A company has a five-year, $200,000 note payable on which it has been making annual interest payments of $15,000. This is the final year of the note, and the company has made a $215,000 payment to pay this years interest as well as to repay the note itself.

What is needed in the journal entry to record this $215,000 cash payment?

I know the answer is Debit to interest expense for $15000. BUT why? Why isnt cash credited for 215000?