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1. 805-20Identifiable Assets and Liabilities, and Any Noncontrolling Interest805 Business Combinations

   ASC 805-20 governs one piece of the acquisition method: recognizing and measuring the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed, and any noncontrolling interest (NCI) in the acquiree. The core rules are that at the acquisition date the acquirer recognizes these items separately from goodwill (if they meet the asset/liability definitions and are part of the exchange, not a separate transaction) and measures them at acquisition-date fair value, subject to a closed list of recognition and measurement exceptions (income taxes, employee benefits, indemnification assets, reacquired rights, share-based payments, held-for-sale assets, certain contingencies, leases, PCD assets, contract assets/liabilities). Private companies and NFPs may elect an accounting alternative that subsumes most customer-related intangibles and all noncompetition agreements into goodwill.