Problem 1: On January 1, 2013, Queen
Corporation issued 12-year, 6% bonds payable with a face value of
$10 million. The bonds require semi-annual coupon payments on June
30 and December 31 every year
- Fill in the blanks below to show the amounts and timing for
contractual future cash flows for these bonds.
- Lump-sum payment due at maturity (FV) =
- Amount of each semi-annual coupon payment (pmt) =
- Number of compounding periods from issue date to maturity
=
- Total cash outflows required by these bonds =
- For this question, fill in the blanks below with the value of
Queen’s bonds on 1/1/13. The value represents the cash proceeds
that Queen would receive when issuing these bonds.
- (Annual) Market interest rate = 5%
- (Annual) Market interest rate = 8.3%
Quoted market price =
92
- For this question, assume that Queen issued these bonds on
1/1/13 in exchange for cash of $8,899,162. For the journal entries,
you may choose to use a companion account or not.
- Did Queen issue these bonds at par, premium, or discount?
discount
- What was the market interest rate PER PERIOD on 1/1/13?
- Prepare Queen’s journal entry to recognize the issuance of
these bonds on 1/1/13.
- Prepare Queen’s journal entry to recognize the coupon payment
on 6/30/13.
- Explain in words how you calculated the interest expense amount
in your 6/30/13 journal entry.