Intercompany - Many to Many transactions

Looking for feedback on the following topic: For intercompany many to many transactions we had it setup to default to the default balancing segement.  That was working in total but the intercompany segment was defaulting to 000 making it very difficult to determine which company was the other trading partner in the transaction.  Oracle suggested changing to setting a default clearing company up to run the transactions through.  however that setup now just changes the issue to having all intercompany in a seperate company instead of the default 000. 

I am looking for a way to tie together the trading partners in a many to many transaction to accurately report Intercompany payables and receivables.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.