Artistic Expression is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares. The company issued 71,000 shares

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Artistic Expression is authorized to issue an unlimited number of common shares. The company issued 71,000 shares at $4 per share, and all 71,000 shares are outstanding. When the market price of common shares was $12 per share, Artistic Expression declared and distributed a 20% stock dividend. Later, Artistic Expression declared and paid a $0.45 per share cash dividend.

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1. Journalize the declaration and distribution of the stock dividend.

2. Journalize the declaration and the payment of the cash dividend.

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...
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Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0132889711

1st Canadian Edition

Authors: Jeffrey Waybright, Liang Hsuan Chen, Rhonda Pyper

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