Advanced Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259916977
Author: Christensen, Theodore E., COTTRELL, David M., Budd, Cassy
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Change in parent’s ownership: the parent company can change ownership ratio by purchasing or selling shares of the subsidiary in transaction with unaffiliated companies. a subsidiary can change the parent’s ownership percentage by selling additional shares to or repurchase shares from unaffiliated parties. When parent sells a subsidiary share to non-affiliate a gain or loss normally occurs and is recorded on the seller’s books when a company disposes of all or part of an investment. ASC 323 deals explicitly with sales of stock of investee, requiring recognition of a gain or loss on the difference between the selling price and the carrying amount of the stock.
To explain : how are parent sales of common stock of its subsidiaries to non-affiliates for more than their carrying value are reported, how the sales reported in consolidated financial statements should.
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A parent company buys bonds on the open market that had been previously issued by its subsidiary. The price paid by the parent is less than the carrying amount of the bonds on the subsidiary’s records. How should the parent report the difference between the price paid and the carrying amount of the bonds on its consolidated financial statements?
As a loss on retirement of the bonds.
As a gain on retirement of the bonds.
As an increase to interest expense over the remaining life of the bonds.
Because the bonds now represent intra-entity debt, the difference is not reported.
When a wholly-owned subsidiary purchases all of the bonds issued by the parent, the investment in bonds account and bond payable account are
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not reported in the consolidated financial statements and also not reported in the separate-entity financial statements.
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reported on the subsidiary’s balance sheet.
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reported on the respective separate-entity balance sheets.
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reported on the parent’s balance sheet.
In a business combination - stock acquisition, difference between current fair values and book values of subsidiary’s identifiable assets and liabilities on acquisition date is:
[a] Accounted for in the parent company’s books
[b] Accounted for in the subsidiary’s books
[c] not accounted in the books but is accounted for in the preparation of consolidated financial statements
[d] totally disregarded
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