Notes can be converted to cash by discounting them to the financial institutions. If the maker dishonors the note, the company discounting the note pays to the financial institutions. Below are some examples with journal entries involving various stated rates compared to market rates.
Notes receivable accounting:
- Since cash isn’t changing hands until later, we record the amount in the Interest Receivable account to keep track of what will be due.
- Or, we can combine this entry with the journal entry for the repayment of the note.
- In most cases, the transaction between the issuer and acquirer of the note is at arm’s length, so the implicit interest rate would be a reasonable estimate of the market rate.
- As a result, the carrying amount at the end of each period is always equal to the present value of the note’s remaining cash flows discounted at…