Chapter 16: Dilutive Securities and Earnings per Share

EPS with Contingent Issuance Agreement) Winsor Inc. recently purchased Holiday Corp., a large midwestern home painting corporation. One of the terms of the merger was that if Holiday’s income for 2017 was \(110,000 or more, 10,000 additional shares would be issued to Holiday’s stockholders in 2018. Holiday’s income for 2016 was \)120,000.

Instructions

(a) Would the contingent shares have to be considered in Winsor’s 2016 earnings per share computations?

(b) Assume the same facts, except that the 10,000 shares are contingent on Holiday’s achieving a net income of $130,000 in 2017. Would the contingent shares have to be considered in Winsor’s earnings per share computations for 2016?

E16-28 (L05) (EPS with Warrants) Howat Corporation earned \(360,000 during a period when it had an average of 100,000 shares of common stock outstanding. The common stock sold at an average market price of \)15 per share during the period. Also outstanding were 15,000 warrants that could be exercised to purchase one share of common stock for $10 for each warrantexercised.

Instructions

(a) Are the warrants dilutive?

(b) Compute basic earnings per share.

(c) Compute diluted earnings per share.

E16-29 (L06) (Stock-Appreciation Rights) On December 31, 2013, Beckford Company issues 150,000 stock-appreciation rights to its officers entitling them to receive cash for the difference between the market price of its stock and a pre-established price of \(10. The fair value of the SARs is estimated to be \)4 per SAR on December 31, 2014; \(1 on December 31, 2015; \)10 on December 31, 2016; and $9 on December 31, 2017. The service period is 4 years, and the exercise period is 7 years.

Instructions

(a) Prepare a schedule that shows the amount of compensation expense allocable to each year affected by the stockappreciation rights plan.

(b) Prepare the entry at December 31, 2017, to record compensation expense, if any, in 2017.

(c) Prepare the entry on December 31, 2017, assuming that all 150,000 SARs are exercised.

Petrenko Corporation has outstanding 2,000 \(1,000 bonds, each convertible into 50 shares of \)10 par value common stock. The bonds are converted on December 31, 2017, when the unamortized discount is \(30,000 and the market price of the stock is \)21 per share. Record the conversion using the book value approach.

(Conversion of Bonds) Aubrey Inc. issued \(4,000,000 of 10%, 10-year convertible bonds on June 1, 2017, at 98 plus accrued interest. The bonds were dated April 1, 2017, with interest payable April 1 and October 1. Bond discount is amortized semi-annually on a straight-line basis.On April 1, 2018, \)1,500,000 of these bonds were converted into 30,000 shares of $20 par value common stock. Accrued interest was paid in cash at the time of conversion.

(a) Prepare the entry to record the interest expense at October 1, 2017. Assume that accrued interest payable was credited when the bonds were issued. (Round to nearest dollar.)

(b) Prepare the entry(ies) to record the conversion on April 1, 2018. (Book value method is used.) Assume that the entry to record amortization of the bond discount and interest payment has been made

Question: Briefly describe some of the similarities and differences between GAAP and IFRS with respect to the accounting for dilutive securities, stock-based compensation, and earnings per share.

Which of the following statements is correct?

a) IFRS separates the proceeds of a convertible bond between debt and equity by determining the fair value of the debt component before the equity component.

b) Both IFRS and GAAP assume that when there is a choice of settlement of an option for cash or shares, share settlement is assumed.

c) IFRS separates the proceeds of a convertible bond between debt and equity, based on relative fair values.

d) Both GAAP and IFRS separate the proceeds of convertible bonds between debt and equity.

EXCEL (Entries for Conversion, Amortization, and Interest of Bonds) Volker Inc. issued \(2,500,000 of convertible 10-year bonds on July 1, 2017. The bonds provide for 12% interest payable semiannually on January 1 and July 1. The discount in connection with the issue was \)54,000, which is being amortized monthly on a straight-line basis. The bonds are convertible after one year into 8 shares of Volker Inc.’s \(100 par value common stock for each \)1,000 of bonds. On August 1, 2018, $250,000 of bonds were turned in for conversion into common stock. Interest has been accrued monthly and paid as due. At the time of conversion, any accrued interest on bonds being converted is paid in cash.

Instructions

Prepare the journal entries to record the conversion, amortization, and interest in connection with the bonds as of the following

dates. (Round to the nearest dollar.)

(a) August 1, 2018. (Assume the book value method is used.)

(b) August 31, 2018.

(c) December 31, 2018, including closing entries for end-of-year.

E16-30 (L06) (Stock-Appreciation Rights) Capulet Company establishes a stock-appreciation rights program that entitles its new president Ben Davis to receive cash for the difference between the market price of the stock and a pre-established price of \(30 (also market price) on December 31, 2013, on 30,000 SARs. The date of grant is December 31, 2013, and the required employment (service) period is 4 years. President Davis exercises all of the SARs in 2019. The fair value of the SARs is estimated to be \)6 per SAR on December 31, 2014; \(9 on December 31, 2015; \)15 on December 31, 2016; \(6 on December 31, 2017; and \)18 on December 31, 2018.

Instructions

(a) Prepare a 5-year (2014–2018) schedule of compensation expense pertaining to the 30,000 SARs granted president Davis.

(b) Prepare the journal entry for compensation expense in 2014, 2017, and 2018 relative to the 30,000 SARs.

Pechstein Corporation issued 2,000 shares of \(10 par value common stock upon conversion of 1,000 shares of \)50 par value preferred stock. The preferred stock was originally issued at \(60 per share. The common stock is trading at \)26 per share at the time of conversion. Record the conversion of the preferred stock