The company with the common equity accounts shown here has declared a 12 percent stock dividend at

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The company with the common equity accounts shown here has declared a 12 percent stock dividend at a time when the market value of its stock is $62 per share. What effects on the equity accounts will the distribution of the stock dividend have?
Common stock ($1 par value)...................................$ 130,000
Capital surplus...............................................................979,000
Retained earnings......................................................2,865,500
Total owners’ equity................................................$3,974,500

Distribution
The word "distribution" has several meanings in the financial world, most of them pertaining to the payment of assets from a fund, account, or individual security to an investor or beneficiary. Retirement account distributions are among the most...
Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...
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Corporate Finance Core Principles and Applications

ISBN: 978-1259289903

5th edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford Jordan

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