No because a shareholder is someone who owns or holds a share of stock and has the right to participate in the profits through dividends
stockholders
stockholders
Earnings are taxed first as corporate profits, then as personal income after dividends are paid.
The stockholder's share of a company's profits are called dividends.
DR Retained Profits (in BS) CR Cash/Bank (in BS)
Dividends are paid from corporate profits.
Stockholders
The dividends are shares of profits the company makes
Because dividend cover represents the amount of times by which dividends can be paid by profits. i.e. the company's ability to pay it's dividends. The higher the dividend cover the greater the ability of the company to pay dividends out of it's distributable profits. Dividends according to companies act legislation can only be paid out of distributable profits hence the relevance of dividend cover represents the companies ability to pay their dividends.
Profits paid to stockholders are called dividends.
dividends
dividends
dividends
Dividends
Dividends
dividends
profits paid out as dividends