JUNE 2015

Sir
Germane has a number of relationships with other companies.

In which of the following relationships is Germane necessarily the parent company?

(i) Foll has 50,000 non-voting and 100,000 voting equity shares in issue with each share receiving the same dividend. Germane owns all of Foll’s non-voting shares and 40,000 of its voting shares

(ii) Kipp has 1 million equity shares in issue of which Germane owns 40%. Germane also owns $800,000 out of $1 million 8% convertible loan notes issued by Kipp. These loan notes may be converted on the basis of 40 equity shares for each $100 of loan note, or they may be redeemed in cash at the option of the holder

(iii) Germane owns 49% of the equity shares in Polly and 52% of its non-redeemable
preference shares. As a result of these investments, Germane receives variable returns from Polly and has the ability to affect these returns through its power over Polly

A (i) only
B (i) and (ii) only
C (ii) and (iii) only
D All three
Sir why (i) is not OK?