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- March 7, 2013 at 8:12 am #119437
I just want to know on the answer to question 4, how were the fractions arrived at?
March 7, 2013 at 11:34 am #119453Is this the question with 10/15, 2/15 and 3/15?
10/15 is easy – it’s 2/3 of the number of shares.
2 / 15 is calculated by finding the amount of the cost of the investment by the parent so it requires a little working to discover that the parent spent 80,000 on the acquisition and the shares cost $2 each so that makes 40,000 shares acquired out of a total of 300,000 = 2/15
OK?
March 7, 2013 at 2:42 pm #119465Yes thats the Question.Is the 2/3 coming due to the fact that the two companies acquired Liene,you no why am confused its because the question didnt state the number of shares purchased by the two copmanies.
March 7, 2013 at 3:06 pm #119468No, but the question shows you how much is in Anda’s and Kristina’s balance sheets as investments, and we know the shares cost $2 each so …….. we can work out how many shares were acquired!
March 8, 2013 at 11:11 am #119505Alright thanks so much for your help Mikel.
March 8, 2013 at 11:39 am #119508welcome
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