Early in 2012, Searfoss, Inc , was organized with authorization to issue 2,000 shares of $100 par value preferred stock and 300,000 shares of $1 par value common stock Five hundred shares of the preferred stock were issued at par, and 80,000 shares of common stock were sold at $15 per share The pre...

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Early in 2012, Searfoss, Inc., was organized with authorization to issue 2,000 shares of $100 par value

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Early in 2012, Searfoss, Inc., was organized with authorization to issue 2,000 shares of $100 preferred stock and 300,000 shares of $1 common stock. Five hundred shares of the preferred stock were issued at par, and 80,000 shares of were sold at $15 per share. The preferred stock pays a 10 percent cumulative dividend.
During the first four years of operations (2012 through 2015), the earned a total of $1,950,000 and paid dividends of 40 cents per share in each year on its outstanding common stock.
Instructions
a. Prepare the stockholders' equity section of the at December 31, 2015. Include a supporting schedule showing your computation of the amount of retained earnings reported. Assume the call price of preferred stock is $110 per share as of December 31, 2015.
b. Are there any dividends in arrears on the company's preferred stock at December 31, 2015? Explain your answer.
c. Assume that interest rates increase steadily from 2012 through 2015. Would you expect the market price of the company's preferred stock to be higher or lower than its call price of $110 at December 21, 2015? (The call price is the amount the company must pay to repurchase the shares from the stockholders.)
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