Answer to Question #6759 in Economics of Enterprise for LaMarcus Streeter

Question #6759
4. 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.
e. Investors who receive stock dividends must pay taxes on the value of the new shares in the year the stock dividends are received.
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Expert's answer
2012-02-21T11:57:52-0500
Statement A is CORRECT. A residual dividend policy leads to an unstable dividend
payment. A firm with a large number of investment opportunities and a small
amount of cash would have a low dividend payout.

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