ACC 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter Appendix A: Retained Earnings, Equity Method, Income Statement

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Appendix a: reporting and interpreting investments in other corporations. Investing funds in stocks and bonds of other companies: managers are not interested in influencing or controlling other companies. No influence or control: <20% (fair value method) Passive investments: company has extra cash and wants to earn a return on the idle funds. Passive if investing company owns <20% of outstanding voting shares of other company. Fair value method is used to measure and report investments. Fair value method: reports securities at their current market value (the amount that would be received in an orderly sale) Why to report passive investments at fair value. Relevance: current fair value is best estimate of cash that could be generated by the sale of these securities. Measurability: accountants record only items that can be measure with a high degree of reliability. Unrealized holding gains (losses): amounts associated with price changes of securities that are currently held.

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