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no, they represent increases in stockholders' equity.
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What is the appropriate order for a company's chart of accounts?
assets, liabilities, stockholders' equity, revenues, expense
What causes stockholder equity to change?
Remember that in accounting, the Mother of All Equations is: Assets - Liabilities = Stockholders' Equity Anything that increases or decreases your assets or liabilities is going to cause your Stockholders' Equity to change as well.
Expanded accounting equation?
Assets =Liabilities +(Stockholders' Equity=Paid-in Capital + Revenues - Expenses - Dividends - Treasury Stock. )Assets =Liabilities +(Owner's Equity=Owner's Capital + Revenues - Expenses - Owner's Draws.)
What balances have debit or credit balances?
Assets, Expenses and Losses have native debit balances. Liabilities, Stockholders' equity, Revenues, and Gains have native credit balances.
What balances have debit or credit balance?
Assets, Expenses and Losses have native debit balances. Liabilities, Stockholders' equity, Revenues, and Gains have native credit balances.
How do cash dividends affect stockholders equity and how would a stock dividend affect stockholders equity?
They do not.
Dividends is what type of account?
Dividends are classified as stockholders' equity. They reduce stockholders' equity so they can also be called a contra equity account.
Net worth is equal to a stockholders equity plus what?
Net worth is equal to stockholders' equity minus liabilities.
What is The denominator in the calculation of the ratio of liabilities to stockholders' equity?
The denominator is the stockholders' (assuming there is more than one stockholder) equity
How do you compute a Return on common stockholders equity?
(Net Income - Preferred Stock Dividends) / Average common stockholders' equity
What items affect stockholders equity?
Stockholders Equity is increase by profits and the issuance of new stock. Stockholders Equity is reduced by losses, the payment of dividends and the purchase of Treasury Stock (the company's re-purchase of its own stock).
Does expenses increase stockholders' equity?
no
