GEN COMBO ADVANCED ACCOUNTING; CONNECT ACCESS CARD
GEN COMBO ADVANCED ACCOUNTING; CONNECT ACCESS CARD
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ISBN: 9781260087383
Author: Joe Ben Hoyle
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Explain whether the profit permanently eliminated from the non-controlling interest, or it merely shifted from one period to the next.

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Please answer the following questions relating to unrealized profit in a business combination. 1) Intra entity transfers between the components of business combinations are quite common. Why do these intra company transactions occur frequently? 2) How are unrealized inventory gross profit created, and what are the necessary consolidation entries created to account for these gains? 3) How do intra entity profit present in any year affect the noncontrolling Interest calculation?
Explain why consolidated entities defer intra-entity gross profit in ending inventory and the consolidation procedures required subsequently to recognize profits.
What is a good response to? The unrealized intercompany profits can assuredly have an impact on the consolidated financial statements, as true profits and losses will not be recognized until inventory is sold to an unrelated entity. Prior to this third-party sale the intercompany profit or loss in unrealized and must be removed from the reports consolidation to avoid overstating the consolidated net income (Hoyle, Schaefer, & Doupnik, 2024).  It is also important to determine if the inventory sale was upstream or downstream, as the considerations will vary based on the sale in relation to the parent company. For an upstream sale (subsidiary to parent company) any unrealized profit or loss can be partially allocated to non-controlling interests assuming such entities exist, and once the inventory has been resold the recognized revenue is subsequently split accordingly. During a downstream sale (parent to subsidiary company) the unrealized revenue is allocated to the parent company,…
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