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

Exercise 27

Alexander, Inc., declared and distributed a 10 percent stock dividend on its 700,000 shares of outstanding $5 par value common stock when the stock was selling for $12 per share. The outstanding shares had originally been sold at $8 per share. The balance in retained earnings before the declaration of the stock dividend, but after the addition of the current year's net income, was $995,000. Prepare the stockholders' section of Alexander's balance sheet to reflect these facts.