Advanced Accounting
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Author: Joe Ben Hoyle, Thomas F. Schaefer, Timothy S. Doupnik
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Chapter 6, Problem 8Q
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Explain why the amount of this adjustment reduced from year to year.
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Under PFRS 3, when is a gain recognized in consolidating financial information?
a. In a combination created in the middle of the fiscal year
b. In an acquisition when the value of all assets and liabilities cannot be determined.
c. When any bargain purchased is created
d. When the amount of a bargain purchase exceeds the value of the applicable liability held by the acquired company.
A company has included in its consolidated financial statements this year a subsidiary acquired several years ago that was appropriately excluded from consolidation last year. This results in a. an accounting change that should be reported prospectively. b. an accounting change that should be reported by restating the financial statements of all prior periods presented. c. a correction of an error. d. neither an accounting change nor a correction of an error.
Gem Company classifies a portion of its retained earnings as appropriated for loss contingencies. Consequently, the company
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A.) May transfer to income a part of said retained earnings so appropriated.
B.)Should not identify said appropriation as an appropriation of retained earnings.
C.) Should show the said appropriation of retained earnings within the stockholders' equity section of the balance sheet
D.)Could charge costs or losses to the said appropriated retained earnings.
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