Preferred and Common Stock Dividends
Delafield Corporation has a single class of common stock and a single class of cumulative preferred stock. The cumulative preferred stock requires the corporation to pay
an annual dividend of $ to preferred stockholders. On January Delafield's preferred dividends were year in arrears. During the years
Delafield's board of directors determined they would be able to pay $$ and $ respectively.
This information has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file. Open the spreadsheet, perform the required analysis, and input your answer in the question below.
Open spreadsheet
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Show how these anticipated payments will be split between preferred and common stockholders. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank and if the
answer is zero, enter