Pratt Company acquired all of the outstanding shares of Spider, Inc., on December 31, 2021, for $495,000
Question:
Pratt Company acquired all of the outstanding shares of Spider, Inc., on December 31, 2021, for $495,000 cash. Pratt will operate Spider as a wholly owned subsidiary with a separate legal and accounting identity. Although many of Spider’s book values approximate fair values, several of its accounts have fair values that differ from book values. In addition, Spider has internally developed assets that remain unrecorded on its books. In deriving the acquisition price, Pratt assessed Spider’s fair and book value differences as follows:
At December 31, 2021, the following financial information is available for consolidation (credit balances in parentheses):
Prepare a consolidated balance sheet for Pratt and Spider as of December 31, 2021.
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Advanced Accounting
ISBN: 9781260247824
14th Edition
Authors: Joe Ben Hoyle, Thomas Schaefer, Timothy Doupnik