Push-Down Accounting

question 2

Multiple Choice

Push-down accounting

• A)requires a subsidiary to use the same accounting principles as its parent company.
• B)is required when the parent company uses the equity method to account for its investment in a subsidiary.
• C)is required when the parent company uses the cost method to account for its investment in a subsidiary.
• D)requires the subsidiary to record the subsidiary's assets and liabilities at fair value at the acquisition date.

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Definitions:

Period Costs

Expenses that are not directly tied to the production of goods, such as selling, general, and administrative costs, and are expensed in the period they are incurred.

Factory Rent

The cost incurred by a business for leasing a manufacturing facility or space where production activities are carried out.

Factory Overhead

All the supplementary costs tied to manufacturing, aside from the expenses of direct materials and direct labor.

Amortization

The periodic transfer of the cost of an intangible asset to expense.