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Wednesday, November 04, 2020 8:20:29 AM
Consolidation vs. Equity Method of Accounting
How the Accounting Works
Suppose you buy 30 percent of the stock in a $1 million company – a $300,000 expense. Under equity accounting, you report the $300,000 acquisition as an asset on the balance sheet. When the second company announces earnings, you report 30 percent of the earnings as your own income.
If it reports $240,000 of net income for the year, you report $72,000 of that – 30 percent – as earnings on your income statement. The value of the asset on your balance sheet increases by $72,000. If, instead, the company reports losses, you adjust the asset's value down.
If you control the other company, you have to draw up consolidated financial statements. These add the subsidiary's income, expenses and assets to your own. If, say, your company generates $250,000 in revenue and the subsidiary brings in $160,000, you report income of $410,000.
However, if you do any business with the subsidiary – contracting with it for services or supplies, for example – you have to eliminate those deals from your income statement. Consolidated accounting doesn't count the sale as income, because you're really selling to yourself.
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