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We need to determine the common stock and retained earnings balance at december 31st, 2023.
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So we're going to start with the information given, which is balance december 31st, 2022.
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This is going to be common stock, and this is going to be retained earnings.
00:37
Okay.
00:38
So balance, we have two items here based on the chart provided, and that's going to be net income and dividends.
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Then we need the balance at december 31st, 2023.
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So let's start with the common stock.
01:04
As noted in the information provided, it says common stock at the end of 2022 is 140 ,000.
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And these transactions won't impact that.
01:18
And it says there were no other transactions because the balance at the end of 2023 was also 140 ,000.
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So we have our balance for common stock, which was given in the problem.
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The tricky part here is getting retained earnings for both years.
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So we need to get the retained earnings by subtracting dividends from net income.
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So we're going to say net income minus dividends.
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And we're going to do this for both years...