Question on consolidation using Essbase

Hi There,
We only have Essbase, we have Finance cube for Company P&L, Balance, the usual stuff. The company will merge with another company at end of the year, So we have company A and company B, both have its own chart of account, and department dimension.
The goal is to build cosolidation view with combined companies, I am suggesting using Essbase to do this, maybe we can build new Essbase cube for consolidated company, I am guess that I have to:
1. Map both companies chart of accounts into one, maybe setup new essbase only Chart of account for this? same with Department dimension
2. Then map GL data based on new dimension and load it to new cube
Does this sound right approach? Or any advice/suggestion in other approach?
Thanks
Edited by: Donny on Mar 1, 2013 1:15 PM

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