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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Published Financial Statements : Informational Approach‚ Indian Journal of Accounting - The Journal of Indian 1 Accounting Association‚ Vo. VI (June & December 1976) pp. 29-48 Depreciation Accounting - A probabilistic Approach‚ The Chartered Accountant - The Journal of Institute 2 of Chartered Accountants of India‚ Vol. XXVI (January 1978) pp 339-43 Accounting Education and Professional Accountant‚ The Indian Journal of Accounting‚Vol.VII (June & 3 December 1977) pp 79-84. Financial Statements and Inflation
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IJRESS Volume 1‚ Issue 1(October‚ 2011) (ISSN 2249-7382) A STUDY OF TRAINING IN INSURANCE AND THEIR IMPACT ON EMPLOYEES PRODUCTIVITY Dr. Shefali Verma* Rita Goyal** ABSTRACT The training and development function plays a further enhanced role and holds more importance‚ as it deals with knowledge of workers .Employees are entrusted different roles and responsibilities in the LIC. Training enables them to carry out these roles and responsibilities efficiently and also learn new things‚ which will prepare
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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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Using an appropriate range of relevant sources‚ analyse the ways in which the attitudes of managers towards their workforces may have changed since the early days of classical and scientific management. Throughout genrations business’s have always been required to change in the world whether this be changes in trends of consumers or internal changes such as technological progression. For the business to achieve an efficient and swift change it is important that employees and in particular managers
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15.3 Dividend Relevance Model 15.3.1 15.3.2 Walter Model Gordon’s Dividend Capitalization Model Dividend Decision 15.4 Dividend Irrelevance Theory: Miller and Modigliani Model 15.5 Stability of Dividends 15.6 Forms of Dividends 15.7 Stock Split 15.8 Summary Terminal Questions Answers to SAQs and TQs 15.1 Introduction Dividends are that portion of a firm’s net earnings paid to the shareholders. Preference shareholders are entitled to a fixed rate of dividend irrespective
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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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Dividend Policy at FPL Group Inc. Problem: On May 5‚ 1994 the utilities analyst of Merrill Lynch downgraded FPL Group Inc. due to an expectation of adjustment in dividend payments. The report also acknowledged the probability of a cut in the dividend. Kate Stark of First Equity Securities Corporation analyzes the situation and she has to predict what is going to happen. This investment alert was published dropped the stock price by 6% on the same day. 3 weeks ago Kate Stark has recommended a “hold”
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DEEMED DIVIDENDS can elect to have deemed dividend paid from capital dividend account by making 83(2) election resulting in no taxes may still elect if corporation has deemed dividend so as to transfer the Capital Dividend Account amount to the parent corporation if individuals receive deemed dividends: LRIP (lower rate income pool) from CCPC small business deduction plus investment income subject to integrations Gross up 25% $1‚000 x 1.25 = $1‚250 FDTC $167 [either 2/3 of gross up 1250
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By S.Murdhen 1 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUC TION .............................................................................................................. 3 2. B rief Objectives .................................................................................................................. 4 3.0 Brief Liter ature Rev iew ........................................................................................... 4 3.1 Cornerstones of dividend policy .............................
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