Investment , equity data

Does all intercompany investment, equity data in ECC has to be captured with trading partner field to execute the COI function in BCS?
Suppose it is not captured with trading partner field, what are the alternative options.

Exactly...if you have:
PL00 CompA   InvInSubs   InvesteeBlank    DR 100
just book
PL10 CompA   InvInSubs   InvesteeBlank    CR 100
PL10 CompA   InvInSubs   InvesteeB        DR 100
The CoI will consider PL00 --> 20 as long as you check off the manual doc types in the Location of Values portion of the CoI Settings in the WB.
EDIT:  Just to be clear, when you say "Equity Data in ECC" I assume you are talking about reported data from the GL (PL00).  Not to be confused with Equity Data and Investment Data in the BCS Additional Financial Data (if you're using AFD).

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    Dear experts,
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    Does anyone know what I am missing?
    Thanks in advance.
    Kind regards,
    Sónia

    Hi Sonia
    i dont want to confuse you as Dan is guiding so far. let me put my thoughts some here.
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       - CU- B                   12/2008  to 999/9999
       - CU - C                  12/2008 to 999/9999
    do you have any another sub node for CU-B and CU-C? as B has investment in C
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       - CU -A    12/08 to 999/9999
       - CU - B    12/08 to 12/9999
       - CU - C     12/08 to 12/2009
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        -CU-B
           I---  CG2
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                 CU - C                12/09 to 999/9999
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    How did you maintain B investments in C at CG1 12/08 level?
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  • How to define the same FS item in configuration activites of Equity Data ?

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  • Opening Balance of Investment/Equity.

    As we are migrating to BCS system the investment by one entity is not match with equity in another intercompany.
    I understand when we execute the COI function initially after loading the opening balance ,the balancing entry goes to Goodwill.
    But can these entry be adjusted against the Retained earning due to business scenario since the aquisition is old one, except for BCS.
    The question is:
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    2.Can the COI function be configured in such a way for selected company codes that these differences go to 'Retained earnings' automatically than update the goodwill.
    3.Can a reclassifcation function be used at level 30 to transfer such entry from Goodwill to retained earnings account.
    Appreciate to share your experience..Points will be awarded will be helpful answers.

    1. In many cases we use manual entry for posting level 30 adjustments. However I recommend you include the retained earnings at the time of go-live with the first consolidation AFD entries.
    2. It may be possible (not sure) to use retained earnings as the goodwill account in the COI configuration and subsequently change it to the true good will account after the cut-over of first consolidation period. That is unless there is actually a situation where goodwill should be posted in the first period.
    3. A reclassification could be used for this conversion. If so, I recommend the task be removed after the first period of using BCS, or the method be limited to the period and year of first consolidation with BCS. As with 2 above, this will not work if there is actually a situation where goodwill should be posted in the first period.

  • Investment Order data not picking

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  • Cons of Investment & Equity Holdings

    I am uncertain about how Cons of Investment and BCS reporting handles Equity held (minority) entities.
    It is my understanding that instead of including all of the line items as with majority owned entities, the equity held entities are only accounted for with the Investment and proportional share of earnings.
    When the entity in included in BCs with the entire balance sheet and P&L accounts, how does the reporting/system know to exclude this, or is it eliminated as part of Cons of Investment?
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    I have the answer. The BCS virtual infocube for reporting has logic that reads the accounting technique assignments and determines what to include and exclude for this.

  • COI Question

    When the AFD Investment, Equity table is updated manually, the investor , investee details are filled in.
    But if the investment, Equity data has to be read from 'Totals table', do we have to ensure thru the BDC that investor, investee data is filled in?
    Is the Investor , investee fields filling in is must for both ' Investee Data' and 'Equity Data' , when the data is entered in ECC? or can it be filled in BI transformation logic for this accounts? is there any other options..
    Please let me your views, experience on this...

    Yes the BDC should require investee for investment data. However it is not necessary for this information for equity data.
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  • COI Investment data reading

    if the AFD Investment data has to be read thru 'Totals' tables does it require that all ECC entry for investment need to have the Percentage of investment, Investee fields to be filled in? Can the system read the 'ECC Investment data' with out these fields?
    Is there any other way to populate these fields when reaching from ECC to BI/BCS?
    Is there any other additional fields to be captured in ECC for Investment entries other than above two fields?

