Which statement correctly describes when a consolidation can occur within a given year/scenario?

• A. An administrator runs Force Consolidate to force the consolidation of all entities regardless of status or content.
• B. The current period consolidation status is Impacted and the remaining periods are OK.
• C. A user has a power user access but only write access to the entity.
• D. A user with power user access first locks the entity so that other users cannot consolidate the same entity.

Answer: (B)

In FCCS, whether a consolidation can run is determined by the status of periods within the year. A valid run occurs when the current period is in a state that allows processing and there are no blocking issues in the other periods. When the current period is marked as Impacted, it signals that changes in that period require re-consolidation, while the remaining periods being OK means there are no blockers elsewhere. This combination indicates you should proceed with the consolidation to bring the impacted period up to date.

Force consolidating to override statuses isn’t how FCCS operates in normal practice, since consolidation must respect period statuses to preserve data integrity. Merely having power-user write access to one entity doesn’t enable a cross-entity or cross-period consolidation, and manually locking an entity isn’t how you enable consolidation either—the system handles concurrency and access through established processes.