1. A firm has $4,860,000 in its common stock account and $48,600,000 in its paid-in capital account. The firm issued 540,000 shares of common stock. What is the par value of the common stock?
2. Allen Lumber Company had earnings after taxes of $750,000 in the year 2015 with 300,000 shares outstanding on December 31, 2015. On January 1, 2016, the firm issued 50,000 new shares. The company took the proceeds from these new shares as well as other operating improvements and earned $937,500 earnings after taxes in 2016. Earnings per share for the year 2016 were.