On September 30, 2017, Ericson Company negotiated a two-year, 1,000,000 dudek loan from a foreign bank at

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On September 30, 2017, Ericson Company negotiated a two-year, 1,000,000 dudek loan from a foreign bank at an interest rate of 2 percent per year. It makes interest payments annually on September 30 and will repay the principal on September 30, 2019. Ericson prepares U.S.-dollar financial statements and has a December 31 year-end.
a. Prepare all journal entries related to this foreign currency borrowing assuming the following exchange rates for 1 dudek:
September 30, 2017 .......................... $0.100
December 31, 2017 ........................... 0.105
September 30, 2018 ........................... 0.120
December 31, 2018 ........................... 0.125
September 30, 2019........................... 0.150
b. Taking the exchange rate effect on the cost of borrowing into consideration, determine the effective interest rate in dollars on the loan in each of the three years 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Financial Statements
Financial statements are the standardized formats to present the financial information related to a business or an organization for its users. Financial statements contain the historical information as well as current period’s financial...
Exchange Rate
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another. Exchange Rate means on any day, for purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent of any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars...
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Advanced Accounting

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13th edition

Authors: Joe Ben Hoyle, Thomas Schaefer, Timothy Doupni

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