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  1. Hello Mike,
    I wanted to THANK YOU for the amazing lectures. I studied consolidation at my institute recently and had no idea what was going on.

    After listening to your lectures concepts are much more clear.

    Thanks Indeed and good day!
    A

  2. Hi Mike thanks for sharing lectures! I would like to clear one thing for myself,in example 5,you stated that there is no goodwill attributable to NCI. could you please elucidate this remark? thanks in advance.
    regards,
    Sevinj

    • Ayesha is correct – where the nci is valued on a proportionate basis, it means that their investment is calculated as their percentage of the fair value of the subsidiary’s net assets at date of acquisition

      Which excludes any share of the UNidentified asset of goodwill

      Better?

    • Because that’s what the standards say we should do! It’s only a relatively recent requirement! Previously we would show dividends payable to nci in current liabilities and the balance due to the nci as a long term liability.

      Dividends is still shown as current but the balance is in equity

      The reason is because they are part financing the activities of the group, just like our own shareholders are financing the activities of the group.

      In addition, they satisfy the framework definition of “equity” and, more importantly, they don’t satisfy the definition of “liabilities”

      Ok?

  7. Hi Mike,

    Maybe you have answered this before, however I could not find it. In the example 5 (which is additionally mentioned below the video, the retained earnings have been removed from the calculations in W2 (of Goodwill), however, in W3, the Pre Acq RE have been mentioned as 6000.

    Not sure of the logic, why this was excluded at the time of goodwill calculation while RE calculation does not ignore this figure.

    Awaiting your reply. Thanks.

  8. Good day Sir
    In example 5 of this Lecture the case of Remilius acquiring Liona’s 75% share
    Under working 3:retained earnings, i don’t understand why Liona’s Pre-Acquisition retained earnings has to be $32,000 and current retained has to be $30,000 while we were given in the question the Current year retained earnings of of Liona as $98,000 and Prequisition retained earnings as $60,000

    • Hi

      I can’t find this example in this recorded lecture! But the example of Remigius and Ilona deals with amounts of 98,000 and 60,000 as per the course notes.

      If my recording uses 32,000 and 30,000 it must be because it was recorded when the course notes used those amounts and the notes have been changed subsequent to the recording

      Ok?

    • Impairment is, effectively, depreciation. One difference when compared with depreciation in that depreciation is applied annually whereas impairment is only applied when the directors have considered the carrying values of the company’s assets and decided that they are shown at a value greater than their recoverable amount

      In the context of goodwill, we no longer amortise this asset (we used to until relatively recently). So the directors now are required to carry our an “annual impairment review” and, if they decide that goodwill is being carried at a value greater than its recoverable amount, then the company needs to impair the goodwill

      Is that ok?

  11. Hi Mike,
    I would like a little more clarification as to why there was no Nci share of the $1000 goodwill impaired in example 5, but in the previous example there was, NCI impaired goodwill share was 25% of $700=$175.
    Thanks.

    • They are illustrated in the course notes – it’ll most probably be a share for share exchange – and there are lots of examples from past F7 exams in mini-exercises at the end of the course notes and still more in the F7 supplement on the F7 page on this site

  14. Dear Mike,

    I understand that w4 is the balance sheet figure for NCi. And ur working up to this point is comprehensive but what if the sub had a brand and it was valued etc etc, we would include this as part of our net assets at DOA right? How would the nci account for their share in this? Do u put their % of brand value in their working?

    • Yes, of course. They are entitled to their share of the fair valued net assets as at the date of acquisition (including the fair value of the brand and any fair value adjustments to the other net assets)

    • I believe that there is a video showing the different ways that the examiner could use to give you information leading to the ability to calculate goodwill.

      Without looking at the video above, whichever way has been used, there are at least 3 other methods of arriving at goodwill.

      All 4 methods are dependent upon the basis of the valuation / calculation of the value of the nci investment

      Check out the video where all this is explained

    • Why would you do that? If a question says that these have a fair value of $XXXXX, and $XXXXX is different than the carrying value of those matters, then you would make a fair value adjustment.

      But otherwise, no

      • Isn’t Fair Value of Subsidiary at the date of acquisition = Net Assets of Subsidiary at the Date of acquisition?

        Net Assets = Share Capital + Reserves – Fictitious Assets to the extent not written off?

      • No, where have you got that from.

        It really depends on what exactly you mean by “fictitious assets”

        If you’re talking about unrecognised intangible assets like an internally generated brand name or a customer list, these are part of the subsidiary’s net assets at date of acquisition. But they do not appear in the subsidiary’s accounting records – they are unrecognised. Nevertheless, they DO form part of the subsidiary’s fair valued net assets at date of acquisition and therefore need to be brought is as fair value adjustments in working W2, Goodwill

      • Fictitious assets in the sense Preliminary expenses not written off, Advertisement suspense account, discount on issue on shares to the extent not written off etc

      • Yes, you mentioned preliminary expenses and advertising suspense account in your first post.

        I have never heard of any company that has not written off its preliminary expenses!

        The advertising suspense that you mention I presume is an advertising campaign the benefit of which will not be felt until next year so a proportion of it has been treated as a prepayment (or not so treated, but could justifiably have been treated)

        Now you also bring in discount on issue of shares! Well, let’s get rid of that one straight away! Such a discount is ILLEGAL! Not only is it not a fictitious asset – it’s not an asset at all and, if it has happened, then you should be warning the directors that their personal wealth is about to be reduced when the case is brought to court. In addition, they could well find themselves out of a job and on the list of Banned Directors under CDDA

        I’ve dealt with Preliminary expenses – never heard of it happening

        A prepayment for advertising seems like a reasonable case of a fair value adjustment – though the (new) subsidiary’s (former) auditors need to be questioned closely about why this was not treated as a prepayment in last year’s financial statements (if applicable)

  19. your lecture is great…..but my question is why the impairment of good will charged to NCI in first example.of the lecture…… and plz tell me when we charged the impairment of good will charged to NCI?

    • Where the nci is valued on a proportionate basis, they have no goodwill and therefore any impairment is all ours.

      Of the nci is valued on a full fair value basis, they have some goodwill, so any impairment is allocated between the parent and the nci in the proportion of their different shareholdings.

      Does that answer it?

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