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Exercise 19-8 (Algo) Stock options exercise; expirations [LO19-2]
Walters Audio Visual Inc. offers an incentive stock option plan
to its regional managers. On January 1, 2021, options were granted
for 64 million $1 par common shares. The exercise price is the
market price on the grant date—$6 per share. Options cannot be
exercised prior to January 1, 2023, and expire December 31, 2027.
The fair value of the 64 million options, estimated by an
appropriate option pricing model, is $1 per option.
Required:
1. Determine the total compensation cost
pertaining to the incentive stock option plan.
2. to 5. Prepare the appropriate journal entries
to record compensation expense on December 31, 2021 and 2022.
Prepare the appropriate journal entry to record the exercise of 75%
of the options on March 12, 2023, when the market price is $7 per
share and the entry on December 31, 2027, when the remaining
options that have vested expire without being exercised.
1.) | Total Compensation Cost | $ 64 | Millions | (64 x 1 ) |
$ Millions | |||||
2. to 5.) | Date | Account Titles | Debit | Credit | |
December 31,2021 | Compensation Expense | 32 | |||
Additional Paid in Capital-Stock Option | 32 | ||||
(64 / 2 ) | |||||
December 31,2022 | Compensation Expense | 32 | |||
Additional Paid in Capital-Stock Option | 32 | ||||
(64 / 2 ) | |||||
March 12,2023 | Cash ( 64 x 75% x 6 ) | 288 | |||
Additional Paid in Capital-Stock Option | 48 | ||||
( 64 x 75% ) | |||||
Common Shares ( 64 x 1 ) | 64 | ||||
Additional Paid in Capital-Common Shares | 272 | ||||
December 31,2027 | Additional Paid in Capital-Stock Option | 16 | |||
( 64 x 25% ) | |||||
Additional Paid in Capital - Expired Stock Option | 16 | ||||