Dividend Policy Decisions : Theoretical Views and Relevant Issues

This paper provides literature on dividend policy decisions by the corporate in the perspective of shareholder's wealth. Dividend payment is a signal of performance of firms. If dividend increases, share price will also increases, which leads to the creation of shareholder's wealth. Although, extant literature review have examined issues of dividend policy, still they produced inconclusive results on the dividend policy decisions. Thus a good model that combines dividends with share buybacks is a fairly good compromise due to its advantage of flexibility, tax treatment and intangible gains. Share repurchases leads to better tax treatment than dividend and are more flexible than regular dividends for the company