No Par Stated Value Journal Entry
Prepare swarten s journal entry if a the stock has no stated value and b the stock has a stated value of 2 per share.
No par stated value journal entry. Swarten corporation issued 600 shares of no par common stock for 8 200. In the past companies issued shares with significant par values such as 10 00 per share leading to confusion between this arbitrarily assigned amount and the actual market value of the shares with which it has no link. No par stock is stock issued without a par value. For instance consider the dewitt corporation s issuance 10 000 shares of no par stock for 250 000.
A no par value stock is issued without the specification of a par value indicated in the company s articles of incorporation or on the stock certificate itself. In other words when the issued stock has a par value. There is a theoretical liability by a company to its shareholders if the market price of its stock falls below the par value for the difference between the market price of the stock and the. If no stated value had been assigned the entry would have been as follows.
A company is free to choose any amount as the par value for its share but companies mostly choose. Journal entry for issuing no par value stock. No par value stock as the name implies is a type of stock that does not have a par value attached to each of its share unlike par value stock no par value stock certificate does not have a per share value printed on it. A par value is a nominal or face value given to a share in the stock of a company authorized by its charter.
A corporation that issues no par stock without a stated value credits the entire amount received to the capital stock account. Par value is the per share legal capital of the company that is usually printed on the face of the stock certificate. It is also known as stated value and face value. No par value stock is shares that have been issued without a par value listed on the face of the stock certificate historically par value used to be the price at which a company initially sold its shares.