For the year ended December 31, 2021, Mixed Up Productions Inc. earned $10,000,000. Outstanding preferred shares included
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For the year ended December 31, 2021, Mixed Up Productions Inc. earned $10,000,000. Outstanding preferred shares included $2,000,000 in 4% cumulative preferred shares issued on January 1, 2019, and 30,000 $100 non-cumulative preferred shares issued on January 1, 2020, that are each entitled to dividends of $6 per annum. Dividends were neither declared nor paid on either class of the preferred shares in 2019 or 2020.
The following are three independent situations:
a. On December 15, 2021, Mixed Up declared and paid the $160,000 dividends in arrears on the 4% cumulative preferred shares. Mixed Up also declared and paid $180,000 dividends on the non-cumulative preferred shares.
b. On December 15, 2021, Mixed Up declared and paid $140,000 of the dividends in arrears on the 4% cumulative preferred shares.
c. On December 15, 2021, Mixed Up declared $150,000 dividends on the 4% cumulative preferred shares and $120,000 in dividends on the non-cumulative preferred shares, both payable on January 15, 2022.
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For each of these three independent situations, determine the net income available to ordinary shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2021.
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