Question

York’s outstanding stock consists of 80,000 shares of noncumulative 7.5% preferred stock with a $5 par value and also 200,000 shares of common stock with a $1 par value. During its first four years of operation, the corporation declared and paid the following total cash dividends.
  

2016 total cash dividends	$	20,000	2018 total cash dividends	$	200,000
2017 total cash dividends		28,000	2019 total cash dividends		350,000

Exercise 11-9 Dividends on common and cumulative preferred stock LO C2

Determine the amount of dividends paid each year to each of the two classes of stockholders assuming that the preferred stock is cumulative. Also determine the total dividends paid to each class for the four years combined. (Round your "Dividend per Preferred Share" answers to 3 decimal places.)

Par Value per Preferred Share	Dividend Rate	Dividend per Preferred Share	Number of Preferred Shares	Preferred Dividend
Annual Preferred Dividend:
	Total Cash Dividend Paid	Paid to Preferred	Paid to Common	Dividends in Arrears at year-end
2016	$20,000
2017	28,000
2018	200,000
2019	350,000
Totals	$598,000

Answer 1

Solution

	Par Value per Preferred share	Dividend rate	Dividend per preffred share	Number of preffered shares	Preffered Dividend
Annual Prefrred Dividend:	5	7.50%	$               0.375	80000	$           30,000.00
	Total Cash dividend Paid	Paid to Preferred	Paid to common	Dividends in arear at year-end
2016	$         20,000.00	$       20,000.00	$ 0	$ 10,000
2017	$         28,000.00	$       28,000.00	$ 0	$ 12,000
2018	$       200,000.00	$       42,000.00	$ 158,000
2019	$       350,000.00	$       30,000.00	$ 320,000
Total	$       598,000.00	$     120,000.00	$     478,000.00	$           22,000.00