Match the Following Terms to Their Correct Definition

question 76

Multiple Choice

Match the following terms to their correct definition:
-Situation where the investor owns 20% to 50% of the outstanding common stock of the investee and is therefore assumed to possess significant influence over the operating and financial policies of the investee

• A)equity security
• B)debt security
• C)passive
• D)significant influence
• E)control
• F)parent
• G)subsidiary
• H)trading securities
• I)available-for-sale securities
• J)held-to-maturity securities
• K)amortized cost method
• L)fair value method
• M)unrealized gains and losses
• N)equity method
• O)consolidation worksheet
• P)minority interest
• Q)business combination
• R)goodwill

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Definitions:

Consolidation Method

An accounting technique used by firms to combine the financial statements of subsidiaries with those of the parent company to present as one entity.

Equity Securities

Financial instruments like stocks that represent ownership interest in a company or rights to acquire such an interest.

Insignificant Influence

A situation where an investor does not have enough impact on a business to affect its decisions or policies.

Dividend Revenue

Income received from owning shares in a company which distributes a portion of its earnings to its shareholders.