deferred tax liabilities** arising from the elimination of intercompany profit or loss.

The app automatically determines whether to post **deferred tax assets or liabilities** based on the elimination direction (profit vs. loss).

- Deferred tax assets are recognized when the elimination creates a deductible temporary difference.
- Deferred tax liabilities are recognized when the elimination creates a taxable temporary difference.

#### Profit or loss

Configure the **accounts** and **transaction types** for posting **deferred tax income** and **deferred tax expense** in the statement of profit or loss.

These accounts serve as counter-postings to the deferred tax assets and liabilities in the balance sheet.

The app automatically determines whether to post deferred tax income or expense based on the elimination direction (profit vs. loss).

### Reclassifications

The **Reclassifications** step is displayed as soon as you have activated the **Perform reclassification** option in the **Settings** step.

In the **Reclassifications** step, specify the balance sheet and/or P&L accounts to which values should be reclassified and the transaction type to be used for the postings.

Schritt 'Umgliederungen'

#### Balance sheet

Activate the **Perform reclassification within the balance sheet** option to split intercompany inventory balances after elimination and select the account and the transaction type to be used for the recalassification in the balance sheet.

The app automatically reclassifies the base cost portion (100% - profit/loss rate) from the original inventory accounts to the target account you specify here.

#### Profit or loss

Activate the **Perform reclassification within the P&L** option to redistribute eliminated intercompany profit or loss amounts across different P&L accounts.

Then configure **debit and credit accounts** below to split the elimination impact into specific line items.

The reclassification percentage is configured independently in the **Percentages** step.

### Percentages

In the **Percentages** step, specify the percentages to be used when calculating values during the elimination of intercompany profit or loss. Optionally, you can specify different percentages for specific intercompany relationships.

You can configure this step **manually** or **retrieve** percentages from a statistical book.

**Manual Configuration**

If you want to configure the percentages manually, select the **Manual configuration** option. The step will then be displayed as follows:

Schritt 'Prozentsätze' bei manueller Konfiguration

Then configure the following options:

#### Default values

Under **Default values**, specify the percentages for:

- The calculation of the IC elimination rate
- The balance sheet reclassification rate
- The P&L reclassification rate
- The calculation of the deferred tax rate

The field balance sheet reclassification rate or the P&L reclassification rate is only displayed if you have enabled **Reclassifications with** in the b **alance Sheet** or **Reclassification wthin the P&L** in the **Reclasifications** step.

#### Additional settings

Select the **Additional settings** option to specify **percentages that differ from the default values** for individual intercompany relationships.

Then configure the **Deviating values** table as follows:

{% stepper %}
{% stepper-step %}
Click **Add row** to add a new row.
{% /stepper-step %}
{% stepper-step %}
In the **Intercompany relationship** column, first select the **Seller** and then the **Buyer** of the intercompany relationship for which you want to specify different percentages.
{% /stepper-step %}
{% stepper-step %}
In the following columns, configure the different values in the same way as the default values.
{% /stepper-step %}
{% /stepper %}

**Retrieving percentages from a statistical ledger**

If you want to retrieve percentages from a statistical ledger, select the **Retrieve percentages from a statistical ledger** option. The step will then be displayed as follows:

Schritt 'Prozentsätze' bei automatischer Ermittlung

Then select the statistical accounts that contain the percentages used to calculate the eliminations. Depending on the options you selected in the **Settings** and **Reclassifications** steps, the following statistical accounts are required:

- Intercompany elimination rate
- Balance sheet reclassifcation rate
- P&L reclassification Rate
- Deferred tax Rate

The app retrieves the values from these accounts during execution. The accounts must be of the **Percentage** type **with carry over from previous periods**.

{% idea-box %}
- As long as a step has not been fully configured and/or configuration errors exist, it is displayed with a red exclamation mark .
- Once a step is configured completely and without any errors, it is displayed with a green check mark .
- You can close the configuration dialog by clicking the arrow icon at the top left.
- To change the name of the app, select the app in the tree view and choose **Properties** from the context menu.
{% /idea-box %}

## Executing the Elimination of Intercompany Profit or Loss in Current Assets

You can execute the app for elimination of intercompany profit or loss in current assets either **separately**, together with other apps in an **executable folder** or as part of **consolidated financial statements**.

How to proceed in each case is described under [Execute consolidation](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/consolidation/consolidation-2/executing-consolidation.md).

## Displaying and Deleting Created Elements

On the **Created elements** tab, the difference reports and postings that were created during the app execution are shown.

The table provides the following information:

- **Type** of the element
- **Path** under which the element was created When you click on the link, you are taken directly to the posting in the relevant [journal](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/imports-journals/journale.md) or to the report.
- Date of the **last execution** that created the element

Tab 'Created elements'

## Displaying the App Properties

The **App properties** are displayed on the tab of the same name:

'Properties' tab

The following **App properties** are displayed:

- **Type** of the element
- Function of the **App**
- **Version** of the element.

**New available version**

As soon as a new version of the app is available that contains changes to the app configuration and/or the calculation logic of the app, the **Refresh** command is displayed, allowing you to update the app to the latest version.

Information about the changes to each version can be found in the **Release Notes**, which can be accessed via the link of the same name.

{% warning-box %}
We {% u %}strongly recommend{% /u %} to update all apps to the new version as soon as possible because it cannot be guaranteed how long an app with an obsolete version can be executed.
{% /warning-box %}