On January 1, 2010, as an incentive to improved performance of duties, Recycling Corporation adopted a qualified

Question:

On January 1, 2010, as an incentive to improved performance of duties, Recycling adopted a qualified stock option plan to grant corporate executives nontransferable stock options to 500,000 shares of its unissued $1 common stock. The options were granted on May 1, 2010, at $25 per share, the market price on that date. All the options were exercisable one year later and for four years thereafter, providing that the grantee was employed by the at the date of exercise.
The market price of this stock was $40 per share on May 1, 2011. All options were exercised before December 31, 2011, at times when the market price varied between $40 and $50 per share.
Required:
a. What information on this option plan should be presented in the of Recycling at (1) December 31, 2010, and (2) December 31, 2011? Explain.
b. It has been said that the exercise of such a stock option would dilute the equity of existing stockholders in the How could this happen? Discuss.
ii. What conditions could prevent a dilution of existing equities from taking place in this transaction? Discuss.
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