What Does A Company Do With Earnings?

By Mario V. Farina

A company is in business to make money. If it reports a profit at the end of a year of business, it may need to decide what to do with the profit it made. It may retain all its earnings for the good of the company or it may distribute a share of its earnings in the form of dividends. This book describes the process of how a company decides what to do with earnings..

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mario V. Farina
• Release date: Jun 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311588883

Mario V. Farina

Mario V Farina has worked all his life, from age 18 to 90. He worked for the American Locomotive Company, served in the U. S. Army during WWII, was employed at General Electric. He taught computers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After leaving his position with RPI, he became employed with the State Labor Department of New York. He’s a car buff, a pun creator, and a computer enthusiast. He wrote textbooks for the programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN and wrote a book of puns and short stories called, “A Little Light Reading,” as well as over 20 other books. Several of his books were translated into other languages. This is his first foray into the world of digital publishing, with the help of his computer tutor ([e-mail]).

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