Purse Corporation owns $70$ percent of Scarf Company$$s voting shares. On January $1,20$X$3,$ Scarf sold bonds with a par value of $$\mathrm{}800,000$ at $98.$ Purse purchased $$\mathrm{}500,000$ par value of the bonds; the remainder was sold to nonaffiliates. The bonds mature in five years and pay an annual interest rate of $8$ percent. Interest is paid semiannually on January $1$ and July $1.$ 

 

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What amount of interest expense should be reported in the $20$X$4$ consolidated income statement?

Prepare the journal entries Purse recorded during $20$X$4$ with regard to its investment in Scarf bonds.

Prepare all worksheet consolidation entries needed to remove the effects of the intercorporate bond ownership in preparing consolidated financial statements for $20$X$4.$

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