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Stockholders' equity

The stockholders’ equity section of Lumley Corporation at December 31 is as follows.

LUMLEY CORPORATION
Balance Sheet (partial)

Paid-in capital
Preferred stock, cumulative, 10,000 shares authorized, 6,000 shares issued and outstanding $600,000
Common stock, no par, 750,000 shares authorized, 600,000 shares issued $1,200,000
Total paid-in capital $1,800,000
Retained earnings $1,858,000
Total paid-in capital and retained earnings $3,658,000
Less: Treasury stock (12,000 common shares) ($64,000)
Total stockholders’ equity $3,594,000

Instructions

From a review of the stockholders’ equity section, as chief accountant, write a memo to the president of the company answering the following questions.

(a) How many shares of common stock are outstanding?

(b) Assuming there is a stated value, what is the stated value of the common stock?

(c) What is the par value of the preferred stock?

(d) If the annual dividend on preferred stock is $30,000, what is the dividend rate on preferred stock?

(e) If dividends of $60,000 were in arrears on preferred stock, what would be the balance in Retained Earnings?

My answers

(a) 600,000 shares of common stock are outstanding
(b) Has no stated value
(c) $2.00 par value
(d) 10%
(e) $1,798,000

Am I correct? If not, please let me know. Thank you so much.

nana



Look again at questions a, b, c, & d.

Your answer to question (a) looks a bit too high.You should re-read the first half of question (b).Question (c) asks about preferred stock, not common stock.Question (d) asks about the ANNUAL dividend rate on preferred stock, which is calculated from the ANNUAL dollar amount of dividends on preferred stock.

Bill Carter, Virginia

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