On January 1, 2019, a company issued $401,800 of 10-year, 12% bonds. The interest is payable semi-annually on June 30 and December 31. The issue price was $416,753 based on a 10% market interest rate. The effective-interest method of amortization is used. What is the book value of the bond liability as of June 30, 2019 (to the nearest dollar)

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.