In the textbooks that were reviewed, the examples dealing with the sale of a portion of
the ownership interests where the parent retains control had the investor using the equity method.
The reason for this is that if any other method is used by the parent company to account for its
investment then the consolidation process becomes unwieldy. If Dunlop was using the cost basis
the amount of the investment would be the original cost of $805,000 and the gain on the sale
would be $76,000.