Which of the following statements is correct?

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BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

A corporate group is made up of separate legal entities, so each company keeps its own books; consolidation merely aggregates those individual records into group financial statements. This is the key concept behind the correct statement.

1. Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Separate legal entities: each subsidiary and the parent maintains its own accounting records, journal entries, ledgers and statutory accounts.
- Consolidation: the process of combining individual financial statements into a single set of group financial statements. This is typically done using a consolidation worksheet or consolidation software that records elimination entries (intercompany balances, unrealised profits, goodwill, non-controlling interest) to present the group as one economic entity for reporting purposes.
- The group itself usually does not maintain a separate, parallel set of accounting books beyond the consolidation working papers.

2. Step-by-step reasoning
- Because subsidiaries are legally distinct, they must prepare and retain their own accounting records for legal, tax and audit purposes.
- The parent compiles those records into consolidated financial statements. To do that it prepares a consolidation worksheet where adjustments and eliminations are recorded to reflect the group position.
- There is no separate, single set of transactional books for the “group” in ordinary practice; the consolidation worksheet is the instrument used to produce group figures.

3. Calculations
- Not applicable; the reasoning is conceptual and procedural rather than numeric.

4. Why the correct answer is correct
- The statement correctly reflects standard accounting practice: the group does not maintain its own transactional accounting ledgers separate from the constituent entities; the consolidation worksheet is the tool that combines and adjusts subsidiary accounts into group totals.

5. Why other potential options would be incorrect (brief)
- Any option asserting the group maintains separate transactional books is incorrect because legal entities must keep their own records and the group figures are produced via consolidation.
- Any option implying no consolidation worksheet or adjustments are needed is incorrect because eliminations and adjustments are essential to avoid double counting.

6. Conclusion
- Therefore the provided answer — "The group as a whole has no separate accounting records, except for a consolidation worksheet." — is correct and matches standard consolidation practice.

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