Accounting for Excess Purchase Price: Goodwill or Expense? Instructional Issues.

Reed, Ronald O.; Elsea, John; Lilly, Martha S.

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Publication Date: 2000

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Accounting for Excess Purchase Price: Goodwill or Expense? Instructional Issues.

Reed, Ronald O.; Elsea, John; Lilly, Martha S.

Journal of Education for Business, v76 n2 p87-92 Nov-Dec 2000

Presents the issue of the accounting practice used when a business is acquired by another for a price exceeding its net assets. Discusses implications for instruction in financial accounting. (Contains 25 references.) (SK)

Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, Higher Education, Mergers

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Language: English

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