Financial accounting 16th Edition by Jan Williams,Susan Haka,Mark Bettner ,Joseph Carcello

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On October 1, 2015, Jenco signed a four-year, $100,000 note payable to Vicksburg State Bank in conjunction with the purchase of equipment.he note calls for interest at an annual rate of 12 percent (1 percent per month).he note is fully amortizing over a period of 48 months.
The bank sent Jenco an amortization table showing the allocation of monthly payments between interest and principal over the life of the loan. small part of this amortization table is illustrated below.For convenience, amounts have been rounded to the nearest dollar.)

Instructions
a.xplain whether the amounts of interest expense and the reductions in the unpaid principal are likely to change in any predictable pattern from month to month.
b.repare journal entries to record the first two monthly payments on this note.
c.omplete this amortization table for two more monthly installments.
d.ill any amounts relating to this four-year note be classified as current liabilities in Jenco's December 31, 2015, balance sheet Explain, but you need not compute any additional dollar amounts.