Which of the Following Statements Is Correct

question 30

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is correct?

• A)If a firm follows the residual dividend policy, then a sudden increase in the number of profitable projects is likely to reduce the firm's dividend payout.
• B)The clientele effect can explain why so many firms change their dividend policies so often.
• C)One advantage of adopting the residual dividend policy is that this policy makes it easier for corporations to develop a specific and well-identified dividend clientele.
• D)New-stock dividend reinvestment plans are similar to stock dividends because they both increase the number of shares outstanding but don't change the firm's total amount of book equity.

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Definitions:

Populations

The entire pool from which a statistical sample is drawn and to which inferences are aimed in statistics.

Expected Value

The long-term average or mean of a random variable over many trials or occurrences.

Sampling Distribution

The arrangement of probability for a specific statistic, following the analysis of a randomly selected sample.

Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a given statistic based on a random sample, used to make inferences about the population from which the sample was drawn.