Davyn Muhammad Farrell
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AKL 1
1. What are the characteristics of a business entity under IFRS 3?
According to IFRS 3, business combination is a process where a business entity acquires one or
more other business entities. A business is defined as “an integrated set of activities and assets that
is capable of being conducted and managed for the purpose of providing a return in the form of
dividends, lower costs or other economic benefits directly to investors or other owners, members
or participants”. This shows that a business entity should have three characteristics: (1) an input,
which is a set of activities and assets, (2) a process, which is managing and conducting the input,
and (3) an output, which is the return from conducting the process.
For example, a business purchased a factory; normally this should be an acquisition of assets,
however, if by purchasing the factory, the entity also hiring its management and workers of that
certain factory this should be a business combination. The factory itself acted as an input, while the
management and workers are a part of the process, and the products produced or any other
economic benefits such as cost reduction is the output. This transaction is now a business
combination.
2. Is dissolution of all but one of the separate legal entities necessary in order to have a
business combination? Explain
The dissolution of all but one of the separate legal entities is not necessary for a business
combination. An example of one form of business combination in which the separate legal entities
are not dissolved is when one corporation becomes a subsidiary of another. In the case of a parent-
subsidiary relationship, each combining company continues to exist as a separate legal entity even
though both companies are under the control of a single management team.
3. What are the legal distinctions between a business combination, a merger, and a
consolidation?
A business combination occurs when two or more previously separate and independent
companies are brought under the control of a single management team. Merger and consolidation
in a generic sense are frequently used as synonyms for the term business combination. In a technical
sense, however, a merger is a type of business combination in which all but one of the combining
entities are dissolved and a consolidation is a type of business combination in which a new
corporation is formed to take over the assets of two or more previously separate companies and all
of the combining companies are dissolved.
SOLUTION E1-2
1. (A) Plant and equipment should be recorded at the $220,000 fair value.
2. (C) Investment cost $1,600,000
Less: Fair value of net assets
Cash $ 160,000
Inventory 380,000
Property and equipment — net 1,120,000
Liabilities (360,000) 1,300,000
Goodwill $ 300,000
SOLUTION P1-1
Investment in Sung Ltd (+A) 11,000,000
Common stock, $10 par (+SE) 5,000,000
Additional paid-in capital (+SE) 5,000,000
Cash (-A) 1,000,000
To record issuance of 500,000 shares of $10 par common stock plus $1,000,000 cash in a
business combination with Sung Ltd.
Cash (+A) 2,000,000
Trade receivables (+A) 800,000
Inventories (+A) 3,000,000
Prepaid expenses (+A) 1,000,000
Land (+A) 6,800,000
Building-net (+A) 10,100,000
Equipment-net (+A) 3,000,000
Trade payable (+L) 1,500,000
Notes payable (+L) 4,600,000
Bonds payable (+L) 7,100,000
Investment in Sung Ltd (-A) 11,000,000
Gain from Bargain Purchase (Ga, +SE) 2,500,000
To assign the cost of Sung Ltd to identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed on
the basis of their fair values and to recognize the gain from a bargain purchase.
