Destin Company recently acquired several businesses and recognized goodwill in each acquisition. Destin has allocated the resulting...

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Destin Company recently acquired several businesses andrecognized goodwill in each acquisition. Destin has allocated theresulting goodwill to its three reporting units: Sand Dollar, SaltyDog, and Baytowne. Destin opts to skip the qualitative assessmentand therefore performs a quantitative goodwill impairment reviewannually.

In its current year assessment of goodwill, Destin provides thefollowing individual asset and liability values for each reportingunit:

Carrying AmountsFair Values
Sand Dollar
Tangible assets$229,000$239,900
Trademark269,000249,000
Customer list98,250116,550
Goodwill163,400?
Liabilities(39,250)(39,250)
Salty Dog
Tangible assets$252,000$252,000
Unpatented technology173,000124,250
Licenses134,000153,400
Goodwill160,500?
Baytowne
Tangible assets$190,500$201,500
Unpatented technology0125,250
Copyrights69,750108,050
Goodwill120,000?

The fair values for each reporting unit (including goodwill) are$708,700 for Sand Dollar, $699,650 for Salty Dog, and $716,800 forBaytowne. To date, Destin has reported no goodwill impairments.

  1. Determine which of Destin’s reporting units require both stepsto test for goodwill impairment.

  2. How much goodwill impairment should Destin report this year?

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