On December 15, 2014, Electronix Company purchassed inventory froma foreign supplierfor 3,000,000 foreign currency units (fcu's). Payment
Question:
On December 15, 2014,ElectronixCompany purchassed inventory froma foreign supplierfor 3,000,000 foreign currency units (fcu's). Payment to be madeon February 13, 2015. On December 15, 2014, to hedge the transaction, Electronix signed a forward contract to purchase3,000,000 fcu's in 60 days. Ignore time value of money.The forward contract will be settled NET. The related exchange rates are shown below:
Spot RateForward Rate to 2/13/15
December 15, 2014$.012 = 1 fcu$.012 = 1 fcu
December 31, 2014$.015 = 1 fcu$.016 = 1 fcu
February 13, 2015$.017 = 1 fcu$.017 = 1 fcu
Required
Record the appropriateentries on the above dates if the hedge is acash flow hedge.
Round to the nearest whole dollar.
Financial and managerial accounting
ISBN: 978-1118016114
1st edition
Authors: Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso