Adams Corporation acquired 90 percent of the outstanding voting shares of Barstow, Inc., on December 31, 2013. Adams paid a total of $603,000 in cash for these shares. The 10 percent noncontrolling interest shares traded on a daily basis at fair value of $67,000 both before and after Adams’s acquisition. On December 31, 2013, Barstow had the following account balances:
At year-end, there were no intra-entity receivables or payables.
a. Prepare schedules for acquisition-date fair-value allocations and amortizations for Adams’s investment in Barstow.
b. Determine Adams’s method of accounting for its investment in Barstow. Support your answer with a numerical explanation.
c. Without using a worksheet or consolidation entries, determine the balances to be reported as of December 31, 2015, for this business combination.
d. To verify the figures determined in requirement ( c ) , prepare a consolidation worksheet for Adams Corporation and Barstow, Inc., as of December 31, 2015.