Given: 27,000 shares cumulative preferred stock ($5.25 dividend per share): 54,000 shares common stock. Dividends paid: 2016, $10,800; 2017, 0; and 2018, $440,000. How much will preferred and common stockholders receive each year? (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.) 2016 2017 2018 Preferred stockholders Common stockholders
Given: 27,000 shares cumulative preferred stock ($5.25 dividend per share): 54,000 shares common stock. Dividends paid: 2016, $10,800; 2017, 0; and 2018, $440,000. How much will preferred and common stockholders receive each year? (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.) 2016 2017 2018 Preferred stockholders Common stockholders
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Transcribed Image Text:**Dividends Calculation for Preferred and Common Stockholders**
**Given:**
- 27,000 shares cumulative preferred stock ($5.25 dividend per share)
- 54,000 shares common stock
- Dividends paid:
- 2016: $10,800
- 2017: $0
- 2018: $440,000
**Question:**
- How much will preferred and common stockholders receive each year? (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.)
**Table: Dividends Received by Preferred and Common Stockholders**
| | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---------------------|-----------|----------|-----------|
| **Preferred stockholders** | _________ | ________ | _________ |
| **Common stockholders** | _________ | ________ | _________ |
**Explanation:**
- **Preferred stockholders:** They are entitled to a cumulative dividend of $5.25 per share each year. If they do not receive their full dividends in one year, the unpaid dividends carry forward to the next year.
- **Common stockholders:** They only receive dividends after the preferred stockholders have been paid their due cumulative dividends for the current and any previous years.
**Steps to Calculate:**
1. Calculate the annual dividend due to preferred stockholders:
- Annual dividend per preferred share = $5.25
- Total preferred shares = 27,000
- Total annual preferred dividends = 27,000 x $5.25 = $141,750
2. Distribute the dividends paid among preferred and common stockholders for each year:
- **2016:**
- Total dividends paid: $10,800
- Since the total is less than the preferred dividend requirement of $141,750, all $10,800 goes to preferred stockholders.
- Shortfall of preferred dividends = $141,750 - $10,800 = $130,950 carried forward to 2017.
- **2017:**
- Total dividends paid: $0
- Preferred dividend shortfall: $130,950 + $141,750 (current year) = $272,700 carried forward to 2018.
- **2018:**
- Total dividends paid: $440,000
- Preferred dividend requirement = $272,
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