NIGERIA’S ’DEMOCRACY DIVIDENDS’ The nation’s literary clan went agog recently when it generously expended kilometers of expensive newsprint and megawatts of electronic media energy on what looked like a stock-taking ritual in commemoration of the second year of the Obasanjo regime. One by one‚ all the learned commentators who mounted the podium had something to say about the status of the regime’s half time scorecard. And depending on the analyst’s loyalty‚ it was possible to make a general classification
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Dividend Policy Vinod Kothari Corporations earn profits – they do not distribute all of it. Part of profit is ploughed back or held back as retained earnings. Part of the profit gets distributed to the shareholders. The part that is distributed is the dividend. The ratio of the actual distribution or dividend‚ and the total distributable profits‚ is called dividend payout ratio. How much of its profits should a corporation distribute? There are several considerations that apply in answering this
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THE SETTING OF DIVIDEND POLICY Dividend policy is likely to be set in the form of a goal rather than a rigid rule‚ even though a definite policy has the advantage of providing the investor‚ or potential investor‚ a clear basis for choice. Investors knowing the dividend policy of the alternative companies can choose the type of company that best fits their individual investment goals. This is desirable‚ because stockholders differ in the extent to which they prefer dividends rather than opportunities
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Summary of common fault and treatment: common belt convey is consist of conveying belt‚ roller‚ expansion cylinder‚ driving‚ braking‚ tensioning‚ modification‚ loading‚ unloading and cleaning device. One‚ the most common fault: belt conveyor is running deviation. Point to solve such fault is to keep installation size precision and routine maintenance. There is a variety of reasons for deviation‚ we should adopt different treatments to the different causes. First‚ adjust the carrying idlers if
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‘The sums available for payment of a dividend depends on a company being able to satisfy both a profit and loss (realised profits) test and a balance sheet test’- Explain the profit and loss test and the balance sheet test and consider the accuracy of the above statement in relation to both public and private companies. Paying a dividend is the usual way for a company to distribute a share of its profits among the shareholders. A dividend is an amount payable to a shareholder
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THE EXCHANGE OFFER6EVALUATION OF THE TRADE-OFF7REFERENCES10INTRODUCTIONA firm’s decisions about dividends are often mixed up with other financing and investment decisions. Some firms pay low dividends because management is optimistic about the firm’s future and wishes to retain earnings for expansion. Other firms might finance capital expenditures largely by borrowing. All the above are examples of dividend policies which can be defined more precisely as the trade-off between retaining earnings on the
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Lower investment rate due to the fact that FPL probably does not raise dividends as discussed - Suggestion of dividend cuts by FPL’s managers - FPL’s stock price has fallen by 19.6% while the S&P index has decreased by 22.1% - Rising interest rate and increasing competition in electric industry From investors’ perspective‚ the current payout ratio is appropriate to some extent: - FPL’s current payout ration = cash dividend/net income = 461693/248749 = 107.7%. According to the exhibit 9‚ FPL has
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RIM’s dividend policy is no dividend. The company has not paid any dividend since they completed its initial public offering during fiscal 1998. Motorola has never paid dividend. Apple has not paid dividend since 1996. Nokia and HTC paid dividend regularly maybe because they are not North American company. Basically high technology companies in their growth stage typically have not paid a dividend because the thinking is that they can re-invest their earnings to boost the growth of the company
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rights reserved. 1 Shareholder Wealth Effects of Dividend Policy Changes in an Emerging Stock Market: The Case of Cyprus* Nickolaos Travlos ALBA‚ Greece‚ and Cardiff Business School‚ U.K. Lenos Trigeorgis University of Cyprus‚ Cyprus‚ and University of Chicago‚ U.S.A. Nikos Vafeas University of Cyprus‚ Cyprus This article examines the stock market reaction to announcements of cash dividend increases and bonus issues (stock dividends) in the emerging stock market of Cyprus. Both events
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Pogge argues that the world poverty is morally required and that we fail to fulfill our negative duties relating the global poor. However‚ Pogge’s advisability on the solution of the global poverty is not good for moral problem but this view will be discussed some other time on a different paper. Poggie gives three main approaches to the global poverty to convince people to let them know that poverty is bad and that people must make actions to go against the poverty. The three approaches are 1)
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