(EPS with Contingent Issuance Agreement) Winsor Inc. recently purchased Holiday Corp., a large midwestern home painting corporation. One of the terms of the merger was that if Holiday’s income for 2017 was $110,000 or more, 10,000 additional shares would be issued to Holiday’s stockholders in 2018. Holiday’s income for 2016 was $120,000. Instructions(a) Would the contingent shares have to be considered in Winsor’s 2016 earnings per share computations?(b) Assume the same facts, except that the 10,000 shares are contingent on Holiday’s achieving a net income of $130,000 in 2017. Would the contingent shares have to be considered in Winsor’s earnings per share computations for 2016?
(EPS with Contingent Issuance Agreement) Winsor Inc. recently purchased Holiday Corp., a large midwestern home painting corporation. One of the terms of the merger was that if Holiday’s income for 2017 was $110,000 or more, 10,000 additional shares would be issued to Holiday’s stockholders in 2018. Holiday’s income for 2016 was $120,000.
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(a) Would the contingent shares have to be considered in Winsor’s 2016 earnings per share computations?
(b) Assume the same facts, except that the 10,000 shares are contingent on Holiday’s achieving a net income of $130,000 in 2017. Would the contingent shares have to be considered in Winsor’s earnings per share computations for 2016?
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