The income statements for Paste Company and its subsidiaries, Waste Company and Baste Company, were prepared for the year ended December 31, Year 9, and are shown below:

	Paste			Waste			Baste
Income
Sales	$	470,000		$	310,000		$	216,000
Dividend		53,750
Rent					140,000
Interest		20,000
Total income		543,750			450,000			216,000
Expenses
Cost of sales		310,000			173,000			149,000
General and administrative		103,000			58,000			39,000
Interest					20,000
Income tax		37,000			85,000			17,000
Total expenses		450,000			336,000			205,000
Profit	$	93,750		$	114,000		$	11,000

Additional Information

• Paste purchased its 80% interest in Waste on January 1, Year 4. On this date, Waste had a retained earnings balance of $50,000, and the acquisition differential amounting to $25,000 was allocated entirely to plant, with an estimated remaining life of eight years. The plant is used exclusively for manufacturing goods for resale.
• Paste purchased its 75% interest in Baste on December 31, Year 6. On this date, Baste had a retained earnings balance of $90,000. The acquisition differential amounting to $29,000 was allocated to goodwill; however, because Baste had failed to report adequate profits, the goodwill was entirely written off for consolidated purposes by the end of Year 8.
• Paste has established a policy that any intercompany sales will be made at a gross profit rate of 30%.
• On January 1, Year 9, the inventory of Paste contained goods purchased from Waste for $25,000.
• During Year 9, the following intercompany sales took place:

Paste to Waste	$ 100,000
Waste to Baste	180,000
Baste to Paste	160,000

• On December 31, Year 9, the inventories of each of the three companies contained items purchased on an intercompany basis in the following amounts:

Paste from Baste	$70,000
Waste from Paste	32,000
Baste from Waste	70,000

• In addition to its merchandising activities, Waste is in the office equipment rental business. Both Paste and Baste rent office equipment from Waste. General and administrative expenses for Paste and Baste include rent expense of $35,000 and $24,000, respectively.
• During Year 6, Waste paid $20,000 interest to Paste for intercompany advances.
• All of Pastes dividend revenue pertains to its investments in Waste and Baste.
• Retained earnings at December 31, Year 9, for Paste, Waste, and Baste were $713,750, $156,000, and $89,000, respectively.
• Paste Company uses the cost method to account for its investments, and uses tax allocation at a rate of 40% when it prepares consolidated financial statements.

Required: (a) Prepare a consolidated income statement for Year 9. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Input all amounts as positive values. Omit $ sign in your response.)

Paste Company
Consolidated Income Statement
for the Year Ended December 31, Year 9
Sales	$
Dividends
Interest
Rent
Total income	$
Cost of sales
General and administrative
Interest
Income tax
Total expenses
Profit	$
Attributable to:
Shareholders of Paste
Non-controlling interests
	$

(b) Calculate consolidated retained earnings at December 31, Year 9. (Omit $ sign in your response.)

Consolidated retained earnings December 31, Year 9 $

(c) Assume that Paste is a private company, uses ASPE, and chooses to use the equity method. Calculate its income from investments for Year 9. (Omit $ sign in your response.)

Investment income from subsidiaries $

(d) Not available in Connect.