The topic of this thesis is a consolidation of the financial statement. Thesis contains basic theoretical approaches related to consolidated financial statements, which are then applied in its practical part. Aim of the analytical part is to assess the current state of the company, containing original consolidation methods used for a consolidation of the financial statement. In the last part of this thesis a new consolidation method is being applied, followed by the evaluation of an impact this new method has on the general economical situation of the whole consolidated group.

Le phénomène de groupe s’est accentué et internationalisé bouleversant ainsi les intérêts en présence dans une société. L’Allemagne est un des premiers États à s’intéresser au phénomène de groupe et surtout à l’appréhender au travers de la codification de l’Aktiengesetz en 1965 qui introduit des mécanismes propres aux relations de groupe destinés à protéger les intérêts de la société par actions dépendante, ses actionnaires et ses créanciers externes. Le législateur français a renoncé à une réglementation cohérente du droit des groupes privilégiant le recours aux instruments du droit commun. Face aux particularités des relations de groupe, il s’est néanmoins efforcé à améliorer sa prise en compte par des interventions correctives ponctuelles.Les solutions retenues par chacun des deux régimes pour appréhender le phénomène de groupe divergent donc profondément. L’examen de la responsabilité de la société mère du fait de sa filiale, plus particulièrement les cas spécifiques de responsabilité de l’entreprise dominante dans le cadre de la codification allemande, illustre parfaitement la diversité des appréhensions. Les derniers revirements de la jurisprudence allemande à l’égard de l’applicabilité de la codification du droit des groupes à la société à responsabilité limitée conduisent néanmoins à un rapprochement du droit allemand par rapport au droit français. En abandonnant l’application par analogie de la codification du droit des groupes à l’égard des sociétés à responsabilité limitée au profit d’un nouveau cas de responsabilité fondée sur l’atteinte à l’existence, la Cour fédérale allemande de Justice s’écarte de la recherche prioritaire de protection du patrimoine social pour privilégier la sanction d’un comportement abusif et rejoint en cela la conception retenue par le droit français. / The group phenomenon has strongly evolved within the last decades; it increased tremendously and turned international.Germany is one of the first states which legally takes the group into consideration. With the Aktiengesetz from 1965, the German legislator introduced specific mechanisms to regulate the group relationships between the dominant company and a dependant Aktiengesellschaft (public limited company). The main purpose of this partial codification of the group law was to protect the interests of the dominated company, its shareholders and creditors.The French legislator renounced a consistent regulation of the group law and privileged the use of the legal instruments provided by ordinary law. However, the particularity of intra-group relationships forced the legislator to take intermittent corrective measures to protect threatened interests within the dominated company.The solutions chosen by both of the studied law systems deeply diverge from each other. The examination of the liability of the parent company towards its subsidiary’s behaviour, particularly the specific cases of liability defined in the German codification, illustrates perfectly the diversity of the apprehensions.However, the lastest development of the German jurisprudence towards the applicability of the Aktiengesetz codification to the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Limited liability company) leads to a rapprochement of German law to French law. In refusing to apply per analogy the liabilities according to the Aktiengesetz codification to the limited liability company and introducing a new principal of liability based on the German civil code, the Bundesgerichtshof (German federal court of justice) follows the conception of the French law focusing its attention on the abusive behaviour rather than on the protection of the dependant company. / Im Laufe der letzten Jahre nahm die Zahl der in Konzernstrukturen integrierten Unternehmen zu. Juristisch stellt der Konzern die große Herausforderung, die theoretische unabhängige Rechtspersönlichkeit der verbundenen Unternehmen mit den tatsächlichen Gegebenheiten eines Konzerns in Einklang zu bringen, dar. Als Lösungsansatz wählte der deutsche Gesetzgeber eine Teilkodifizierung der Konzernproblematik in dem im Jahre 1965 in Kraft getretenen Aktiengesetzes. Ziel der sich im dritten Buch aufgenommenen Regeln ist es, das durch das Konzernphänomen gestörte Verhältnis der unterschiedlichen Interessen der abhängigen Gesellschaft, dessen Aktionäre und Gläubiger, durch einen Interessenausgleich wiederherstellen. Der französische Gesetzgeber verfolgte hingegen den Ansatz einer punktuellen Anpassung verschiedenster Rechtsgebiete.Die Besonderheiten der deutschen Teilkodifizierung des Konzernrechts im Aktiengesetz werden herausarbeitet und mit der französischen Herangehensweise verglichen. Durch eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse wird dann die besondere und außergewöhnliche zivilrechtliche Haftung der Muttergesellschaft gegenüber ihrer Tochtergesellschaft dargestellt. Insbesondere weist die Aufgabe der Rechtsprechung zum qualifiziert faktischen Konzern gegenüber der GmbH und die Einführung der Existenzvernichtungshaftung eine Annäherung der konzeptionellen Entwicklung des deutschen Rechts zum französischen Recht auf. Demnach wird als grundlegende Voraussetzung für eine außervertragliche Haftung das Vorliegen eines Missbrauches in den Vordergrund gestellt.Abschließend zeichnet sich ein deutliches Abrücken von einer vollumfänglichen Kodifizierung zugunsten von punktuellen Anpassungen des Gesetzes sowie die Ausgestaltung und Verfeinerung der Rechtsprechung aus.

