On January 1, Prine, Inc., acquired 100 percent of Lydia Companys common stock for a fair value
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Prine specializes in media distribution and viewed its acquisition of Lydia as a strategic move into content ownership and creation. Prine expected both cost and revenue synergies from controlling Lydias artistic content (a large library of classic movies) and its sports programming specialty video operation. Accordingly, Prine allocated Lydias assets and liabilities (including $50,000,000 of goodwill) to a newly formed operating segment appropriately designated as a reporting unit.
The fair values of the reporting units identifiable assets and liabilities through the first year of operations were as follows.
However, Lydias assets have taken longer than anticipated to produce the expected synergies with Prines operations. At year-end, Prine reduced its assessment of the Lydia reporting units fair value to $110,000,000.
At December 31, Prine and Lydia submitted the following balances for consolidation:
a. What is the relevant initial test to determine whether goodwill could be impaired?
b. At what amount should Prine record an impairment loss for its Lydia reporting unit for the year?
c. What is consolidated net income for the year?
d. What is the December 31 consolidated balance for goodwill?
e. What is the December 31 consolidated balance for broadcast licenses?
f. Prepare a consolidated worksheet for Prine and Lydia (Prines trial balance should first be adjusted for any appropriate impairmentloss).
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Advanced Accounting
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