Multiple-Choice Questions on Consolidation Overview [AICPA Adapted] Select the correct answer for each of the following questions.
1. When a parent–subsidiary relationship exists, consolidated financial statements are prepared in recognition of the accounting concept of
a. Reliability.
b. Materiality.
c. Legal entity.
d. Economic entity.
2. Consolidated financial statements are typically prepared when one company has a controlling interest in another unless
a. The subsidiary is a finance company.
b. The fiscal year-ends of the two companies are more than three months apart.
c. Circumstances prevent the exercise of control.
d. The two companies are in unrelated industries, such as real estate and manufacturing.
3. Penn Inc., a manufacturing company, owns 75 percent of the common stock of Sell Inc., an investment company. Sell owns 60 percent of the common stock of Vane Inc., an insurance company. In Penn’s consolidated financial statements, should Sell and Vane be consolidated or reported as equity method investments (assuming there are no side agreements)?
a. Consolidation used for Sell and equity method used for Vane.
b. Consolidation used for both Sell and Vane.
c. Equity method used for Sell and consolidation used for Vane.
d. Equity method used for both Sell and Vane.
4. Which of the following is the best theoretical justification for consolidated financial statements?
a. In form, the companies are one entity; in substance, they are separate.
b. In form, the companies are separate; in substance, they are one entity.
c. In form and substance, the companies are one entity.
d. In form and substance, the companies are separate.

When slick heating company switched to an activity based costing system, it realized that it was allocating a much lower percentage of factory overhead to a product line that the marketing department was trying to push. the product line may contain which type of products?

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?