ear Expert, When I saw the consolidation example in Appshell Appset and I review the business rule "Consolidation

Rules Formulas". That business rule contains the fields like as: Rule ID, Entity Method, Intco Method, All Formula, Group Formula, Minority Formula, and Remark. I just know that the field "Entity Method" and "Intco Method" contains the method code from the business rule "Consolidation Methods". I have the questions like as: 1. We can input the field "Entity Method" and "Intco Method" only one code or the sequence of code in the business rule "Consolidation Rules Formulas". What is the different that we input one code with the several code ? 2. What is the uses of the field "All Formula", "Group Formula", "Minority Formula" ?

Thank you very much for your answer and I really appreciat

Dear Wandi, 1. There is absolutely no difference. If you have one rule with multiple Entity and/or IntCo methods declared in your consolidation rules formulas, it will be executed for each duets of Entity and IntCo methods. It allows you to decrease the number of rules and inprove their maintenance. As an exemple, if you take Rule010 in ApShell, it is span on 3 rows: the first one describes the calculation for a Global Entity method (86) with all IntCo methods (99) and contains specific percentages to eliminate in this situation ("All", Group and Minority formula fields). But the 2 other rows could be consolidated in a single row as their formulas are the same. In this case, we could have the following consolidation rules formula: Rule010; 30,70; 99; POWN; POWN; ; . This rule will then be executed for the Equity Entity method (30) with all IntCo methods as well as for the Proportional Entity method (70) with all IntCo methods. 2. These formula fields should contain the percentages to be eliminated in each situation. : - "All" formula contains the global percentage to be eliminated. It is linked to the Destination "All" account field of the Automatic adjustments details table (at the application level). Please note that this field has to be equal to the sum of the Group percentage and the Minority Interest percentage; - Group formula contains the Group Part percentage to be eliminated; - Minority formula contains the Minority Interest Part percentage to be eliminated. Those percentages are members of the Account dimension of your Ownership application. As an exemple, you can use the following values for percentages: [PCON], [PPCON] (Prior value of the consolidation percentage), [I_PCON] (Intercompany or partner value of the consolidation percentage), etc.

Hope this will help. Best regards, Julian

Dear Julien Dyon, Thank you so much for your information and guidance. For your explanation at point No.1, I have question that how to make the sequence code. Is there have the rule to make the sequence code of Entity Method ? And I have miss information about your statement at point No.2. The statement is "Please note that this field has to be equal to the sum of the Group percentage and the Minority Interest percentage". Would you like please describe me with something like example ? Best Regards,

Dear Wandi Sutandi, Regarding 1), I am not sure I understand correctly your question about "sequence code". But if you want to trigger the rule execution for several methods at the same time, you will nee to input your method codes separated with a comma. Of course, the Method and its associated code should exist in the Consolidation Method table (application set level) prior to being allowed to use it in a rule definition. For exemple, if you would like to have all Entity methods used in a rule, then you can use '99' (meaning every methods) or, in ApShell/LegalApp: 90,86,70,30,20 Regarding 2), if you look at RULE010, you have the following: RULE010 86 99 1 POWN 1-POWN RULE010 RULE010 30 70 99 99 POWN POWN POWN POWN [Null] [Null]

You can notice here that for the first row of the rule, Group formula is set to POWN (Owned shares/Outstanding shares100) and Minority formula is set to 1-POWN (or could also be set to PMIN, since PMIN = 100-(Owned shares/Outstanding shares100)). Therefore, "All" formula is set to 1 since POWN + 1 - POWN = 1. For the 2nd and 3rd rows we could regroup using '30,70' in Entity mehod, the same principle applies: POWN + 0 = POWN. Best regards, Julian

