Frankton Corporation has experienced difficult financial times for the past five years resulting in serious cash flow

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Frankton Corporation has experienced difficult financial times for the past five years resulting in serious cash flow problems, negative earnings, and increasing deficits in retained earnings. The negative cash flows from operations have been managed in part by debt financing, particularly from a major shareholder making loans to the corporation. The level of debt financing is not sustainable and the corporation has decided to engage in a quasi-reorganization. Key elements of the reorganization are as follows:

1. After the reorganization, retained earnings should have a zero balance. The current balance is a deficit of $300,000.

2. Interest bearing debt in the amount of $300,000, held by the major shareholder, will be extinguished in exchange for $250,000 of consideration represented by preferred stock with a par value of $50,000.

3. Treasury stock with a cost of $150,000 was retired noting that the 10,000 common shares of $10 par value were originally sold for $13 per share.

4. Inventory with a book value of $80,000 was written off and equipment with a net book value of $840,000 and an original cost of $1,200,000 was written down to a net book value of $700,000, in part through the elimination of accumulated depreciation.

5. The par value of the remaining 94,000 shares of outstanding common stock was reduced from $10 to $5 per share.

Prepare all necessary entries to record the quasi-reorganization.

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Advanced Accounting

ISBN: 978-1305084858

12th edition

Authors: Paul M. Fischer, William J. Tayler, Rita H. Cheng

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