Some of the account balances of Vos Limited at December 31, 2016 are as follows:

$6 Preferred shares (2,000 shares authorized, 2,000 shares issued and outstanding) ..... $520,000

Common shares (unlimited authorized, 50,000 shares issued and outstanding) ............ 500,000

Contributed surplus .................................................................................. 103,000

Retained earnings .................................................................................... 774,000

Accumulated other comprehensive income ........................................................ 22,350

The price of the company's common shares has been increasing steadily on the market; it was $21 on January 1, 2017 and advanced to $24 by July 1 and to $27 at the end of 2017. The preferred shares are not openly traded but were appraised at $120 per share during 2017. Vos follows IFRS and had net income of $154,000 during 2017.

Instructions

(a) Prepare the journal entries for each of the following.

1. The company declared a property dividend on April 1. Each common shareholder was to receive one share of Waterloo Corp. for every 10 shares outstanding. Vos had 8,000 shares of Waterloo (2% of the outstanding shares), and had purchased them in 2012 for $68,400. The shares are accounted for using the FV-OCI model. The accumulated other comprehensive income relates only to these shares. The fair value of the Waterloo shares was $16 per share on April 1. The property dividend was distributed on April 21 when the fair value of the Waterloo shares was $18.50. The Waterloo shares remained at a fair value of $18.50 until year end.

2. On July 1, the company declared a 5% stock dividend to the remaining common shareholders. The stock dividend was distributed July 22.

3. A shareholder, in an effort to persuade Vos to expand into her city, donated to the company a plot of land with an appraised value of $42,000.

(b) Prepare the shareholders' equity section of Vos's statement of financial position at December 31, 2017.

(c) How should Vos account for the difference in fair value of the Waterloo shares between the date of declaration and date of distribution? Does the declaration of a property dividend create a financial liability?