Hawkins has two classes of shares: 1) 5% preferred with $10 par value, and 2) common stock with $1 par value.
Mrs. Wheeler was able to to recall the following transactions that occured during 2017:
1/1/17: Issues 400,000 shares of common stock at $31 per share. The underwriter charged a 3% fee for issuing the shares.
1/1/17: Issued 500,000 shares of its preferred sotck at $40 per share. The shares were privately placed and Hawkins did not pay share issue costs.
3/1/17: Purchased 200,000 shares of common stock at $35 per share.
6/30/17: Decalred a $450,000 dividend for the first half of the year.
7/1/17: Sold 105,000 of the treasury shares at $44 per share ( the company uses the FIFO method when determining par value of sold treasury shares)
9/1/17: Declared a distributed property dividend of shares of stock in Byers Corp Hawkins' purchased 3,570,000 shares of Byers Corp in 2016 for 28,560,000. On 9/1/17, shares of Byers Corp were trading at $1/50 per share.
12/31/17: Hawkins' reported a net income of $5,325,691 (which includes the effects of the transactions listed above.
REQUIREMENT: Prepare Jounral entries for the above transactions.
01/01/2017 | Cash A/c | 12400000 | (400000*31) | ||
to Common Stock | 400000 | (400000*1) | |||
to Addition paid in capital | 12000000 | (400000*30) | |||
01/01/2017 | Underwriting Expenses | 372000 | |||
to Cash | 372000 | ||||
01/01/2017 | Cash A/c | 20000000 | (500000*40) | ||
to 5% Preference shares | 5000000 | (500000*10) | |||
to Additional Paid in capital (Prefernce capital) | 15000000 | (500000*30) | |||
01/03/2017 | Treasury Stock | 7000000 | (200000*35) | ||
to Cash | 7000000 | (200000*35) | |||
30/06/2017 | Dividend A/c | 450000 | |||
to Dividend Payable | 450000 | ||||
01/07/2017 | Cash A/c | 4620000 | (105000*44) | ||
to Addition in paid up capital (Treasury Stock) | 945000 | (105000*9) | |||
to Treasury Stock | 3675000 | (105000*35) | |||
01/09/2017 | |||||
31/12/2017 | Income Statement | 5325691 | |||
to Retained earning | 5325691 | ||||
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