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AccountingIntermediate Accounting: Reporting And AnalysisProblems may be encountered in accounting for transactions involving the shareholders’ equity section of the balance sheet. Required: 1. Explain the significance of the four dates that are important in accounting for cash dividends to shareholders. State the journal entry, if any, needed at each date. 2. Assume retained earnings can be used for stock dividends distributable in shares. What is the effect of an ordinary 10% common stock dividend on retained earnings and total shareholders’ equity?
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Problems may be encountered in accounting for transactions involving the shareholders’ equity section of the balance sheet. Required: 1. Explain the significance of the four dates that are important in accounting for cash dividends to shareholders. State the journal entry, if any, needed at each date. 2. Assume retained earnings can be used for stock dividends distributable in shares. What is the effect of an ordinary 10% common stock dividend on retained earnings and total shareholders’ equity?

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Problems may be encountered in accounting for transactions involving the shareholders’ equity section of the balance sheet.

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  1. 1. Explain the significance of the four dates that are important in accounting for cash dividends to shareholders. State the journal entry, if any, needed at each date.
  2. 2. Assume retained earnings can be used for stock dividends distributable in shares. What is the effect of an ordinary 10% common stock dividend on retained earnings and total shareholders’ equity?

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