Enter Shareholdings and Investments in Group or External Companies
The investment register contains information on shareholdings and investments in both internal and external companies. The register contains information such as ownership percentage, vote percentage, number of shares, their booked and nominal amount and market value.
Information on investments in internal and external companies is consolidated so that the information collected will be displayed at the group level.
When storing investments in group currency and cross-owned companies are included, acquisition eliminations may not be calculated correctly unless all owners use the same currency.
Methods for entering values in the investment register
You can enter values in the investment register in a number of different ways:
- By using the Company/Data Entry - Reported Values menu (both investments in internal and external companies).
- By using the Group/Data Entry/Shareholdings and Investments in Group Companies menu.
- By using the Group/Data Entry/Shareholdings and Investments in External Companies menu.
The Account for Investments
In order to be able to enter items in the investments register into an account, the account must be defined as an account intended for investments. In the Define Account Structure window, you can choose to define the account for investment code I for investments in group companies or investment code E for external companies. The account should also have the intercompany code A, Acquisition Calculations, in the account structure. Then all necessary information for analysis purposes will be stored in the period database automatically.
Corresponding Changes in the Investment Elimination Template
In order to be able to enter an investment elimination template, you must first enter the internal shareholding and investment. For each change to the investment, you enter a corresponding change to the investment elimination template. In order to reach the window for entering the investment elimination template, you must therefore always pass through the window for entering internal shareholdings and investments.
If you want to enter investments that do not affect the account for Investments in Subsidiaries you only enter company and transaction date in the window for internal shareholdings and investments. After that, you will be able to reach the window to enter your investment elimination template.
Debit/Credit Layout
On the Maintain/Configuration/General menu, General 3 tab you can define whether you want to enter your investment elimination templates in an amount column with the +/- signs or whether you want to enter them in the debit or credit columns. For more information, see Define General Configuration - the General 3 Tab
Balance Control or Not
If you activate the balance control, you cannot save the entered investment elimination templates if the values do not balance. You can activate the balance control on the Maintain/Configuration/General menu, the General 2 tab.
For more information, see Store Investment Elimination Templates With or Without Balance Control.
Investments in Group or Local Currency
On the Maintain/Configuration/General menu, General 2 tab, you must define whether you want to store investments in local currency or group currency.
For more information, see Store Investments in Group Currency or Local Currency.