My company expects profits to be close to $,000,000. The Board of directors has instructed me to increase Retained Earnings by approximately $2,000,000 withut issuing or retiring stock. What Divident will I pay shareholders this year?

Please always start a new thread for your post instead of tagging onto other peoples'. I've moved yours to its own thread.

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I know this is homework because if you had really been instructed to increase retained earnings by $2 million dollars, you wouldn't be on here asking. You also may want to provide the info you left out.