Splish Company reported the following amounts in the stockholders' equity section of its December 31, 2024, balance sheet. Preferred stock, 10%, $100 par (10,000 shares authorized, 1,800 shares issued) Common stock, $5 par (94,000 shares authorized, 18,800 shares issued) Additional paid-in capital Retained earnings Total 1. 2. 3. 4. During 2025, Splish took part in the following transactions concerning stockholders' equity. 5. 6. $180,000 7. 94,000 131,000 478,000 $883,000 Paid the annual 2024 $10 per share dividend on preferred stock and a $2 per share dividend on common stock. These dividends had been declared on December 31, 2024. Purchased 1,500 shares of its own outstanding common stock for $43 per share. Splish uses the cost method. Reissued 800 treasury shares for land valued at $36,200. Issued 540 shares of preferred stock at $104 per share. Declared a 10% stock dividend on the outstanding common stock when the stock is selling for $41 per share. Issued the stock dividend. Declared the annual 2025 $10 per share dividend on preferred stock and the $2 per share dividend on common stock. These dividends are payable in 2026.

Dekalb Resorts has been in business since 1987.The stockholders' equity section of Dekalb's balance sheet on January 1, 2019 is as follows: Common Stock (Par value $25.00 per share; 50,000 shares authorized; 28,000 shares issued and outstanding) Additional Paid-in Capital on Common Stock Preferred Stock (Par value $5.00 per share; 5,000 shares authorized; 3,000 shares issued and outstanding) Additional Paid-in Capital on Preferred Stock Retained Earnings Total Stockholders' Equity Stockholders' Equity Section as of January 1, 2019 Date July 15, 2019 700,000 100,000 15,000 7,000 560.000 1,382,000 Required: 1. Prepare the journal entries for the following three transactions: On July 15, 2019, Dekalb issues 600 shares of its preferred stock, receiving $15.00 per share. Accounts debits credits On December 31, 2019, Dekalb declares annual dividends on preferred stock. Dividends are to be paid on the shares of preferred stock outstanding on December 31, 2019. Each share of preferred stock…

The records of Uluru Charters reflected the following balances in the stockholders' equity accounts at December 31, 2024: Common stock, par $12 per share, 43,500 shares outstanding. Preferred stock, 8 percent, par $17.00 per share, 6,610 shares outstanding. Retained earnings, $227,000. On January 1, 2025, the board of directors was considering the distribution of a $62,700 cash dividend. No dividends were paid during 2023 and 2024. Required: 1. Determine the total and per-share amounts that would be paid to the common stockholders and to the preferred stockholders under two independent assumptions: a. The preferred stock is noncumulative. b. The preferred stock is cumulative. 2. Why might the dividends per share of common stock be different for noncumulative preferred stock and cumulative preferred stock?

Dakota Corporation had the following shareholders' equity account balances at December 31, 2018: Transactions during 2019 and other information relating to the shareholders' cquity accounts were as follows:1. Dakota's preferred and common shares are traded on the over-the-counter market. At December 31, 2018,Dakota had 100,000 authorized shares of $100 par, 10%, cumulative preferred stock; and 3,000,000 autho-rized shares of no-par common stock with a stated value of $5 per share.2. On January 9, 2019, Dakota formally retired all 30,000 shares of its treasury common stock and had them revert to an unissued basis. The treasury stock had been acquired on January 20, 2018. The shares were originally issued at $10 per share,3. Dakota owned 10,000 shares of Bush Inc, common stock purchased in 2016 for $750,000. The Bush stock was included in Dakota's short-term marketable securities portfolio at the end of 2018 at a value of $650,000.On February 13, 2019, Dakota declared a dividend in kind…