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$267,000$285,900
Trademark251,000226,100
Customer list136,500155,400
Goodwill183,050?
Liabilities(39,750)(39,750)
Salty Dog
Tangible assets$265,000$265,000
Unpatented technology236,000174,500
Licenses134,500148,400
Goodwill193,700?
Baytowne
Tangible assets$203,250$220,650
Unpatented technology0170,250
Copyrights60,75091,850
Goodwill98,000?

The fair values for each reporting unit (including goodwill) are$781,400 for Sand Dollar, $789,900 for Salty Dog, and $712,750 forBaytowne. To date, Destin has reported no goodwill impairments.

How much goodwill impairment should Destin report this year?

Sand Dollar_________?________?
Salty Dog_________?________?
Baytowne_________?________?

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When goodwill of the company that acquired by another company
increase its fair value it is called goodwill impairment
Total fair value carrying value potential goodwill impairment
Sand dollor 781400 <797800 YES
Salty Dog 789900 <829200 YES
Baytowne 712750 >362000 NO
Sand dollor total fair value 781400
Fair value of identifiable net assets
Tangible assets 285900
trade marks 226100
customers list 155400
laibilities -39750 627650
implied value of goodwill 153750
carrying value of goodwill 183050
Impairment loss 29300
salty dog total fair value 789900
Fair value of identifiable net assets
Tangible assets 265000
unpatented technology 174500
licenses 148400 587900
implied value of goodwill 202000
carrying value of goodwill 193700
no impairment , implied value>carrying value

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