Chapter 11, Problem 11E

To determine

Concept Introduction:

Preferred stock dividends: Preferred stock carries preferential rights for dividends that the preferred stockholders are paid their dividends before any dividends are paid to common stockholder’s when the dividends are declared. Cumulative preferred stock gives its owners a right to be paid the current and all prior periods’ unpaid dividends.

The computation of dividends paid each year to teach two classes of stockholders.