myishamuhammad
Feb 18, 2008, 11:45 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, 02:23 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, 02:14 PM
You retained earning increases 80% of the money that you made. 20% was dividends.