Slatter Corporation operates primarily in the United States. However, a few years ago, it opened a plant
Question:
Slatter Corporation operates primarily in the United States. However, a few years ago, it opened a plant in Spain to produce merchandise to sell there. This foreign operation has been so successful that during the past 24 months the company started a manufacturing plant in Italy and another in Greece. Financial information for each of these facilities follows:
Spain LO3 Italy Greece Sales.
.$395,000
$272,000
$463,000 Intersegment transfers.
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62,000 Operating expenses.
. 172,000 206,000 190,000 Interest expense.
. 16,000 29,000 19,000 Income taxes.
. 67,000 19,000 34,000 Long-lived assets.
. 191,000 106,000 72,000 The company’s domestic (U.S.) operations reported the following information for the current year:
Sales to unaffiliated customers. $4,610,000 Intersegment transfers.427,000 Operating expenses.2,410,000 Interestexpense. 136,000 Income taxes.819,000 Long-livedassets. 1,894,000 Slatter has adopted the following criteria for determining the materiality of an individual foreign country: (1) sales to unaffiliated customers within a country are 10 percent or more of consolidated sales or (2) long-lived assets within a country are 10 percent or more of consolidated long-lived assets.
Apply Slatter’s materiality tests to identify the countries to report separately.
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Advanced Accounting
ISBN: 9780073379456
9th Edition
Authors: Joe Ben Hoyle, Timothy S. Doupnik, Thomas F. Schaefer, Oe Ben Hoyle