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Dr. Sharon Garrison explains that the term 'dividend' usually refers to a cash distribution of earnings; if it comes from other sources, it is called 'liquidating dividend'.

Correct answer: (d) distribution

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The dividend may be a signal to the public of the management's anticipations for future policy of the firm and prospects.

Correct answer: (d) prospects

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Companies that have a long-standing history of stable dividend payouts would be negatively affected by lowering or omitting dividend distributions.

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According to the proponents of the no-dividend policy, a company's alternatives to paying out excess cash as dividends are the following: undertaking more projects, repurchasing the company's own shares, acquiring profitable assets, and reinvesting in financial assets.

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Once the company decides on whether to pay dividends, they may establish a(n) somewhat permanent dividend policy, which may in turn impact on investors and perceptions of the company in the financial markets.

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Dividends are payments made to stockholders from a firm's earnings, whether those earnings were generated in the current period or in previous periods.

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Dividends may affect capital structure, because financing with earnings is cheaper than issuing new common equity.

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The Dividend Irrelevance Theory purports that a firm's dividend policy has no effect on either its worth or its cost of capital: investors value dividends and capital gains equally.

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The hypothesis for dividend policy irrelevance is based on the assumptions of 1) perfect capital markets; 2) rational behavior on the part of participants in the market; 3) certainty about the investment policy of the firm; and 4) managers that act as perfect agents.

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For dividend policy to matter, one or more of these assumptions cannot hold.

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