Accounting for Marketable Equity Securities Among the various responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)...
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Accounting for Marketable Equity Securities Among the various responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Amphlett Corporation was the management and oversight of the firms cash reserves. During the year, the CFO had invested some of the firms excess cash in what she thought were three undervalued stocks. All of the securities were classified as trading securities. At year-end, she reviewed how the portfolio of investments had done.
Investment
Cost Basis
Fair Value at Year-End
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Inc.
$50,000
$42,000
Titanium Metals, Corp
50,000
55,000
Zila, Inc.
50,000
80,000
$150,000
$177,000
Required
Calculate the value that would be assigned to the portfolio of marketable equity securities on the balance sheet of The Amphlett Corporation at year-end under each of the following approaches:
a.
Cost
b.
Lower-of-cost-or-market
Individual-security basis
Portfolio basis
c.
Fair value
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