Moving a subsidiary from one parent to another in an alternate hierarchy (shared member)
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We have two entity hierarchies:
- GEO hierarchy which is our primary hierarchy (all base members are set up as Never Share) - consolidation in this hierarchy is done except for investment/equity eliminations,
- Legal ownership hierarchy which is our secondary hierarchy (all base members are added as Shared) - we use this structure for consolidated reporting as ivestment/equity is eliminated here
We encountered a problem when we needed to move one of the subsidiaries from one parent to another in the legal structure (due to ownership changes). What we did was:
- add the shared member under the new parent in the legal structure but dont remove the old shared member,