Jonas Tech corporation recently acquired Innovation Plus Company.The combined firm consists of three related businesses that will serve as reporting units. In connection with acquisition, Junas requests your help with the fallowing assets valuation and allocation issues. Support your answers with references to FASB ASC as appropriate. Jonas recognized several identifiable from its acquisition of Innovation Plus. It expresses the desire to have these intangible assets written down to zero in the acquisition period. The price Jonas paid for Innovation Plus indicates that it paid a large amount of goodwill. However, Jonas worries that any future goodwill impairment may send the wrong signal to its investors about the wisdom of the Innovation Plus acquisition. Jonas thus wishes to allocate the combined goodwill of all of its reporting units to one account called Enterprise Goodwill. In this way, Jinas hopes to minimize the possibility og goodwill impairment because a decline in goodwill in one business unit could be offset by an increase in the value of goodwill in another business unit.

Required:

1. Advise Jonas on the acceptability of its suggested immediate write off of the identifieble intangibles.

2. Indicate the relavant factors to consider in allocating the value assigned to identifieble intangibles acquired in a business combination to expense over time.

3. Advise Jonas on the acceptability of its suggested treatment of goodwill.

4. Indicate the relevant factors to consider in allocation goodwill across an enterprise's business units.