(a) On 1 October 2012, Paradigm acquired 75% of Strata's equity shares by means of a share exchange of two new shares in Paradigm for every five acquired shares in Strata. In addition, Paradigm issued to the shareholders of Strata a $100 10% loan note for every 1,000 shares it acquired in Strata. Paradigm has not recorded any of the purchase consideration, although it does have other 10% loan notes already in issue.
The market value of Paradigm's shares at 1 October 2012 was $2 each.
The summarized statements of financial position of the two companies as at 31 March 2013 are:

The following information is relevant:
(i) At the date of acquisition, Strata produced a draft statement of profit or loss which showed it had made a net loss after tax of $2 million at that date. Paradigm accepted this figure as the basis for calculating the pre- and post-acquisition split of Strata's profit for the year ended 31 March 2013.
Also at the date of acquisition, Paradigm conducted a fair value exercise on Strata's net assets which were equal to their carrying amounts (including Strata's financial asset equity investments) with the exception of an item of plant which had a fair value of $3 million below its carrying amount. The plant had a remaining economic life of three years at 1 October 2012.
Paradigm's policy is to value the non-controlling interest at fair value at the date of acquisition. For this purpose, a share price for Strata of $1.20 each is representative of the fair value of the shares held by the non-controlling interest.
(ii) Each month since acquisition, Paradigm's sales to Strata were consistently $4.6 million. Paradigm had marked these up by 15% on cost. Strata had one month's supply ($4.6 million) of these goods in inventory at 31 March 2013. Paradigm's normal mark-up (to third party customers) is 40%.
(iii) Strata's current account balance with Paradigm at 31 March 2013 was $2.8 million, which did not agree with Paradigm's equivalent receivable due to a payment of $900,000 made by Strata on 28 March 2013, which was not received by Paradigm until 3 April 2013.
(iv) The financial asset equity investments of Paradigm and Strata are carried at their fair values as at 1 April 2012. As at 31 March 2013, these had fair values of $7.1 million and $3.9 million respectively.
(v) There were no impairment losses within the group during the year ended 31 March 2013.
Required:
Prepare the consolidated statement of financial position for Paradigm as at 31 March 2013.
(b) Paradigm has a strategy of buying struggling businesses, reversing their decline and then selling them on at a profit within a short period of time. Paradigm is hoping to do this with Strata.
Required:
As an adviser to a prospective purchaser of Strata, explain any concerns you would raise about basing an investment decision on the information available in Paradigm's consolidated financial statements and Strata's entity financial statements.

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Paradigm $000 Strata Assets $00 Non-current assets Property, plant and equipment Financial asset: equity investments (notes (i) and (v)) 47,400 7,500 25,500 3,200 54,900 28,700 Current assets Inventory (note (i) Trade receivables (note (ii) 20,400 8,400 14,800 2,100 9,000 Bank nil Total assets 46,100 92,200 Equity and liabilities Equity Equity shares of $1 each Retained earnings/ (losses) – at I April 2012 40,000 19,200 20,000 (4,000) - for year ended 31 March 2013 7,400 8,000 66,600 24,000 Non-current liabilities 10% loan notes 8,000 nil Current liabilities Trade payables (note (ii) Bank overdraft nil 9,100 13,000 17,600 46, 100 Total equity and liabilities 92,200