ACC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Issued Shares, Cash Flow, Financial Statement
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Limited numbers of shares: authorized shares: max number of shares a corp. can issue. Issued shares: numbers of shares sold and distributed: outstanding shares: numbers of shares issued numbers of treasury stock. Stocks repurchased back by corp. is not o/s. Par value: price of legal fulfillment process for issuing stock. Stated value: states requiring to put par value to indicate. Receive dividends or nay other assets first before common stock. Dividend rate types: % of stock"s par value, per share amount. Terms and features of preferred stock: convertible: can change to common stock, redeemable: can sell back stock, callable: eliminable stock, cumulative: can request for dividends at any time, participating: share dividend back to corp. Must not be retired (not outstanding & no voting rights) Reasons of treasury stock purchase: to have stock available to distribute to employees for bonuses or benefit plan or employees, to maintain favorable market price for stock or to improve, to prevent unwanted takeover.