Question

On February 1, Piscina Corporation completed a combination with Swimwear Company. At that date, Swimwear’s account balances were as follows: Book Values Fair Values Inventory $ 745,000 $ 813,000 Land 840,000 1,158,000 Buildings 1,090,000 1,208,000 Unpatented technology 0 1,960,000 Common stock ($10 par value) (750,000 ) Retained earnings, 1/1 (1,789,000 ) Revenues (816,000 ) Expenses 680,000 Piscina issued 20,000 shares of its common stock with a par value of $25 and a fair value of $260 per share to the owners of Swimwear for all of their Swimwear shares. Upon completion of the combination, Swimwear Company was formally dissolved. Prior to 2002, business combinations were accounted for using either purchase or pooling of interests accounting. The two methods often produced substantially different financial statement effects. For the scenario above, What are the respective consolidated values for Swimwear’s assets under the pooling method and the purchase method? Under each of the following methods, how would Piscina account for Swimwear’s current year, but prior to acquisition, revenues and expenses? Pooling of interests method. Purchase method.

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a.		Purchase	Pooling
	Inventory	$       813,000	$       745,000
	Land	$   1,158,000	$       840,000
	Buildings	$   1,208,000	$   1,090,000
	Unpatented technology	$   1,960,000	$                   -
	Goodwill	$         61,000	$                   -
	Total	$   5,200,000	$   2,675,000
b. Pre-acquisition revenues and expenses were excluded from consolidated results under the purchase method, but were included under the pooling method.