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JY investment Ltd holds awell-diversified portfolio of shares that has a market value of

$1.5 million on 30June 2019. JY is concerned about possible downturns in the sharemarket and on 1 March 2020 decides to take out a sell position ineleven “September 2020 SPI 200 Futures” units when the SPI 200 is5500. The SPI 200 Futures contract unit value is the value of SPI200 multiplied by $25. To enter the contract, JY pays an initialcash deposit (margin) of $150,000 to a broker.

On 30 June 2020, thereporting date of JY investment Ltd, the unit price of theSeptember SPI futures contracts has fallen to 5300 and the marketvalue of the firm’s portfolio of shares is $1 435 000. Assumebroker allows a $50,000 drop before making a margin call to allowfor minor fluctuations in the market.

The shares are soldon 31 August 2020 when the market value of the shares is $1 290 000and the September SPI 200 futures contract closed out at 5250 on 31August 2020. Assume the futures contracts qualify as a hedge, theshares are marked to market.

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Prepare journalentries to account for the above events from 1 March 2020 to 31August 2020. Show all calculations and round them to the nearestdollar amount. No narration is required.

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Journal Entries for above transactions are as follows -

1/03/20 Share capital a/c Dr.         150000

                   To bank a/c                     150000

(Being initial cash deposit paid for entering share selling contract)

31/8/20 Bank a/c                Dr.          1290000

                    To share capital a/c        1290000

( Being shares sold at market price)


As
on
30
jun
2020, market value of firm's portfolio of shares is
$1435000.


market value of share holding is $1500000

Unit price has fallen to 5300

Lower of both can be considered,

As per accounting principles

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