Gotham Automobiles, Inc., [GAA] is a national dealership trading in spaceships and automated self flying drones. It wishes to purchase a custom-made metal press having a market value of $1,000,000 for use in its maintenance division. GAA approached The Gotham City Industrial Bank [The Bank] for a ten year loan to finance the acquisition. It offered to pay coupon interest at the end of each year at an annual rate of 3%. On January 1, 2019, the Bank loaned an amount of $996,744 with which, along with additional internal funds, the company purchased the equipment. The current market rate on that date was 8%.
On December 31, 2019, when the market rate was 10%, GAA recorded $79,739 to Bond Interest Expense and $39,739 to Bonds Payable in the adjusting entry prepared for recording the annual accrued interest for 2019.
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18] The maturity value of the loan would amount to
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a.
$450,000
b.
$1,446,744
c.
$1,298,698
d.
$1,500,000
e.
Unable to determine the amount with the given data