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What is Dividend Cover?
Dividend Cover is actually the inverse of the Dividend Payout Ratio. It is calculated by comparing the Earnings Per Share (EPS) and the actual dividend paid out per share.Formula:DC = EPS / Dividend Paid
What is difference between final and proposed dividend?
Proposed dividend refers to the amount expected to be paid to shareholders. Final dividend is the official dividend paid to shareholders at the end of a financial year.
What is a capital dividend?
A capital dividend is a special dividend paid to shareholders of a corporation out of capital gains income produced from the sale of property.
Why would a company issue a stock dividend instead of a cash dividend?
From InvestorWords.com: 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 until the shares are sold. These additional shares of stock are usually distributed to shareholders at no cost. Please see the following site for additional information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend
What kind of stockholder is paid a dividend first?
A preferred stockholder is paid first.
Is dividends an asset on the balance sheet?
If dividend payable then liability if dividend receivable then it is asset if dividend paid then it is not part of balance sheet.
What is the journal entry for paid dividend s?
Debit dividend payableCredit cash /bank
Is dividend paid an expense in income statement?
No a dividend is not an expense. It is generally a reduction of retained earnings in the equity section of the balance sheet.
When a cash dividend is declared it would affect the balance sheet but not the statement of cash flows?
dividend will affect the cash flow when actual cash is paid and not at the time of declaration of dividend.
Does dividend go on an income statement?
Dividend payable become liability for business as soon as it declared to be paid and all future liabilities are part of balance sheet so dividend payable also shown under liability section of balance sheet and not part of income statement.
How is dividend tax payable shown in balance sheet?
Dividend Taxes is not a company expense but a company's liabilities for the deduction of taxes once Dividends is declared to the members of the company. It must be distinct and cleared from the normal activities of the company's expenses. In this respect, it could be classified as a sub-category of the Dividends Payable. Upon the payment of dividends, the appropriate rate of taxes must be paid on behalf of the Dividend Recipient to the Tax Authority. This would then be a debit entry to Dividend Taxes and a credit entry to the Cash or Bank Account to complete the transaction. The object is to withhold taxes on behalf of the dividend recipient and the company is to then ensure that the taxes are paid to the Tax Authority.
What is the journal entry for declared dividends?
No journal entry for stock option until that stock option is not utilized by the employees or any person with stock option available to them.
What is the difference between dividend proposed and dividend paid?
A company proposes a dividend to be paid to shareholders. The shareholders vote on this and the dividend that is actually paid may differ from that proposed.
Where does cash diviends paid go on balance sheet?
Cash dividend paid is not shown in balance sheet rather it is shown in cash book or cash outflow in cash flow statement under cash from financing activities.
What is the accounting double entry when a company declare or pay dividend to its holding overseas company with 10 percent local withholding tax rate?
Let's say the dividend payable is $110. When the dividend is declared (eg the decision is made to pay a dividend but the dividend and tax won't be paid until, say, the first day of next month) then the entry is: Debit "Dividends Expense" (Expense Account) $110 Credit "Dividend Payable Parent Company" (Liability Account) $100 Credit "Dividend Tax Withheld" (Liability Account) $ 10 When the dividend and Tax is actually paid (eg it is now the first day of next month) the entry is: Debit "Dividend Payable Parent Company" (Liability Account) $100 Debit "Dividend Tax Withheld" (Liability Account) $ 10 Credit "Bank Account" (Asset Account) $110
Difference between interim dividend and final dividend?
An interim dividend is declared and paid by the directors subject to the members approval (at the AGM after the accounts have been laid before the members or members written resolution). A final dividend is a dividend approved by the members either in general meeting or by writen resolution. I think these used to be shown as proposed dividends before the latest FRS on events after the balance sheet date or final dividend paid if approved by the members in the year. I believe an interim dividend should be paid in cash but that a final dividend as it is approved by the members could be credited to a directors loan account at the date of approval rather than paid in cash
What is the journal entry in the declaration of dividends?
The journal entries for different time periods are recorded as the following: 1 - When the dividend is declared: [Debit] Retained Earnings XXXX [Credit]Dividend Payable XXXX 2 - When the dividend is paid: [Debit] Dividend Payable XXXX [Credit] Cash/bank XXXX
