Creating the stock dividends and cash dividends account


Response to the following problem:

Nav-Go Enterprises Inc. produces aeronautical navigation equipment. The stockholders equity accounts of Nav-Go Enterprises Inc., with balances on January 1, 2016, are as follows:

Common Stock, $5 stated value (900,000 shares authorized,

620,000 shares issued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,100,000

Paid-In Capital in Excess of Stated Value?Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,240,000

Retained Earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,875,000

Treasury Stock (48,000 shares, at cost) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288,000

The following selected transactions occurred during the year:

Jan. 15. Paid cash dividends of $0.06 per share on the common stock. The dividend had been properly recorded when declared on December 1 of the preceding fiscal year for $34,320.

Mar. 15. Sold all of the treasury stock for $6.75 per share.

Apr. 13. Issued 200,000 shares of common stock for $8 per share.

June 14. Declared a 3% stock dividend on common stock, to be capitalized at the market price of the stock, which is $7.50 per share.

July 16. Issued the certificates for the dividend declared on June 14.

Oct. 30. Purchased 50,000 shares of treasury stock for $6 per share.

Dec. 30. Declared a $0.08-per-share dividend on common stock.

31. Closed the credit balance of the income summary account, $775,000.

31. Closed the two dividends accounts to Retained Earnings.

Instructions

1. Enter the January 1 balances in T accounts for the stockholders equity accounts listed. Also prepare T accounts for the following: Paid-In Capital from Sale of Treasury Stock; Stock Dividends Distributable; Stock Dividends; Cash Dividends.

2. Journalize the entries to record the transactions, and post to the eight selected accounts.

3. Prepare a retained earnings statement for the year ended December 31, 2016.

4. Prepare the Stockholders Equity section of the December 31, 2016, balance sheet.

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