Who Determines How Much of Earnings Will Be Paid as Dividends

question 59

Multiple Choice

Who determines how much of earnings will be paid as dividends?

• A) management
• B) board of directors
• C) shareholders
• D) regulators

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Assignable Cause

An identifiable factor that causes a change or variation in a process or system, distinguishable from random variation.

Variation

The degree to which data points in a dataset differ from each other and from the mean, indicating the dispersion within the dataset.

Output

The result or product generated by a process or system.

Random Cause

An unpredictable influence that affects the outcome of a process or experiment.