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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 support
For 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
I think, as you say:
Dr Liability
Cr Salary expense
(All answers given for exam purposes only 🙂 )
Hi 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