Please answer with reason for all why the option is correct and why the other options are incorrect Please answer correct otherwise skip it   When a company buys the stock of another company, the accounting treatment depends on the number of outstanding shares acquired. If a company acquires 35% of the shares (as a percentage of the outstanding shares) of another company, the accounting method the acquirer uses is: - consolidation method - fair value method - equity method - Any of the above. The materiality principle allows the company to choose the method.

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When a company buys the stock of another company, the accounting treatment depends on the number of outstanding shares acquired. If a company acquires 35% of the shares (as a percentage of the outstanding shares) of another company, the accounting method the acquirer uses is:

- consolidation method

- fair value method

- equity method

- Any of the above. The materiality principle allows the company to choose the method.

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