A new acquisition, carve-out or entity means the businesses must report together. The board date will not move.
The businesses use different ledgers, billing systems and charts of accounts. There is no consolidation system, and nobody trusts the group number.
My reporting harness runs six steps: source snapshot, transformation, reconciliation, source-linked explanation, exception owner, publication gate. Agents prepare, I review every figure as CPA and sign it; no figure is released until every entity ties to its source row.
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