Reference no: EM133143515
Question - Upon arrival at Jelly Inc. you were directed towards the office of Mr. Kount, the Financial Accounting Manager. You thus immediately go to work on his problems.
The company had begun their calendar fiscal year of 2021 with an issued and outstanding share capital of 540,000 common shares. Mr. Kount provided you with additional information on the company's equity and debt transactions for the year.
On February 1, it had issued 600,000 shares; 58,000 shares on May 1 and 100,000 shares on September 1, respectively.
On March 1, it had acquired 100,000 shares from the market and had immediately cancelled them.
The company also had outstanding at the beginning of the year, 5%, $100convertible preferred with contributed capital of $3,000,000. Each preferred share could convert into 2 common shares at the request of the shareholder.
Jelly had not declared any dividends for 2020 or for 2021.
The company also reported $15 million face value convertible bonds. These were 4.5% bonds payable, issued on August 1, for $14,100,000 and yield 5.5%. Each $1,000 par value bond is convertible into 12 common shares of the company.
The tax rate is 30%.
After further inquiry, Mr. Kount told you about the two types of options which had been issued in prior years and were outstanding as at the beginning of 2021. Put options had been issued to employees which entitled holders to sell 108,000 of the company's common shares to the company for $70.00 each. The company had also issued call options to the management team which enabled them to buy 230,000 common shares at $60.00 each. Jelly shares traded at an annual average price of $50.00 each. All options remained outstanding at the end of the year.
The company reported pre-tax income of $3,050,000.
With your meeting having concluded, Mr. Kount handed you a list of questions to resolve and insisted that you support your responses with clear detailed computations. He did add that other questions arising from related transactions were to follow.
Required -
1. Determine the weighted average number of shares to determine the basic earnings per share for 2021.
2. Determine the basic earnings per share for 2021, assuming
(a) the preferred were cumulative.
(b) the preferred shares were not cumulative.