Box owned all of Oval Inc. Although the Investment in Oval Inc. account had a balance of $834K, the subsidiary's 12K shares had an underlying book value of only $56 per share. On January 1, 2017, Oval issued 3K new shares to the public for $70 per share. How does this transaction affect the Investment in Oval Inc. account?
Solution:-
Here we need to findout the Reduction in investment account .
Reduction in investment account = Total balance - Oval inc's share in book value
Where,
Oval inc's share in book value = [ [12,000 * $56 ] + [ 70 * 3,000 ]] * [ 12,000 / (12,000 + 3,000)]
= [ 672,000 + 210,000 ] * [ 0.8 ]
= 882,000 * 80%
= $705,600
Oval inc's share in book value = $705,600
Reduction in investment account = Total balance - Oval inc's share in book value
= 834,000 - 705,600
= $128,400
Reduction in investment account = $128,400 |
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