Stockholders' Equity: Classes of Capital Stock
Learning objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe the features of bonds and tell how bonds differ from shares of stock
- List the advantages and disadvantages of financing with long-term debt and prepare examples showing how to employ financial leverage.
- Prepare journal entries for bonds issued at face value.
- Explain how interest rates affect bond prices and what causes a bond to sell at a premium or a discount.
- Apply the concept of present value to compute the price of a bond.
- Prepare journal entries for bonds issued at a discount or a premium.
- Prepare journal entries for bond redemptions and bond conversions.
- Describe the ratings used for bonds.
- Analyze and use the financial results – times interest earned ratio.
- Explain future value and present value concepts and make required
calculations (Appendix).
Source: Textbook Equity, https://learn.saylor.org/pluginfile.php/41461/mod_resource/content/20/AccountingPrinciples2.pdf
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