Dover’s management has decided to declare an additional $220,500 dividend. The date of declaration is December 30, 2021. The date of record will be January 15, 2022, and the date of payment will be January 30, 2022 As an additional signal to the market, Dover’s management repurchased 205,000 shares of Dover’s common stock on December 15, 2021, for $4.00 a share. Dover’s tax rate is 25%. 1. Make the appropriate journal entries, if any, to account for Dover’s extra dividend and stock repurchase (including any necessary changes to income tax expense). 2. What do you think Dover’s creditors’ (i.e. bank and bondholder) reaction will be to management’s decision to issue a second dividend and to repurchase shares? In other words, based on your changes to the financial statements and the change in the ratios, do you think the creditors will be happy with the decision to pay out so much cash to investors? Why or why not 3. At the beginning of 2020, Dover’s Board of Directors authorized stock options for the executive team. The team could buy shares from the company at a set price of $6.00/share, then sell them at the current market price to make a bonus. On December 10th, Dover’s stock price was only $4.40/share, making these stock options worthless. Based on this information, do you think that the management teams’ decision to authorize an additional dividend and repurchase shares on December 15th was ethical? Why or why not?
Reporting Cash Flows
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Balance Sheet
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Financial Statements
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Owner's Capital
Before we begin to understand what Owner’s capital is and what Equity financing is to an organization, it is important to understand some basic accounting terminologies. A double-entry bookkeeping system Normal account balances are those which are expected to have either a debit balance or a credit balance, depending on the nature of the account. An asset account will have a debit balance as normal balance because an asset is a debit account. Similarly, a liability account will have the normal balance as a credit balance because it is amount owed, representing a credit account. Equity is also said to have a credit balance as its normal balance. However, sometimes the normal balances may be reversed, often due to incorrect journal or posting entries or other accounting/ clerical errors.
Dover’s management has decided to declare an additional $220,500 dividend. The date of declaration is December 30, 2021. The date of record will be January 15, 2022, and the date of payment will be January 30, 2022 As an additional signal to the market, Dover’s management repurchased 205,000 shares of Dover’s common stock on December 15, 2021, for $4.00 a share. Dover’s tax rate is 25%.
1. Make the appropriate
2. What do you think Dover’s creditors’ (i.e. bank and bondholder) reaction will be to management’s decision to issue a second dividend and to repurchase shares? In other words, based on your changes to the financial statements and the change in the ratios, do you think the creditors will be happy with the decision to pay out so much cash to investors? Why or why not
3. At the beginning of 2020, Dover’s Board of Directors authorized stock options for the executive team. The team could buy shares from the company at a set price of $6.00/share, then sell them at the current market price to make a bonus. On December 10th, Dover’s stock price was only $4.40/share, making these stock options worthless. Based on this information, do you think that the management teams’ decision to authorize an additional dividend and repurchase shares on December 15th was ethical? Why or why not?
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