{"id":2182,"date":"2022-11-10T03:18:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=2182"},"modified":"2022-11-15T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:11:56","slug":"what-are-dividends-in-mikesbikes-advanced","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/what-are-dividends-in-mikesbikes-advanced\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Dividends in MikesBikes Advanced?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Dividend decision screen is used to issue dividends to shareholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dividend is a payment by a company to its shareholders once they are profitable to make a return on their investment. Dividends have a positive effect on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/article\/mikesbikes-shareholder-value\/\">Shareholder Value (SHV)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision entered is the amount paid per share that has been issued by your company. For example a 50c dividend paid within a company that has 1,800,000 shares will cost your company $900,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To pay a dividend, enter the amount (cents per share) that you want to pay. The Total Dividend ($) shown is the amount you will be paying in dividends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MikesBikes restricts the maximum size of the dividend payment that you are allowed to make based on your average earnings per share to stop you accidentally bankrupting your firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dividend decision screen is used to issue dividends to shareholders. A dividend is a payment by a company to its shareholders once they are profitable to make a return on their investment. Dividends have a positive effect on your Shareholder Value (SHV). The decision entered is the amount paid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[31,43],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-2182","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-mikesbikes-advanced-finance","ht_kb_category-mikesbikes-accounting-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/2182\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartsims.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}