X Company Purchases a (100%) Controlling Interest in Y Company

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X Company Purchases a (100%) controlling interest in Y Company by issuing $2,000,000 worth of common shares. An agreement was drawn whereby X Company would pay 10% of any earnings in excess of $750,000 to Y's shareholders in the first year following the acquisition. On that date, X's shares had a market value of $80 per share.
Required:
a) Assuming that Y's net income was $950,000, prepare any journal entries (for company X) that you feel may be necessary to reflect Y's results under IFRS 3 Business Combinations. Assume that on the acquisition date no provision was made for the contingent consideration.
b) Assuming that the agreement called for Y's shareholders to be compensated with 1,250 shares for any decline in X's share price, what journal entries would be required under IFRS 3, if the market value of X's shares dropped to $64 within the year?

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Definitions:

Price Per Barrel

The cost of a barrel of commodities like oil, typically used as a benchmark for pricing.

Estimating Mean Value

The process of calculating the average value of a set of numbers or measurements.

Predicting Individual Value

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Coefficient of Determination

is a statistical measure that explains the proportion of variance in the dependent variable predictable from the independent variable(s).