On January 1, 2024, James Corporation exchanged $3,050,000 cash for 100 percent of the outstanding voting stock of Johnson Corporation. James plans to maintain Johnson as a wholly owned subsidiary with separate legal status and accounting information systems.

At the acquisition date, James prepared the following fair-value allocation schedule:

Immediately after closing the transaction, James and Johnson prepared the following postacquisition balance sheets from their separate financial records.

Prepare an acquisition-date consolidated balance sheet for James Corporation and its subsidiary Johnson Corporation.

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Consideration transferred for Johnson Corporation Johnson's carrying amount ..... Less: Johnson's preexisting goodwill... Identifiable net assets carrying amount... Excess consideration transferred over carrying amount of identifiable net assets to Johnson's patents (undervalued) to new goodwill from Johnson acquisition (indefinite life) ... $3,050,000 $2,300,000 (75,000) 2,225,000 $ 825,000 $ 800,000 25,000