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Unit 10: Underwriting of Shares

Answers: Self Assessment Notes

1. 5% 2. Firm underwriting
3. 1.5% 4. Underwriting Account
5. Debit 6. True

7. False 8. True
9. False 10. True
11. True 12. False
13. (a) 14. (b)
15. (c) 16. (d)

17. (d)

10.14 Further Readings

Books Magazines and Journals
Arkebauer, James, Going Public: Everything You Need to Know to Take Your Company
Public or Invest in an IPO or DPO. Chicago: Dearborn Trade, 1998.
Barker, William W, SEC Registration of Public Offerings under the Securities Act of
1933. Chicago: American Bar Association, 1997.

Brown, Meredith, ed. Mechanics of Global Equity Offerings: Structuring the Offering
and Negotiating the Underwriting Agreement. Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Law and
Taxation Publishers, 1995.
Goldblatt, Jennifer, “Market Ho-Hum about New Revenue Limit on Securities
Underwriting.”American Banker, 26 December 1996, 20.

Johnson, Hazel J, The Banker’s Guide to Investment Banking: Securities and
Underwriting Activities in Commercial Banking. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional
Book Group, 1996.
Lipman, Frederick D, Going Public: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully
Turn a Private Enterprise into a Publicly Traded Company. Upland, PA: DIANE
Publishing, 1998.
Shillinglaw, Gordon, Accounting: A Management Approach. 9th ed. New York:
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1992.

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