Brief Exercise 12–19
LED does not intend to sell the investment, and it does not believe it is more
likely than not that it will have to sell the investment before fair value recovers, so
Fair value adjustment…………………………………… 100,000
Reclassification adjustment—OCI ……………… 100,000
LED still would have to include the entire $450,000 in the income statement
before backing out the $250,000 to leave a $200,000 reduction of earnings. The
Brief Exercise 12–20
Wickum would have recorded a journal entry previously that recognized the
OTT impairment in earnings and reduced the investment account: