S1: In a business combination resulting a parent company-wholly owned subsidiary relationship, goodwill developed in the working paper elimination is attributed in its entirety to the parent. S2: On the date of business combination of a parent company and its partially owned subsidiary, under the computation method used in full goodwill method, the amount assigned to minority interest in nest assets of subsidiary is based on the cost of the parent company’s investment in the subsidiary’s common stock. A. Both statements are correct B. Only S1 is correct C. Only S2 is correct D. Both statements are incorrect

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S1: In a business combination resulting a parent company-wholly owned
subsidiary relationship, goodwill developed in the working paper elimination is
attributed in its entirety to the parent. S2: On the date of business combination
of a parent company and its partially owned subsidiary, under the computation
method used in full goodwill method, the amount assigned to minority interest in
nest assets of subsidiary is based on the cost of the parent company’s
investment in the subsidiary’s common stock.

A. Both statements are correct
B. Only S1 is correct
C. Only S2 is correct
D. Both statements are incorrect

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