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Stephen Widberg.
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- January 5, 2025 at 8:10 pm #714439
Hi tutors
Suppose a business is being acquired and the consideration is
Cash 100k and
100k provision of business support such as office space, business development advise, tech supportFor the non cash consideration I would consider a liability of 100k for the provision of services. How would this liability settled?
-Debit liability
-Credit a contra account of the expenditure incurred by the acquiring business? For example, the salary of the people working on those services?Thanks
January 6, 2025 at 8:10 am #714444I think, as you say:
Dr Liability
Cr Salary expense(All answers given for exam purposes only 🙂 )
January 6, 2025 at 7:46 pm #714461Hi Stephen thanks
-I have been researching it – wouldn’t credit salaries understate the salary costs in the p&l
-Couldn’t it be revenue ?
Thanks
January 9, 2025 at 8:17 am #714488No. Imagine that I make sausages.
My salary cost should reflect cost of making sausages not cost of buying other companies.
(Answer given for exam purposes only).
January 11, 2025 at 1:10 am #714519Thanks Stephen
January 12, 2025 at 9:22 am #714535🙂
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