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title: "Executing the Consolidation"
description: "Different options are available for executing the consolidation and for creating the respective consolidation postings. You can:\n- Execute individual consolidation apps separately\n- Execute multiple consolidation apps jointly in a so-called executable folder\n- Execute entire consolidated financial statements including all child elements"
source_url: https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/consolidation/consolidation-2/executing-consolidation
language: en
last_updated: 2023-08-16
---
# Executing the Consolidation

## Overview

Different options are available for executing the consolidation and for creating the respective consolidation postings. You can:

- Execute individual consolidation apps **separately**
- Execute multiple consolidation apps **jointly in a so-called executable folder**
- Execute entire **consolidated financial statements** including all child elements

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**Note for customers who have used apps of the Consolidation 2 or Consolidation 2 Next Generation in Lucanet.Financial Client**

For information on the apps supported in the CFO Solution Platform, please read the [Notes on Migration from Lucanet.Financial Client](https://support.lucanet.cloud/en/documentation/consolidation-financial-planning/consolidation/consolidation-2/configuring-consolidation-apps/migration-from-lnfc.md).
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## Executing a Consolidation App Separately

Once you have created and configured an app in the **Consolidated financial statements** workspace, you can execute the app. Do one of the following:

- In the upper right corner of the **editing dialog of the app**, click **Execute**:
Executing the app from the detail view

- In the overview table in the **Consolidated financial statements** workspace, click **Execute** in the **Actions** column.:
Executing an app in the overview table

## Combining Consolidation Apps and Executing Them Together

To maintain an overview of a large number of elements, any number of **executable folders** can be created in the **Consolidated financial statements** workspace for better structuring.

In executable folders, several **Consolidated financial statements** elements and/or **consolidation apps** can **be combined and executed**.

Executable folders can be created under the following elements:

- **Consolidated financial statements** root folder
- **Consolidated financial statement** elements
- Executable folder

This is how you group elements in a folder in the **Consolidated financial statements** workspace and execute them:

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In the **structure view**, select the **element** under which you want to create the executable folder and choose **Create | Folder** from the context menu.
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Enter a **Name** in the **Create folder** dialog and select a desired **Behavior** if there should be an error during execution of the folder:

 - **Continue execution**
 - **Cancel execution**
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**Save** the executable folder.
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Paste the elements to be summarized into the folder. Do one of the following:
 - Add existing elements using the menu commands **Cut** and **Paste**.
 - Create new elements in the folder using the **Create** context menu command.
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Execute the folder and all elements contained in it by clicking **Execute folder** in the **Actions** column in the **overview table**.

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Execute folder

## Executing Consolidated Financial Statements

After preparing the consolidated financial statements in the **Consolidated financial statements** workspace, you can execute the entire consolidated financial statements including all contained elements (apps or executable folders).

To do so, click **Execute consolidated financial statements** in the **Actions** column in the **overview table**.

Execute consolidated financial statements

## Viewing the Execution Status

Whether an app, an executable folder or consolidated financial statements have already been executed and whether the execution was successful is shown in:

The upper right corner of the **detail view** of the app:

Execution status in the detail view

In the **overview table** in the **Consolidated financial statements** workspace in the column **Status**:

Execution status

Following statuses are possible:

- **Not executed**: The element has not been executed or all created elements of an already executed app have been deleted.
- **OK**: The element and, if applicable, all child elements were executed successfully.
- **Error**: An error occurred during execution.
- **Canceled**: Execution has been canceled manually by the user.

In the column **Last execution**, you can also see which **user** executed the element for the last **time**.