Question: If you have a parent corporate cube with two divisional extended cubes, and IC accounts have been extended in each, can you do eliminations in the Corp cube?
Answer
Yes, you can, but generally there will be issues with IC matching functionality working properly in the workflow. But, there are work-arounds for this.
With the above, IC matching will not work properly because the account containing the offset does not exist in the same cube.
A workaround to this issue is have supplemental accounts that house the extended IC accounts, such as:
The extended IC accounts would have no plug accounts assigned to them and the following calculations would be in place:
A#IC_AR = A#Supp_IC_AR
A#IC_AP = A#Supp_IC_AP
With this alternative configuration, IC matching works properly:
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