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Introduction: Immediately after a business combination, the parent company records income and dividends from the subsidiary using the equity method, in addition, parents must also write off the portion of the differential of the excess acquisition price. Further, all the intercompany transactions must be eliminated before the preparation of consolidated financial statements.
The balance reported by P as its investment in S at December 31, 20X1, assuming P uses equity method accounting for investments
b
Introduction: Immediately after a business combination, the parent company records income and dividends from the subsidiary using the equity method, in addition, parents must also write off the portion of the differential of the excess acquisition price. Further, all the intercompany transactions must be eliminated before the preparation of consolidated financial statements.
The consolidation entries needed at December 31, 20X1.

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