Question

The income statements for Paste Company and its subsidiaries, Waste Company and Baste Company, were prepared for the year ended December 31, Year 9, and are shown below:

	Paste			Waste			Baste
Income
Sales	$	488,000		$	346,000		$	232,000
Dividend		62,750			–			–
Rent		–			149,000			–
Interest		29,000			–			–
Total income		579,750			495,000			232,000
Expenses
Cost of sales		319,000			182,000			148,000
General and administrative		112,000			67,000			48,000
Interest		–			29,000			–
Income tax		46,000			94,000			26,000
Total expenses		477,000			372,000			222,000
Profit	$	102,750		$	123,000		$	10,000

Additional Information

• Paste purchased its 80% interest in Waste on January 1, Year 4. On this date, Waste had a retained earnings balance of $59,000, and the acquisition differential amounting to $34,000 was allocated entirely to plant, with an estimated remaining life of eight years. The plant is used exclusively for manufacturing goods for resale.
• Paste purchased its 75% interest in Baste on December 31, Year 6. On this date, Baste had a retained earnings balance of $99,000. The acquisition differential amounting to $38,000 was allocated to goodwill; however, because Baste had failed to report adequate profits, the goodwill was entirely written off for consolidated purposes by the end of Year 8.
• Paste has established a policy that any intercompany sales will be made at a gross profit rate of 30%.
• On January 1, Year 9, the inventory of Paste contained goods purchased from Waste for $34,000.
• During Year 9, the following intercompany sales took place:

Paste to Waste	$ 109,000
Waste to Baste	189,000
Baste to Paste	169,000

• On December 31, Year 9, the inventories of each of the three companies contained items purchased on an intercompany basis in the following amounts:

Paste from Baste	$79,000
Waste from Paste	41,000
Baste from Waste	79,000

• In addition to its merchandising activities, Waste is in the office equipment rental business. Both Paste and Baste rent office equipment from Waste. General and administrative expenses for Paste and Baste include rent expense of $44,000 and $33,000, respectively.
• During Year 6, Waste paid $29,000 interest to Paste for intercompany advances.
• All of Paste’s dividend revenue pertains to its investments in Waste and Baste.
• Retained earnings at December 31, Year 9, for Paste, Waste, and Baste were $722,750, $165,000, and $98,000, respectively.
• Paste Company uses the cost method to account for its investments, and uses tax allocation at a rate of 40% when it prepares consolidated financial statements.

Required:
(a) Prepare a consolidated income statement for Year 9. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Input all amounts as positive values. Omit $ sign in your response.)

  

Paste Company
Consolidated Income Statement
for the Year Ended December 31, Year 9
Sales	$
Dividends
Interest
Rent
Total income	$
Cost of sales
General and administrative
Interest
Income tax
Total expenses
Profit	$
Attributable to:
Shareholders of Paste
Non-controlling interests
	$

(b) Calculate consolidated retained earnings at December 31, Year 9. (Omit $ sign in your response.)

Consolidated retained earnings December 31, Year 9           $

(c) Assume that Paste is a private company, uses ASPE, and chooses to use the equity method. Calculate its income from investments for Year 9. (Omit $ sign in your response.)

Investment income from subsidiaries           $

(d) Not available in Connect.

Answer 1

Paste Company		80%	75%
Consolidated Income Statement	Paste	Waste	Baste	Inter Company Elimination	Consolidated Balances		Intercompany Sales	Paste	Waste	Baste
for the Year Ended December 31, Year 9							Sales	109,000	189,000	169,000
Sales	488,000	276,800	174,000	467000	471,800		Cost of Good Sold	83,846	145,385	130,000
Dividends	62,750	0	-		62,750		Gross Profit	25,154	43,615	39,000
Interest	29,000	0	-		29,000
Rent	-	119200	-	77,000	42,200
Total income	579,750	396,000	174,000	544,000	605,750
Cost of sales	319,000	145,600	111,000	359,231	216,369
General and administrative	112,000	53,600	36,000	77,000	124,600
Interest	-	23,200	-		23,200
Income tax	46,000	75,200	19,500		96,632
Total expenses	477,000	297,600	166,500	436,231	460,802
Profit	102,750	98,400	7,500		144,948
Attributable to:
Shareholders of Paste					144,948
Non-controlling interests		24,600.0	2,500.0		27,100
	$
		80%	75%
(b) Calculate consolidated retained earnings at December 31, Year 9. (Omit $ sign in your response.)	Paste	Waste	Baste	Consolidated
Closing Retained Earnings	722,750	165,000	98,000	985,750
Less: Minority Interest		132,000	73,500	205,500
Consolidated Retained Earnings				780,250

Considering the lenght of the answer. i have answered Qa and Qb.