Advanced Financial Accounting
Advanced Financial Accounting
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ISBN: 9780078025877
Author: Theodore E. Christensen, David M Cottrell, Cassy JH Budd Advanced Financial Accounting
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Introduction: The legal structure of an acquisition can result in a taxable or non-taxable transactions. In taxable transaction, the assets acquired and liabilities assumed will have tax basis equal to the fair market values because the subsidiary is required to recognize all inherent gains and losses for tax purposes. In order to avoid this many acquisitions are structured to avoid classification as taxable transaction.Any difference arising out of fair market value and tax basis should be recorded as deferred tax asset or liability.

If any book-tax differences arises in an acquisition that do not required the inclusion of a deferred tax asset or liability in the net identifiable assets acquired.

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