Reflection Summary Assignment

ACC 291

Learning Team Reflection Summary

Calculating stock, dividends, and stock splits

Stock is buying into ownership of a company. It is buying into their assets as well as their earnings. To calculate stock one must understand how to calculate the earnings per share. To calculate the earnings per share take the net earnings and divide by the outstanding shares.

Dividends are cash distributions that companies pay out regularly to shareholders from earnings. Profitable companies pay dividends. To calculate dividends for dollar amount take the number of owned shares and multiply by the dividend per share.

Stock split is increasing the number of outstanding shares that is owned by dividing each share. Each stockholder receives an additional share, but the...