Questions: Assuming that Reader Direct generates net income of 3,500 and pays dividends of 2,100 in 2021, what would be the ending Retained Earnings balance at December 31, 2021?

Assuming that Reader Direct generates net income of 3,500 and pays dividends of 2,100 in 2021, what would be the ending Retained Earnings balance at December 31, 2021?
Transcript text: E1-4 (Algo) Completing.a Balance Sheet and Inferring Net Income [LO 1-2, LO 1-3] [The following information bpplies to the questions displayed below.] Ken Young and Kim Sherwood organized Reader Direct as a corporation; each contributed $\$ 40,000$ cash to start the business and received 4,000 shares of stock. The store completed its first year of operations on December 31, 2020. On that date, the following financial items for the year were determined: cash on hand and in the bank, $\$ 35,500$; amounts due from customers from sales of books, $\$ 27,000$; equipment, $\$ 39,000$; amounts owed to publishers for books purchased, $\$ 7,500$; one-year notes payable to a local bank for $\$ 3,000$. No dividends were declared or paid to the stockholders during the year. E1-4 (Algo) Part 4 4. Assuming that Reader Direct generates net income of $\$ 3,500$ and pays dividends of $\$ 2,100$ in 2021 , what would be the ending Retained Earnings balance at December 31, 2021?
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Solution Steps

Step 1: Identify the Initial Retained Earnings
  • Since the company completed its first year of operations on December 31, 2020, the initial retained earnings at the beginning of 2021 would be $0.
Step 2: Calculate the Net Income for 2021
  • The problem states that Reader Direct generates a net income of $3,500 in 2021.
Step 3: Subtract Dividends Paid in 2021
  • The problem also states that dividends of $2,100 were paid in 2021.

Final Answer

  • The ending Retained Earnings balance at December 31, 2021, is calculated as follows: \[ \text{Ending Retained Earnings} = \text{Initial Retained Earnings} + \text{Net Income} - \text{Dividends Paid} \] \[ \text{Ending Retained Earnings} = 0 + 3,500 - 2,100 = 1,400 \]

The ending Retained Earnings balance at December 31, 2021, is $1,400.

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