To arrive at the U.S. GAAP-based net income fi gures shown in Exhibit 3, Royal Ahold fully consolidated the operating results of the companies in which it held a 50 percent equity interest. For purposes of determining its U.S. GAAP-based net income fi gures, what accounting method should the company have applied to those investments? How would the application of this latter method have affected the U.S. GAAP-based net income amounts?

To arrive at the U.S. GAAP-based net income fi gures shown in Exhibit 3, Royal Ahold fully consolidated the operating results of the companies in which it held a 50 percent equity interest. For purposes of determining its U.S. GAAP-based net income fi gures, what accounting method should the company have applied to those investments? How would the application of this latter method have affected the U.S. GAAP-based net income amounts?

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