FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
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ISBN: 9781259964947
Author: Libby
Publisher: MCG
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Selected transactions completed by Mead Boating Supply Corporation during the current fiscal year are as follows:

 

Jan.   20        Split the common stock 5 for 1 and reduced the par from $50 to $10 per share. After the split, there were 500,000 common shares outstanding.

Apr.        1        Purchased 20,000 shares of the corporation’s own common stock at $30 recording  the stock at cost.

May       1        Declared semiannual dividends of $1.50 on 24,000 shares of preferred stock and $0.15  on the common stock to stockholders of record on May 20, payable on June   1.

June    1        Paid the cash dividends.


 

 

 

Aug.    7        Sold 12,000 shares of treasury stock at $38, receiving cash.

Nov. 15        Declared semiannual dividends of $1.50 on the preferred stock and $0.08 on the   common stock (before the stock dividend). In addition, a 2% common stock dividend was declared on the common stock outstanding. The fair market value of the common stock is estimated at $35.

Dec.  15        Paid the cash dividends and issued the certificates for the common stock   dividend.

 

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Journalize the transactions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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