Companies often create subsidiaries when they acquire another company or when they build out a business line related but not essential to the business. A subsidiary is wholly or majority owned by the ...
Consolidated accounting is used to group the financial information of a parent company and one or more subsidiary companies. A parent company owns the majority of voting shares of a subsidiary company ...
Bruns, William J., Jr. "The Talbots, Inc., and Subsidiaries: Accounting for Goodwill (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 083-257, October 2008.