Journal of Accountancy Volume 60 Issue 1 Article 4 7-1935 Capital Surplus R. R. Thompson Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jofa Part of the Accounting Commons Recommended Citation Thompson, R. R. (1935) "Capital Surplus," Journal of Accountancy: Vol. 60 : Iss. 1 , Article 4. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jofa/vol60/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archival Digital Accounting Collection at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Accountancy by an authorized editor of eGrove. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Capital Surplus By R. R. Thompson The Canadian companies act, 1934, makes several references to capital surplus, but nowhere does it attempt to define it. The result has been, on the part of many, much studying of the author ities, who, unfortunately, are almost as bad, and only make occa sional attempts to define capital surplus, while they refer to it many times. Generally they content themselves with saying in different places that such and such a thing is or is not to be re garded as capital surplus. It is the purpose of this article to examine the definitions that we have, to consider the various things which are regarded as capital surplus, and to attempt to draw therefrom a definition wide enough to embrace the best ideas and yet strict enough to keep us on sound ground, and so to avoid the wideness of the marsh. Let us first clearly understand what we are and are not dis cussing.