What amount of interest revenue problem


Baxter Company leased equipment to Fritz Inc. on January 1, 2002. The lease is for an eight-year period expiring December 31, 2009. The first of eight equal annual payments of $900,000 was made on January 1, 2002. Baxter had purchased the equipment on December 29, 2001 for $4,800,000. The lease is appropriately accounted for as a sales-type lease by Baxter. Assume that the present value at January 1, 2002, of all rent payments over the lease term discounted at a 10 percent interest rate was $5,280,000. What amount of interest revenue should Baxter record in 2003 (the second year of the lease period) as a result of the lease?

a. 490,000

b. 480,000

c. 438,000

d. 391,000

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