In the Current Year, Logic Co

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Essay

In the current year, Logic Co. purchased bonds of Waterford Co. with a cost of $125,000 and a year-end fair value of $123,700. Logic also purchased 1,500 shares of Jasper Co. common stock with a cost of $25,000 and a year-end fair value of $26,100. These are classified as long-term available-for-sale securities. Prepare the journal entry to record the market value of the investments as of its December 31 year-end.

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Definitions:

Units

Basic quantities or measures adopted by convention or by law, used as a standard to express physical quantities.

Diminishing Returns

An economic principle where the addition of a variable factor to a fixed factor leads to a decrease in the marginal output of the variable factor beyond a certain point.

Variable Factors

Components of production that can be adjusted in the short term to change the output level, such as labor and raw materials.

Economies of Scale

A situation where the cost of producing one unit of a good decreases as the volume of production increases.