consolidated financial statements – n : finance/accounting term; combined financial statements of a parent company with those of all subsidiaries of the parent company as if the parent company and all its subsidiaries were one entity. If you look at the financial reports publicly issued by Fortune 500 companies, they are all consolidated financial statements representing all of the businesses and subsidiaries of the parent company.

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