On January 1, 2017, Agee Company issued $85,000 of five-year, 8% bonds when the market interest rate was 12%. The issue price of the bonds was $62,401. Agee uses the effective-interest method of amortization for bond discount. Semiannual interest payments are made on June 30 and December 31 of each year. Required:
What is the correct journal entry to record the first interest payment?

Oerstman, inc. uses a standard costing system and develops its overhead rates from the current annual budget. the budget is based on an expected annual output of 120,000 units requiring 480,000 direct labor hours.(practical capacity is 500,000 hours)annual budgeted overhead costs total $772,800, of which $556,800 is fixed overhead. a total of 119,300 units, using 478,000 direct labor hours, were produced during the year. actual variable overhead costs for the year were $260,400 and actual fixed overhead costs were $555,450.required: 1. compute the fixed overhead spending variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.2. compute the fixed overhead volume variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.