A Treasury bond has a maturity of Oct 31, 2025. The coupon is 8% paid semi-annually. The yield (YTM) is 6.5%. You purchased the bond with a settlement date of April 20, 2017. The face value is $1,000,000.
a. Calculate the accrued interest.
b. To calculate the dirty price, you need the clean or quoted price. Given the information about the bond, how do you propose to calculate the clean price? [Hint: Consider how you would discount the cash flows.]