Financial Accounting
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780133791129
Author: Jane L. Reimers
Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
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Chapter 8, Problem 3MCQ
- a. a company’s own stock that it has repurchased and added to its short-term trading securities (current assets) as an investment.
- b. a company’s own stock that is considered issued but not outstanding.
- c. a company’s own stock that may be used to “manage” earnings—it could be sold for a gain when the price of the stock increases to help a company meet its earnings
forecast. - d. booked as an increase to assets and a decrease to shareholders’ equity when it is purchased.
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