Corporate and Financial Accounting: Consolidation Report (HA2032)

This report analyzes the corporate and financial accounting aspects of a company takeover, focusing on the acquisition of FAB Limited by JKY Limited. It explores the differences between consolidation and equity accounting methods, detailing how each method impacts the reporting of income and balance sheets, and referencing AASB standards. The report also examines intra-group transactions, emphasizing the need for elimination adjustments to avoid double-counting and ensure accurate financial statements. Additionally, it discusses the effects of disclosing non-controlling interests in the consolidation process, including the required changes for accurate representation of consolidated financial statements as per AASB 101. The analysis covers goodwill recognition, inventory transactions, and the treatment of unrealized profits within a group context, providing a comprehensive overview of the accounting challenges and solutions in corporate takeovers and financial reporting.

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Executive Summary
The findings of the analysis indicates towards the fact that the companies are needed to
consider different principles of recognition as well as measurement at the time of the
acquisition of smaller companies and this can be seen due to the difference between
the methods of equity accounting and consolidation accounting. The findings of the
report also shows that major differences need to be undertaken for the intra-group
transactions in the same companies’ consolidated financial statements.

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Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................3
Part A.................................................................................................................................3
Part B.................................................................................................................................5
Part C.................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................8
References.........................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The main objective of this report can be found in gaining knowledge of various
accounting substances having relation with the acquisition of FAB Limited by JKY
Limited. Providing the necessary description and other information on the consolidated
accounting method and equity accounting method is the main objective of the report’s
first part. The second part of the report aims at discussing the key principles of intra-
group transactions with the help of proper examples. The last part of the report involves
in discussing the effects of the disclosures connected with the non-controlling interests
in the consolidation process.
Part A
In the process of joint ventures, the use of consolidation and equity methods can
be seen. The nature of reporting the income statement and balance sheet in the
partnership determines the selection of appropriate method which implies that there is
difference in the methodology of these two methods.
Consolidation Method of Accounting
This particular method demands the recording of the joint venture’s assets and
liabilities in the balance sheet as per the proportion of percentage of involvement that
the companies have maintained in the partnership. This particular method indicates
towards the major responsibility of the firms towards recording the acquisition process
related incomes and expenses; after that, the developed financial statements must
include these incomes and expenses. The standards of AASB 110 have provided the
companies with the view on what financial substances need to be taken into
consideration from the financial statements of the parent company and its subsidiary
companies; and these financial elements are assets, income, liabilities, expenses and
others (aasb.gov.au 2019). Both the carrying value of the investments of the parent as
well as its subsidiaries and the part of equity of the subsidiaries that the parent company
holds are eliminated in this method. Moreover, this method involves in elimination
adjustment with the aim to eliminate intercompany transactions so that double counting
of the values can be avoided in consolidation process (Lombrano and Zanin 2013).
It can be seen from the standards of AASB 10 that that it is needed for the
companies to comply with the necessary bases to measure different financial items of
the financial reports and the companies are needed to consider the realized value as
the basis for the income and expenses; and fair value is used for measuring these items
(Milojević, Vukoje and Mihajlović 2013). There is a particular criterion for recognizing the
goodwill as per AASB 10, Paragraph 32. It is required for the management of the
acquirer business organization to take into account the greater condition of below
provided conditions in order to measure and recognize the goodwill:
1st Condition: The aggregate of –

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o The transfer consideration on the basis of estimation in accordance with AASB 3
that requires fair value at the date of acquisition.
o The non-controlling interest value based on estimation in the acquiree.
o While completing the business combination process, the equity interest’s fair
value held in the past in the acquiree by the acquirer in fair value at the date of
acquisition (aasb.gov.au 2019).
2nd Condition: The net of the identifiable acquired assets’ value and the predicted
liabilities (aasb.gov.au 2019).
For instance, it is assumed that the business was started by JKY Limited on
1.05.2018 with an investment of $20,000,000 and it is journalized below:
$10,000,000 was invested by JKY Limited in 1.06.2019 for acquiring the share of
FAB Limited and it is journalized below:
Hence, the cash balance of JKY Limited become $10,000,000. The transactions
are journalized below in the book of FAB Limited:
Following is the consolidated statement of the consolidation process after the
end of the period:
Equity Accounting Method
The use of this method can be seen in the analysis of the profit from investment
in other companies (Lee, Pandit and Willis 2013). It is the major obligation on the
companies to take into consideration the equity investments’ size for the disclosure of
income from investment in the profit or loss statement. At the initial stage of the process
of acquisition, it is required for the managements of the companies to use cost value in
order to recognize the investments. At the same time, the managements of the

