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Transfers at a Profit or Loss Transfers at a Profit or Loss
• Companies use many different approaches in • Regardless of the method used in setting
setting intercorporate transfer prices. intercorporate transfer prices, the elimination
process must remove the effects of such sales
from the consolidated statements.
• In some companies, the sale price to an affiliate
is the same as the price to any other customer.
• When intercorporate sales include profits or
losses, there are two aspects of the workpaper
• Some companies routinely mark up inventory eliminations needed in the period of transfer to
transferred to affiliates by a certain percentage prepare consolidated financial statements (see
of cost. next two slides).
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First Aspect: Income Statement Focus Second Aspect: Balance Sheet Focus
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Downstream Sale–Perpetual System Downstream Sale–Perpetual System
• When a company sells an inventory item to
• Consolidated net income must be
an affiliate, one of three situations results:
based on the realized income of
the transferring affiliate. 1. The item is resold to a nonaffiliate during
the same period;
• Because intercompany profits from 2. The item is resold to a nonaffiliate during
downstream sales are on the books
the next period; or,
of the parent, consolidated net income
and the overall claim of parent company 3. The item is held for two or more periods
shareholders must be reduced by the by the purchasing affiliate.
full amount of the unrealized profits.
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3. Inventory Held Two or More Periods 3. Inventory Held Two or More Periods
• Companies may carry the cost of inventory For example, if Special Foods continues to hold
purchased from an affiliate for more than one the inventory purchased from Peerless Products,
accounting period. For example, the cost of
an item may be in a LIFO inventory layer and the following eliminating entry is needed in the
would be included as part of the inventory consolidation workpaper each time a consolidated
balance until the layer is liquidated. balance sheet is prepared for years following the
year of intercompany sale, for as long as the
• Prior to liquidation, an eliminating entry is inventory is held:
needed in the consolidation workpaper each
time consolidated statements are prepared to Retained Earnings, January 1 $3,000
restate the inventory to its cost to the Inventory $3,000
consolidated entity. Eliminate beginning inventory profit.
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Costs Associated with Transfers Lower of Cost or Market
• When inventory is transferred from one affiliate
to another, some additional cost, such as freight,
is often incurred in the transfer.
• Inventory purchased from an affiliate might be
• This cost should be treated in the same way as written down by the purchasing affiliate under
if the affiliates were operating divisions of a the lower-of-cost-or-market rule if the market
single company. value is less than the intercompany transfer
• If the additional cost would be inventoried in price. [Continued on next slide.]
transferring the units from one location to
another within the same company, that
treatment also would be appropriate for
consolidation.
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Lower of Cost or Market Sales and Purchases before Affiliation
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Sales and Purchases before Affiliation Sales and Purchases before Affiliation
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Summary of Key Concepts You Will Survive This Chapter!!!
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Chapter 7
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