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P Company owns 90% of the outstanding common stock of S Company. On January 1, 2015, S Company sold land to P Company for $578,000. S Company originally purchased the land for $427,400. On January 1, 2016, P Company sold the land purchased from S Company to a company outside the affiliated group for $676,100. Calculate the amount of gain on the sale of the land that is recognized on the books of P Company in 2016.

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Answer: $98,100

Step-by-step explanation:

Gain on the sale of the land would be the difference between the amount the land was sold for to the outside entity and the amount that P Company purchased it at.

= Selling price to outside group - Price purchased from S Company

= 676,100 - 578,000

= $98,100

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