Issuance of Bonds Journal Entry - Lesson 1

In the video, 11.03 - Issuance of Bonds Journal Entry – Lesson 1, Roger Philipp, CPA, CGMA, provides a conceptual overview of everything that could be involved in a bond issuance journal entry, from the issuer’s point of view, step-by-step.

- Step 1: Credit bonds that are payable for the face amount of the bonds.
- Step 2: Credit any Accrued Interest Payable – the bond may have been accruing interest for some months before issuance. If there is accrued interest payable, it must be added to Cash in the next step.
- Step 3: Debit Cash for any accrued interest payable plus either the present value of the lump sum and the annuity, as covered in previous lessons, OR for the issuance face percentage give in the problem, e.g. 101 or 98. Also for Step 3, bond issue costs or BIC are subtracted from Cash.
- Step 4: Bond issue costs which are debited separately and which will be amortized straight-line over the period the bonds are outstanding.
- Step 5: Add the plug – if a debit plug is needed, it’s a discount; if a credit plug is needed, it’s a premium.

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Video Transcript Sneak Peek:

Okay, now hopefully bonds are starting to make a little bit of sense, but let's continue on. You'll see here, journal entry at issuance, and we're talking about BIC and accrued interest. So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to give you pretty much anything and everything they ever test you on. They don't usually test this much of it, but I'm going to give it all to you, just so we're having a good time.

Now, as we got through this, there are certain things that fall into our journal entry. And here's what we're going to look at. And I'm going to make it like a one, two, three, four, and then we'll go through the details. So here's what our journal entry will basically look like, we'll have a one, two, three, four, five or five. Hmm, very interesting.

[garrettodonnell]

1) thank you for teaching this with such an unprecedented degree of enthusiasm
2) I no longer feel silly about counting months on my fingers

[ammess]

Oh man! I am in my first year accounting and this is some world class level of enthusiasm! that is all I am missing to get better at what I do. Thanks a lot.

[ybbxjcr]

Just to make sure, BIC no longer amortized, taken out of proceeds, correct? Thanks

[Jdaymer]

haha thank you for the upload just saved my ass financial accounting

[sarraf]

Is this under the new accounting change?