On January 1, 2019, Palmer Company acquired a 90% interest in Stevens Company at a cost of

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On January 1, 2019, Palmer Company acquired a 90% interest in Stevens Company at a cost of $1,000,000. At the purchase date, Stevens Company?s stockholders? equity consisted of the following:

Common stock.............................$500,000

Retained earnings..........................190,000

An examination of Stevens Company?s assets and liabilities revealed the following at the date of acquisition:

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Additional Information?Date of Acquisition

Stevens Company?s equipment had an original life of 15 years and a remaining useful life of 10 years. All the inventory was sold in 2019. Stevens Company purchased its bonds payable on the open market on January 10, 2019, for $150,000 and recognized a gain of $55,556. Palmer Company uses the partial equity method to record its investment in Stevens Company. Financial statement data for 2021 are presented here:

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Required:

A. Prepare in general journal form the workpaper entry to allocate and depreciate the difference between book value and the value implied by the purchase price in the December 31, 2019, consolidated statements workpaper.

B. Prepare a consolidated financial statements workpaper for the year ended December 31, 2021.

C. Prepare in good form a schedule or t-account showing the calculation of the controlling interest in consolidated net income for the year ended December 31, 2021. If you completed Problem 5-5, a comparison of the consolidated balances in this problem with those you obtained in Problem 5-5 will demonstrate that the method (cost or partial equity) used by the parent company to record its investment in a consolidated subsidiary has no effect on the consolidated balances.

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Advanced Accounting

ISBN: 978-1119373209

7th edition

Authors: Debra C. Jeter, Paul K. Chaney

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