Question: Exercise # 3 Selected information from the separate and consolidated balance sheets and income statements of Palo Alto, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Stanford

Exercise # 3

Selected information from the separate and consolidated balance sheets and income statements of Palo Alto, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Stanford Co., as of December 31, 2020, and for the year then ended is as follows:

Palo Alto

Stanford

Consolidated

Balance sheet accounts:

Accounts receivable

$ 26,000

$ 19,000

$ 42,000

Inventory

30,000

25,000

50,000

Investment in Stanford

67,000

--

--

Stockholders' equity

154,000

50,000

154,000

Income statement accounts:

Revenues

$200,000

$140,000

$300,000

Cost of goods sold

150,000

110,000

225,000

Gross profit

50,000

30,000

75,000

Equity in earnings of Stanford

$ 9,000

--

--

Net income

$ 36,000

$ 20,000

$ 36,000

Additional information:

During 2020, Palo Alto sold goods to Stanford at the same markup on cost that Palo Alto uses for all sales. At December 31, 2020, Stanford had not paid for all of these goods and still held 50% of them in inventory.

Palo Alto acquired its interest in Stanford five years earlier (Jan. 1, 2016).

Required:

For each of the following items, calculate the required amount.

a.

The amount of intercompany sales from Palo Alto to Stanford during 2020.

b.

The amount of Stanford's payable to Palo Alto for intercompany sales as of December 31, 2020.

c.

In Palo Alto's December 31, 2020, consolidated balance sheet, the carrying amount of the inventory that Stanford purchased from Palo Alto.

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