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Case 12–1 Although the accounting treatment accorded to the translation adjustment of Ostmark’s
Austrian subsidiary was incorrect, the net translation adjustments in Ostmark’s consolidated
balance sheet would be correct. The controller of Ostmark incorrectly used a working paper
elimination to record a foreign currency translation adjustment. The controller should have
included the $25,000 difference between the translated amount of the Austrian subsidiary’s
intercompany payable amount and Ostmark’s intercompany receivable amount in the foreign
currency translation adjustments amount in the Austrian subsidiary’s translated balance sheet.
This treatment is required by FASB Statement No. 52, “Foreign Currency Translation,” for
intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term investment nature.
Case 12–2 Arguments supporting the affirmative position include:
(1) A single translation technique should be used for restating foreign currency financial
statements of all foreign entities.
(2) Allowing management of a parent or investor enterprise to determine the functional
currency of a foreign entity might encourage improper designation of the entity’s local
currency as the functional currency, in order to avoid recognition of foreign currency
transaction gains and losses resulting from remeasurement.
(3) The foreign currency translation adjustments resulting from translation of a foreign entity’s
financial statements from the functional currency to the reporting currency defy a logical
explanation in accounting theory. As a “plug” amount, carried perhaps indefinitely in the
foreign entity’s translated financial statements, they are nebulous at best and possibly
misleading, given their impact on measures such as debt-to-equity ratio, at worst.
20 Minutes, Easy
Sarasota Company Pr. 12–2
Inventories 1 2 4 3 7 5 ( 1 ) 1 3 1 1 0 0
Reciprocal
Home office ( 1 0 4 5 6 5 ) account ( 1 1 9 7 0 0 )
balance
Sales ( 2 7 9 3 0 0 ) $ 1 . 0 9 (2) ( 3 0 4 4 3 7 )
Inventories 8 0 0 0 0 0 . 5 9 4 7 2 0 0 7 5 0 0 0 0 . 5 0 3 7 5 0 0
Accumulated depreciation:
Dec. 1, 2005 acquisition (164,000) LCU 2 8 0 0 0 0 . 5 0 $ 1 4 0 0 0 LCU 1 4 0 0 0 0 . 5 0 $ 7 0 0 0
June 4, 2007 acquisition (30,000) 3 0 0 0 0 . 6 7 2 0 1 0
Total accumulated depreciation LCU 3 1 0 0 0 $ 1 6 0 1 0 LCU 1 4 0 0 0 $ 7 0 0 0
(6) Cash 2 0 0 0 0
Trade Accounts
Receivable 2 0 0 0 0
(1) Average rate used for purchases occurring uniformly throughout year. Eliminations:
(2) Inventory turnover is more than 13 times [BP1,180,000 ÷ (BP180,000 ÷ 2) = 13.1 times]. (a) Intracompany sales and intracompany profits in beginning
Therefore Dec. 31, 2005, exchange rate is applicable for first-in, first-out cost. inventories—home office shipments to branch (page 379)
(3) $20,113 foreign currency transaction gain was derived from $52,600 remeasured net income (b) Intracompany profits in branch’s ending inventories
required in statement of retained earnings. (c) Intracompany sales—branch to home office
(d) Reciprocal accounts
Add: Shipments 1 6 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
Subtotals $ 1 7 0 0 0 0 $ 1 2 7 5 0 0 $ 4 2 5 0 0
Balance Sheet
Assets
Current assets $C 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 7 8 $ 3 1 2 0 0 0
Plant assets (net) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 7 8 3 9 0 0 0 0
Total assets $C 9 0 0 0 0 0 $ 7 0 2 0 0 0
b. Eagle Corporation
Journal Entries
December 31, 2005
Investment in Mapleleaf Company Common
Stock 7 9 0 0 0
Intercompany Investment Income 7 9 0 0 0
To record 100% of net income of Mapleleaf
Company. (Income tax effects are disregarded.)
Balance Sheet
Assets
Current assets 7 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0
Investment in Mapleleaf
Company common stock 2 3 4 0 0 0 (a)( 2 3 4 0 0 0 )
Plant assets (net) 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 0 0 0 0 1 9 9 0 0 0 0
Intangible assets (net) 2 4 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0
Total assets 2 7 7 4 0 0 0 7 0 2 0 0 0 ( 2 3 4 0 0 0 ) 3 2 4 2 0 0 0
90 Minutes, Strong
Panamer Corporation Pr. 12–8
a. Itican Subsidiary
Balance Sheet
Assets
Cash IN 1 0 0 0 0 0 . 0 8 $ 8 0 0
Trade accounts receivable (net) 3 5 0 0 0 0 . 0 8 2 8 0 0
Inventories 8 3 0 0 0 0 . 0 8 6 6 4 0
Plant assets 1 7 5 0 0 0 0 . 0 8 1 4 0 0 0
Accumulated depreciation of plant assets ( 7 5 0 0 0 ) 0 . 0 8 ( 6 0 0 0 )
Total assets IN 2 2 8 0 0 0 $ 1 8 2 4 0