Consolidation Following Acquisition Chapter 5 • The procedures used to prepare a consolidated balance sheet as of the date of acquisition were introduced in the preceding chapter, that is, Consolidation Chapter 4. Following Acquisition • More than a consolidated balance sheet, however, is needed to provide a comprehensive picture of the consolidated entity’s activities following acquisition. McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 5-2 Consolidation Following Acquisition Consolidation Following Acquisition • The purpose of this chapter is to present the procedures used in the preparation of a • As with a single company, the set of basic consolidated balance sheet, income statement, financial statements for a consolidated entity and retained earnings statement subsequent consists of a balance sheet, an income to the date of combination. statement, a statement of changes in retained earnings, and a statement of cash flows. • The preparation of a consolidated statement of cash flows is discussed in Chapter 10. 5-3 5-4 Consolidation Following Acquisition Consolidation Following Acquisition • This chapter first deals with the important concepts of consolidated net income and consolidated retained earnings. • Finally, the remainder of the chapter deals with the specific procedures used to • Thereafter, the chapter presents a description prepare consolidated financial statements of the workpaper format used to facilitate the subsequent to the date of combination. preparation of a full set of consolidated financial statements. 5-5 5-6 1 Consolidation Following Acquisition Consolidation Following Acquisition • The discussion in the chapter focuses on procedures for consolidation when the parent company accounts for its investment in • Regardless of the method used by the parent subsidiary stock using the equity method. to account for its subsidiary investment (during the year), however, the consolidated statements • If the parent accounts for its investment using will be the same because the investment and the cost method, the general approach to the related accounts are eliminated in the preparation of consolidated financial statements consolidation process. is the same, but the specific procedures differ somewhat. 5-7 5-8 Overview of the Consolidation Process Consolidated Net Income • The approach followed to prepare a complete • When all subsidiaries are wholly owned by set of consolidated financial statements the parent, all income of the parent and its subsequent to a business combination is quite subsidiaries accrues to the shareholders of similar to that used to prepare a consolidated the parent company. balance sheet as of the date of combination. • In this case, consolidated net income is the • However, in addition to the assets and liabilities, difference between consolidated revenue and the revenues and expenses of the consolidating expenses. companies must be combined. 5-9 5-10 Consolidated Net Income Computing Consolidated Net Income • When a subsidiary is less than wholly owned, a • Consolidated net income, in simple cases, is portion of its income accrues to its noncontrolling equal to the total earnings for all companies shareholders and is excluded from consolidated consolidated, less any income recorded by the net income. parent from the consolidating companies and any income assigned to noncontrolling • For example, if a parent owns 80 percent of the shareholders. common stock of a subsidiary, and the subsidiary earns net income of $100,000, 80 • Intercorporate investment income included in percent of the income accrues to the parent and the parent’s net income must be removed in the remaining $20,000, that is 20 percent, is computing consolidated net income in order allocated to the noncontrolling interest. to avoid double counting. 5-11 5-12 2 Additive Approach Additive Approach • Consolidated net income is computed through • This is the same approach used to compute an additive approach by adding together the the parent’s equity-method net income. parent’s income from its own operations (i.e., excluding any income from consolidated subsidiaries recognized by the parent) and the • In the absence of unrealized profits from parent’s proportionate share of the net income of intercompany transactions, consolidated net each subsidiary adjusted to differential write-off, income and the parent’s equity-method net where appropriate. income are normally equal. 5-13 5-14 Residual Approach Consolidated Retained Earnings • Consolidated retained earnings is that portion of • In the workpaper to prepare a complete set of the undistributed earnings of the consolidated consolidated financial statements, consolidated enterprise accruing to the shareholders of the net income is determined using a residual parent company. approach. • As with a single company, ending consolidated • The revenues and expenses of the separate retained earnings is equal to the beginning consolidating companies are included, and consolidated retained earnings balance plus those elements that should not be included are consolidated net income, less consolidated eliminated. dividends. 5-15 5-16 Consolidated Retained Earnings Consolidated Retained Earnings • Only those dividends paid to the owners of the • In the absence of unrealized profits from consolidated entity can be included in the intercompany transactions and goodwill consolidated retained earnings statement. impairment, consolidated retained earnings and the parent’s equity-method retained • Because the owners of the parent company are earnings are normally equal. considered to be the owners of the consolidated entity, only dividends paid by the parent • If the parent uses the equity method on its company to its shareholders are treated as a books, the retained earnings of each subsidiary deduction in the consolidated retained earnings is completely eliminated when the subsidiary is statement; dividends of the subsidiary are not consolidated. included. 5-17 5-18 3 Workpaper Format Workpaper Format • The basic format of the workpaper is the same • A number of different workpaper formats for as the workpaper used in the preceding chapter, preparing consolidated financial statements that is, Chapter 4. are used in practice. • However, rather than supporting the • One of the most widely used formats is the development of a consolidated balance sheet, three-part workpaper, consisting of one part the workpaper introduced in this chapter also for each of three basic financial statements: supports the development of a consolidated the income statement, the statement of retained earnings statement, as well as a retained earnings, and the balance sheet. consolidated income statement. 5-19 5-20 Workpaper Format Workpaper Format • Information in the workpaper flows from top to • The top portion of the workpaper is used in bottom (and from left to right). preparing the consolidated income statement. • Consolidated Income must be calculated first in • The middle portion of the workpaper is used order that consolidated ending retained earnings in preparing the consolidate retained earnings may be calculated. statement. • Consolidated ending retained earnings must be • The bottom portion of the workpaper is used calculated in order to prepared the consolidated to prepare the consolidated balance sheet. balance sheet. 5-21 5-22 Need for Workpaper Need for Workpaper • Each of the consolidated financial statements is prepared as if taken from a single set of books that is being used to account for the overall consolidated entity. • The account balances from the books of the individual companies are placed in the three-part • There is, of course, no set of books for the workpaper, and entries are made to eliminate consolidated entity, and as in the preparation of the effects of intercorporate ownership and the consolidated balance sheet, the transactions. consolidation process starts with the data recorded on the books of the individual consolidating companies. 5-23 5-24 4 Workpaper Elimination Entries Workpaper Elimination Entries-Cont’d • For periods subsequent to the purchase of a • Eliminate intercompany receivables and subsidiary, workpaper elimination entries are payables. needed to: • Assign any differential to specific assets • Eliminate the parent’s intercorporate and liabilities. investment balance and the stockholders’ • Amortize or write off a portion of a equity accounts of the subsidiary. differential, if appropriate. • Eliminate income from the subsidiary • In addition, if a noncontrolling interest exists, recognized by the parent during the period the noncontrolling shareholders’ claim on the and dividends declared by the subsidiary. income and net assets of the subsidiary must [Continued on next slide.] be recognized. 5-25 5-26 Discontinuance of Consolidation Discontinuance of Consolidation • A subsidiary that previously has been • APB 20 requires financial statements of all prior consolidated but no longer meets the conditions periods presented for comparative purposes to for consolidation normally must be reported as be restated to exclude from the consolidation the an investment under the cost method in the nonqualifying subsidiary and to reflect the new consolidated financial statements. reporting entity. • In addition, the financial statements for the • For example, if a previously consolidated period of the change must disclose if the change subsidiary declared bankruptcy and the is material, the nature of the change and the appointment