The company with the common equity accounts shown here has declared a 15 percent stock dividend when

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The company with the common equity accounts shown here has declared a 15 percent stock dividend when the market value of its stock is $35 per share. What effects on the equity accounts will the distribution of the stock dividend have?

Common stock ($1 par value).............. $ 406,000

Capital surplus................................1,340,000

Retained earnings............................3,427,000

Total owners' equity.......................$5,173,000

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...
Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of a portion of company’s earnings, decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and paid to the shareholders. Dividends are given on the shares. It is a token reward paid to the shareholders for their...
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Fundamentals of corporate finance

ISBN: 978-0073382395

9th edition

Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan

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