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CP 11–3

14 August, 2015 - 17:32

Essential Financial Service Corp. was incorporated on January 1, 2016 to prepare business plans for small enterprizes seeking bank financing.

Required: Prepare journal entries to record the following transactions on January 2, 2016:

  1. Received an incorporation charter authorizing the issuance of an unlimited number of no par-value common shares and 10,000, 4% preferred shares.
  2. Issued in exchange for incorporation costs incurred by shareholders 10,000 common shares at $1.
  3. Issued for cash 1,000 preferred shares at $3 each.