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companies are needed to take into account the fair value measurement process for the
recognition of goodwill from acquisition (Grossi et al. 2013).
It can be considered in one illustration that for $50,000, JKY Ltd made the
acquisition of 30 percent share of FAB Ltd; and $100,000 of net profit and $50,000 of
dividend was reported by FAB Limited. The requirement for JKY Ltd is to consider take
into account the cost value in order to record the transaction. It is shown below:
There would be decrease in the value of the investment account and it is shown
below:
On the final stage, JKY would be required to record the net profit related to FAB
Limited as maximization of the investment account.
Part B
Distinction of legal entities is considered as inherent in order to conduct
transactions with each other. The preparation of consolidated accounts demands the full
elimination of the impact of all transactions between the entities within an organization.
It can be seen under the standard of AASB 127 that there is a major requirement
considered by the companies which states that the balances generated from various
intra-group transactions are needed to be removed totally (aasb.gov.au 2019). The
presence of some transactions can be seen those can be regarded as the intra-group
transactions; such as transaction related to inventory in intra-group basis, transaction
like the sale or purchase of non-current assets, paying dividend on intra-group basis
and others.
These transactions are eliminated by the consolidation adjustments with intra-group
transaction by reversing the actual accounting entries in order to recognize the
transitions in different legal organizations (Allen, Gu and Kowalewski 2013).
As identified in the given scenario, JKY Limited has bought inventories from one
of its partially owned subsidiaries and thus, until the sale of inventory to the external
parties, realization of revenue is not possible. Thus, any unrealized profit needs to be
eliminated from the consolidated account. It can be seen from the rules and standards
of AASB 127 that the companies must ensure the fact that they remove the generated

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profit or loss from the transactions related to intra-group; and these transactions can be
related to various non-current assets and other assets like inventory. (aasb.gov.au
2019).
As per the given scenario, inventory has been sold by the partially owned
subsidiary to JKY Limited and as per assumption; a mark-up is included in the sale that
states it is accurate from the point of group transactions when JKY Limited sells the
inventory to external parties. However, until JKY Limited sells the inventory to the
external customers, the profit raised from the sale of inventory to JKY Limited would be
considered as unrealized profit which would boost the group profit excessively. Thus,
elimination of unrealized profit is mandatory (Colombo and Turati 2014).
As per an illustration, an assumption is considered that that JKY Limited has
acquired the inventory for $12,500 from its subsidiary and the value is kept at the year
end. In addition, 25% margin is earned by the subsidiary which contributed towards the
profit of $2,500 ($12,500 × 25%). Thus, overstatement of consolidated profit can be
seen from the point of view of the group by $2,500 and thus, the following adjustment is
necessary
Particulars Amount ($)
Consolidated Profit a/c……….Dr.
To Consolidated Inventory a/c
2,500
2500
It is needed to eliminate the whole unrealized profit when the goods are sold by
the subsidiary with non-controlling interest to the group. As per the first approach, the
profit needs to be assigned to the non-controlling interest in the proportion of the
unrecognized profit. This eliminates the whole profit in the selling entity. As per the
second approach, no portion of the unrecognized profit is to be assigned to non-
controlling interest and; the share capital and reserves connected with the subsidiaries
are depicted from the figure of non-controlling interest.
As per certain assumption, JKY Ltd has the legal right on 80 percent interest of A
Ltd and 70 percent interest of A Ltd. A Ltd sold goods cost $70,000 for $10,000 to B
Ltd; and B Limited became able in selling half of the goods. In this situation, the major
need for the management of JKY Ltd is to ensure the fact that there is full removal of
the profit from the transaction that remains unrecognized. The profit transfer from A
Limited to B Limited is of $50,000 and $35,000 would be the cost of the group. For this
reason, there is a major need for the management of JKY Ltd to ensure the fact that the
profit worth $15,000 associated with inventory is fully eliminated. As per the first
method, since 80% interest of FAB Limited is owned by JKY Limited and 20% of non-
controlling interest, $3,000 ($15,000 × 20%) would be the proportion of non-controlling
interest (Enriques 2015).
Part C
Effects of the Disclosure of NCI

