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Chapter 12: Q15RQ (page 655)
What does it mean when a company calls a bond?
A company called bond when there are chances that the interest rate will fall in the future.
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Analyzing and journalizing bondtransactions
On January1, 2018, Doctors Credit Union (DCU) issued 7%, 20-year bondspayable with face value of $200,000. The bonds pay interest on June 30 andDecember 31.
Requirements
1. If the market interest rate is 5% when DCU issues its bonds, will the bonds bepriced at face value, at a premium, or at a discount? Explain.
2. If the market interest rate is 8% when DCU issues its bonds, will the bonds bepriced at face value, at a premium, or at a discount? Explain.
3. The issue price of the bonds is 93. Journalize the following bond transactions:
a. Issuance of the bonds on January 1, 2018.
b. Payment of interest and amortization on June 30, 2018.
c. Payment of interest and amortization on December 31, 2018.
d. Retirement of the bond at maturity on December 31, 2037, assuming the lastinterest payment has already been recorded.
In regard to a bond discount or premium, what is the effective-interest amortization
method?
Journalizing bond transactions including retirement at maturity
McQueen Company issued a $100,000, 7.5%, 10-year bond payable. Journalize
the following
transactions for McQueen Company, and include an explanation for each
entry:
a. Issuance of the bond payable at face value on January 1, 2018.
b. Payment of semiannual cash interest on July 1, 2018.
c. Payment of the bond payable at maturity, assuming the last interest
payment had
already been recorded. (Give the date.)
Retiring bonds payable before maturity
On January 1, 2018, Powell Company issued $350,000 of 10%, five-year bonds
payable
at 102. Powell Company has extra cash and wishes to retire the bonds payable
on
January 1, 2019, immediately after making the second semiannual interest
payment. To
retire the bonds, Powell Company pays the market price of 98.
Requirements
1. What is Powell Company’s carrying amount of the bonds payable on the
retirement
date?
2. How much cash must Powell Company pay to retire the bonds payable?
3. Compute Powell Company’s gain or loss on the retirement of the bonds
payable.
What are the two categories of liabilities reported on the balance sheet? Provide
examples of each.
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