Livingston Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rose Corporation. Livingston operates in a foreign country with

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Livingston Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rose Corporation. Livingston operates in a foreign country with financial statements recorded in goghs (GH), the company's functional currency. Financial statements for the year 2017 are as follows:


Livingston Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rose Corporation.

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∙ The common stock was issued in 2010 when the exchange rate was $2.08 per GH; property, plant, and equipment was acquired in 2011 when the rate was $2.00 per GH.
∙ As of January 1, 2017, the retained earnings balance was translated as $396,520.
∙ The U.S.$ per GH exchange rates for 2017 follow:
January 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.67
April 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.61
September 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.72
December 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.54
Weighted average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.59
∙ Inventory was acquired evenly throughout the year.
∙ The December 31, 2016, balance sheet reported a translation adjustment with a debit balance of $85,000.
∙ Dividends were declared on April 1, 2017, and a piece of equipment was sold on September 1, 2017.
Assume that the gogh is Livingston Company's functional currency. Translate the 2017 foreign currency financial statements into the parent's reporting currency, the U.S. dollar.

Financial Statements
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Exchange Rate
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another. Exchange Rate means on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars...
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Advanced Accounting

ISBN: 978-1259444951

13th edition

Authors: Joe Ben Hoyle, Thomas Schaefer, Timothy Doupni

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