Please Define the Following Key Terms

question 25

Essay

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-John Locke

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Definitions:

Dividends

Payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members, usually derived from the company's earnings.

Financing Activities

These are transactions involving raising capital and repaying investors, including payments of dividends, issuing shares, and borrowing or repaying debt.

Common Stock

A form of corporate equity ownership, representing a claim on a portion of the company's profits and assets.

Additional Paid-in Capital

The amount of equity in a company that shareholders have contributed in addition to the nominal or par value of the shares.