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Accounting: What the Numbers Mean 9th Edition by Wayne W McManus, Daniel F Viele, David H Marshall

Edition 9ISBN: 0073527068
book Accounting: What the Numbers Mean 9th Edition by Wayne W McManus, Daniel F Viele, David H Marshall cover

Accounting: What the Numbers Mean 9th Edition by Wayne W McManus, Daniel F Viele, David H Marshall

Edition 9ISBN: 0073527068
Exercise 19

Common stock—calculate issue price and dividend amount The balance sheet caption for common stock is the following:

Common stock without par value, 2,000,000 shares authorized,

 

400,000 shares issued, and 360,000 shares outstanding

 $2,600,000

Required:

a. Calculate the average price at which the shares were issued.


b. If these shares had been assigned a stated value of $1 each, show how the caption here would be different.


c. If a cash dividend of $0.60 per share were declared, calculate the total amount of cash that would be paid to stockholders.


d. What accounts for the difference between issued shares and outstanding shares?

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