September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
301 pages
7h 14m
English
In many cases, larger businesses do not consist of one legal company only but of many companies, i.e. business is conducted by a group of companies. Each of these companies may have (depending on the rules explained earlier) to prepare financial statements; these individual financial statements cover only the specific part of the group’s business.
To furnish information about the business of the entire group, groups are obliged (under certain conditions – see below) to prepare consolidated financial statements.
§ 297 sect. 3 requires that consolidated financial statements present the financial and performance situation of all group companies as if they were only one company (the so-called one-entity ...
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