Accounting and the Time Value of Money
Determine the market price of a $500,000, ten-year, 10% (pays interest semiannually) bond issue
sold to yield an effective rate of 12%.
Solution 6-139
Ex. 6-140—Calculate market price of a bond.
On January 1, 2014 Lance Co. issued five-year bonds with a face value of $700,000 and a stated
interest rate of 12% payable semiannually on July 1 and January 1. The bonds were sold to yield
10%. Present value table factors are:
Present value of 1 for 5 periods at 10% .62092
Present value of 1 for 5 periods at 12% .56743
Present value of 1 for 10 periods at 5% .61391
Present value of 1 for 10 periods at 6% .55839
Present value of an ordinary annuity of 1 for 5 periods at 10% 3.79079
Present value of an ordinary annuity of 1 for 5 periods at 12% 3.60478
Present value of an ordinary annuity of 1 for 10 periods at 5% 7.72173
Present value of an ordinary annuity of 1 for 10 periods at 6% 7.36009
Calculate the issue price of the bonds.
Solution 6-140
PROBLEMS
Pr. 6-141—Present value and future value computations.
Part (a) Compute the amount that a $40,000 investment today would accumulate at 10%
(compound interest) by the end of 6 years.
Part (b) Tom wants to retire at the end of this year (2014). His life expectancy is 20 years from
his retirement. Tom has come to you, his CPA, to learn how much he should deposit on
December 31, 2014 to be able to withdraw $60,000 at the end of each year for the next
20 years, assuming the amount on deposit will earn 8% interest annually.
Part (c) Judy Thomas has a $2,100 overdue debt for medical books and supplies at Joe’s
Bookstore. She has only $700 in her checking account and doesn’t want her parents to
know about this debt. Joe’s tells her that she may settle the account in one of two ways
since she can’t pay it all now:
1. Pay $700 now and $1,750 when she completes her residency, two years from today.
2. Pay $2,800 one year after completion of residency, three years from today.