In Order to Encourage Employee Ownership of the Company's $1

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Essay

In order to encourage employee ownership of the company's $1 par common shares, T Corp. permits any of its employees to buy shares directly from the company through payroll deduction. There are no brokerage fees and shares can be purchased at a 15% discount. During June, employees purchased 150,000 shares at a time when the market price of the shares on the New York Stock Exchange was $10 per share.
Required:
Prepare the appropriate journal entry to record the June purchases of shares under the employee share purchase plan.

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Definitions:

Percentiles

Values below which a certain percentage of data in a data set fall.

Quartiles

The 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, referred to as the first quartile, the second quartile (median), and third quartile, respectively. The quartiles can be used to divide a data set into four parts, with each part containing approximately 25% of the data.

Frequently Occurring

Refers to events or values that appear or happen often within a given dataset or timeframe.

Mode

A measure of location, defined as the value that occurs with greatest frequency.