Lab briefing: Meridian Trading

Meridian Trading operates two legal entities, one domestic and one in a neighbouring country, on the same functional currency. The fiscal year ends on the thirty-first of March and they need a thirteenth period for audit adjustments. They have 140 cost centres today and are acquiring a competitor with roughly sixty more. The two entities buy and sell from each other. FP&A reports by region; regions contain branches; branches map to cost centres. And the controller wants the balance sheet to show four asset subtotals. Seven deliverables. A completed design template with a segment table, sizing justification and decision log. A configured environment: value sets, structure, deployed instance, values loaded. One published account hierarchy on the natural account segment producing the four required asset subtotals. An accounting calendar matching the fiscal year, with an adjusting period, generated through 2035. A primary ledger with a complete definition and the first period…

In this module: Module 4 · Chart of Accounts and Ledger Design

1. 1What we're building
2. 2The decision you can't undo
3. 3Anatomy of a chart of accounts
4. 4Segment labels and qualifiers
5. 5Running the design workshop
6. 6Sizing segments: the arithmetic
7. 7Building value sets
8. 8Structure, instance, deployment
9. 9Loading account values
10. 10Account hierarchies and why reporting needs them
11. 11Building and publishing a hierarchy
12. 12Accounting calendars
13. 13Currency and conversion rate types
14. 14Primary, secondary, reporting: the decision tree
15. 15Building the primary ledger
16. 16Ledger options and completing the definition
17. 17Cross-validation and segment value security
18. 18What breaks
19. 19Lab briefing: Meridian Trading