History of the Open Floor Plan. An open floor plan is a relatively new concept in residential home design. Homes up until the 1940s and 1950s employed designs where each function had its own separate room. The kitchen would be a separate room, living room a separate room, dining room a separate room, and so on.
A dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, it can re-invest it in the business (called retained earnings), and pay a fraction of this reinvestment as a dividend to shareholders.hareholders in companies that pay little or no cash dividends can reap the benefit of the company's profits when they sell their shareholding, or when a company is wound down and all assets liquidated and distributed amongst shareholders.
Shareholders can calculate the dividends on shares they own by multiplying the dividend-per-share by the number of shares in their portfolio. If an investor holds 500 shares of a stock of a corporation that issues a $0.40-per-share dividend, the stockholder will receive a payment of $200. Some companies will pay dividends every quarter, while others will only issue dividends periodically.