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Lopez Company is contemplating the acquisition of Scott Company. Lopez determines that the fair market value of Scott's identifiable net assets (total assets less total liabilities) is $6,528,300.
For this specific industry, 8% is considered a normal rate of return on net assets. Scott's earnings for the past few years have averaged $694,200.
Required:
Estimate goodwill for this transaction using the capitalization of excess earnings method.
Computation of Goodwill under the capitalization of excess earnings method:
Earnings attributable to Net assets = Identifiable net assets * Normal rate of return
= $6,528,300 *8%
Earnings attributable to Net assets =$522,264
Excess of Actual earnings over the earnings attributable to net assets = $694,200-$522,264 = $171,936
Let's assume a Capitalization rate of 8%
Capitalization of Excess Earnings =Excess of Actual earnings over the earnings attributable to net assets/Capitalization rate
= $171,936/8%
= $2,149,200
So, Goodwill under the capitalization of excess earnings method is $2,149,200.
