Consolidation requires:
1° The classification of the assets and liabilities as well as the expense and income items of consolidated companies according to the classification plan used for consolidation;
2° The valuation, using the necessary restatements, of the assets and liabilities as well as the expense and income items of consolidated companies according to the valuation methods used for consolidation ;
3° The elimination of the impact on the accounts of entries made solely for the purposes of applying tax legislation and in particular with regard to investment grants, regulated provisions and the depreciation of fixed assets ;
4° The elimination of intra-group profits, including dividends;
5° The recognition of expenses when the tax relating to certain planned distributions between fully consolidated companies is not recoverable, and the recognition of tax reductions when planned distributions benefit fully consolidated companies;
6° The elimination of reciprocal accounts of fully consolidated companies.
However, by derogation from 6° above and subject to justification in the notes to the financial statements, a fixed asset may be maintained at the new value resulting from a transaction between the companies consolidated by integration when this transaction was concluded in accordance with normal market conditions and the elimination of the additional asset value would entail disproportionate costs; in this case, the resulting difference is recorded directly in reserves.
The consolidating company may omit to carry out some of the transactions described in this article, where they have an insignificant impact on the assets, financial position and results of the group formed by the companies included in the consolidation.