Accounting 9706 · AS & A Level · Business acquisition and merger

Business acquisition and merger — practice question

Consult Source B in the insert.
(a)[3]

State three distinctions between goodwill and a tangible asset.

(b)[3]

Calculate the purchase consideration payable by W Limited.

(c)[8]

Complete Ada’s and Brian’s capital accounts on page 9, and show the final settlement through the partnership’s cash at bank account.

(d)[2]

Prepare W Limited’s journal entry to record the takeover of the partnership business.

(e)[4]

Explain why W Limited rejected the original demand for five times the average profit. Support your answer with relevant calculations.

(f)[5]

Evaluate whether Ada and Brian were right to select option 1. Justify your answer.

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This 25-mark question has a full step-by-step worked solution and mark scheme. One marking point: Goodwill has no physical form whereas a tangible asset has a physical form.

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