Price the two promised streams separately: periodic coupon cash and principal at maturity. Their present values share the same issue date and effective periodic yield, then add to issue price.
Summing undiscounted coupons with face amount produces total future cash, not issue price. Subtracting issuance costs is also a separate opening-carrying- amount step, not part of the bond's market price.
Discount the dated promises
ASC 835-30-25-11 uses present value when stated cash flows and a supported rate measure the note. Price equals the present value of coupon payments plus the present value of principal, all at the matched periodic market yield.
A four-year, semiannual bond has eight coupon periods. If face is $2,000,000, the annual coupon is 6 percent, and the supplied market yield is 8 percent, use $60,000 coupons and a 4 percent periodic yield. The two present-value streams total $1,865,345.10. Issuance costs affect the issuer's net carrying amount after this pricing step; they do not change market price.
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- Compute bond issue price as the sum of the present values of supplied principal and coupon streams using matched periodic inputs.
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To apply this concept: Required. Both principal and coupon cash flows are discounted to the issue date.
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