Question

Chang industries has bonds outstanding with a par value of $200,000 and a carrying value of $203,000. If the company calls these bonds at a price of $201,000, the gain or loss on retirement is?

Answer 1

If the company calls these bonds at a price of $201,000, the gain or loss on the retirement would be $2,000.

Here,  $203,000 is the net carrying value of the liability - $201,000 is the price the bonds were called at and the price that Chang industries paid to retire the bonds and the associated liability.

Therefore,   $203,000 - $201,000 =  $2,000

The gain or loss on the retirement would be $2,000.

A bond retirement occurs when an organization repurchases bonds that it had previously issued to investors. Thus, the issuer retires the bonds at the scheduled maturity date of the instruments.

Hence, bond retirement involves the cashing out of a bond that has been invested in.

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