iConsolidation and Financial Reporting
The ultimate goal of consolidating the financial statements between a
parent company and a subsidiary company is to have one set of reports.
The parent company, throughout the consolidation process, has interest
over a subsidiary company. The criteria for consolidating financial
statements were written under Accounting Research Bulletin No. 51. The
conditions and requirements of financial statement consolidation are
illustrated as follows:
The parent company should have majority voting rights with the
acquisition and 51% of ownership.
The parent company exercises majority control over a subsidiary
company.
If the subsidiaries are to be sold in the near future, they should not
be included in the parent company’s consolidation financial
process.
The parent and subsidiary companies should operate as one
singular economic unit of business