Discussion Post: Equity Method Investments
Access the most current 10K Coca-Cola Company's SEC 10K filing at All SEC Filings webpage, and address the following questions:
1) What companies do Coca-Cola describe as significant equity method investments? How do these investments help Coca-Cola?
2) What criteria does Coca-Cola use in choosing to apply the equity method for these investments?
3) How does Coca-Cola describe its application of the equity method?
4) What amount of equity income did Coca-Cola report?
Coca-Cola discloses the fair values of its publicly traded bottlers accounted for as equity method investments. List the book values and fair values for these equity method investments that have publicly traded securities. Discuss the relevance of each of these two values.
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.