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Paying for business acquisition with services

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  • This topic has 5 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 1 year ago by Stephen Widberg.
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  • January 5, 2025 at 8:10 pm #714439
    Dansa
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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

    January 6, 2025 at 8:10 am #714444
    Stephen Widberg
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    I think, as you say:

    Dr Liability
    Cr Salary expense

    (All answers given for exam purposes only 🙂 )

    January 6, 2025 at 7:46 pm #714461
    Dansa
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    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

    January 9, 2025 at 8:17 am #714488
    Stephen Widberg
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    No. 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 #714519
    Dansa
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    Thanks Stephen

    January 12, 2025 at 9:22 am #714535
    Stephen Widberg
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    🙂

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