Winsor Inc. recently purchased Holiday Corp., a large midwestern home painting corporation. One of the terms of the merger was that if Holiday’s income for 2020 was $110,000 or more, 10,000 additional shares would be issued to Holiday’s stockholders in 2021. Holiday’s income for 2019 was $120,000.

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a. Would the contingent shares have to be considered in Winsor’s 2019 earnings per share computations?

b. Assume the same facts, except that the 10,000 shares are contingent on Holiday’s achieving a net income of $130,000 in 2020. Would the contingent shares have to be considered in Winsor’s earnings per share computations for 2019?