Kennedy Company has the following portfolio of available-for-sale securities at December 31, 2014. Instructions (a) What should

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Kennedy Company has the following portfolio of available-for-sale securities at December 31, 2014.

                            

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  (a) What should be reported on Kennedy’s December 31, 2014, balance sheet relative to these long term available-for-sale securities?

On December 31, 2015, Kennedy’s portfolio of available-for-sale securities consisted of the following common stocks.

                               

At the end of 2015, Kennedy Company changed its intent relative to its investment in Frank, Inc. and reclassified the shares to trading securities status when the shares were selling for $8 per share.
  (b) What should be reported on the face of Kennedy’s December 31, 2015, balance sheet relative to available-for-sale securities investments? What should be reported to reflect the transactions above in Kennedy’s 2015 income statement?

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Intermediate Accounting

ISBN: 978-1118147290

15th edition

Authors: Donald E. Kieso, Jerry J. Weygandt, and Terry D. Warfield

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