Sabran Corporation, a calendar year-end firm, invested in three debt securities on December 15, 2020, and classified
Question:
Sabran Corporation, a calendar year-end firm, invested in three debt securities on December 15, 2020, and classified them as trading securities. Sabran sold all three securities on January 1, 2021. The following table provides the purchase price, fair values, annual interest amounts, and selling prices for all three securities. All securities were acquired at face value and pay interest annually each December 31.
Sabran had not purchased any other trading securities before January 1, 2020, and it did not make any additional investments subsequent to the sale on January 1, 2021. What journal entries are required to properly record these events?
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Intermediate Accounting
ISBN: 9780136946694
3rd Edition
Authors: Elizabeth A. Gordon, Jana S. Raedy, Alexander J. Sannella