Question

anta Corporation issued a bond on January 1 of this year with a face value of $1,000. The bond's coupon rate is 6 percent and interest is paid once a year on December 31. The bond matures in three years. The annual market rate of interest was 10 percent at the time the bond was sold. The following amortization schedule pertains to the bond issued: Cash Paid Interest Expense Amortization Balance January 1, Year 1 $901 December 31, Year 1 $60 $90 $30 931 December 31, Year 2 60 93 33 964 December 31, Year 3 60 96 36 1,000 Required: 1. What was the bond's issue price

Answer 1

$901

Step-by-step explanation:

The bond issue price is the item shown on the amortization schedule which is $901 in this case.

However, we could recompute the bond price using a financial calculator bearing in mind that the financial calculator would be set to its default end mode before making the following inputs:

N=3(number of annual coupons in 3 years)

PMT=60(annual coupon=face value*coupon rate=$1000*6%=$60)

I/Y=10(annual market rate of interest for the bond is 10%)

FV=1000(the face value is $1000)

CPT

PV=$900.53(closest to $901 when rounded to the nearest whole dollar amount)