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Munchies, Inc., dominates the snack-food industry with its Salty Chip brand. Assume that Munchies purchased Sweet Snacks Company for $5.4 million cash. The market value of Sweet Snacks’ assets is $10 million, and Sweet Snacks has liabilities with a market value of $7.1 million.

Required:
a. Compute the cost of the goodwill purchased by Munchies.
b. Explain how Munchies will account for goodwill in future years.

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Answer:

$2500000

Explanation:

A

1. Goodwill = purchase consideration - market value of net assets of the company

Market value of net assets of the company =$10000000-$7100000

=$2900000

Therefore goodwill=$5400000-$2900000=

$2500000

2. Under GAAP and IFRS, goodwill is an intangible asset that has an indefinite useful life and not amortized like other depreciable assets

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