Consolidation Dimensions and Consolidation Dimension Elements
Last updated on 2025-07-08
Overview
The consolidation dimension acts as an important link: It connects your existing organization elements with the consolidation areas. Organization elements represent, e.g., companies, business units, segments or cost centers.
The consolidation dimension defines whether the consolidation is to take place by companies, by business units or according to another scheme.
All similar consolidation dimension elements are summarized in a consolidation dimension.
During configuration, consolidation dimension elements can be linked to the organization elements of the single-entity financial statements by a unique reference. For the consolidation, the consolidation dimension elements adopt the data from the organization elements.
The consolidation dimension element itself does not contain values in the form of figures or the like; it primarily determines the configuration of the consolidation dimension element with regard to partners and currency.
This article contains the following sections:
Creating a Consolidation Dimension
To be able to create consolidation dimension elements, you must first create the corresponding consolidation dimension.
Do one of the following:
- Right-click the Consolidation dimensions folder in the tree view and choose Create | Consolidation dimension from the context menu.
- Select the group under which the consolidation dimension is to be created and click Create consolidation dimension in the detail view.
Create consolidation dimension
Enter a name for the element and click Save.
When creating a new group, the consolidation dimension Legal consolidation is automatically created, which can be deleted or renamed as required.
Deleting or Editing a Consolidation Dimension
To delete a consolidation dimension, right-click the desired element and select Delete from the context menu.
To edit the name of a consolidation dimension, click Edit in the detail view of the element.
Creating a Consolidation Dimension Element
To create one or several consolidation dimension elements:
- Select the consolidation dimension under which the consolidation dimension element is to be created in the structure view and choose one of the following options:
- From the context menu, select Create | Consolidation dimension element.
- In the detail view, click Create consolidation dimension element.
The Create consolidation dimension element dialog is displayed as follows:
Create consolidation dimension element
- In the drop-down list, select the organization element(s) that you want to reference as consolidation dimension elements and click Apply selection.
- Select if you want to Create and assign a partner automatically.
If you do not activate the option, you can subsequently create the partner manually and/or assign it to already created partners (see Deleting or Editing Consolidation Dimension Element). - Click Save.
The consolidation dimension elements are created and the detail view of the consolidation dimension is shown as follows, for example:
Details of a configured consolidation dimension
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Deleting or Editing Consolidation Dimension Element
To delete a consolidation dimension element from a consolidation dimension, right-click the desired consolidation dimension element and select Delete from the context menu.
To edit the details of a consolidation dimension element, click Edit in the detail view of the element. The following details can be edited:
Edit details of a consolidation dimension element