Maker Ltd., an American company, acquired US$200,000 of capital assets on January 1, 2018, when the company was established. These assets were being amortized over 10 years on a straight-line basis, with no significant residual value expected. On January 1, 2019, Holdings Inc., a Canadian company with no capital assets of its own, acquired 100% of the outstanding shares of Maker. US$40,000 of the acquisition differential was allocated to the capital assets, which had eight years remaining economic life on the acquisition date. On March 1, 2020, Maker acquired a further $80,000 of capital assets, which had an estimated useful life of eight years from that date.
Exchange rates for the period from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2020 were:
If Maker is considered to be a foreign subsidiary where its functional currency is the U.S. dollar (i.e., different than the parent's functional currency) , what is the amount of the exchange gain or loss resulting from the translation of the changes to the acquisition differential for 2019?
A) $175 exchange gain
B) Nil
C) $188 exchange gain
D) $88 exchange gain
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