Sequence of Activities & Divestiture

Our 4.0 implementation uses the default COI sequence of activities below:
Seq #     Act.     Activity text                   Stop here
1     01     First Consolidation
2     16     Horizontal Merger
3     04     Amortization of Fair Value Adjustments
4     05     Increase in Capitalization
5     06     Reduction in Capitalization
6     07     Step Acquisition
7     08     Partial Transfer
8     09     Total Transfer
9     17     Vertical Merger
10     10     Partial Divestiture                           X
11     11     Total Divestiture
12     12     Liquidation
13     13     Reclassification of Treasury Stock
14     14     Amortization of Investment
15     15     Writeup of Investment
16     02     Subsequent Consolidation
17     03     Amortization of Goodwill
18     18     Distribution of Dividends
When we recorded an end-of-period total divestiture (via AFD), the COI log does the following:
1.     Partial divestiture from 100% to 0% - reversing first consolidation elimination of investment, recording 100% to minority interest balance sheet, and recording gains
2.     Subsequent consolidation because ownership is now considered 100% the entire earnings for the period of divestiture is recorded as minority interest
3.     Total divestiture reversing first consolidation elimination of equity, reversing minority interest balance sheet from partial divestiture above, and gain for earnings of period of divestiture
What bothers me is that subsequent earnings recoded 100% minority interest. Why would this occur when the divestiture is at the end of the period per the master data? Should the activity sequence number for subsequent consolidation change to a number lower that for partial and total divestiture, but remain after the Stop? If so what are the consequences?
The only other alternative I can think of is to leave the activity sequence alone and record the divestiture at the beginning of the next period.
Any help with this is appreciated.

Dan,
Been looking at this myself these last few days. I know conventional wisdom is to not touch the sequence, but I can't see the delivered sequence working correctly (ever) in the case of divestitures if there is activity in the period. As discussed, perhaps this is what makes people chose the DABP option.
In addition to your case with the M/I due to the subsequent consolidation, if you were to issue a dividend in the period of divestiture that dividend income would be reclassed to minority interest as well.
My solution on the dividends to was to bring the activity above the partial transfer step, with the reasoning that in the event of a transfer you would be dividending to the old parent, not the new parent. Testing so far of our likely C/I activites seems to work with the sequence as desired.
For the subsequent consolidation I'm also having issues that we've PL30 topsided around, but I wouldn't want to do that in a transfer because of the income statement adjustments that would be necessary and the statistical account impact. In a future total divestiture activity, the gain/lose would be incorrectly calculated unless I got those statistical balances spot on to agree with the manual PL30.
I suspect the subsequent consolidation should be after the total transfer or vertical merger, with the reasoning that this activity should be performed in the new parent (err...cons group) in this case. Haven't had a chance to test all our likely activities with this scenario, but will probably need a solution real soon.
I'm familiar w/ this note on the topic, wihch is essentially the help.sap.com documentation in a little more technical detail:
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/698955
But I'm not aware of any other documentation on the subject.
Finally....I remember when I took the SEM240 class a while ago they harped on not touching the default sequence, but those of us in the room with a live implementation had all changed from the default sequence.
Anyway...I don't really have a question or helpful info. Just surprised there's nothing more on the topic.
Chris

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