Financial accounting
Financial accounting
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ISBN: 9780077506902
Author: David J Spieceland Wayne Thomas Don Herrmann
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill
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Chapter D, Problem 19RQ
To determine

Investment:

It refers to the process of using the currently held excess cash to earn profitable returns in future. The investments can be made in equity securities such as shares or debt securities such as bonds.

To identify: the effect of decrease in the interest rates on the value of an investment bonds that pays a fixed interest rate.

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Ocean Corp. has a single class of shares. As its year ended December 31, 2025, the company had 5,000,000 shares issued and outstanding. On the stock exchange, these shares were trading at around $7. In the company's accounts, these shares had a value of $50,000,000. The equity accounts also show $650,000 of contributed surplus from previous repurchases of shares.  On January 15, 2026, Ocean repurchased and cancelled 250,000 shares at a cost of $7 per share. Later in the year, on August 20, the company repurchased and cancelled a further 475,000 shares at a cost of $14 per share.    Required  Record the journal entries for the two share transactions in 2026.
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