Accounting or Bonds Sold at a Discount
The Biltmore National Bank raised capital through the sale of $150 million face value of eight percent coupon rate, ten-year bonds. The bonds paid interest semiannually and were sold at a time when equivalent risk-rated bonds carried a yield rate of ten percent.
Round all answers to the nearest whole number.
a. Calculate the proceeds that The Biltmore National Bank
received from the sale of the eight percent bonds.
b. Calculate the interest expense on the bonds for the first
year that the bonds are outstanding.
c. Calculate the book value of the bonds at the end of the first
year.
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