On January 1, 2020, Melbourne Corporation, a public company following IFRS, acquired 15,000 of the 50,000 outstanding common shares of Noah Corp. for $25 per share. Noah’s statement of financial position reported the following information at the date of the acquisition:

Assets not subject to depreciation ................................. $290,000
Assets subject to depreciation .......................................... 860,000
Liabilities .............................................................................. 150,000

Additional information:
1. On the acquisition date, the fair value is the same as the carrying amount for the assets that are not subject to depreciation and for the liabilities.

2. On the acquisition date, the fair value of the assets that are subject to depreciation is $960,000. These assets had a remaining useful life of eight years at that time.

3. Noah reported 2020 net income of $100,000 and paid dividends of $5,000 in December 2020.

4. Noah’s shares are not actively traded on the stock exchange, but Melbourne has determined that they have a fair value of $24 per share on December 31, 2020.

Instructions

a. Prepare the journal entries for Melbourne Corporation for 2020, assuming that Melbourne cannot exercise significant influence over Noah and accounts for the investment at FV-OCI.

b. Prepare the journal entries for Melbourne Corporation for 2020, assuming that Melbourne can exercise significant influence over Noah’s operations.

c. How would your answers to parts (a) and (b) change if Melbourne had acquired the Noah shares on July 2 instead of January 1?

d. Prepare the 2020 journal entries if Melbourne Corporation were a private company applying ASPE, clearly identifying the methods of accounting you have chosen.

e. Digging Deeper For your answers to part (d), prepare a table of the investment amount reported on the statement of financial position and the amount reported on the income statement under each approach identified. As a shareholder of Melbourne Corporation, which method of accounting do you think provides better information? Explain briefly.