If One Company Owns More Than 50% of the Common

question 45

Multiple Choice

If one company owns more than 50% of the common stock of another company:

• A) the equity method should be used to account for the investment.
• B) a partnership exists.
• C) a parent-subsidiary relationship exists.
• D) the company whose stock is owned must be liquidated.

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Definitions:

Guidelines

Recommended practices or principles aimed at steering decisions or actions, usually based on evidence or expert consensus.

Direct Evidence

Evidence that directly proves a fact without the need for any inference or presumption, such as testimony from a witness about what they personally observed.

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Evidence that relies on an inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, such as a fingerprint at the scene of a crime, rather than direct evidence like eyewitness testimony.

Existence

The state or fact of being real, present, or in operation.