Dividend Policy Dividend policy Executive summary Once a company makes a profit‚ they must decide on what to do with those profits. They could continue to retain the profits within the company‚ or they could pay out the profits to the owners of the firm in the form of dividends. Once the company decides on whether to pay dividends‚ they may establish a somewhat permanent dividend policy‚ which may in turn affect investors and perceptions of the company in the financial
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University of Sydney 1 Dividend Policy 2 This Lecture PART I – Dividend Fundamentals • • • • What is Dividend Policy? Institutional Features of Dividends Types of Dividend Policies Trends in Dividend Policies PART 2 – Is There An Optimal Dividend Policy? • Dividend Policy is Irrelevant • Dividend Policy is Relevant PART 3 – Alternatives to Dividends • Share Buy-Backs • Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRPs) 3 What is Dividend Policy? Definition • Dividend policy refers to the decision
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Stock dividend * Definition: * A corporate distribution to shareholders declared out of profits‚ at the discretion of the directors of the corporation‚ which is paid in the form of shares of stock‚ as opposed to money‚ and increases the number of shares. * A dividend paid as additional shares of stock rather than as cash. If dividends paid are in the form of cash‚ those dividends are taxable. When a company issues a stock dividend‚ rather than cash‚ there usually are not tax consequences
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How accurate is the statement that “The dividend policy of a firm is irrelevant”. By Mr. George Ekegey Ekeha (MBA – Finance‚ MBA & BCom) (Lecturer in Corporate Finance & International Finance @ Regent University College of Science & Technology) Email: ekegey24ge@yahoo.co.uk March 2009 THIS PAPER IS PREPARED IN RESPONSE TO A RELEVANT QUESTION TO HELP STUDENTS TAKING CORPORATE FINANCE COURSE. No Part of This Thesis Is To Be Used For Any Purposes‚ Other Than Academic REFERENCE
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Introduction A dividend is termed as a portion of a firm’s earnings that is returned to its shareholders. Dividends offer a further motif for investors to hold or even increase their investments. A lot of companies‚ mature or young‚ large or small‚ pay stable dividend. It is true that high dividend yield is important for current investors because it indicates‚ to some degree‚ a firm’s financial well being‚ but paying 100% of its earnings as dividend is not financially wise. Instead of paying dividends‚ fluid
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DIVIDEND DECISION The dividend decision is one of the 3 basic decisions which a financial manager maybe required to take‚ the other two being the investment decisions and the financing decisions. In each period any earnings that remain after satisfying obligations to the creditors‚ the government and the preference sh.hol can either be retained or paid out as dividends or bifurcated between retained earnings and dividends. The retained earnings can be invested in assets which will help
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CHAPTER 13 DIVIDEND POLICY L E A R N I N G LG1 LG2 LG3 Understand cash dividend payment procedures and the role of dividend reinvestment plans. Describe the residual theory of dividends and the key arguments with regard to dividend irrelevance and relevance. Discuss the key factors involved in formulating a dividend policy. G O A L S LG4 Review and evaluate the three basic types of dividend policies. LG5 Evaluate stock dividends from accounting‚ shareholder
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Starnes-Brenner Machine Tool Company–To Bribe or Not to Bribe Several questions should be emphasized in the case; the question of ethics‚ the question of self-reference criterion and a more important question of what role should the marketer play; how much should they try to change the system and how much should they try to become a part of the system. A strong point should be made that in a country where bribery is part of the way of doing business‚ there is an identifiable system of how much
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Q1. Based on the data in case Exhibit I‚ what inferences can be drawn from the survey responses regarding the herbal shampoo category? As per Exhibit 1 the following inferences can be drawn from the survey regarding herbal shampoo category: * The respondents felt that herbal shampoos need to be used in large quantity for lather and that the protein content is important for making hair strong‚ shiny and soft. * Respondents chose their shampoo based on their hair type and texture. * They feel that
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Aloha products Aloha Products is a United States-based coffee-processor company that has been providing non-specialty and low-priced coffee for over a hundred years. It purchases the raw materials or what buyers and sellers refer to as “green coffee” from brokers and trade firms then processes the coffee and sells the final product to customers. Large companies such as Nestle and P&G directly import the unprocessed or green coffee beans from coffee plantations in tropical countries such as Brazil
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