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kab242003
Oct 6, 2007, 08:15 PM
If a parent company owns 90% of a subsidiary company's outstanding common stock, the compnay should generally account for the income of the subsidiary under the fair value method? True or False.

smartlady55
Mar 8, 2008, 03:29 PM
The answer is false--You only use the fair value method when the investor (parent) possesses only a small percentage of the investee (subsidiary) company's outstanding stock--When the parent company owns over 50% of the subsidary's otstanding voting stock (as it is in this case), then the parent company should use the consolidated method:)