Continue this process until a modified dividend is reached which equals the original prepared dividendor some previous modified dividend; so that, were the process continued, the same figures would recur.
From the prepared dividend cut off the last figure, multiply this by the current multiplier, and add the product to the truncated dividend.
She'll tell you how we sat up half the night after we got the first dividend talking about how we'd send the kid to college, and after we went to bed we couldn't sleep.
I know that the first large dividend was paid out of capital.
It follows from this that if the Banco del Nacion, instead of being an official institution, were an ordinary bank, it would have been able to pay its shareholders a dividend of 10 per cent.
This flourishing state of affairs allowed of the payment to the shareholders of a dividend of 9.
Then, within three months, I'll undertake to earn a bigger dividend for each of us than you, with all your rascality, could make in a year.
I'll wager there are enough ships left to pay a healthy dividend on your capital, Solomon.
I believe, and in this I suppose the Socialists would agree with me, that when a man gets his annual dividend he may use it, or keep it for future use.
But the world has no use for the able-bodied parasite who during his or her working period of life does not contribute to the social dividend by personal exertion sufficient to pay for the kind of life which has been led.
At the bottom of the statement, in the form of a note, the dividend available for ordinary creditors, exclusive of expense of realization and liquidation, is shown.
Declare a dividend of 10% and transfer balance of profits to surplus, making all journal entries to record these transactions.
Fortunately the old lawyer had consented without demur to let Beth have her half-year's dividend in advance, so that there was money for Arthur.
But now the money ran shorter and shorter; she had nothing much left to sell; and it was a question whether she could possibly hold out until her half-year's dividend was due.
Aunt Grace Mary slipped two sovereigns into her hand when they parted, but these Beth kept, she hardly knew why, as she had her half-year's dividend to look forward to.
He says he has not a shilling to bless himself with until our dividend day.
At our next annual meeting, I attended in my capacity as a shareholder, and had great pleasure in hearing Mr. Brough, in a magnificent speech, declare a dividend of six per cent.
It was the great object of these societies to pay the best dividendthey could.
It was the opinion of a majority at least of this Board that this sum must be chargeable upon the future industry of the Association, and that no dividend could be declared until it had been made up.
The dividend of each year ought, as we are convinced, to be made with reference solely to the difference between its gains on the one hand, and its expenditures and losses on the other.
These are of even more value to the Association than so much money, and a dividend may as justly be based upon them as upon cash in the treasury.
The price of railroad stock, for example, is not regulated, either by its original cost or by the present intrinsic worth of the property it represents, but by the dividend it pays and by the condition and durability of the railroad.
The holder now receives a dividend of eight hundred dollars per annum or (L160) in gold for his investment.
But it is for this preference, which rendered my uncle's dividend comparatively nothing, that I have been followed through my life with rancour and malevolence unparalleled.
I was afraid to do it; but I took care to pay his dividend the instant it was due.
I had agreed to pay my mother's dividend every quarter--and, as I told you, Mr Gilbert received the money for her.
But capitalists," he adds, "who see the small amount of dividend paid to their shareholders by the minor railways, can no longer be induced to embark their money in similar undertakings.
The slight expense necessary--considering that the two implements mentioned will last for years with a little care--will pay as handsome a dividend as any garden investment you can make.
It also agreed to pay to the company an annual subsidy of fourteen thousand pounds for the transmission of the government messages until the net profits of the company were equal to a dividend of six pounds per cent.
Thank you, sir," submissively remarked Timmins, who felt sure of declaring himself an equal cash dividend every week.
Here they made a dividend of all their prizes and gains, according to the orders and degree of every one, as has been mentioned before.
The whole dividendbeing finished, they set sail for Tortuga.
By degrees he disposed of the whole cargo, and when the division was made it came to about two hundred pounds a man, and, having reserved forty shares to himself, his dividend amounted to about eight thousand pounds sterling.
The general average of dividend during recent years has been a fraction over 5 per cent.
At Chagres the dividend was made, and there was a considerable amount of dissatisfaction, his own companions telling him to his face that he had reserved the best jewels for himself.
Meanwhile, I want all the dividend warrants, and a brief sketch of our next statement; for we meet on Saturday.
It is true that there would soon be a second line to Brighton; the present Brighton Company would possibly pay as good a dividendthen as they do now.
As regards the interest of the public, the rate of dividend paid by a great railway company is of very small importance.
For many years the South-Western Company paid double the dividend the Great Western did.
In a few other cases, where the dividend paid is less than 4- 1/2 per cent, it is possible that the utility of the line to the public is less than the loss of the shareholders in a non-paying investment.
He does not have to prove his claim, taking a dividend on it and then paying, in full, the debt which he owes to the estate.
The question arises, is the holder of a 7% preferred stock in a position to demand that the dividendbe paid the following year.
Meanwhile, he looks up in a financial paper the dividend record and discovers the statements to be false.
Hence, if a stockholder should sell or otherwise transfer his stock, after that date to another person, the latter, while becoming the owner of the stock, would not be entitled to the dividend when paid.
An action of fraud would lie, because the dividend record of a company is in the past, and it is not opinion, but fact.
A few claims are given priority over others and paid in full before any dividend to other creditors.
Well, you know that at three o'clock the day before we tabled a motion to pass that dividend and that an hour later, with a full board present, we decided to pay the regular four per cent semi-annual.
If the dividend had gone through at first I would have 'phoned in to change my trade to a buying order before Izzy could get down with the news.
