Question

A company's board of directors votes to declare a cash dividend of $.75 per share of common stock. The company has 15,000 shares authorized, 10,000 issued, and 9,500 shares outstanding. The total amount of the cash dividend is:

Answer 1

Answer:

The total amount of the cash dividend is $7,125

Explanation:

The Dividend is declared to pay all the outstanding shares in the market. Sometime the company has some treasury shares in the stocks which is deducted from the total issued shares to find the outstanding shares. In this case, the issued shares and the outstanding numbers of shares are different.

Treasury shares are those shares that are bought back by the company that issued the shares.

Use the following formula to calculate the cash dividend

Cash Dividend = Numbers of outstanding shares x Dividend rate

Where

Numbers of outstanding shares = 9,500 shares

Dividend rate = $0.75 per share

Placing values in the formula

Cash Dividend = 9,500 x $0.75 per share

Cash Dividend = $7,125