Lesson8 - Notes Payable
Lesson8 - Notes Payable
Lesson8 - Notes Payable
Lesson 8
Technical Knowledge
1. To define a promissory note
2. To know the initial measurement of note payable.
3. To understand the subsequent measurement of note payable at
amortized cost.
4. To understand the fair value option of measuring note payable.
5. To know the accounting for note payable issued solely for cash,
interest-bearing note payable and noninterest -bearing note payable
issued for property.
Definition
-a promissory note is a financial instrument, in which one party called the
maker or issuer promises in writing to pay the sum certain of money to the
other party called the payee either in demand of the latter or at a fixed or
determinable future time.
Measurement
INITIAL: fair value less transaction cost or FV only