562. Which of the following methods does a firm resort to avoid dividend payments?

Share splitting
Declaring bonus shares
Rights issue
New issue
✅ The correct answer is B.
Declaring bonus shares methods does a firm resort to avoid dividend payments. Bonus shares are shares distributed by a company to its current shareholders as fully paid shares free of charge. to capitalise a part of the company’s retained earnings.

564. Bonds that can be converted into shares of common stock are classified as

convertible bonds
stock bonds
shared bonds
common bonds
✅ The correct answer is A.
Bonds that can be converted into shares of common stock are classified as convertible bonds. A convertible bond is a fixed-income debt security that yields interest payments, but can be converted into a predetermined number of common stock or equity shares.

565. Cash flows occurring with more than one change in sign of cash flow are classified as

non-normal cash flow
normal cash flow
normal costs
non-normal costs
✅ The correct answer is A.
Cash flows occurring with more than one change in sign of cash flow are classified as non-normal cash flow. Non-normal cash flow stream (also called unconventional cash flow) is a pattern of cash flows in which the direction of cash flows changes more than once.

566. An actual rate of return is subtracted from expected growth rate then it is divided from dividend stockholders expects use for calculating

dividend growth model
actual growth model
constant growth model
variable growth model
✅ The correct answer is C.
An actual rate of return is subtracted from expected growth rate then it is divided from dividend stockholders expects use for calculating constant growth model. The Gordon Growth Model is used to determine the intrinsic value of a stock based on a future series of dividends that grow at a constant rate. It is a popular and straightforward variant of a dividend discount model (DDM).