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Presented below is information related to Boston-Lee Company:

a. The company is granted a charter that authorizes issuance of 15,000 shares of $100 par value preferred stock and $40,000 shares of no-par common stock.

b. 8,000 shares of common stock are issued to the founders of the corporation for land valued by the board of directors at $350,000. The board establishes a stated value of $5 a share for the common stock.

c. 5,000 shares of preferred stock are sold for cash at $115 per share.

d. The company issues 100 shares of common stock to its attorneys for cost asociated with starting the company. At that time, the common stock was selling at $65 per share.

Prepare the general journal entries necessry to record these tranactions.

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The solution explains the journal entries relating to the given equity transactions

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a. The company is granted a charter that authorizes issuance of 15,000 shares of $100 par value preferred stock and $40,000 shares of no-par common stock.

This does not require any entry. This is a memo information and no transaction has taken place to be recorded.

b. 8,000 shares of common stock are issued to the founders of the corporation for land valued by the board of directors at $350,000. ...

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