Rantzow - Lear Company buys and sells debt securities expecting to earn profits on short-term differences in price, and holds these investments in its trading portfolio. The company's fiscal year ends on December 31. The following selected transactions relating to Rantzow - Lear's trading account occurred during December 2024 and the first week of 2025. December 17, 2024 Purchased 195 Grocers' Supply Corporation bonds at par for $487,500. December 28, 2024 Received interest of $5,800 from the Grocers' Supply Corporation bonds. December 31, 2024 Recorded any necessary adjusting entry relating to the Grocers' Supply Corporation bonds. The market price of the bond was $3,000 per bond. January 5, 2025 Sold the Grocers' Supply Corporation bonds for $546,000. Required: Prepare the appropriate journal entry or entries for each transaction. Indicate any amounts that Rantzow - Lear Company would report in its 2024 balance sheet and income statement as a result of this investment. Ignore income taxes.

Flint Company invests $10,000,000 in 6% fixed rate corporate bonds on January 1, 2020. All the bonds are classified as available-for-sale and are purchased at par. At year-end, market interest rates have declined, and the fair value of the bonds is now $10,710,000. Interest is paid on January 1.Prepare journal entries for Flint Company to (a) record the transactions related to these bonds in 2020, assuming Flint does not elect the fair option; and (b) record the transactions related to these bonds in 2020, assuming that Flint Company elects the fair value option to account for these bonds. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.) No. Date Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit (a)…

Brussels Enterprises issues bonds at par dated January 1, 2021, that have a $2,000,000 par value, mature in four years, and pay 9% interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31. 1. Record the entry for the issuance of bonds for cash on January 1. 2. Record the entry for the first semiannual interest payment and the second semiannual interest payment. 3. Record the entry for the maturity of the bonds on December 31, 2024 (assume semiannual interest is already recorded). View transaction list Journal entry worksheet < 1 2 3 4 Record the issuance of bonds for cash on January 1. Date January 01 Note: Enter debits before credits. General Journal Debit Credit

Daan Corporation wholesales repair products to equipment manufacturers. On April 1, 2016, Daan Corporation issued $3,400,000 of 4-year, 12% bonds at a market (effective) interest rate of 11%, receiving cash of $3,507,686. Interest is payable semiannually on April 1 and October 1. a.  Journalize the entry to record the issuance of bonds on April 1, 2016. For a compound transaction, if an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.     fill in the blank 96de01ff9f9efb1_2 fill in the blank 96de01ff9f9efb1_3     fill in the blank 96de01ff9f9efb1_5 fill in the blank 96de01ff9f9efb1_6     fill in the blank 96de01ff9f9efb1_8 fill in the blank 96de01ff9f9efb1_9 b.  Journalize the entry to record the first interest payment on October 1, 2016, and amortization of bond premium for six months, using the straight-line method. The bond premium amortization is combined with the semiannual interest payment. (Round to the nearest dollar.) For a compound transaction,…

Pretzelmania, Inc., issues 7%, 15-year bonds with a face amount of $70,000 for $63,948 on January 1, 2021. The market interest rate for bonds of similar risk and maturity is 8%. Interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and December 31. Required: 1. & 2. Record the bond issue and first interest payment on June 30, 2021. (If no entry is required for a particular transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field. Round your intermediate computations and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

On December 31, 2018, Marsh Company held Xenon Company bonds in its portfolio of available-for-sale securities. The bonds have a par value of $14,000, carry a 10% annual interest rate, mature in 2025, and had originally been purchased at par. The market value of the bonds at December 31, 2018 was $12,000. The December 31, 2018, balance sheet showed the following:   Marsh Company Partial Balance Sheet December 31, 2018 1 Assets   2 Investment in Available-for-Sale Securities $14,000.00 3 Less: Allowance for Change in Fair Value of Investment (2,000.00) 4   $12,000.00 5 Shareholders’ Equity:   6 Unrealized Holding Gain/Loss $(2,000.00)       On January 1, 2019, Marsh acquired bonds of Yellow Company with a par value of $16,000 for $16,200. The Yellow Company bonds carry an annual interest rate of 12% and mature on December 31, 2023. Additionally, Marsh acquired Zebra Company bonds with a face value of 19,000 for…

Marigold Corporation issued $660,000 of 6% bonds on May 1,2025 . The bonds were dated January 1,2025 , and mature January 1 , 2028 , with interest payable July 1 and January 1 . The bonds were issued at face value plus accrued interest. Prepare Marigold's journal entries for (a) the May 1 issuance, (b) the July 1 interest payment, and (c) the December 31 adjusting entry.

Mary Smith Company issued $396,000 of 10%, 20-year bonds on January 1, 2025, at 102. Interest is payable semiannually on July 1 and January 1. Mary Smith Company uses the effective-interest method of amortization for bond premium or discount. Assume an effective yield of 9.7705%. Click here to view factor tables. Prepare the journal entries to record the following. (Round intermediate calculations to 6 decimal places, e.g. 1.251247 and final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 38,548. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter O for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually. List all debit entries before credit entries.) a. b. C. The issuance of the bonds. The payment of interest and related amortization on July 1, 2025. The accrual of interest and the related amortization on December 31, 2025. Date 1/1/25 + Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit 11₁