Alpha Corporation owns 90% of the ordinary shares of Beta Corporation and uses the equity method to account for its investment. On January 1, Year 4, Alpha purchased $160,000 of Betas 10% bonds for $150,064. Betas bond liability on this date consisted of $800,000 par 10% bonds due January 1, Year 8, and unamortized discount of $73,065. Interest payment dates are June 30 and December 31. The effective rate of interest is 6% every six months on Alphas bond investment and 6.5% every six months for Betas bond liability. Both companies have a December 31 year-end and use the effective-interest method to account for bonds. Alpha uses income tax allocation at a 40% tax rate when it prepares its consolidated financial statements. Beta reported a profit of $114,000 in Year 4 and declared a dividend of $30,000 on December 31. Required: (a) Calculate the amount of the gain or the loss that will appear as a separate item on the Year 4 consolidated income statement as a result of the bond transaction that occurred during the year. (Input all values as positive numbers. Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar. Omit $ sign in your response.) Loss on bonds, Year 4 $ (b) Prepare the equity method journal entries that Alpha would make on December 31, Year 4. (Input all values as positive numbers. Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to the nearest whole dollar.)

Date	General Journal	Debit	Credit
December 31, Year 4	(Click to select) Accounts payable Interest revenue Interest paid Investment in Beta Corporation Equity method income Cash Accounts receivable Dividends
	(Click to select) Accounts receivable Investment in Beta Corporation Equity method income Interest revenue Interest paid Accounts payable Cash Dividends
	Record share in net income of Beta Corporation.
	(Click to select) Accounts payable Dividends Equity method income Interest revenue Cash Interest paid Investment in Beta Corporation Accounts receivable
	(Click to select) Cash Dividends Equity method income Accounts receivable Interest revenue Accounts payable Interest paid Investment in Beta Corporation
	Record dividend received from Beta Corporation.
	(Click to select) Accounts receivable Dividends Investment in Beta Corporation Equity method income Interest revenue Interest paid Accounts payable Cash
	(Click to select) Accounts payable Interest revenue Accounts receivable Investment in Beta Corporation Cash Interest paid Equity method income Dividends
	Record entry for bond loss/gain allocated to Beta Corporation.
	(Click to select) Cash Dividends Accounts receivable Accounts payable Investment in Beta Corporation Interest paid Equity method income Interest revenue
	(Click to select) Investment in Beta Corporation Accounts receivable Cash Interest revenue Accounts payable Equity method income Interest paid Dividends
	Record entry for bond loss/gain allocated to Alpha Corporation.

(c) Calculate the amount of the bond liability that will appear on the December 31, Year 4, consolidated statement of financial position. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar. Omit $ sign in your response.) Consolidated bonds payable December 31, Year 4 $