retained earnings

myishamuhammad · #1 Feb 18, 2008, 09:45 AM

If my company made $820 million last year and pad ot 20 percent of earnings in dividends. my questions is by how much did my company retained earnings increase?

morgaine300 · Feb 18, 2008, 12:23 PM

Dividends are paid out of retained earnings, therefore they would not increase at all. They would decrease. By the amount of the dividends. So what is 20% of earnings?

MaggieMouse · Feb 20, 2008, 12:14 PM

You retained earning increases 80% of the money that you made. 20% was dividends.



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