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- September 28, 2020 at 8:19 pm #586931
i) H acquired 3m equity share of M when M had a total of 4m share in issue. H paid a total of $25m to acquire share.
II) the retained earnings of M were $20m and carrying amount of the net assets of M approximated to their fair value.
III) It is the group acccounting policy to account for NCI at its fair value. As at date of acquisition, the fair value of NCI in M was $7m.
Calculate good will arising on acquisition of M by HSeptember 28, 2020 at 8:23 pm #586932My main issue is how to get the Net assets at acq’n to get good will?
September 29, 2020 at 9:03 am #586964The net assets at the date of acquisition are equal to the share capital + reserves, so in this case a total of $24M (assuming that the nominal value of the shares is $1 each, but the questions must tell you the nominal/par value).
The consideration paid plus the fair value of the NCI is $32M.
Therefore the goodwill is $8M.
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