109. Jet Corp. acquired all of the outstanding shares of Nittle Inc. on January 1,
2009, for $644,000 in cash. Of this price, $42,000 was attributed to equipment
with a ten-year remaining useful life. Goodwill of $56,000 had also been
identified. Jet applied the
partial equity method
so that income would be accrued
each period based solely on the earnings reported by the subsidiary.
On January 1, 2012, Jet reported $280,000 in bonds outstanding with a book
value of $263,200. Nittle purchased half of these bonds on the open market for
$135,800.
During 2012, Jet began to sell merchandise to Nittle. During that year, inventory
costing $112,000 was transferred at a price of $140,000. All but $14,000 (at Jet’s
selling price) of these goods were resold to outside parties by year’s end. Nittle
still owed $50,400 for inventory shipped from Jet during December.
The following financial figures were for the two companies for the year ended
December 31, 2012.
Required: