[Janelle101]

help me with the formula to calculate these problems:confused:
A corporation purchase 10,000 shares of its own $20 par common stock for $35 per share, recording it at cost. What will be the effect on total stockholders equity?

A corporation has 50,000 shares of $100 par value stock outstanding. If the corporation issued a 4-to-1 stock split, the number os shares outstanding after the split will be?

[morgaine300]

Do you know the entry for the first one? If so, what in there is stockholder's equity and how would that affect it?'

As for a stock split, think of it like a pie. Each share is a pie and it's worth $100. If you do a split, you'll split up the pie into smaller pieces, but they'll be less per piece. So if I split a pie 4 ways, I have 4 times as many pieces, and they are only now worth $25 each. If you split each share of stock into 4 pieces, how many total shares would you end up with?