Consolidated financial statements

Bachelor thesis describes what's consolidated financial statements. Explains the difference between financial statements prepared for one company, called the Individual Financial Statements, and the financial statements prepared for a group of companies called the consolidated financial statements. Describes relationships between companies according to the degree of influence: decisive influence, associates, joint influence kinds of companies: parent company, joint venture, associated company. Work includes how these notions are looking to Czech laws and international standards. There are the types of laws relating to the consolidated financial statements: Czech laws and internationally accepted accounting standards. Then there is that companies are required to prepare consolidated accounts and which companies are required to submit to her, approaches to consolidation: the ownership approach, general user access and combined approach and which methods based on them. The thesis contains theoretical procedures to establish the various methods of consolidation, integration method, and the equity ratio. The practical part is presented by each method one practical example