
Concept introduction:
An organization which is profitable can make distribution of the profits to the shareholders in the form of dividends. Such dividend can be cash or stock or other property. Cash dividends are those dividend distributions which are paid in cash to the outstanding shares of the stock holders. These types of dividends brought reduction in both asset and liabilities.
Requirement 1:
To determine:
We have to determine the amount of dividend to be paid to preferred and common stockholders in the year 2016 and 2017.
Requirement 2:
To determine:
We have to determine the journal entries for year 2016.

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