Master's thesis deals with the consolidation of the financial statements. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the implementation of the consolidated financial statements for the Czech part of the group. The second part analyzes the performance of the consolidated financial statements and the individual companies by financial indicators. The thesis also contains proposals to improve the economic situation of the holding or individual companies.

The gas leak disaster in Bhopal, India, in 1984 illustrates a situation of catastrophe and mass torts resulting in loss of life and health as well as environmental degradation. The Indian company Union Carbide India Limited, who owned and operated the chemical plant that caused the disaster, did not have sufficient assets to compensate the victims in contrast to its financially well-equipped US parent company Union Carbide Corporation. The courts never reached a decision regarding parent company liability for the subsidiary’s debts arising from tort claims against the subsidiary. However, where the subsidiary cannot satisfy its tort creditors, as in the Bhopal case, questions regarding parent company liability become highly relevant in relation to both foreign and domestic subsidiaries. Therefore, parent company liability for subsidiaries’ torts is discussed in this thesis with reference to Swedish and UK company law and with a focus on the tort creditors’ situation and the business and human rights debate. From limited liability for shareholders and each company being a separate legal entity follows that a parent company is not liable for its subsidiaries’ debts in neither Swedish nor UK company law. These concepts serve the important function of facilitating risk-taking and entrepreneurial activities. However, they also contribute to the problem of uncompensated tort victims arising where a subsidiary is involved in liability- producing activities but lacks assets to compensate the tort victims. Where limited liability and each company being a separate legal entity leads to particularly inappropriate results, the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil in both Sweden and the UK allows the court to disregard the separate legal personalities and hold the parent company liable for its subsidiary’s acts or omissions. The doctrine is characterised by uncertainty and is seemingly only available under exceptional circumstances. The doctrine does little to mitigate the problems for subsidiaries’ tort creditors at large. The business and human rights debate calls for access to judicial remedies for victims of businesses’ human rights violations. As some human rights violations can form the basis of a tort claim, it is relevant to discuss parent company liability according to company law in relation to human rights violations. The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights emphasise the need to ensure that corporate law does not prevent access to judicial remedies. However, the company law regulation of liability in company groups seems in practice to function as an obstacle for access to judicial remedies for human rights victims, particularly when also considering the inadequate legal regimes in some host states and the hurdles of jurisdiction and applicable law in multinational company groups. It is concluded in this thesis that the company law regulation of liability in company groups is seemingly not equipped to meet the challenges arising with the development of company groups, the global reach of the private business sector, the risks of mass torts and the influence of the business sector on human rights.