Reference no: EM132760213

Tea Tree Ltd has acquired some government bonds on 1 July 2022. The government bonds will generate contractual cash flows that are solely principal and interest. The cash flows comprise:

• a return of the principal amount of $2 000 000 in five years' time, and
• payments of interest of $200 000 at the end of each of the next five years.

The government bonds were acquired at a price that will generate an effective interest rate of 6 per cent. That is, they were sold when the market required a rate of return of 6 per cent on government bonds with these cash flow characteristics. The required market rate of return for these government bonds decreased to 5 per cent on 30 June 2023 (which caused the fair value of the bonds to rise).

REQUIRED

Problem a) Determine the initial purchase price of the government bonds on 1 July 2022.

Problem b) Provide the accounting journal entries for the government bonds for the years ending 30 June 2023 and 30 June 2024, assuming that the business model being used for the asset focuses upon collecting the contractual cash flows.

Problem c) Provide the accounting entries for the government bonds for the year ending 30 June 2023, assuming that the business model being used has the objective of both collecting the contractual cash flows from the government bonds as well as selling government bonds.

Problem d) Provide the accounting entries for the government bonds for the year ending 30 June 2023, assuming that the business model being used for government bonds focuses upon trading government bonds.