In paragraph 44 of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 141, "Business Combinations,"the Financial Accounting Standards Board directed that if the sum of the fair values of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination exceeds the cost of the acquired enterprise, such excess should be allocated as a pro rata reduction of amounts that otherwise would have been assigned to noncurrent assets other than specified exceptions.

 

Instructions

·        What support, if any, do you find for the action of the FASB? Explain.