Anderson Company acquires Thompson Company by paying $30 million in cash. The fair value of the identifiable assets acquired is $38 million. The fair value of the identifiable liabilities acquired is $6 million. What will be the amount of goodwill that Anderson Company would record as part of this acquisition?

The fair value of the assets of the identifiable assets of Thompson company are $38 million and the fair value of identifiable liabilities is $6 million. So if we were to find the value of Thompson company just on the basis of identifiable assets and identifiable liabilities we would subtract the identifiable liabilities from the identifiable assets.

38-6= $32 million.

This means that on the basis of Identifiable assets and identifiable liabilities the value of Thompson company is $32 million but they Anderson Company $ 30 million for the company which means that the company has a negative goodwill. The negative good will is the price paid - the fair value.

30 million - 32 million = -2 million

This means that Anderson Company will record -2 million as negative goodwill and this implies a bargain purchase which means Anderson company will record this 2 million as a gain on their income statement.

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