Intermediate Accounting, 10 Ed
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781260310177
Author: Mark W. Nelson, Wayne B. Thomas J. David Spiceland
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12, Problem 12.25Q
To determine
Cash surrender value: Companies purchase whole-life insurance policies on the lives of the key officers. In the usual process, the beneficiary receives the insurance proceeds aft her the officer dies. But if the insurance policy is surrendered when the insured is still alive, the amount received in exchange for the surrender, is referred to as cash surrender value.
To explain: The process of accounting for cash surrender value
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