Pawan Corporation acquires all of Sesa Company at an acquisition cost of $80,000,000 in cash....

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Pawan Corporation acquires all of Sesa Company at an acquisition cost of $80,000,000 in cash. Sesa's reported assets and liabilities are as follows:

Book Value

Dr (Cr)

Fair Value

Dr (Cr)

Current assets

$ 5,000,000

$ 7,000,000

Land, buildings, and equipment (net)

60,000,000

40,000,000

Liabilities

(40,000,000)

(39,000,000)

Pawan determines that Sesa has the following identifiable intangible assets, not reported on its balance sheet:

Fair Value

Favorable leaseholds

$ 4,000,000

In-process research & development

3,000,000

Advertising contracts

5,000,000

Pawan also discovers that Sesa has not properly recorded the expected liability from a settled lawsuit, currently estimated at $6,000,000. Pawan records goodwill of:

A.

$54,000,000

B.

$60,000,000

C.

$69,000,000

D.

$66,000,000

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