Technical Accounting
Deferred Tax in Group Consolidation: How Consolidation Adjustments Create Tax Differences
The consolidated deferred tax position is not the sum of the entities’ individual deferred tax balances. Group consolidation introduces adjustments…
Full Goodwill vs Partial Goodwill: How Your NCI Measurement Choice Changes the Balance Sheet, the Impairment Test, and Who Absorbs the Loss
Helena is the group controller of Pinnacle Group, which has just acquired a 75% stake in Novum Ltd. The purchase…
NCI at Acquisition: How to Calculate Non-Controlling Interest on the Date of Purchase
When HoldCo acquires 75% of SubCo, it controls SubCo from the acquisition date and must consolidate SubCo’s full balance sheet…
Goodwill on a Foreign Subsidiary: Why It Must Be Retranslated Every Period — and the CTA You Are Probably Not Recording
Rachel is the group financial controller of Nexus Group, a UK-based business that acquired a German subsidiary, Nexus GmbH, eighteen…
How to Compare Current-Year Consolidated Results With Prior Year
The board pack was on the table. Meridian Group’s consolidated revenue had grown from £16,200k to £21,640k — a 33.6%…
Negative Goodwill: Why the Bargain Purchase Gain Must Hit Your Consolidated P&L — Not Equity, Not Deferred Income
Claire is the group finance director of Atlas Industrial Group. The group has just completed the acquisition of Vantage Precision…
How to Handle Prior-Period Adjustments in Consolidated Financial Statements
Niamh was three weeks into the Year 5 audit when the message arrived from Castleton Products, the group’s 80%-owned manufacturing…
How to Consolidate a Subsidiary With a Different Financial Year-End
The acquisition completed in October, and by December the group was closing its financial year. The newly acquired subsidiary —…
How to Consolidate a Subsidiary When Ownership Is Less Than 100%
For three years, every entity in Daniel’s group was 100% owned. The consolidation was straightforward: add the trial balances together,…
Partially Disposing of an Associate: How to Calculate the Gain, Adjust the Carrying Value, and Handle a Drop Below Significant Influence
David is group FD at a holding company that has held a 40% stake in TechAssoc Ltd for four years.…