Taft Corporation operates primarily in the United States. However, a few years a
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Taft Corporation operates primarily in the United States. However, a few years ago, it opened a plant in Spain to produce merchandise to sell there. This foreign operation has been so successful that during the past 24 months the company started a manufacturing plant in Italy and another in Greece. Financial information for each of these facilities follows:
The company’s domestic (U.S.) operations reported the following information for the current year:
Taft has adopted the following criteria for determining the materiality of an individual foreign country:
a. Calculate sales to unaffiliated customers within a country and as a percent of the consolidated sales.
b. Calculate long-lived assets within a country and as a percentage of the long-lived assets.
c. Apply Taft’s materiality tests to identify the countries which are 10 percent or more of consolidated sales or consolidated long-lived assets to be reported separately.
Spain Italy Greece Sales $ 213,000 $ 636,000 $ 486,000 Intersegment transfers 0 102,400 96,000 Operating expenses 208,000 242,000 226,000 Interest expense 28,000 41,000 31,000 Income taxes 79,000 31,000 46,000 Long-lived assets 126,000 186,000 136,000Explanation / Answer
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A
sales to unaffiliated customers within a country and as a percent of the consolidated sales:
Revenue Test (Sales to Unaffiliated Parties):
B.
long-lived assets within a country and as a percentage of the long-lived assets:
Long-lived Asset Test:
C.
Apply Taft’s materiality tests to identify the countries which are 10 percent or more of consolidated sales or consolidated long-lived assets to be reported separately:
Individual Foreign Countries does not Accept the Revenue or Long Lived Assets Materiality Tests, So Foreign Country Must be Reported Separately.
In the Problem, the information must be Separately Presented for the United States, but it is Combined for all Other Countries.
United States 4,620,000 4,620,000/5,955,000*100 77.58% Spain 213,000 213,000/5,955,000*100 3.58% Italy 636,000 636,000/5,955,000*100 10.68% Greece 486,000 486,000/5,955,000*100 8.16% Total 5955000 100%Related Questions
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