Consolidated reporting

All of the reports and reporting components that you are familiar with in a single company are also available for a consolidated group. There are also reporting options only available in consolidated groups.

In consolidated custom Fathom reports, you are able to add:

Financial statements and budgets showing the contribution of each company to the consolidated group
Financial statements and budgets filtered to show individual underlying company financials within a consolidated report
Breakdown analysis charts

There are also additional Excel reports available for download in consolidated groups:

Company by company consolidated financial results
Company by company consolidated budget results

Custom Fathom consolidated reporting options

Financials and budgets by company

You can add a consolidated financial statement or budget that shows the amount from each underlying company as well as the consolidated total, to your consolidated report. To add this financial statement to a custom consolidated report:

In the Report Centre for the consolidated group, go to a draft report to edit the report
In the report, hover over the section title. A ‘portrait’ or ‘landscape’ option will appear to the far right of the section name. Click on the option to change the orientation. You’ll likely want a landscape orientation, depending on the number of companies in your consolidated group.
In the left side toolbar, select ‘Tables & Financials’
In the menu that options, click the second bolded option at the top to reveal a dropdown menu.
Select ‘Financials by Company’ from the drop down menu
Select to add a Profit & Loss or Balance Sheet to your report

Once you’ve added the table to your report, you’re able to edit the table to customize it to your reporting needs.

To edit the table, hover over it and click the green ‘Pencil’ icon that appears. This will open the table’s ‘Properties’ menu. In this menu, some of the editing options you have include:

Selecting the down arrow, to change the table to a ‘Profit & Loss’, ‘Balance Sheet’, ‘Cash Flow Statement’ or a financial ‘Snippet’
Filtering the table to display the actuals or budget
Adding or removing columns or companies from display on the table
Showing results before or after eliminations
In the ‘Rows’ section, changing the level of detail or number of accounts shown in the financial statement

💡 Pro Tip: If eliminations and adjustments have been made in a consolidated group, then these will be combined in an 'Other' column instead of an 'Eliminations' column.

Displaying underlying company financials in a consolidated report

To display the results of individual, underlying companies in a consolidated report, you’ll need to edit a financial statement table:

In a draft report or in ‘Edit’ mode for a published report, select the ‘Tables & Financials’ option from the left side toolbar
In the menu that opens, click the second bolded option that appears at the top to reveal a dropdown menu.
Select ‘Financials’ from the dropdown menu
Choose to add a ‘Profit & Loss’, ‘Balance Sheet’, or ‘Cash Flow Statement’ to your report
Once you’ve added the table to your report, hover over it and select the green ‘Pencil’ icon that appears in the top right corner of the table. The will open up the table’s ‘Properties’ menu.
Under the ‘Company Filter’ section of the table, you’re able to change the filter from ‘All companies’ to one of the underlying companies to display the financials for that individual company in the table.
Select ‘Apply changes’

Other options for editing the table include:

Selecting the second filter option, to change the table to a ‘Profit & Loss’, ‘Balance Sheet’, ‘Cash Flow Statement’ or a financial ‘Snippet’
Adding budget and variance columns (amongst others) to the table by selecting the ‘Add or remove’ columns option
In the ‘Rows’ section, changing the level of detail or number of accounts shown in the financial statement

Adding a breakdown analysis chart to a consolidated report

Because there is an additional breakdown analysis tool available in consolidated groups, you’re able to add this tool to a report for an additional visual reporting component. To add a breakdown analysis chart to your consolidated report:

In a draft custom Fathom report or in ‘Edit’ mode for a published report, select the ‘Charts’ option from the left side toolbar
In the menu that opens, click the bolded option at the top to reveal a dropdown menu.
Select ‘Revenue’, ‘Costs & Expenses’, ‘Profitability’, or ‘Efficiency’
Scroll down to the bottom of the menu and choose a breakdown chart type.
After adding the breakdown chart to your report, hover over the chart and select the green ‘Pencil’ icon to open the chart’s ‘Properties’ menu. This will allow you to edit or customise the chart as desired.

Some editing option options for the breakdown chart include:

Filtering by company or account
Changing the metric or account classification being broken down in the chart
Sorting the chart by result or alphabetically
Displaying all companies on the chart, or only the top or bottom companies

Consolidated Excel Reports

Side by side consolidated financial results

The Excel consolidated financial results are also valuable reports for consolidated groups. This report provides a side-by-side view of your companies along with the consolidated financial statements. This report also includes the eliminations in your consolidated group and presents the exchange rates used (if applicable).

This report can be accessed via the 'Reports' section in Fathom, under 'Excel Reports'. See the 'Consolidated Financial Results, including eliminations' or 'Multi-currency Consolidated Financial Results, including eliminations' report.

Inter-company eliminations and exchange rate adjustments (if applicable) are also displayed.

The comments provide a helpful way to view the amounts before or after translation.

Side by side consolidated budget results

The same report can be downloaded to show the side-by-side view of the budgets coming from each underlying entity. The report is useful for auditing the consolidated budget figures and viewing the impact of any eliminations or translated amounts to the underlying budgets.

Next steps

Now that you’ve learned about the additional reporting options available in a consolidation, you may want to invite others to view reports for the group in Fathom or forecast for the group.

What you want to do:	Where to go next:
Invite others into your Fathom account to share insights	Invite a New User into Fathom
Analyse the group's performance with the Analysis tools	Analysis in a Consolidate Group
Begin forecasting in Fathom	Forecast for your Consolidation
Need to add another company to your Fathom account?	Go to the 'Getting Started Workflow'