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Exercise 15-4 Flint Corporation is a regional company which is an SEC registrant. The corporation’s securities are thinly traded on NASDAQ. Flint Corp. has issued 18,500 units. Each unit consists of a $925 par, 12% subordinated debenture and 19 shares of $9 par common stock. The units were sold to outside investors for cash at $1,628 per unit. Prior to this sale, the 2-week ask price of common stock was $74 per share. Twelve percent is a reasonable market yield for the debentures, and therefore the par value of the bonds is equal to the fair value. (a) Prepare the journal entry to record Flint’s transaction, under the following conditions. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. $38,487. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.) (1) Employing the incremental method. (2) Employing the proportional method, assuming the recent price quote on the common stock reflects fair value. No. Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit 1. 2. Click if you would like to Show Work for this question: Open Show Work

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