On January $1,2024,$ Rapid Airlines issued $$265$ million of its $6\%$ bonds for $$243$ million.

The bonds were priced to yield $8\%.$

Interest is payable semiannually on June $30$ and December $31.$

Rapid Airlines records interest at the effective rate and elected the option to report these bonds at their fair value.

On December $31,2024,$ the fair value of the bonds was $$255$ million as determined by their market value in the over$-$the$-$counter

market.

Rapid determined that $$1,000,000$ of the increase in fair value was due to a decline in general interest rates.

Required:

to $3.$ Prepare the journal entries to record interest on June $30,2024($the first interest payment$),$ on December $31,2024($the second

interest payment$)$ and to adjust the bonds to their fair value for presentation in the December $31,2024,$ balance sheet.