Claudia is a student at Michiana College near Lake Michigan. She is young, intelligent, and driven to succeed in her studies. Claudia is not sure what she wants to do with her life but she knows she does NOT want to be an accountant! In fact, her closest friends and family members have gently urged her to enroll in anger management ever since she began studying accounting last term. Now Claudia is starting Principles of Accounting II and she is going to try really hard not to punch the wall or throw her book across the room anymore but she makes no promises... Now comes Chapter 14. “Why would a company issue bonds when it could just sell more stock to raise money?” Claudia muttered to herself, fuming. “It’s always better for a company to increase its equity than to increase its debt. Even I know that!” (2) What is “earnings per share” and how can it be affected by issuing bonds or stocks? How is it calculated?

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Claudia is a student at Michiana College near Lake Michigan. She is young, intelligent, and driven to succeed in her studies. Claudia is not sure what she wants to do with her life but she knows she does NOT want to be an accountant! In fact, her closest friends and family members have gently urged her to enroll in anger management ever since she began studying accounting last term.

Now Claudia is starting Principles of Accounting II and she is going to try really hard not to punch the wall or throw her book across the room anymore but she makes no promises... Now comes Chapter 14.

“Why would a company issue bonds when it could just sell more stock to raise money?” Claudia muttered to herself, fuming. “It’s always better for a company to increase its equity than to increase its debt. Even I know that!”

(2) What is “earnings per share” and how can it be affected by issuing bonds or stocks? How is it calculated?

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