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In UPM Raflatac’s Americas combined statement, you’ll find general product safety & regulatory compliance information for global industry packaging regulations, standards, & general industry requirements related to its United States marketed label stock products. This Statement does not change ARB 51’s provisions related to consolidation purpose or consolidation policy or the requirement that a parent consolidate all entities in which it has a controlling financial interest. This Statement does, however, amend certain of ARB 51’s consolidation procedures to make them consistent with the requirements of Statement 141.

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The Differences Between Consolidated and Combined Financial Statement Reporting Methods:

In our example, unless the exiting controller saw the regulatory writing on the wall and implemented new accounting procedures to create GLs for the separate legal entities, it’s going to be a tough few months for the accounting team. In such cases, our advice is to keep your head on a swivel and prepare as much as possible in advance of any changes to your required reporting. Splitting out transactions from a consolidated GL for combined financial statements is a great way to burn out your team and lose the operating efficiencies so vital to sound finance and accounting functions.

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When a Combined Financial Statement is Preferred

A parent’s ownership interest in a subsidiary changes if the parent purchases additional ownership interests in its subsidiary or if the parent sells some of its ownership interests in its subsidiary. It also changes if the subsidiary reacquires some of its ownership interests or the subsidiary issues additional ownership interests. All of those transactions are economically similar, and this Statement requires that they be accounted for similarly, as equity transactions. The ownership interests in subsidiaries held by parties other than the parent be clearly identified, labeled, and presented in the consolidated statement of financial position within equity, but separate from the parent’s equity. Begin by identifying your reporting entity or, in other words, that point of reference we mentioned that you’re preparing consolidated financials from. Or in some cases, maybe 60% of a company’s equity is public but the other 40% is some other form of ownership, perhaps a non-controlling interest.

• Consolidated financial statements aggregate the financial position of a parent company and its subsidiaries.
• The combined financial statement collectively lists the activities of a group of related companies into one document.
• For example, in the construction industry, it is common to form separate legal entities to hold real estate and/or construction equipment that is leased to the operating company and at times to third parties.
• If you are a director of the parent corporation or LLC, and the general public knows your parent company and its brand better than it knows the subsidiaries, consider filing a consolidated financial statement.
• That way, the parent can adequately review the data and ensure they have everything needed for the reporting requirements, as well as the time required to eliminate those pesky intercompany transactions.

The benefit of a consolidated financial statement is that it shows the overall economic wealth of the parent company and its subsidiaries together. While the subsidiaries operate separately from the parent company, a consolidated financial statement reports on the enterprise as a whole, with the parent company and subsidiaries together making up the financial picture of the entity. Example FSP 18-5 illustrates the presentation of noncontrolling interest in combined financial statements.

Organization of the Report

Anyway, companies often use combined financial statements for regulatory reporting purposes or for combined reporting of portfolio companies. For example, a healthcare group might have to prepare individual financial statements for each hospital on a standalone basis, then combine those statements into a single report filing. It’s that combined statement that the group sends to the regulatory agency – or agencies – that require it. Aside from healthcare, combined reporting is common in financial services and insurance as well, amongst other industries.

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As we said, special purpose reporting is common amongst joint ventures and other types of special agreements between businesses, where the joint venture members combine the involved transactions into a single set of financial statements. For instance, if a company has five subsidiaries but only two of them are involved in a specific joint venture, special purpose financials would consolidate the information for those two subsidiaries but exclude the others. It requires consolidated net income to be reported at amounts that include the amounts attributable to both the parent and the noncontrolling interest. It also requires disclosure, on the face of the consolidated statement of income, of the amounts of consolidated net income attributable to the parent and to the noncontrolling interest.