Firenze company development a specialized banking


Firenze Company development a specialized banking application software program that it licenses to various financial institutions through multiple-year agreements. On January 1 , 2014, these licensing agreements have a fair value of $857,500 and represent Firenze's sole assets. Although Firenze currently has no liabilities, the company has a $199,000 net operating loss(NOL) carry forward because of recent operating lossses.

On January 1, 2014, Parma, Inc., acquired all of Firenze's voting stock for $1,070,000. Parma expects to extract operating synergies by integrating Firenze's software into its own products. Parma also hopes that Frenze will be able to receive a future tax reduction from its NOL. Assume an applicable federal income tax rate of 35 percent.

a. If there is greater than 50 percent chance that the subsidiaries will b able to utilizes the NOL carry forward, how much goodwill should parma recognize from the acquisition?

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b. If there is less than 50 percent chance that the subsidiary will be able to utilize the NOL carry forward, how much goodwill should Parma recognize from the acquisition?

 

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