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Discuss any four features of dividend.
State the features of Interim Dividend.
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Solution
- The Board of Directors has the power to declare Interim Dividend.
- Interim Dividend is only a payment on account of the whole dividend for the year.
- Company should provide depreciation for the entire year and not proportionately for a part of the year before declaring Interim Dividend.
- Interim dividend cannot be paid out of any reserves.
- Articles of Association of the company must authorize the Board of Directors to declare Interim Dividend.
- The Board Meeting has to pass a resolution for declaring the Interim Dividend.
- The amount to be given as Interim Dividend must be credited in a separate Bank account in a scheduled bank within 5 (five) days of its declaration.
- Interim Dividend should be paid within 30 days of its declaration.
- Unpaid / Unclaimed Interim Dividend should be transferred to ‘Unpaid Dividend Account within 7 days of the expiry of 30 days of declaration i.e. 37 days of its declaration.
- Any amount remaining unpaid/unclaimed in the ‘Unpaid Dividend A/c’ for 7 (seven) years should be transferred to IEPF.
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