Taste-T Company has been in business for 30 years and has developed a large group of loyal restaurant customers. Down Home Foods made an offer to buy Taste-T Company for $7,400,000. The market value of Taste-T’s tangible assets, net of liabilities, on the date of the offer is $6,300,000. Taste-T also holds a patent for a fluting machine that the company invented (the patent with a market value of $550,000 was never recorded by Taste-T because it was developed internally).

1.
How much has Down Home Foods included for intangibles in its offer of $7,400,000?

Intangibles :

2.
Assuming Taste-T accepts this offer, which company will report Goodwill on its balance sheet and at what amount?

Down Home Foods:

On january 1, 2018, wetick optometrists leased diagnostic equipment from southern corp. which had purchased the equipment at a cost of $2,256,342. the lease agreement specifies six annual payments of $490,000 beginning january 1, 2018, the beginning of the lease, and at each december 31 thereafter through 2022. the six-year lease term ending december 31, 2023 (a year after the final payment), is equal to the estimated useful life of the equipment. the contract specifies that lease payments for each year will increase on the basis of the increase in the consumer price index for the year just ended. thus, the first payment will be $490,000, and the second and subsequent payments might be different. the cpi at the beginning of the lease is 120. southern routinely acquires diagnostic equipment for lease to other firms. the interest rate in these financing arrangements is 12%. (fv of $1, pv of $1, fva of $1, pva of $1, fvad of $1 and pvad of $1) prepare the appropriate journal entries for wetick and southern to record the lease at its beginning.