Question

Please answer the following question,

Vanstone Corp., a public company, adopted a stock option plan on November 30, 2017, that designated 70,000 common shares as available for the granting of options to officers of the corporation at an exercise price of $8 a share. The market value was $12 a share on November 30, 2017.

On January 2, 2018, options to purchase 28,000 shares were granted to President Don Pedro: 15,000 for services to be rendered in 2018, and 13,000 for services to be rendered in 2019. Also on that date, options to purchase 14,000 shares were granted to Vice-President Beatrice Leonato: 7,000 for services to be rendered in 2018, and 7,000 for services to be rendered in 2019. The shares' market value was $14 a share on January 2, 2018. The options were exercisable for a period of one year following the year in which the services were rendered. On January 2, 2018, the value of the options was estimated at $400,000.

In 2019, neither the president nor the vice-president exercised their options because the shares' market price was below the exercise price. The shares' market value was $7 a share on December 31, 2019, when the options for 2018 services lapsed.

On December 31, 2020, both the president and vice-president exercised their options for 13,000 and 7,000 shares, respectively, when the market price was $16 a share. The company's year-end is December 31.

Instructions

1) Prepare the necessary journal entries in 2017 when the stock option plan was adopted, in 2018 when the options were granted, in 2019 when the options lapsed, and in 2020 when the options were exercised.

Answer 1

Date	General Journal	Debit ($)	Credit ($)
30 November 2017	No Entry
There will not be any journal entry for the adoption of employee stock options
02 January 2018	No Entry
There will not be any journal entry for the grant of options on date of grant
31 December 2018	Compensation Expense A/c                           Dr	125,714
	To Paid in Capital - Stock Options A/c		125,714
Being Recognition of employee compensation expense. ($ 400,000/70,000 Options)*22,000 options
31 December 2019	Compensation Expense A/c                           Dr	114,286
	To Paid in Capital - Stock Options A/c		114,286
Being Recognition of employee compensation expense. ($ 400,000/70,000 Options)*20,000 options
31 December 2019	Paid in Capital - Stock Options A/c               Dr	125,714
	To Paid in capital from Expired stock options A/c		125,714
Being lapse of Employee stock options for the services rendered in the year 2018
31 December 2020	Cash A/c                                             (20,000*$8)               Dr	160,000
	Paid in Capital - Stock Options A/c                                     Dr	114,286
	To Common Stock A/c		274,286
Being Employee stock options Exercised
Question was silent regarding Par value of the share. Therefore, entire amount was credited to Common stock account. Alternatively, We can also make an assumption that the par value of the share is $ 5 and entry will be as follows:
31 December 2020	Cash A/c                                         (20,000*$8)                   Dr	160,000
	Paid in Capital - Stock Options A/c                                    Dr	114,286
	To Common Stock A/c            (20,000*$ 5)		100,000
	To Additional Paid In capital over par value A/c		174,286
Being Employee stock options Exercised