Sprint has signed a deal with the newly formed Mobile Leasing Solutions, LLC, which has been created by a group of equity investors including Sprintâs majority owner and parent company, Softbank Group. Roughly $1.1 billion cash infusion occurred through this sale and lease-back deal. Notably, Sprint anticipates sale of 2.5 million leased devices with a projected book value of $1.3 billion to Mobile Leasing Solutions. The lease-back deal is intended to reduce one of Sprintâs biggest expenses â the cost of buying millions of new devices.
SAN DIEGO - April 8, 2010 - Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) today announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per common share, payable on June 25, 2010 to stockholders of record at the close of business on May 28, 2010.
To illustrate how these three dates relate to an actual situation, assume the board of directors of the Allen Corporation declared a cash dividend on May 5, (date of declaration). The cash dividend declared is $1.25 per share to stockholders of record on July 1, (date of record), payable on July 10, (date of payment). Because financial transactions occur on both the date of declaration (a liability is incurred) and on the date of payment (cash is paid), journal entries record the transactions on both of these dates.