LED Corporation owns $1,000,000 of Branch Pharmaceuticals bonds and classifies i

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LED Corporation owns $1,000,000 of Branch Pharmaceuticals bonds and classifies its investment as securities available-for-sale. The market price of Branch’s bonds fell by $450,000, due to concerns about one of the company’s principal drugs. The concerns were justified when the FDA banned the drug. $100,000 of that decline in value already had been included in OCI as a temporary unrealized loss in a prior period. LED views $200,000 of the $450,000 loss as related to credit losses, and the other $250,000 as noncredit losses. LED does not plan to sell the investment and does not think it is more likely than not that it will have to sell the investment before fair value recovers. What journal entries should LED record to account for the decline in market value in the current period? How should the decline affect net income and comprehensive income?

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Because the drop in the market price of bond is considered to be other­ than ­temporary, LED records the impairment of $450,000 and reclassifies previously recognized unrealized lossesof $100,000.

Event General Journal Debit Credit 1 Other­than­temporary impairment loss—I/S $450,000 AFS investments $450,000 2 Fair value adjustment $100,000 Net unrealized holding gains and losses—OCI $100,000

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