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Companies present this information in the footnotes to their financial statements. Exhibit 41 shows a portion of the long-term borrowings footnote from Dow Chemical Company’s 2000 annual report. Promissory notes, debenture bonds, and foreign bonds are shown, with their amounts, maturity dates, and interest rates. This includes cash received when the bond is issued, which is recorded on the balance sheet. A bond in accounting should also be recorded in assets and liabilities depending on whether the bond is issued at par, at premium, or at discount. As the discount is amortized, the discount on bonds payable account’s balance decreases and the carrying value of the bond increases.
The carrying value will continue to increase as the discount balance decreases with amortization. When the bond matures, the discount will be zero and the bond’s carrying value will be the same as its principal amount. The discount amortized for the last payment may be slightly different based on rounding. See Table 1 for interest expense calculated using the straight‐line method of amortization and carrying value calculations over the life of the bond. At maturity, the entry to record the principal payment is shown in the General Journal entry that follows Table 1. After the payment is recorded, the carrying value of the bonds payable on the balance sheet increases to $9,408 because the discount has decreased to $592 ($623–$31).
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Student Residence System Bonds – Guarantee repayment from specified revenue streams of the student residence system. Amortization schedules for each bond issuance are provided by Treasury. During the final year of amortization, object code will be used for the entry instead of object code 9210 . The figures, dates, interest rates, and terms included in the following examples are for illustration purposes only. In plain English, you paid the last year of interest and paid the bank back in full for the money you borrowed.
The entry to record the issuance of the bonds increases cash for the $11,246 received, increases bonds payable for the $10,000 maturity amount, and increases premium on bonds payable for $1,246. Premium on bonds payable is a contra account to bonds payable that increases its value and is added to bonds payable in the long‐term liability section of the balance sheet.
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The last step is to add together the present value of the bond’s face amount and the present value of the coupon payments to get the present value of the bond, which would be the issue price of the bond. The carrying value of the bond will be $200,000, which is the same as bonds payable. This is the maturity date, the date when you need to pay the bank back the $50,000 you borrowed from it. You can really think of this last journal entry as two journal entries. First, you need to record interest expense like you did in the previous entry.
DateAccountDebitCreditDecember 31, 2015Bond Payable$200,000Cash$200,000The entry to record the payment of the bondThe interest expense will be recorded on the income statement for each of the three years. Bond Accounting is the procedure used to record the receipt of cash from the buyer of issued bonds on a business’s balance sheet. Capitalized Interest – Bond interest payments that are made when the facility being financed with the bonds is still under construction and are capitalized as a part of the cost of the bonds payable accounting facility. The day the note payable is issued and you get the cash from the bank is called the inception date. Let’s assume you receive the proceeds of the note payable on January 1, 2017. While the concepts discussed herein are intended to help business owners understand general accounting concepts, always speak with a CPA regarding your particular financial situation. The answer to certain tax and accounting issues is often highly dependent on the fact situation presented and your overall financial status.