Question

On January 1, Year 1, Stratton Company borrowed $100,000 on a 10-year, 7% installment note payable. The terms of the note require Stratton to pay 10 equal payments of $14,238 each December 31 for 10 years. The required general journal entry to record the first payment on the note on December 31, Year 1 is:

Answer 1

Dr interest expense $7,000

Dr notes payable $7,238

Cr cash $14,238

Step-by-step explanation:

The first task is to compute interest expense on the loan in year 1 which is shown below:

interest expense=$100,000*7%

interest expense=$7,000

Principal repayment=repayment-interest repayment

Principal repayment=$14,238-$7,000=$7,238

The double entries are to debit interest expense and notes payable with $7,000 and $7,238 respectively while cash is credited with $14,238 as an outflow of cash.