On January 2, Year 4, Poplar Ltd. purchased 80% of the outstanding shares of Spruce Ltd. for $1,910,000. At that date, Spruce had common shares of $500,000 and retained earnings of $1,160,000 and accumulated depreciation of $510,000. Poplar acquired the Spruce shares to obtain control of mineral rights owned by Spruce. At the date of acquisition, these mineral rights were valued at $727,500, were not recognized on Spruce's separate-entity balance sheet, and had an useful life of 10 years. Except for the mineral rights, the carrying amount of the recorded assets and liabilities of Spruce were equal to their fair values. On December 31 , Year 7 , the trial balances of the two companies were as follows: - The Year 7 net incomes of the two companies are as follows: - The mineral rights owned by Spruce have increased in value since the date of acquisition and were worth $942,100 at December 31, Year 7. - On January 2, Year 5, Poplar sold equipment to Spruce for $420,000. The equipment had a carrying amount of $336,000 at the time of the sale. The remaining useful life of the equipment was 5 years. - The Year 7 opening inventories of Poplar contained $519,000 of merchandise purchased from Spruce during Year 6 . Spruce had recorded a gross profit of $207,600 on this merchandise. - During Year 7, Spruce's sales to Poplar totalled \$1,019,000. These sales were made at a gross profit rate of 35\%. - Poplar's ending inventory contains $319,000 of merchandise purchased from Spruce. - On January 2, Year 5, Poplar issued 8%,7 year bonds with a face value of $500,000 for $521,000. Interest is paid annually on December 31. On January 2, Year 6, Spruce purchased one-half of this issue on the open market at a cost of $238,000. - Other expenses include depreciation expense. - Tax allocation will be at a rate of 40%. Required: (a) Prepare the following consolidated financial statements for Year 7: (i) Income statement (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter " 0 " wherever required. Input all values as positive numbers.) ii) Retained earnings statement (Input all values as positive numbers. Omit \$ sign in your response.) (iii) Balance sheet (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter " 0 " wherever required. Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign.) (b) Calculate the December 31, Year 7, balance in the account Investment in Spruce if Poplar had used the equity method to account for its investment. (Omit \$ sign in your response.) Balance, Dec. 31, Year 7$ (c) This part of the question is not part of your Connect assignment