On January 2, Year 4, Poplar Ltd. purchased 80% of the outstanding shares of Spruce Ltd. for $2,080,000. At that date, Spruce had common shares of $500,000 and retained earnings of $1,330,000 and accumulated depreciation of $680,000. 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 $770,000, were not recognized on Spruces 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:

	Poplar			Spruce
Cash	$	1,080,000		$	508,000
Accounts receivable		2,160,000			438,000
Inventory		3,240,000			2,086,000
Plant and equipment		15,120,000			2,980,000
Investment in Spruce (cost)		2,080,000
Investment in bonds					242,000
Cost of goods sold		2,480,000			863,600
Other expenses		979,000			308,000
Interest expense		37,000
Income tax expense		726,400			430,000
Dividends		600,000			250,000
	$	28,502,400		$	8,105,600
Accounts payable	$	2,568,000		$	2,558,500
Accumulated depreciation: plant and equipment		4,128,800			1,080,000
Bonds payable		500,000
Premium on bonds payable		12,000
Common shares		4,500,000			500,000
Retained earnings, January 1		11,613,600			1,857,600
Sales		4,980,000			2,087,500
Dividend revenue		200,000
Interest revenue					22,000
	$	28,502,400		$	8,105,600

Additional Information

The Year 7 net incomes of the two companies are as follows:

Poplar Ltd.	$	957,600
Spruce Ltd.		507,900

The mineral rights owned by Spruce have increased in value since the date of acquisition and were worth $932,200 at December 31, Year 7.

On January 2, Year 5, Poplar sold equipment to Spruce for $580,000. The equipment had a carrying amount of $464,000 at the time of the sale. The remaining useful life of the equipment was 5 years.

The Year 7 opening inventories of Poplar contained $508,000 of merchandise purchased from Spruce during Year 6. Spruce had recorded a gross profit of $203,200 on this merchandise.

During Year 7, Spruces sales to Poplar totalled $1,008,000. These sales were made at a gross profit rate of 35%.

Poplars ending inventory contains $308,000 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.)

Poplar Ltd.
Consolidated Statement of Retained Earnings
Year 7
(Click to select) Retained earnings, December 31, Year 7 Retained earnings, January 1, Year 7	$
(Click to select) Add: Net income Less: Net income
(Click to select) Less: Dividends Add: Dividends
(Click to select) Retained earnings, January 1, Year 7 Retained earnings, December 31, Year 7	$

(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.