Dear Julien Dyon,

Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate your help because I get consolidation information from you so much. I just want to make sure with my consolidation information which I got from another thread forum. Please tell me If my information is wrong. This my information : 1. I just know that the POWN is the formula as (Owned shares/Outstanding shares*100). The POWN is the OwnAccount member in Ownership application and we have to input that value through input schedule. After that, we run the consolidation script logic through Data Manager(DM). So, If the POWN is the formula, why we should to input that value (% percentage) through the input schedule ? 2. What is the different the field "Rule Type" in business rule "Consolidation Rules" with the field "Method Type" in business rule "Consolidation Methods" ? Because I saw that option is almost same both. 3. After we configured the consolidation business rules, we should to configure the automatic adjustment business rules. Why we should to configure the field "Adjustment Type" in business rule "Automatic Adjustments" ? Because I saw that option(Generic,Equity,Proportional,New,Leaving) is almost same with the option of Rule Type in business rules "Consolidation Rules" and the option of Method Type in business rule "Consolidation Methods". Thank you for your help. Best Regards,

Dear Wandi Sutandi, 1. You are right, POWN is a member of the OwnAccount dimension of the Ownership application and its associated value has to be input via an Input Schedule (or via the Dynamic Hierarchy Editor). In the Ownership application, percentages (PCON, POWN, PMIN) are entered for a specific Group by Entity. POWN is mainly a member of a dimension, but in my previous example, it is a formula, too. 1-POWN is a formula, too, and to allow BPC to correctly calculate and split eliminations, you will have to input data in this member. 2. Rule Type is mainly used to define which rule will be used for Proportional or Equity eliminations. ALL (or blank) refers to any other situation. Method Type is used to define the consolidation (or Entity) method according to the percentage of Control (legal percentage): - % of Control > 50% = Global - 30% < % of Control <50% = Proportional - % of Control < 30% = Equity - 0% = Leaving (or sold company) 3. Here again, you are right. In the Automatic adjustment table, the field Adjustment Type indicates on which entities the elimination rule will be executed. Possible values depend of the Entity method, as for the Method Type in Consolidation Method. Please remember that Consolidation Rules, Method and Formulas are handled at the application set level and Automatic Adjustments at the application level. Best regards, Julian

Dear Julien Dyon, I'm so sorry to give you 2 point right now because the 6 point is disappear. After I read your answer. I try to summarize your information and still have several question likes: 1. You've explained me about the uses of field "ALL Formula", "Group Formula", "Minority Formula", would you like please to tell me when I have to entry the value in that fields ? maybe you can tell me using accounting example (one account example) 2.The POWN is the OwnAccount dimension member and we have to entry that value (% percentage) in Ownership application. Let say that I entry the POWN value is 2% using input schedule in Ownership application, the field "All Formula" is 1, the field "Group Formula" is POWN, and the field "Minority Formula" is 1-POWN. So, the field "Group Formula" and "Minority Formula" are 2% and 1-2%. Is there right ? Please tell me wrong or correct my information if I have wrong information. 3.In Appshell appset, The field "Rule ID" contains the ID "RULE011", "RULE020", "RULE010",..etc and the field "Rule Type" always contains "ALL". Maybe the ID "RULE010" have the mean or some behavior in SAP BPC ? so, we have to set the field "Rule ID" is "Rule010" and the field "Rule Type" is "ALL" for "Stock Holder Equities" ? Thank you so much for your attention.

Best Regards, P.S: Please tell me about my question, I really need your help. Edited by: wandi sutandi on Jul 27, 2009 3:30 PM

Hi Wandi, To answer your second question when you enter percentages using the Dynamic Hierarchy Editor (or input schedule) the values are calculated and stored .. so for example if you enter 25% into POWN for an entity through DHE then the value is stored as 25/100 = 0.25 ... so your POWN =0.25 and and 1-POWN=0.75 .... so in the consolidation rules formula for example the value in your ALL destination account is split 25/75% respectively into the Group and Minority accounts .. An example for point 1 would be "Investment" split into Share capital and Minority Interest...... Thanks, Prasanth.

Dear Prasanth Gandlur, Thank you so much for your attention. When I saw your information for point number 1, I don't know exactly. Could I know more please, how to configure the business rules of consolidation rules,consolidation methods,consolidation rules formulas for your example "Investment split into share capital and minority interest" ?

I really appreciate your guidances Best Regards,