FAR Study Group Q2 2016 - Page 128

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  • #765576
    JT
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    MaLoTu

    I looked back into my material and was able to find that answer. Yes.

    Thank you for your response too. I'm not sure if its the same for IFRS though. You confirmed that?

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    #765577
    JT
    Participant

    Regarding your second question about straight-line and bond issue cost, I haven't seen a question with both of those elements so Im not sure. That's a pretty big curveball to throw at people, in my opinion.

    I think it would be separate.

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    #765578
    MaLoTu
    Participant

    Becker says for GAAP and IFRS

    #765579
    JT
    Participant

    Antoher question, while we're on it,…. hypothetically, if there was a premium for 50k and bond issue cost were 50k, then I guess we wouldn't be amortizing anything at all. correct?

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    #765580
    MaLoTu
    Participant

    I will try not to overthink the amortization …. I was just curious because in the real world a premium and issuance costs would exist. Maybe someone will know. I just worry if it is in a sim.

    #765581
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    @kanwal78 I will be happy to for the help you provided!

    I just took the moderate questions from the 2106 released questions and I am hoping someone can help me understand how the answers are computed for the following three questions. I appreciate your help and thank you!! I take FAR tomorrow, and after taking these question I am not feeling too confident anymore.

    1. A transportation company purchased a passenger bus for $100,000 on January 1, year 1. The company
    expects the bus to be used for 20 years if it follows a maintenance schedule of replacing the engine after
    10 years and replacing the seats every eight years. It estimates that the current cost to replace the engine
    is $25,000 and the current cost to replace the seats is $10,000. The company uses straight-line
    depreciation and the bus has no residual value. The company considers any component equal to or
    greater than 10% of the overall cost to be significant. Under IFRS, how much depreciation expense
    should the company recognize for the bus for the year ended December 31, year 1? Answer is B.
    A. $5,000
    B. $7,000
    C. $7,250
    D. $8,500

    2. Howard Co. had the following first-year amounts for a $7,000,000 construction contract:
    Actual costs $2,000,000
    Estimated costs to complete 6,000,000
    Progress billings 1,800,000
    Cash collected 1,500,000
    What amount should Howard recognize as gross profit (loss) using the percentage-of-completion method? Answer is A
    A. ($1,000,000)
    B. ($200,000)
    C. $800,000
    D. $1,750,000

    3. A company reported net income available to common stockholders of $2,000,000 for the year ended December 31, year 2. The
    company had 1,500,000 shares of common stock outstanding as of January 1, year 2, and issued 500,000 additional shares of
    common stock on May 1, year 2. What amount is the company's basic earnings per share for the year ended December 31, year 2?
    A. $1.00
    B. $1.09
    C. $1.20
    D. $1.33

    #765582
    MaLoTu
    Participant

    @Dab – I have a feeling that they will have to be separate somehow, but this is going to drive me crazy now, lol.

    marqzho would know the answer … lol. He always knows the answer …

    #765583
    MaLoTu
    Participant

    And I am watching the bond lectures right now and it doesn't seem like they do issuance costs with premiums in the same questions. IDK.

    #765584
    JT
    Participant

    I need to go over that lecture as well. I get crossed up between those rules and acquisitions debt issuance between whats expensed and whats capitalized.

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    #765585
    marqzho
    Participant

    EDIT : I should say something GAAP :LOL

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    #765586
    KJ
    Participant

    Well I was amortizing all the costs up until when I came through one question and it deducted the costs, so I asked if we no longer do it but Dab said we still amortized it. I am really confused. i just did one question posted by boating about restructuring of debt and to get to the answer I had to use S/L amortization for bond issuance costs. Then yesterday I came across another question and the answer was based on amortization of issuance costs. So I am not sure, this sucks!!!

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    #765587
    KJ
    Participant

    This is what Ninja notes has:

    Bond Issuance Costs (NEW)
    o Third Party debt issuance costs (Engraving,
    Printing, Legal, Underwriter, Registration, etc)
    o Old: Recorded as Asset and Amortized
    o New: Reduces Carrying Amount of Liability
    § Key: Increases Effective Interest Rate
    o Disclosures: Same as a Change in Accounting
    Principle
    o Retrospective Treatment to all prior periods presented in the financial statements

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    #765588
    MaLoTu
    Participant

    @kanwal- dont know if this helps at all – they are amortized, apparently lumped in with any discount. They are not an asset, but they are netted against the proceeds (a contra account).

    #765589
    KJ
    Participant

    Thanks MaLoTu, so we will amortize.

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    #765590
    JT
    Participant

    thanks Marqzho

    Kanwal…This is a good example I think

    On June 30, Huff Corp. issued at 99, 1,000 of its 8%, $1,000 bonds. The bonds were issued through an underwriter to whom Huff paid bond issue costs of $35,000. On June 30, Huff should report the bond liability at:

    A. $955,000.

    B. $990,000.

    C. $1,000,000.

    D. $1,025,000.

    Answer is a.

    Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2015-03 requires that debt issuance costs be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the related debt liability, consistent with debt discounts; the recognition and measurement guidance for debt issuance costs were not affected by the amendments. Amortization of debt issuance costs also shall be reported as interest expense; issue costs will no longer be reported in the balance sheet as deferred charges.

    The carrying value of the debt, initially, the bond liability, is $990,000, computed as the number of bonds multiplied by the face amount per bond, multiplied by the issue percentage, reduced by the bond issue costs of $35,000:
    •1,000 bonds × $1,000 face × 0.99 = $990,000
    •$990,000 − $35,000 = $955,000

    Basically, bond issue cost are expensed, then amortized, just like bond discounts.

    My questions (which I get confused with a lot) was what entails bond issue cost and the situations to use this method, I know for acquisition/combos, this method isn't used. Also, some fees, like accountant fees, might not be classified as bond issue cost. For the most part, I think Im starting to get the difference though.

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