Re: Merging Companies -- MAPICS-L

Phil,

I have experienced the desire to "merge" companies. Often times on the surface
this looks to be a great idea, and most times it is. One word of caution is to
sit with your accounting group and review what reporting requirements there are
after all of the operational activities. What I am inferring to is do you need
to produce seperate financial statements for your divisions, or will you be
consolidating their results. I bring this up because I went through this with
one client and as we walked through the financials (they were the AM financials
of XA), we found that the CFO wanted to maintain his seperate balance sheets
and financial statements for each division. This requirement threw a "monkey
wrench" into the works. We did work through it.

Good luck....

Phil Brewer <philbrewer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,

I'm new to this list and new to Mapics too.

Where I work use Mapics V6, COM, CAS, PUR, IM ....

We are in the process of installing IFM, we currently use CODA as our
financial package.

Currently one of our environments has two companies 1 and 2. It has been
decided that, before installing IFM, these companies need to merge i.e.
all company 2 customers etc. will become company 1 and then company 2 will
disappear. Has anybody else ever done this ? Any tips ? Is it feasible
?

My current thinking is that i will have to manually change the company
number from 2 to 1 on _every_ file that has a company field on it......not
a simple task.

Thanks,

Phil

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