Question

The shareholders’ equity of ILP Industries includes the items shown below. The board of directors of ILP declared cash dividends of $6 million, $16 million, and $190 million in its first three years of operation—2021, 2022, and 2023, respectively.

	($ in millions)
Common stock	$	140
Paid-in capital—excess of par, common		960
Preferred stock, 5%		280
Paid-in capital—excess of par, preferred		680

Required:
Determine the amount of dividends to be paid to preferred and common shareholders in each of the three years, assuming that the preferred stock is cumulative and nonparticipating. (Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)

Answer 1