Wishful Thinking (WT) School of Management is building a new facility on a piece of donated land. It received a generous cash donation from a local business to support the project, and now needs to borrow additional $6,000,000 to complete the project. Therefore WT School of Mgmt issued $6,000,000 of 7.00% 7year bonds. These bonds were issued on January 1, 2015, and pay interest annually on each January 1. The bonds yield is 5.00% when issued. WT School of Mgmt incurred $240,000 in bond issuance costs related to the bond sale.

(a) Prepare the journal entry to record the issuance of the bonds and the related bond issue costs incurred on January 1, 2015 (show your work).

(b) Prepare a bond amortization schedule up to and including January 1, 2019, using the effective interest method

dates	interest paid	interest expense	Disc/Prem Amortization	Bond Carrying Value
Jan 1, 15
Jan 1, 16
Jan 1, 17
Jan 1, 18
Jan 1, 19

(c) Assume that on July 1, 2018, WT School of Management retires half of the bonds at a cost of $2,700,000 plus accrued interest. Prepare journal entries to record this retirement (show your work).