Payable in annual installments


Cone Corporation is in the process of preparing its December 31, 2013, balance sheet. There are some questions as to the proper classification of the following items:

a. $50,000 in cash set aside in a savings account to pay bonds payable. The bonds mature in 2017.

b. Prepaid rent of $24,000, covering the period January 1, 2014, through December 31, 2015. [Prepaid expenses for a period extending beyond the coming year, a portion of the prepayment is classified as an other asset, a noncurrent asset.]

c. Note payable of $200,000. The note is payable in annual installments of $20,000 each, with the first installment payable on March 1, 2014.

d. Accrued interest payable of $12,000 related to the note payable.

e. Investment in marketable securities of other corporations, $80,000. Cone intends to sell one-half of the securities in 2014.

Required: Prepare a partial classified balance sheet to show how each of the above items should be reported.

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