Chapter Ten: Additional Consolidation Reporting Issues: 1. Consolidated Statement of Cash Flow
Chapter Ten: Additional Consolidation Reporting Issues: 1. Consolidated Statement of Cash Flow
Chapter Ten: Additional Consolidation Reporting Issues: 1. Consolidated Statement of Cash Flow
REPORTING ISSUES
This chapter discusses the following general financial reporting topics as they
relate to consolidated financial statements:
The profit from an intercompany sale is taxed when the intercompany transfer
occurs, without waiting for confirmation through sale to a nonaffiliated. For
consolidated financial reporting purposes, however, unrealized intercompany
profits must be eliminated. While the separate company may pay income taxes on
the unrealized intercompany profit, the tax expense must be eliminated when the
unrealized intercompany profit is eliminated in the preparation of consolidated
financial statement. The difference in the timing of the income tax expense
recognition on results in the recording of deferred income taxes.
When a subsidiary is purchased at an interim date during the year, the consolidation
procedures must ensure that the subsidiary’s operating results are included in the
consolidated financial statements for only that portion of the year during which the
parent held a controlling financial interest in the subsidiary. All of subsidiary’s
revenues, expenses, gains and losses for the portion of the year prior to the
subsidiary’s entry in to the consolidated entity must be excluded, along with its
dividends declared before acquisition.