    Hi Eugene,
    I really need your advice on my AFD things. Hope you can help
    Now my Location Values of AFD are as follows:
    Read Investment Data From : Additional Financial Data
    Read Equity Data From : Additional Financial Data
    Read Equity Holdings Adjs From : Additional Financial Data
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    So I only select : "Extraordinary Amortization of Goodwill & Extraordinary Amortization of Negative Goodwill" per method.
    My question is, for first consolidation, what should I put in AFD manual data entry as first step to record investment, equity & the goodwill? Will the system calculate the goodwill automatically or we need to manually entered journal entry for impairment test?
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  • ECCS - G06020 First consolidation data for unit x in group G2 contains err

    Dear Experts,
      When I try to consolidate the investment, I got error message as below:
    First consolidation data for unit E in group G2 contains error(s)
    Message no. G06020
    Diagnosis
    Investment or equity data was collected for consolidation unit x for a date that is after the period of first consolidation in consolidation group G2. This makes all activities for this unit ineffective after the first consolidation of those activities. This can also affect indirect activities and organizational changes of other consolidation units.
    Procedure
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    The background information is described as below:
      This is the first consolidation, I have run all tasks of data collection and elimination of AR/AP and Dividends.
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    Flex Yang

    How can you solve this problem?, please guide me to solve this problem, i have similar problem, thanks.

  • Equity to Purchase

    Guys,
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    the question is :
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    Thanks for replying.
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    in configuration "appropriation of RE" -> net income , i set net income-method change = FSI "RE method change"
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    When i run the CoI task, system will automatically put +100 +20 =120 in RE method change.
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  • SEM BCS: Historical data

    Hi! All,
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    Regards,
    Victor

    Hi Collet,
    Please find below the comments for your earlier posts.
    we are copying all the data types in copy task.
    1) Equity data DSO is already generated.
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    3) already done.
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    Regards,
    Magesh

  • Reparenting - of equity consolidated units upward in hierarchy

    Hi experts,
    We're doing reparenting of a cons unit (upward in a hierarchy) : The scenario is explained as under:
    There are two hierarchies in a single version. The consolidation units falling under both hierarchies are same. Difference being - H1 is a flat hierarchy with parent A and all other as subsidiaries (100% owned and purchase method consolidated)
    H2: Has multiple levels (conso groups) with overall parent A. All other companies are equity consolidated (ofcourse parents in each group is assigned purchase method, ownership is again 100% of all units)
    In H2: we're doing a reparenting. From a lower conso group(cons group CGB with parent B) a unit(unit C) is moving to the top conso group(cons group CGA with parent A). The master data changes in both conso groups have been made(period/yr of divestiture and period/yr of acquisition set in the sender group and receiver group respectively; added the cons unit C in CGA group).
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    After the conso group change task and COI task are run, in the report there is a difference in the equity PY surplus at level A - overall parent) in both hierarchies.
    There are two equity pickups - A/c1 and A/c2
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    2. They'd ideally want the PY surplus to goto the COI clearing.
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    Why is the system behaving differently for A/c1 (and A/c2)and PY - RE account?
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    Edited by: A J on Nov 17, 2009 3:17 PM

    Thanks Dan.
    Appreciate if you can help on the below points as well.
    1. As part of divestiture/transfer postings: The system is reversing some Previous Year(PY) equity accounts into themselves. How can we get the system to eliminate them by posting to COI Clearing account. Basically, we dont want the PY accounts to be touched?
    For the Retained earnings - PY account, the system is actually posting to COI clearing account.
    These PY accounts are part of some scopes for equitization.
    Is there any link between the "balance carry forward" - list of items table and the divestiture postings?
    Does the system check this table while posting/reversing the equity(PY) accounts?
    2. I want to understand the sequence in which the system posts the documents at the old parent and new parent (group) level.
    The same activity number is there  for Total Divestiture, total transfer documents posted at new parent level and total divestiture document posted at old parent level.
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  • BCS 604 SP6 - Change to Consolidation Group extra features

    Hi All,
    We've upgraded from SP0 to SP6 and noticed some new options for CCG config:
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    - Document Type
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    I have not used the 1st "Separation of Goodwill".
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  • COI- Error message-B/S-I/S balance 1.00 USD

    Hi,
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    Message no. UCD1011
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    The document to be posted is not completely in balance.
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    KK,
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    Minority interest is only applicable for purchase method cons units and will not calculate or post for equity held cons units.
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    Edited by: Dan Sullivan on May 13, 2008 3:31 PM
    Edited by: Dan Sullivan on May 13, 2008 3:33 PM

  • Increase in Capitalization.

    Hi BCS experts,
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    Note: while running the first consolidation with the same type of data with 01 activity, the system posts the difference perfectly in either Goodwill +ve or Goodwill -ve
    Bhavesh Parmar.

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    It should in real senese knowk off the Equity and investments and post the difference in one FS item only and not Two as just explained above
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