Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259535314
Author: David Marshall, Wayne William McManus, Daniel Viele
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6, Problem 6.5ME

Mini-Exercise 6.5

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Goodwill Backstreets Co. recently acquired all of Jungleland, Inc.’s net assets in a business acquisition. The cash purchase price was $12.6 million. Jungleland, Inc.’s assets and liabilities had the following appraised values immediately prior to the acquisition: land, $2.4 million; buildings, $5.8 million; inventory, $3.4 million; long-term notes payable, for which Backstreets Co. assumes payment responsibilities, $2.5 million.

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How much goodwill will result from this transaction?

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