Group Reporting - Matrix Consolidation

Matrix consolidation covers consolidation for management-oriented organizational units such as profit center and business segment. This functionality addresses the needs of business unit managers and group controllers who need to respond rapidly to changes resulting from internal organization unit restructuring and who need to focus on specific internal performance figures and not the entire group financial statement. 

Matrix consolidation introduces new reporting dimensions that are derived at report run-time and not persisted in the universal journal. These virtual organizational units allow the reporting user to show inter-unit eliminations at the correct hierarchy level. 

Key Process Steps Covered

  • Prepare data
  • Load data from SAP S/4HANA and outside sources
  • Validate data with sets of built-in controls
  • Consolidate data
  • Perform reporting

Benefits

  • Provides configuration functionality for managerial entities for inclusion in matrix consolidation
  • Incorporates managerial consolidation entities in the standard consolidation process flow
  • Allows flexible reporting across managerial unit hierarchies showing eliminations on the correct management hierarchy nodes