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No significant influence equity investments:
These investments are the investments in equity securities where the investor holds less than 20% of the voting stock, and thereby the investor would not be able to participate in the decisions of the investee company. These investments are reported as the current assets or the long-term assets on the basis of the period which the investor holds the investments.
Unrealized-gain or Unrealized-loss:
Unrealized-holding gain or loss occurs when the investor company record the investments at its fair value, in its financial statements, without disposing (selling) them. When the cost of the investment is lesser than the fair value of the investment, then it is unrealized-gain. On the contrary, when the cost of the investment is greater than the fair value of the investment, then it is unrealized-loss.
The value of per share difference of $1 would be reported on the year-end financial statements.
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