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 Accounts receivable Equity method income Dividends Cash Investment in Beta Corporation Interest paid
	(Click to select) Investment in Beta Corporation Interest paid Accounts payable Cash Interest revenue Equity method income Dividends Accounts receivable
	Record share in net income of Beta Corporation.
	(Click to select) Investment in Beta Corporation Interest paid Accounts receivable Equity method income Accounts payable Interest revenue Cash Dividends
	(Click to select) Equity method income Accounts payable Cash Interest revenue Interest paid Accounts receivable Dividends Investment in Beta Corporation
	Record dividend received from Beta Corporation.
	(Click to select) Equity method income Interest paid Dividends Investment in Beta Corporation Accounts receivable Accounts payable Cash Interest revenue
	(Click to select) Accounts receivable Interest revenue Accounts payable Equity method income Cash Interest paid Investment in Beta Corporation Dividends
	Record entry for bond loss/gain allocated to Beta Corporation.
	(Click to select) Dividends Cash Investment in Beta Corporation Interest paid Accounts receivable Interest revenue Equity method income Accounts payable
	(Click to select) Equity method income Accounts payable Interest paid Investment in Beta Corporation Accounts receivable Dividends Interest revenue Cash
	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 $