How do you account for sales to subsidiary?

The parent company accounts for the sales to its subsidiary as "sales" or "revenue".

Let's look at Wal-Mart. As most of us know the "Main Office" or "Headquarters" to Wal-Mart is located in Bentonville, Arkansas. We also know that this isn't the actual Wal-Mart store, there are thousands of those around the Country. Now let's look at a local Wal-Mart store. This store operates under the supervision of the "home office", however this individual store does not "own the property" nor does it make their own goods that they sale, instead, they "rent or lease" the building from the home office as well as purchase many of their goods from the warehouse in Bentonville. These purchases and expenses are the local Wal-Marts expenses and operating cost, while for the home office or aka Parent Company it becomes Revenue (income.)