Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9780078025914
Author: Fred Phillips Associate Professor, Robert Libby, Patricia Libby
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Which of the following statements is true regarding goodwill?
a.Goodwill is amortized based on the lesser of the useful life or the legal life.
b.Goodwill is the exclusive use of a name, term, or symbol used to identify a business or its product.
c.If the purchase price of a business exceeds the fair value of its net assets, the excess is recorded as goodwill.
d.Goodwill is amortized based on a 10-year period.
Which statement regarding goodwill is true?
a. goodwill is an unidentifiable intangible assetb. internally developed goodwill should be capitalized while purchased goodwill should beexpensedc. goodwill can be defined as the value attached to the ability of a company to earn a higherthan normal rate of return on the book value of its identifiable assetsd. in some situations, FASB Statement No. 141 requires that negative goodwill be recorded
The IASB standard (IFRS 3 Business Combinations) issued with respect to the treatment ofnegative goodwill requires that:A. it must be recognized in income immediately as an extraordinary item.B. it must be recognized in income immediately.C. it can be deferred and amortized over a maximum of 40 years.D. it must be reflected as an increase in Liabilities and a Reduction in Capital for theParent Company.
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