On December 31, 20X2, your companys Mexican subsidiary sold land at a selling price of 3,000,000 pesos.

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On December 31, 20X2, your company’s Mexican subsidiary sold land at a selling price of 3,000,000 pesos. The land had been purchased for 2,000,000 pesos on January 1, 20X1, when the exchange rate was 10 pesos to 1 U.S. dollar. The exchange rate for 1 U.S. dollar was 11 pesos on December 31, 20X1, and 12 pesos on December 31, 20X2. Assume that the subsidiary had no other assets and no liabilities during the two years that it owned the land.


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a. Prepare all entries regarding the purchase and sale of the land that would be made on the books of the Mexican subsidiary whose recording currency is the Mexican peso.

b. Determine the amount of the gain or loss on the transaction that would be reported on the subsidiary’s remeasured income statement in U.S. dollars, assuming the U.S. dollar is the functional currency. Determine the amount of the remeasurement gain or loss that would be reported on the remeasured income statement in U.S. dollars.

c. Determine the amount of the gain or loss on the transaction that would be reported on the subsidiary’s translated income statement in U.S. dollars, assuming the Mexican peso is the functional currency. Determine the amount of the other comprehensive income that would be reported on the consolidated statement of other comprehensive income for 20X2.


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 Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0078025624

10th edition

Authors: Theodore E. Christensen, David M. Cottrell, Richard E. Baker

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