On January 1, 2015, Alamar Corporation acquired a 40 percent interest in Burks, Inc., for $210,000. On

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On January 1, 2015, Alamar Corporation acquired a 40 percent interest in Burks, Inc., for $210,000. On that date, Burks’s balance sheet disclosed net assets with both a fair and book value of $360,000. During 2015, Burks reported net income of $80,000 and declared and paid cash dividends of $25,000. Alamar sold inventory costing $30,000 to Burks during 2015 for $40,000. Burks used all of this merchandise in its operations during 2015. Prepare all of Alamar’s 2015 journal entries to apply the equity method to this investment.


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Balance sheet is a statement of the financial position of a business that list all the assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity and shareholder’s equity at a particular point of time. A balance sheet is also called as a “statement of financial...
Corporation
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Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting

ISBN: 978-0077862237

6th edition

Authors: Joe Ben Hoyle, Thomas Schaefer, Timothy Doupnik

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