Exercise 1 (15 Points) a) Explain the difference between single financial statements and group financial statements. What is the function of consolidated financial statements and who are the primary users? b) Outline in your own words the legal requirements for preparing consolidated financial statements in Germany. Which companies are required to prepare consolidated financial statements and which accounting standard is to be used? What are the components of a complete set of consolidated financial statements? c) X AG has acquired shares in L AG. Outline how the investment in the shares of L AG is supposed to be treated by X AG depending on the stake of the equity investment Exercise 2 (20 Points) a) Please obtain the most recent single and consolidated financial statements of Volkswagen. Briefly highlight the key differences between both sets of financial statements b) Briefly outline the key steps required to prepare consolidated financial statements. Use an example of two companies included in the consolidated financial statements of Volkswagen to explain the requirement for these steps. Exercise 3 (15 Points) H AG has investments in a number of companies: i) HAG owns 45 % of the voting share of B AG ii) H AG owns 60% of the voting shares of C AG and C AG owns 30% of the voting shares of D AG. Recently H AG has purchase 70% of the voting shares of E AG and E AG owns 30% of the voting shares of D AG. The accountant does not consider D AG to be a subsidiary of H AG. ii) Recently, H AG has purchased 60% of shares of N AG. Prior to the purchase, N AG had in issue 12,000,000 ordinary shares of 1 each. Each ordinary share carries a single vote. These shares where owned equally by each of the directors of N AG. For the purchase, the directors of N AG sold 4,000,000 ordinary shares to H AG, and N AG issued 4,000,000 preference shares of 1 each to HAG. The preference shares do not carry a vote. Consider and, where appropriate, discuss whether the following companies are subsidiaries of H AG when applying IFRS 10: a) B AG b) DAG c) NAG