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Required:
Compute basic earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2018.
205) On December 31, 2017, Witherspoon Services had 800,000 shares of common stock and
200,000 shares of 5.5%, noncumulative, nonconvertible $10 par preferred stock issued and
outstanding. On March 2, 2018, Witherspoon sold 120,000 common shares. In keeping with its
long-term share repurchase plan, 30,000 shares were retired on August 31. Witherspoon
distributed a 10% common stock dividend on June 3. Witherspoon’s net income for the year
ended December 31, 2016, was $600,000. The company paid cash dividends of $110,000 to
preferred shareholders on December 20, 2018. The income tax rate is 40%.
Required:
Compute Witherspoon’s earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2018.
206) At December 31, 2018, MedX Corporation had outstanding 200,000 shares of common
stock. Also outstanding were 120,000 shares of preferred stock convertible into 64,000 common
shares and $1,800,000 of 10% bonds convertible into 27,000 common shares. MedX’s net
income for the year ended December 31, 2018, is $1,040,000. The income tax rate is 40%.
MedX paid dividends of $2 per share on its preferred stock during 2018.
Required: