The current market values of the assets of both businesses are
as follows.
Description
Cash
Accounts receivable Merchandise inventory Equipment
Curtis’ Coffee
$ 7,500 100 450
2,500
$10,550
Cookie Creations
$12,000 500 1,130 1,000
$14,630
Continuing Cookie Chronicle 1
Curtis and Natalie meet with a lawyer and form their
corporation, called Cookie & Coffee Creations Inc., on November
1, 2018. The new corporation is authorized to issue 50,000 shares
of $1 par common stock and 10,000 shares of no par, $6 cumulative
preferred stock.
The assets held by each business will be transferred into the
corporation at current market value of $1 per share. Curtis will
receive 10,550 common shares, and Natalie will receive 14,630
common shares in the corporation.
Natalie and Curtis are very excited about this new business
venture. They come to you with the following questions.
1. Curtis’ dad and Natalie’s grandmother are interested in
investing $5,000 each in the new business venture. Curtis and
Natalie are considering issuing them preferred shares. What would
be the advantage of issuing them preferred stock instead of
common?
2. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of issuing
cumulative preferred?
3. “Our lawyer sent us a bill for $750. When we talked the
bill over with her, she said she would be willing to receive common
stock in our corporation instead of cash. We would be happy to
issue her stock, but we’re worried about accounting for this
transaction. Can we do this? If so, how do we determine how many
shares to give her?”
Instructions: Part 1
(a) Answer Natalie and Curtis’ questions.
(b) Prepare the journal entries required on November 1, 2018,
the date when Natalie and Curtis transfer the assets of their
respective businesses into Cookie & Coffee Creations Inc.
(c) Assume that Cookie & Coffee Creations Inc. issues
1,000 $6 cumulative preferred shares to Curtis’ Dad and the same
number to Natalie’s grandmother, in both cases for $5,000. Also
assume that Cookie & Coffee Creations Inc. issues 750 common
shares to its lawyer. Prepare the journal entries required for each
of these transactions that also occurred on November 1.
(d) Prepare the opening balance sheet for Cookie & Coffee
Creations Inc. as of November 1, 2018, including the journal
entries in (b) and (c) above.
Part 2
After establishing their company’s fiscal year-end to be
October 31, Natalie and Curtis began operating Cookie & Coffee
Creations Inc. on November 1, 2018. The company had the following
selected transactions during its first fiscal year of
operations.
Jan. 1 June. 30
Oct. 15 Oct. 31
Issued an additional 800 preferred shares to Natalie’s brother
for $4,000 cash.
Repurchased 750 shares issued to the lawyer, for $500 cash.
The lawyer had decided to retire and wanted to liquidate all of her
assets.
The company had a very successful first year of operations and
as a result declared dividends of $28,000, payable November 15,
2019. (Indicate the amounts payable to the preferred stockholders
and to the common stockholders.)
The company earned revenues of $472,500 and incurred expenses
of $416,500 (including the $750 legal expense from November 1 but
excluding income tax).
Record income tax expense, assuming the company has a 20%
income tax rate.
Instructions: Part 2
(a) Prepare the journal entries to record each of the above
transactions.
(b) Prepare all of the closing entries required on October 31,
2019.
(c)PreparetheretainedearningsstatementfortheyearendedOctober31,2019.
(d) Prepare the stockholders’ equity section of the balance
sheet as of October 31, 2019.