Anchovy acquired 90 percent of Yelton on January 1, 2013. Of Yeltons total acquisition-date fair value, $60,000
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Anchovy acquired 90 percent of Yelton on January 1, 2013. Of Yelton’s total acquisition-date fair value, $60,000 was allocated to undervalued equipment (with a 10-year remaining life) and $80,000 was attributed to franchises (to be written off over a 20-year period).
Since the takeover, Yelton has transferred inventory to its parent as follows:
On January 1, 2014, Anchovy sold Yelton a building for $50,000 that had originally cost $70,000 but had only a $30,000 book value at the date of transfer. The building is estimated to have a 5-year remaining life (straight-line depreciation is used with no salvage value).
Selected figures from the December 31, 2015, trial balances of these two companies are as follows:
Determine consolidated totals for each of these accountbalances.
Salvage ValueSalvage value is the estimated book value of an asset after depreciation is complete, based on what a company expects to receive in exchange for the asset at the end of its useful life. As such, an asset’s estimated salvage value is an important...
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Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting
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