MBA Knowledge

Run the business from week to week, NOT month to month

* The management Team must think of the end of next week as "long term"
* The management Process needs to be heavily numbers/facts based and very tactical
* Leave strategic for another day

Percentage of a firm's earnings paid as dividends to stockholders (shareholders), it indicates how well the firm's earnings support dividend payments. Lower this percentage, more secure the dividend payment. Also called dividend payout ratio.