# Design

The Account Consolidation Module introduces the following concepts:

## Account Consolidation

The Account Consolidation concept defines the structure of the accounting reports for multiple Companies <company:model-company.company>. It groups Account types <account:model-account.account.type> of different companies on a consolidated balance sheet or income statement.

When used as the consolidated balance sheet or income statement the amount shown includes the amounts of all the account types of the record for all the selected companies.

See also

The list of account consolidation can be found by opening the main menu item:

> Financial ‣ Configuration ‣ General Account ‣ Account Consolidations

### Reports

#### Statement

The Statement report is used to get a printed copy of the open parts of the consolidated balance sheet and income statements.