On December 1, 2008, Denizen Corporation Entered into a 120-Day

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On December 1, 2008, Denizen Corporation entered into a 120-day forward contract to purchase 200,000 Canadian dollars (C$). Denizen's fiscal year ends on December 31. The forward contract was to hedge an anticipated purchase of electronic goods on January 30, 2009. The purchase took place on January 30, with payment due on March 31, 2009. The derivative is designated as a cash flow hedge. The company uses the forward exchange rate to measure hedge effectiveness. The direct exchange rates follow: Required:
Prepare all journal entries for Denizen Corporation.

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Definitions:

Interval

A range of values between two points, often used in statistics to describe the confidence levels of estimations or predictions.

Chi-Squared Distributed

Describes a statistical distribution where the sum of the squares of a number of independent standard normal random variables is chi-squared.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis of statistical parameters.

Randomized Block Experiment

An experimental design that groups participants into blocks based on certain characteristics before randomly assigning them to treatments, improving the experiment's accuracy by reducing variance.