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  • January 21, 2019 at 5:30 am #502855
    sguha
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    Incidental costs of acquisition such as legal, accounting, valuation and
    other professional fees should be written off as expenses through profit or
    loss as incurred. written in kaplan

    does means it will be treated as expense while preparing consolidated st. of p/l
    or its talking about parent co’s individual st of p/l from there it has to be reducted,as the expense incurred….which one

    January 21, 2019 at 8:37 pm #502926
    P2-D2
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    I presume that you are talking about IFRS 3, in which case yes, all the acquisition costs are expensed through profit or loss of the parent, and therefore the group accounts. Just note that share issue costs will reduce the share premium account and are not taken through profit or loss.

    Thanks

    January 25, 2019 at 4:47 am #503237
    sguha
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    so the parent company profit for the year already remain adjusted for acquisition cost as its already treated in the parent co’s p/l…..so the balance sheet. Retained earnings already adjusted at the balance sheet…….so no further reduction is required right while preparing consolidated financial statements.

    January 27, 2019 at 8:11 am #503374
    P2-D2
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    Hi,

    It depends if the parent has correctly accounted for them or not initially, but they have to go through profit or loss, which then will feed into the retained earnings of the parent.

    Thanks

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