Financial & Managerial Accounting 17th Edition by Jan Williams ,Susan Haka,Mark Bettner,Joseph Carcello

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Preparing a Statement of Stockholders' Equity
A summary of the transactions affecting the stockholders' equity of Riverton Corporation during the current year follows:

Instructions
a. Prepare a statement of stockholders' equity for the year. Use these column headings and beginning balances. (Notice that all additional paid-in capital accounts are combined into a single column.)

b. What was the overall effect on total stockholders' equity of the 5 percent stock dividend of 11,500 shares? What was the overall effect on total stockholders' equity of the cash dividends declared? Do these two events have the same impact on stockholders' equity? Why or why not?