Question

The board of directors declared cash dividends totaling $585,000 during the current year. The comparative balance sheet indicates dividends payable of $167,625 at the beginning of the year and $146,250 at the end of the year. What was the amount of cash payments to stockholders during the year?

Answer 1

$606,375

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the amount of cash payments to stockholders is shown below:

= Beginning dividend payable + cash dividend declared - ending dividend payable

= $167,625 + $585,000 - $146,250

= $606,375

We simply added the dividend declared amount and deducted the ending dividend payable to the beginning dividend payable so that the accurate amount can come.