In Odoo 18, the "consolidation chart of accounts" feature, which allowed mapping one or more accounts to a consolidated account across different subsidiary charts of accounts, has been removed.
Now, Odoo requires each subsidiary to have the same list of accounts in its chart of accounts. The connection is technically very rigid because the account ID must be the same across subsidiaries, although account codes can differ between companies.
For example, I’ve installed the Swiss Chart of Accounts (CoA) for Company A (with 200 accounts) and the German CoA for Company B (with 1,200 accounts).
Question 1:
In this common scenario, do you suggest to create 1,000 dummy accounts in Company A and archive them immediately to match the structure of Company B?
Question 2:
When creating my Consolidation Group P&L report, what kind of formula should I use? Should it be based on account names, IDs, or codes? In your opinion, what is the best practice?
Question 3:
If the charts of accounts cannot be modified, is the only option to use account tags for mapping?
ok so I think the conso P&L report should be based on account tags this way I can have different charts in each subsidiary... but then what is the point of merging account cross company except maybe when you want to see a trial balance cross company (to have the amount on the same line instead of 2).