101) Issuing new shares or repurchases of shares can create a gain or loss on the income statement for a corporation.
102) Authorized shares and outstanding shares of stock will always be the same number.
103) In the majority of cases, an organization cancels the shares they repurchase.
104) The president of the corporation can declare dividends.
105) A divided in arrears is reported in the notes to the financial statements.
106)
Passing the dividend
occurs when corporations sometimes fail to pay a dividend to their common shareholders.
107) Stock dividends result in a reduction in the balance of the contributed capital account.
108) The entry to record the declaration of a cash dividend includes a credit to retained earnings.
109) The book value of a share is the amount of shareholders' equity on the company's books for each share.
110) Shareholders are typically more concerned about the
market value
of the company's shares than about the
redemption value
of the shares.