Reference no: EM132487630

Point 1: Placid Lake Corporation acquired 70 percent of the outstanding voting stock of Scenic, Inc., on January 1, 2017, when Scenic had a net book value of $620,000. Any excess fair value was assigned to intangible assets and amortized at a rate of $5,000 per year.

Point 2: Placid Lake's 2018 net income before consideration of its relationship with Scenic (and before adjustments for intra-entity sales) was $520,000. Scenic reported net income of $330,000. Placid Lake declared $150,000 in dividends during this period; Scenic paid $62,000. At the end of 2018, selected figures from the two companies' balance sheets were as follows:

                                     Placid                   Lake Scenic

Inventory:                         $360,000            $112,000

Land:                                $820,000            $420,000

Equipment(net):                    $620,000           $520,000

Point 3: During 2017, intra-entity sales of $185,000 (original cost of $86,000) were made. Only 10 percent of this inventory was still held within the consolidated entity at the end of 2017. In 2018, $310,000 in intra-entity sales were made with an original cost of $81,000. Of this merchandise, 20 percent had not been resold to outside parties by the end of the year.

Each of the following questions should be considered as an independent situation for the year 2018.

Question 1: Assume that no intra-entity inventory or land sales occurred between Placid Lake and Scenic. Instead, on January 1, 2017, Scenic sold equipment (that originally cost $150,000 but had a $82,000 book value on that date) to Placid Lake for $114,000. At the time of sale, the equipment had a remaining useful life of five years.

Question 2: For 2018, what is the noncontrolling interest's share of Scenic's net income?