The City of Burton has $5,000,000 par value of general government, general obligation bonds payable outstanding. The

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The City of Burton has $5,000,000 par value of general government, general obligation bonds payable outstanding. The city has decided to defease those bonds in substance. Record the following transactions in all the accounts (both in the funds and in the General Capital Assets and General Long-Term Liabilities accounts) of the City of Burton that are affected.
1. The city issued $3,000,000 of refunding bonds at par.
2. The city transferred $1,850,000 from its General Fund to its Debt Service Fund to provide the additional resources needed to defease the bonds in substance.
3. The city paid $4,850,000 into an irrevocable trust established at the First National Bank of Burton to defease the bonds in substance.

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Par value is the face value of a bond. Par value is important for a bond or fixed-income instrument because it determines its maturity value as well as the dollar value of coupon payments. The market price of a bond may be above or below par,...
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Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting

ISBN: 978-0132751261

10th edition

Authors: Robert Freeman, Craig Shoulders, Gregory Allison, Robert Smi

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