Problem
Access The Coca-Cola Company's SEC 10K.
A. What companies does Coca-Cola describe as significant equity method investments? How do these investments help Coca-Cola?
B. What criteria does Coca-Cola use in choosing to apply the equity method for these investments?
C. How does Coca-Cola describe its application of the equity method?
D. What amount of equity income did Coca-Cola report?
E. Coca-Cola discloses the fair values of its publicly traded bottlers accounted for as equity method investments that have publicly traded data. Discuss the relevance of each of these two values.