Solid Gold Corporation is a public company that produces and sells gold. As the controller, you are worried that the company's profits will be hurt if gold prices decline. You are interested in doing some analysis to decide whether to enter into two-month forward contracts that would guarantee a selling price for gold. In addition, you want to decide if hedge accounting would be useful. You have asked your assistant to do some preliminary analysis. 

It is now December 2018, and today's price for a February 2019 two-month forward contract is U.S. $1,239.60. 

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