Companies often create subsidiaries when they acquire another company or when they build out a business line related but not essential to the business. A subsidiary is wholly or majority owned by the ...

Consolidated accounting is used to group the financial information of a parent company and one or more subsidiary companies. A parent company owns the majority of voting shares of a subsidiary company ...

A ledger that keeps a record of the customers that a business has extended credit to and how much they owe. It also includes a compilation of their payment history and credit transactions. The ...

Bruns, William J., Jr. "The Talbots, Inc., and Subsidiaries: Accounting for Goodwill (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 083-257, October 2008.