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Bring subsidiaries’ figures onto your local standard

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Your subsidiaries keep their books under the standards that apply to them. Where a subsidiary’s standard treats something differently from the one the group reports under, you adjust for it at group level, with a journal on the group.

You will needLocal GAAP switched on for the group, as in Switch on Local GAAP and classify equity. The adjustment worked out, for example from a lease schedule. Journal access in BrizoConsol.
By the endCompany A’s office lease brought onto the group’s balance sheet as its local standard requires, with journals that are easy to tell apart from other adjustments.

1Know where the adjustment goes

Company A keeps its books under a simpler standard that expenses its office lease as rent: 10,800 a month, and no lease on its balance sheet. The group’s local standard puts leases on the balance sheet, so the group shows a right-of-use asset and a lease liability instead, with depreciation and interest in place of the rent.

Company A expenses its office rent under its local standard; a Leases journal on the group, LOCAL-LEASE-2026-10, recognises the lease, so Your Group shows the right-of-use asset, lease liability, depreciation and interest
The adjustment is a journal on the group.
Posted on the groupThe journal is entered with Your Group selected, so Company A’s own figures and reports stay as its books are.
Part of the one consolidationBrizoConsol has no Local GAAP-only entries. The journal is in the group’s Base reports as well as its Local GAAP statements.
Easy to findA Journal ID that starts with the standard, such as LOCAL-, and the matching Journal Type let you list every Local GAAP adjustment at once.

Base doesn’t show the unadjusted total once you adjust. After you post the journal, the group’s Base reports include it too. There is no view of the group without your Local GAAP adjustments.

2Recognise the lease

The lease starts on 1 October 2026, and the lease schedule puts the lease liability and the right-of-use asset at 360,000.

  1. Select Your Group, and open Adjustments → GAAP Journals. Keep the Scenario on Actual.
  2. Click Add a new journal entry.
  3. Enter the Journal ID LOCAL-LEASE-2026-10-INIT, the date 1 October 2026, the Journal Type Leases, and the Description Local GAAP lease adjustment: Company A office lease, recognition.
  4. Debit 1650 Right-of-use Asset 360,000, credit 2700 Lease Liabilities 360,000, and click Confirm.

3Adjust each month

For October, the schedule gives interest of 1,500 and depreciation of 10,000. Of the 10,800 rent Company A paid, 1,500 is interest and 9,300 repays the liability.

  1. Click Add a new journal entry again.
  2. Enter LOCAL-LEASE-2026-10, 31 October 2026, Leases, and the Description.
  3. Add the debit and credit lines below, check Entry is balanced, and click Confirm.
A new journal entry LOCAL-LEASE-2026-10, journal type Leases, dated 31 October 2026: debits to lease liabilities, interest and depreciation, credits to office rent and accumulated depreciation, balanced at 20,800
The ID starts with the standard (1), and the type says what it is (2).
LineWhy
Credit 6300 Office Rent 10,800Takes out the rent Company A expensed.
Debit 2700 Lease Liabilities 9,300The part of the payment that repays the liability.
Debit 7100 Interest Expense 1,500The interest on the liability.
Debit 6800 Depreciation 10,000, credit 1690 Accum. Depreciation ROU 10,000The month’s depreciation of the right-of-use asset.

Repeat each month with that month’s figures from the schedule. The interest falls as the liability is repaid, so each month’s journal is different; Recurring journal suits an adjustment that is the same every month.

Company A’s books are in SGD, the group currency, so the exchange rate stays at 1.0000. For a subsidiary in another currency, set each line’s exchange rate.

4Check the adjustments

  1. On GAAP Journals, type LOCAL- in the search box. Both lease journals are listed, and nothing else.
  2. Open Reports → All Reports → Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss for 2026.

Check

For October, Operating Expenses are 800 lower — the 10,800 rent out, 10,000 of depreciation in — and Finance Costs are 1,500 higher. The lease liability is 350,700: 360,000 less 9,300.

On the cash flow, classify 2700 Lease Liabilities on Payment of Lease Liabilities, on the Accounting Standard page. The line reads the whole movement on 2700, so for October it shows 350,700: the 360,000 recognition, which moved no cash, less the 9,300 repaid. From November it shows only the repayment.

5If something goes wrong

GAAP Journals isn’t under AdjustmentsNo accounting standard is enabled for the group. Enable Local GAAP on the Accounting Standard page.
Journal ID already existsEach Journal ID can be used once. Add the month, as in LOCAL-LEASE-2026-10.
Duplicated account is not allowed in journal lines.The same account is on two lines. Combine them into one.
The search finds journals that aren’t Local GAAP adjustmentsThe search covers every field, including descriptions. Keep the LOCAL- prefix for Local GAAP adjustments only.
One or more selected periods are locked.The month is locked in BrizoConsol. Ask an administrator to unlock it, or post the adjustment in an open month.

Want more detail? See the documentation

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