Irene Ltd. has 500,000 common shares outstanding, consisting of 100,000 regular shares with ten votes each and

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Irene Ltd. has 500,000 common shares outstanding, consisting of 100,000 regular shares with ten votes each and 400,000 restricted shares with one vote each. The shares participate equally in dividends on a share-for-share basis. Gordon Inc. owns 165,000 of the 500,000 shares, 65,000 regular plus 100,000 restricted.

a. Does Gordon control Irene?

b. What proportion of Irene’s earnings would be included in Gordon’s equity-basis earnings?

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Advanced Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0132928939

7th edition

Authors: Thomas H. Beechy, V. Umashanker Trivedi, Kenneth E. MacAulay

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