On December 31, 2012, Val d'Or LteÌe, a publicly traded company, held the following debt and equity

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On December 31, 2012, Val d'Or Ltée, a publicly traded company, held the following debt and equity investments:
On December 31, 2012, Val d'Or Ltée, a publicly traded

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(a) Calculate the cost and fair value of Vald'Ors investment portfolio at December 31.
(b) If Vald'Or considers its entire portfolio to be trading investments, at what value should the investments be reported on the statement of financial position at December 31? At what amount, and where, should any unrealized gains or losses on the debt securities be reported?
(c) If Val d'Or intends to hold the debt securities until maturity, at what value should the investments be reported on the statement of financial position at December 31? At what amount, and where, should any unrealized gains or losses be reported?
(d) If all of the investments held by Vald'Or related to private companies and no fair value information relating to these securities could be obtained, what would be the impact on the income statement and on the statement of financial position?

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A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and cash equivalents, as well as their fund counterparts, including mutual, exchange-traded and closed funds. A portfolio can also consist of non-publicly...
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Financial Accounting Tools for Business Decision Making

ISBN: 978-1118024492

5th Canadian edition

Authors: Paul D. Kimmel, Jerry J. Weygandt, Donald E. Kieso, Barbara Trenholm, Wayne Irvine

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