High-Volume Consolidation Method

Use high-volume consolidations to combine balances for online review and financial reporting. To use high-volume consolidations, you combine balances under a fictitious company that you create solely for this purpose. For example, you can use a fictitious company to consolidate actual balances for each region or division of your company.

Advantages of the high-volume consolidation method are:

• Enables you to consolidate large balances and numbers of companies or business units.

• Enables you to use the results in financial reporting.

• Enables you to use batch mode for running consolidations overnight.

  Processing in batch mode is useful for consolidating many of business units or accounts, or both.

Disadvantages of the high-volume consolidation method are:

• Requires additional disk space because several programs add records to tables and build a new database that contains consolidation information.

• Prevents real-time access, due to batch mode.

• Requires you to delete the prior consolidation and then refresh the consolidation to update a consolidation with new account balance information.

• Is limited to one category code per consolidation.