Cross company codes CO area

Hi,
What are the pre-requisites to be taken care seriously for a setup where more than one company codes will be assigned to a single controlling area (business in europe and India). The assigned company codes will have different currency and different fiscal varinat. One company code in europe so it has Jan to dec month in fiscal year with 12 posting periods. Other one (Indian business) has Apr- march (next year) in fiscal year variant with 13 posting period.
Thanks
Dinabandhu

Hi
In addition to the points highlighted above, I would like to highlight a few points/gaps
1. Asset closing is linked to Leading Ledger only.. You wont be able to perform any closing for the parallel ledger
2. If you plan to do LTP, you will face challenges... At one time, you can do LTP for one company code only... OMIK settings dont allow multiple company codes as the option.. I have also raised a development request with SAP a couple of years ago for this
3. With regards to planning in CO module - If you choose single controlling area, One of your companies will have to adopt the planning period as per the other company i.e. Either the Indian company will have to adopt Jan-Dec as planning period OR the European company will have to adopt Apr-Mar...Because, Planning in CO happens purely at the controlling area level
4. Period control in CO is also at Controlling area level and not company code..
5. If controlling area currency and comp code currency is different, you face challenges in using IM module as well... I dont recollect this very strongly, as I faced this problem a long time back
My personal choice is to have a separate controlling area when your geographies are different and fiscal year is different...Though the new functionalities of New GL and Parallel ledger are popularized enough, but one needs to look at the flip side of the same as well
Having separare controlling area gives you the flexibility and I dont see any drawbacks of it... You can very well draw the reports together because all report painter/BW reports allow you to customize the reports as you wish
Regards
Ajay M

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hI,
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What transactions you are doing ex: Asset transfer, vendor postings .. ..
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