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[Debit] Dividends [Credit] Cash / bank
Dividends are paid from corporate profits.
Dividends paid divided by the toal number of shares outstanding.
Dividends are paid to shareholders by three types. They can either be paid annually, or biannually, or on quarterly basis.
Stockholders
Dividends are usually paid to the investors of a company. These are paid on an annual or, more commonly, a quarterly basis.
Yes, the amount of x dividends paid will reduce retained earnings by x.
Paid up additions is a method of receiving your dividends from a mutual insurance company. Paid up additions is actually a very good method as it allows a policyholder to use their dividends to purchase paid up additional insurance in the policy thereby increasing coverage and increasing annual dividends because dividends are also paid on the additional insurance. You do not have to pay taxes on the dividends paid in this manner either.
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Quarterly
The stockholder.
Yes. companies pay out dividends to its share holders from the profit they make out of their business. The more the profit the company makes the greater would be the dividends paid out to the shareholders.