Answered You can hire a professional tutor to get the answer.

QUESTION

Icandoit Corporation has the following items in shareholders' equity as at December 31 2012: Preferred shares, $0.

Treasury stock, common, 3,900 shares

70,200

The following transactions and events happened in 2013, in chronological order:

a.    A cash dividend of $67,000 was declared and paid. No dividends had been paid in 2012.

b.    3,400 Treasury shares were bought for $75,800.

c.    1,950 Preferred shares were purchased and retired for $131 per share.

d.    A common stock dividend of 10% was issued. Treasury shares were considered ineligible for the stock dividend, by order of the Board of Directors. The dividend was valued at $43 per share.

e.    Earnings for the year were $1,740,000.

Required:

1.    Prepare the journal entries for the above transactions.

2.    Calculate what the balance is in the Retained Earnings account after the above transactions have been recorded.

Show more
LEARN MORE EFFECTIVELY AND GET BETTER GRADES!
Ask a Question