Sandia Corporation issued $2,000,000 worth of callable bonds paying 7% interest. The maturity date for the bonds was in 10 years. A year later, interest rates fell to 5%. The bonds were called and new bonds were sold at the 5% rate. How much did Sandia Corporation save by calling the bonds?

Alan Smith Fitness gym has 200,000 of 20 year bonds payable outstanding. These bonds had a discount of 18000 at issuance, which was 10 years ago. The company uses the straight-line amortization method. The current carrying amount of these bonds payable is?

Jones Cricket Institute issued a 30-year, 8 percent semi-annual bond 3 year ago. The bond currently sells for 93 percent of its face value. The Company’s tax rate is 35%. a. What is the pre-taxed cost of debt? b. What is the after-tax cost of debt? c. Which is more relevant, the pre-tax or the after- tax cost of debt? Why?      In the question above, suppose the book value of the debt issues is $60 million.  In addition, the company has a second debt issue on the market, a zero coupon bond with 10 years to mature. The book value of this issue is $35 million and the bond sell for 57 percent of par. a. What is the company’s total book value of debt?               b. The total market value? c. What is your best estimate of the after-tax cost of debt now?

InterTech Corporation needed financing to build a new manufacturing plant. On June 30 of this year, InterTech issued $3,480,000 of 8-year bonds with a 6% coupon rate (payments due on December 31st and June 30th). The effective interest rate was 8%. What amount in interest expense did InterTech record this year for the December 31 payment? Select one: a. $139,200 b. $156,685 c. $92,235 d. None of these are correct. e. $122,980

a corporation sold an issue of 15 years bonds having a total face value of 12,000,000 for 11,000,000. the bond bear interest 15% payable semiannually . the company wishes to established a sinking fund for retiring the bond issue and will make semiannual deposit that will earn 12% compunded seminuannually. show the cash flow diagram and compute the annual costfor interest and redemption of these bond.

Flint Company had bonds outstanding with a maturity value of $272,000. On April 30, 2025, when these bonds had an unamortized discount of $10,000, they were called in at 105. To pay for these bonds, Flint had issued other bonds a month earlier bearing a lower interest rate. The newly issued bonds had a life of 10 years. The new bonds were issued at 103 (face value $272,000). Ignoring interest, compute the gain or loss. Loss ✓on redemption $ Ignoring interest, prepare the two entries to record this refunding transaction. (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.) Account Titles and Explanation Bonds Payable Loss on Redemption of Bonds Discount on Bonds Payable Cash (To record redemption of bonds payable) Cash Premium on Bonds Payable 23600 Bonds Payable Debit 272000 23600 Credit 10000…

Blossom Company issued $700,000, 9-year bonds. It agreed to make annual deposits of $75,500 to a fund (called a sinking fund), which will be used to pay off the principal amount of the bond at the end of 9 years. The deposits are made at the end of each year into an account paying 4% annual interest. Click here to view the factor table. (For calculation purposes, use 5 decimal places as displayed in the factor table provided.) What amount will be in the sinking fund at the end of 9 years? (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 25.25.) Amount in the sinking fund $ 803100.94

Darouich Industries decided to retire an $1,000,000 bond issue before its due date. The bonds were callable by the company at 104. At the same time, the bonds were selling at 103 on the open market. The company was able to buy $500,000 of the bonds at 103 and called the remaining bonds. At that time, there was $125,000 in the Discount on Bonds Payable account. Compute the gain or loss on the retirement of the called bonds. Group of answer choices $82,500 gain $77,500 loss $82,500 loss $77,500 gain

A Corporation has a 6%, $500,000 bond issue that originally was issued 5 years ago.  There are now eight years remaining on the bond issue, and the market interest rate is 10%.  Interest is paid semiannually.  Calculate the current market value of the bond issue, using present value tables.  Please label all work.

On January 1, 2014 Victory Falls Company issued $2,100,000 in bonds that mature in 5 years. The bonds have a stated interest rate of 8% and pay interest quarterly each year. When the bonds were sold, the market rate of interest was 6%. These bonds, when issued and sold, contained a call feature, which allowed the company to retire the bonds early, if they elected, for a one-time payment equal to 1% of the book value at the time of retirement. Required: 1- Provide the adjusting journal entries to record interest expense on June 30, 2014, and December 31, 2014 using the straight-line method and using the effective-interest method.   2- What is the book value of the bonds on June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2014 using straight-line method and using effective-interest method?