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The company with the common equity accounts shown here has declared a 14 percent stock dividend...

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The company with the common equity accounts shown here has declared a 14 percent stock dividend at a time when the market value of its stock is $47 per share.

Common stock ($1 par value) $ 420,000

Capital surplus 1,550,000

Retained earnings 3,868,000

Total owners' equity $ 5,838,000

Required: Show the new equity account balances after the stock dividend distribution.

Stock Dividend:

Stock dividend means issuing shares of the company for free to the existing shareholders in proportion of their existing shareholding. It doesn't involve any inflow or outflow of cash. Basically, it is just capitalisation of retained earnings.

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Number of shares before stock dividend= Book Value of common stock/Par Value = $420,000/$1 = 420,000

Stock dividend = 14% of 420,000 = 58,800

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