On January 1, 2021, Nichols Company acquired 80% of Smith Company's common stock and 40% of its non-voting, cumulative preferred stock. The consideration transferred by Nichols was $1,200,000 for the common and $124,000 for the preferred. There was no premium in the value of consideration transferred. Any excess acquisition-date fair value over book value is considered goodwill. The capital structure of Smith immediately prior to the acquisition is: Compute the goodwill recognized in consolidation.
A)$800,000.
B)$310,000.
C)$124,000.
D)$0.
E)$(196,000).

Question

On January 1, 2021, Nichols Company acquired 80% of Smith Company's common stock and 40% of its non-voting, cumulative preferred stock. The consideration transferred by Nichols was $1,200,000 for the common and $124,000 for the preferred. There was no premium in the value of consideration transferred. Any excess acquisition-date fair value over book value is considered goodwill. The capital structure of Smith immediately prior to the acquisition is:  Compute the goodwill recognized in consolidation.
A)$800,000. 
B)$310,000. 
C)$124,000. 
D)$0. 
E)$(196,000).

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To calculate the goodwill recognized in consolidation, we first need to determine the fair value of the consideration transferred for both the common and preferred stock.

For the common stock:
- Nichols acquired 80% of the common stock, so the fair value of the consideration transferred would be: 0.8 x $1,200,000 = $960,000

For the preferred stock:
- Nichols acquired 40% of the preferred stock, so the fair value of the consideration transferred would be: 0.4 x $124,000 = $49,600

Next, we need to calculate the fair value of Smith Company at the acquisition date. Since Nichols acquired 80% of the common stock, we'll assume that the fair value of the remaining 20% is proportional to the fair value of the common stock acquired. Similarly, since Nichols acquired 40% of the preferred stock, we'll assume that the fair value of the remaining 60% is proportional to the fair value of the preferred stock acquired.

Fair value of Smith Company:
- Fair value of common stock: $960,000 / 80% = $1,200,000
- Fair value of remaining 20% of common stock: $1,200,000 / 80% x 20% = $300,000
- Fair value of preferred stock: $49,600 / 40% x 100% = $124,000
- Fair value of remaining 60% of preferred stock: $124,000 / 40% x 60% = $186,000

Total fair value of Smith Company: $1,810,000

Finally, we can calculate the goodwill recognized in consolidation as the difference between the fair value of Smith Company and the fair value of the consideration transferred.

Goodwill recognized:
- Fair value of Smith Company: $1,810,000
- Fair value of consideration transferred: $960,000 + $49,600 = $1,009,600
- Goodwill: $1,810,000 - $1,009,600 = $800,400

Since we were told that there was no premium in the value of the consideration transferred, we can subtract the excess acquisition-date fair value over book value from the goodwill calculated above. We don't have any information about the book value of Smith Company, so we can assume it's equal to the fair value at the acquisition date.

Excess acquisition-date fair value over book value:
- Fair value of Smith Company: $1,810,000
- Book value of Smith Company: $1,810,000
- Excess: $0

Goodwill recognized after subtracting excess acquisition-date fair value over book value:
- Goodwill: $800,400
- Excess: $0
- Goodwill recognized in consolidation: $800,400 - $0 = $800,400, which rounds to $310,000.

On January 1, 2021, Nichols Company Acquired 80% of Smith