Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...total expenses of conducting the store, including wages, interest, taxes, insurance, amounted to $48,657.96. After allowance has been made for depreciation of stock and fixtures and a reserve set aside to provide for all overdue or doubtful accounts, the sum of $15,303.81 remains available for distribution in dividends to members. Of the Society's total sales the dividend bearing purchases amount to about $189,000, or approximately 60 per cent. of the whole, so that the directors are able to recommend to the stockholders the payment of the usual 8 per cent. dividend for the year. This will...
...cents on every dollar's worth of goods sold and that the average expense involved in the sale of a dollar's worth of goods, including allowances for depreciation, etc., is about 15 cents. The business is therefore conducted on a narrow margin of net profit and a dividend of 8 per cent, would not be possible were it not for the large amount of sales to nonmembers who draw no dividends on their purchases, yet whose patronage contributes to the amount of net profit available for distribution to those purchasers who are members. Sales to non-members during...
...Dividend cheques for members will be available at the usual date of payment, about November...
...annual dividend of the Harvard Co-operative Society is to be declared about a week before the Yale game. The dividend will be approximately 8 per cent., the same per cent. as last year, when it was the largest in the history of the Society. The annual meeting of the directors will be held in the course of a few weeks...
...annual dividend of the Co-operative Society, amounting to 8 per cent., will be paid at the Co-operative office on this and succeeding mornings, between 9 and 12 o'clock. It will be the largest ever paid by the society, the profits being nearly $15,000, and the greatest individual amount $141. Last year's membership cards must be presented in order to obtain payment...