At the Beginning of 2013, Gannon Company Received a Three-Year

Multiple Choice

At the beginning of 2013, Gannon Company received a three-year zero-interest-bearing $1,000 trade note. The market rate for equivalent notes was 8% at that time. Gannon reported this note as a $1,000 trade note receivable on its 2013 year-end statement of financial position and $1,000 as sales revenue for 2013. What effect did this accounting for the note have on Gannon's net earnings for 2013, 2014, 2015, and its retained earnings at the end of 2015, respectively?

A) Overstate, overstate, understate, zero
B) Overstate, understate, understate, understate
C) Overstate, overstate, overstate, overstate
D) None of these answer choices are correct.