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One basic requirement related to the accounting treatment of non-controlling
interest is that the financial statements of the parent companies and the non-controlling
interests must be prepared as well as presented on separate basis. Non-controlling
interest is regarded as a portion of the equity in subsidiary which cannot be attributed to
the parent company either directly or non-directly. AASB 127 has played a crucial part
to improve the non-controlling interests accounting and reporting. In the presence of
separate non-controlling interest reporting in the process of consolidation, it is needed
to reconcile the changes in the shareholder’s equity through showing the changes in the
parent company along with the non-controlling interests in accordance with AASB 101,
Paragraph 106 (a). Thus, the separate amounts of non-controlling interests are required
to be labeled as well as identified. This needs to be done for ensuring additional
clarification to the consolidated group’s separate shareholders based on their claims on
the net assets of the group (Nobes 2013).
Equity transactions can be regarded as the ownership interest variation of the
parent company in a subsidiary which does not occur when the subsidiary is not more
under the control of the parent company. In case there is change in the part of equity
held by the non-controlling interest, adjustments need to be conducted in the controlling
and non-controlling interests’ carrying value for representing the variation in the relative
subsidiary interest. At the same time, it is needed to directly recognize the non-
controlling interest and fair value adjustments since they are attributable to the parent
company’s shareholders (Gluzová 2016).
Required Changes for Accurate Representation of Consolidated Financial
Statements
AASB 101 has outlined certain changes for the accurate representation of
consolidated financial statement. It is not needed to prepare the consolidated financial
statements at the same reporting date. There is a need for adjustments to demonstrate
the effects on the main events or transactions occurred between the dates of financial
statements of the parent company and its subsidiaries. It is needed to offset the
investment’s carrying value in the subsidiary in the parent firm along with eliminating the
parent hold (aasb.gov.au 2019).
It is needed to realize the impairment losses associated with the assets that is
identifiable from the intra-group losses. After that, it is needed to eliminate the
transactions associated with the intra-group balance, incomes and expenses. Different
items of cash flows, assets, liabilities and expenses of both the parent firm and its
subsidiaries need to be combined in the consolidated financial statements. According to
AASB 112, it is needed to apply the occurrence of temporary difference from the
elimination of profit and loss in the intra-group transactions (aasb.gov.au 2019). It is
required to be made sure that there is uniformity in the group’s accounting policies
through making appropriate adjustments in the financial statements of the group
members while developing consolidated financial statements in certain circumstances
when different accounting policies used by a group member for certain financial
transactions (Hodgson and Russell 2014).

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The attribution of the organization is needed for the whole comprehensive
income of the parent company and its subsidiaries, even in the presence of the
possibility of adverse effect of the accounting treatment on the non-controlling interest.
Moreover, the share of profit and loss in the presence of outstanding cumulative
preference share by any subsidiary needs to be computer after adjusting dividend on
those shares irrespective of the declaration of the dividends.
Effects of the Required Changes in Annual Report’s Disclosure Requirements
As per AASB 127, Paragraph 10, when a company undertakes the preparation
of separate financial statements, it needs to take into consideration the joint venture’s
investments, subsidiaries and associated at cost in accordance with the AASB 9
(aasb.gov.au 2019). This leads to the effective development of the financial statements.
In case, there is lack of materiality in the information arising from any particular
disclosure, the requirement is to ensure disclosing the associated accounting policies
and the measurement based utilized for the preparation of consolidated financial
statement. For this reason, the companies are needed to develop the consolidated
financial statements through the disclosure of the degree as well as nature of any
crucial limitation arising from the requirement of regulation on the basis of the
subsidiary’s ability to transfer the parent company either by repaying the loans,
dividends in cash and advances (Howieson 2013).
Along with the above, while preparing the consolidated financial statements of
the companies, it is required to have the financial statements of the subsidiaries at the
reporting year’s end and it is required to make the required disclosures in case the
parent organization’s and subsidiaries’ reporting dates do not match. In addition, in case
the parent company has the voting right less than 50% in a subsidiary, it is needed to
make the necessary disclosures on the nature of the relationship between the
subsidiary company and the parent form irrespective of direct or indirect disclosure.
Thus, it can be said that disclosure requirements have impact on the preparation of
financial statements.
Conclusion
It can be said on the basis of the above discussion that there are the presence of
major differences in the accounting of consolidation accounting and non-controlling
interest in the presence of different standers. The above discussion states that it is
needed to consider different principles of measurement and recognition while analyzing
the gap between equity accounting and consolidation accounting in the acquisition of a
smaller company. In addition, there is difference between intra-group transactions in the
companies’ consolidated financial statement. Lastly, it can also be seen from the above
that it is the requirement of the disclosure requirements to consider the non-controlling
interest as a separate item in the consolidated financial statements which has impact on
the overall process of consolidation.

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