|
|||||
Advance
Financial Accounting
(FIN-611)
VU
LESSON
# 23
MORE ABOUT
COMPANY ACCOUNTS
Rights
Issues of Shares
Any
subsequent issue of shares
against consideration is rights
issue. A rights issue
of
shares
is the simples and most
economical way of raising finance. It is
an issue of share
in which
the existing shareholders
have an anticipatory right to subscribe
for the new
shares.
In a rights issue, a warrant is
sent to the existing
shareholders, which entails
them to
take up a specified number of shares at a
specified price. The price
of the
shares
so offered is higher than the
face value but below the
market price to make
the
offer
fascinating.
An
existing share holder who
does not wish to exercise any or all of
the rights is at
liberty
to sell them to third parties who can
purchase such shares at the
same offer
price.
Accounting
entries to record the rights
issue of share is exactly
the same as those we
have
already learned to pass when
share are issued at
premium.
Bank
a/c
Share
Capital a/c
Share
Premium a/c
Comparison
between Rights Issue and
Initial Public Offer
(IPO)
Rights
Issue
Initial
Public Offer
1. A
rights issue is made
to
1.
Initial Public Offer is made
to
existing
shareholders
the
public at large
2.
There is no chance of
over
2.
There is a chance of
over
subscription
subscription;
hence
the
floatation
cost is high.
3.
Price of the rights issue is
kept
3.
Initial public offer is
generally
lesser
than the market price
made
on face value
Solved
Problem:
Right
Co Ltd has 80,000 Rs. 10 ordinary
shares in issue. They were
originally issued at
a premium of
Rs. 4 per share. The
current market price of
these shares is Rs. 35
each.
Right
Co Ltd has announced a 1rights
share for every 4 shares held at
Rs. 30 per share.
Required:
1.
Prepare relevant ledger
accounts to record the above
transaction
2.
Prepare extracts of balance
sheet showing share capital
and share premium a/c
3.
Babar owned 3,200 shares in
Right Co Ltd before the
rights issue. How many
numbers
of shares will he own after the
rights issue? What will be his
share of
the
voting right in the Company before and
after the rights
issue?
109
Advance
Financial Accounting
(FIN-611)
VU
Solution:
Share
Capital a/c
Rupees
Rupees
Opening
balance b/f
800,000
Closing
balance c/f
1,000,000
Bank a/c (rights
issue)
200,000
Share
Premium a/c
Rupees
Rupees
Opening
balance b/f
320,000
Closing
balance c/f
720,000
Bank a/c (rights
issue)
400,000
Bank
a/c
Rupees
Rupees
Share
Capital a/c
200,000
Share
Premium a/c
400,000
Working:
Existing
shares
80,000
Opening
balance of share capital 80,000 x 10 =
800,000
Opening
balance of share premium
80,000 x 4 =
320,000
Rights
shares
80,000 x ¼ =
20,000
Face
value
20,000 x
10= 200,000
Premium
20,000 x
20= 400,000
Balance
Sheet (extracts)
After
Before
Share
Capital
1,000,000
800,000
320,000
Share
Premium
720,000
1,720,000
1,120,000
Before
the rights issue Babar owned
3,200 shares out of a total of
80,000 shares. This
gave
him 4% of the voting rights in the
company. The 1 for 4 rights
issue gives him
another
800 shares and increases his
share holding to 4,000. He now owns
40,000
shares
out of 100,000 shares, which is again
4%.
Bonus
Issue of Shares
Bonus
issue of shares is made when
the company has build up
substantial reserves.
Issue
of bonus share is made to
the existing shareholders without
receiving any
110
Advance
Financial Accounting
(FIN-611)
VU
consideration.
In bonus issue of share a
part of company's reserves
are reclassified as
share
capital. This is also known as
capitalization of reserves or scrip
issue.
There
are a number of reasons for issue of
bonus shares.
1.
Increasing the number of shares in
issue will make it easier to
divide the shares
between
a larger numbers of shareholders.
This is useful when a
company
wants
to bring in news
shareholder.
2.
Increasing the value of the
company's share capital will
strengthen the
balance
sheet.
This is useful if a company
has grown rapidly, and the
share capital is
out of
proportion to the net assets of
the entity.
3.
The market price of each
share will fall. This makes
the shares more
affordable,
and
encourages more people to buy
shares. This is the most
common reason for
publicly
quoted company to make a
bonus issue.
Solved
Problem:
Bonus
Co Ltd has 50,000 Ordinary Shares in
issue for Rs. 10 each. It
decides to issue
bonus
shares 2 for every 5 shares
held. Share premium will be utilized for
the issue.
Balance
sheet of Bonus Co Ltd immediately
before the bonus issue is as
follows:
Rupees
Ordinary
Share Capital
500,000
Share
Premium
380,000
Retained
profits
570,000
1,450,000
Share
Capital a/c
Rupees
Rupees
Opening
balance b/f
500,000
Closing
balance c/f
700,000
Share premium a/c
200,000
Share
Premium a/c
Rupees
Rupees
Share
Capital a/c
200,000
Opening balance b/f
380,000
Closing
balance c/f
180,000
Retained
profits a/c
Rupees
Rupees
Opening
balance b/v
570,000
Share
Premium a/c
570,000
111
Advance
Financial Accounting
(FIN-611)
VU
Balance
sheet of Bonus Co Ltd immediately
after the bonus issue is as
follows:
Rupees
Ordinary
Share Capital
700,000
Share
Premium
180,000
Retained
profits
570,000
1,450,000
112
Table of Contents:
|
|||||