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Consolidation Eliminating Entries at End of First Year Peak Entertainment acquir

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Consolidation Eliminating Entries at End of First Year

Peak Entertainment acquires 60 percent of its subsidiary Saddlestone Inc. on January 1, 2016. In preparing to consolidate Peak and Saddlestone at December 31, 2016, we assemble the following information:

Value of stock given up to acquire Saddlestone: $10,000,000.

Direct merger costs: $250,000.

Saddlestone's stockholders' equity at acquisition: $7,200,000.

Fair value of earnings contingency agreement to be paid in cash: $300,000.

Fair value of previously unrecorded identifiable intangibles (5-year life): $2,000,000.

Goodwill and identifiable intangibles are not impaired in 2016.

Fair value of the 40 percent noncontrolling interest at acquisition: $6,500,000.

Saddlestone's net income in 2016: $3,000,000.

Saddlestone's dividends declared and paid in 2016: $1,000,000.

Peak uses the complete equity method to report the investment on its own books.

Required

(a) Calculate total goodwill and its allocation to the controlling and noncontrolling interests.

(b) Calculate equity in net income for 2016, as reported on Peak's books, and the noncontrolling interest in net income, as reported on the consolidated income statement for 2016.

(c) Prepare the consolidation eliminating entries made at December 31, 2016.

Allocation of goodwill between controlling and noncontrolling interest: Total goodwill $Answer Peaks goodwill: Answer Goodwill to noncontrolling interest $Answer

Explanation / Answer

Consolidation at End of First Year

(a) Calculate total goodwill and its allocation to the controlling and noncontrolling interests.

Calculation of goodwill is as follows:

Acquisition cost ($10,000,000 + $300,000)

$ 10,300,000

Fair value of noncontrolling interest

6,500,000

Total

16,800,000

Book value of Saddlestone

$ 7,200,000

Identifiable intangibles

2,000,000

9,200,000

Goodwill

$   7,600,000

Allocation of goodwill between controlling and noncontrolling interest:

Total goodwill

$ 7,600,000

Peak’s goodwill: $10,300,000 – 60%($9,200,000)

4,780,000

Goodwill to noncontrolling interest

$ 2,820,000

Calculate equity in net income for 2016, as reported on Peak's books, and the noncontrolling interest in net income, as reported on the consolidated income statement for 2016.

2016 equity in net income and noncontrolling interest in net income:

Total

Equity in NI

Noncontrolling interest in NI

Saddlestone’s reported net income

$ 3,000,000

$ 1,800,000

$ 1,200,000

Revaluation writeoff:

Identifiable intangibles $2,000,000/5

(400,000)

(240,000)

(160,000)

$ 2,600,000

$ 1,560,000

$ 1,040,000

(c) Prepare the consolidation eliminating entries made at December 31, 2016.

c.         Consolidation working paper eliminating entries for 2016:(C)

Equity in net income of S

1,560,000

Dividends – Saddlestone

600,000

Investment in Saddlestone

960,000

(E)      

Stockholders’ equity—Saddlestone, 1/1

7,200,000

Investment in Saddlestone

4,320,000

Noncontrolling interest in Saddlestone

2,880,000

(R)      

Identifiable intangibles

2,000,000

Goodwill

7,600,000

Investment in Saddlestone (1)

5,980,000

Noncontrolling interest in Saddlestone (2)

3,620,000

(1) 60% x $2,000,000 + $4,780,000

(2) 40% x $2,000,000 + $2,820,000

(O)      

Amortization expense

400,000

Identifiable intangibles

400,000

(N)                  

Noncontrolling interest in income of Saddlestone

1,040,000

Dividends – Saddlestone

400,000

Noncontrolling interest in Saddlestone

640,000

Acquisition cost ($10,000,000 + $300,000)

$ 10,300,000

Fair value of noncontrolling interest

6,500,000

Total

16,800,000

Book value of Saddlestone

$ 7,200,000

Identifiable intangibles

2,000,000

9,200,000

Goodwill

$   7,600,000

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