ACCT 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: No Entry, Retained Earnings, Issued Shares

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Repurchase of shares: and eps that result from the reduction in the number of outstanding shares. One common reason to repurchase shares is to increase the market price per share. When shares are cancelled, the appropriate share capital account is reduced by an. If the purchase price is less than the average issuance price, the difference is amount that reflects the average issuance price per share credited to contributed surplus. Ex: bce purchases 50,000 common shares in the open market at , and the average price of the previously issued common shares is , the entry is: Debit common shares at 1,700,000, credit cash at 1,500,000 and. Repurchases of shares at prices lower than the average issue price do not result in credit contributed surplus (se) at 200,000 profit for the issuing company because they are capital transactions, not operating transactions. Companies profit from buying and selling shares issued by other companies, but.

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