As audited accounts start to trickle in, companies will propose dividend payments to their shareholders as recommended by their respective boards of directors.

It is also important to track these announcements to know who is eligible to collect the dividend, when it will be approved, and when it will be paid. I have

Total dividends – This is the summation of a company’s interim dividend (often announced in a prior year) and the final dividend announced following the publishing of a full-year annual report (after being announced in the first quarter of the year).