Stock Dividends and Their Impact on the Balance Sheet

Stock Dividends

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Stock dividends have the greatest impact on which section of the balance sheet?

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The effect of stock dividends is recorded by transferring part of the retained earnings to the contributed capital accounts. Because of the increase in contributed, it is often described as capitalizing retained earnings.