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What the syllabus expects

  • Concept, features and types
  • Issuance and retirement entries
  • Balance-sheet presentation

Debentures and bonds

Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — First Year

Subject: Financial Accounting and Analysis (MGT 211)

Unit 10: Accounting for Long Term Liabilities

Academic Year: 2083/84

Topic Objectives

After studying this topic, students should be able to:

  • Explain the scope and key elements of debentures and bonds.
  • Identify the accounting treatment, prepare relevant records or calculations and interpret their financial effects.

Curriculum Scope

  • Concept, features and types
  • Issuance and retirement entries
  • Balance-sheet presentation

Detailed Microsyllabus

  1. Bonds and debentures

    1. Meaning, features and types.
    2. Face value, coupon, market yield and issue price.
    3. Issue at par, premium or discount.
  2. Accounting and presentation

    1. Issue entries and interest-related treatment.
    2. Retirement and resulting gains or losses under exercise assumptions.
    3. Balance-sheet classification and financing information.

Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, BBS curriculum with first-year syllabus, PDF pages 20-22.

Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit lecture hours apply to the whole unit; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here.