Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding (WACSO)

Sep 24, 2013

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in Level I Financial Reporting and Analysis

One key to computing earnings per share (EPS) is computing the number of shares of common stock to use in the denominator; we call this number the weighted average common shares outstanding (WACSO). There are two ways to calculate WACSO; I’ll cover both. There are several transactions than can change the number of shares of […]

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