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What is a capital dividend?
A capital dividend is a special dividend paid to shareholders of a corporation out of capital gains income produced from the sale of property.
What does the size of the dividend per share of stock depend on?
the corporation's profits
Does the 70 percent dividend exclusion include preferred stock?
70 percent dividend income exclusion on the tax returns of corporations. That is, if a corporation owns preferred stock, it can exclude 70 percent of dividend income and pay income taxes on only 30 percent of dividend income, both preferred and common stock.
Personal Finance Stocks Dividend Handout?
You Have 1,000 shares of $30 par value preferred stock and 700 shares of common stock. The preferred stock pays an 8.2% guaranteed rate of return. The common stock dividend is 85 cents per share. What is the total dividend of the preferred plus common Stock?
Do you use a debit or credit dividends declared by the corporation?
Dividend TransactionsA. Dividend DatesDeclaration DateThe date on which the board of directors officially approves the dividend. The dividend becomes a liability of the the corporation at this time.Date of RecordThis date is used to establish who will receive the dividend. In other words, whoever owns the stock on this date will received the dividend. Stock sells ex-dividend after this date.Date of PaymentThe date on which the dividend is disbursed to the date or record shareholders. Dividends are always based on the number of shares outstanding. Dividends are not paid on Treasury Stock. B. Cash Dividends With Only Common StockExample:On December 1, 2005 ABC Inc. declares a dividend of $2 pershare. The dividend is payable on December 21 tostockholders of record on December 10. There are 10,000shares of stock outstanding.12/1 Dr / Retained Earnings 20,000Cr/ Dividends Payable 20,000Review dividend terminology. The "declaration date" is the date the board approves the dividend payout. The "date of record" is the date which establishes the stockholders to receive the dividend; that is, if you sell the stock one day before the day of record, you will not receive the dividend. The "effective date" is the day the dividend is disbursed to shareholders.Walk through an example. XYZ Corporation has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding. On Nov. 10, the board of directors declared a $1 per share cash dividend, to be paid to stockholders of record on Nov. 30. The dividend was distributed on Dec. 10.Record the dividend journal entry on the day of record, which is Nov. 30. Make a debit to retained earnings for $10,000 ($1 x 10,000 shares) and a credit to dividends payable for $10,000. This is what the company issuing the dividend enters on the date of distribution.Use a contra account to hold funds until the distribution date. In some cases, the company will want to create a contra (side) account to hold the dividends until they are actually paid. If this is this the case, then make a debit to dividends declared and then close the balance to retained earnings on the effective (distribution) date.
What is a cash payment from a corporation's profit?
dividend.
What is a capital dividend?
A capital dividend is a special dividend paid to shareholders of a corporation out of capital gains income produced from the sale of property.
Who can declare a dividend for a corporation?
The board of directors only.
When does a corporation record a dividend related liability?
on a declaration date
What rights does a stockholder have?
A common stock gives the investor part ownership in the corporation, right to a percentage of the company's future profits and voting rights at the annual stockholders' meeting. With preferred stock the holder does not have voting rights in the corporation. The holder however, are guaranteed a certain amount of dividend each year.
When a corporation receives a dividend from another corporation how is it taxed?
Dividends are income to the receiving corporation. If it is a sub-chapter S corporation, it is income to the shareholders, as is any other income of the corporation.
What does the size of the dividend per share of stock depend on?
the corporation's profits
What is the effect of a stock dividend on a corporation's stockholders'equity accounts?
The stock Dividend is more or less profit sharing. When a dividend paying company is profitable they pass along those profits to the shareholders in the form of a dividend check.
What is dividend signaling theory?
This refers to the idea that the price of a dividend (a corporate payment made by a corporation to its shareholders) signals positive future performance of the company.
What are the economic and accounting effects of dividend transactions in a corporation?
I think it means any transaction.
What kind of account is dividends?
Dividend is temporary liability account as soon as dividend is declared by corporation which ultimately closes to net profit or retained earnings account.
Does dividend reduce profits?
When a corporation declares and pays a dividend, the dividend does not reduce the current accounting period's profit reported on the income statement. In other words, a dividend is not an expense.Dividends will reduce the amount of the corporation's retained earnings. Retained earnings are reported in the stockholders' equity section of the balance sheet.If a corporation has very profitable uses for its cash, its future profits might be less if it pays dividends instead of reinvesting the cash dividend amounts into profitable projects.
