So excess of purchase price over book value acquired is: Purchase price - (% share of the value of net assets) = excess purchase price. - excess allocated to investee’s identifiable assets and liablities based on fair value = goodwill
We have U.S GAAP, full goodwill = fair value of sub - fair value of acquired company’s identifiable net assets We have IFRS, partial goodwill = purchase price - fair value of proportion of acquired company’s identifiable net assets When do we use each of these 3 methods, i’m confused? Are excess of purchase price and goodwill under IFRS the same?
Use full goodwill (partial goodwill, above, divided by % purchased) for US GAAP, and for IFRS when you’re told to use full goodwill. The default under IFRS is partial goodwill.
The text says that with excess of purchase price over book value acquired we use: - % share of book value of net assets With partial goodwill we use: - % share of fair value of net assets
If excess of purchase price and partial goodwill are the same, why are they using different net asset values?