Distribution of earnings to a company's shareholders paid from current or retained profit.

向公司的股东分发收益，从当期利润或留存利润中支付。

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Normally viewed as a distribution of profits, it therefore cannot exceed the amount of retained earnings.

股利通常被认为是对利润的分配，因此不能超过留存收益的金额。

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Listed companies; Earnings management; Quarterly distribution characteristics; Earnings quality of interim financial report.

上市公司；盈余管理；季度分布特征；中报盈余质量。

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Since 2008 the government has begun to show the political will to implement the market-oriented reforms urged by the IMF, such as modernizing the banking system, removing subsidies, and resolving regional disputes over the distribution of earnings from the oil industry.

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The following chart depicts the cumulative distribution of hourly earnings for each of the education classifications reports by the Office for National Statistics.

FORBES: Declining Prospects for Higher Ed in the UK?

Yet you deny that globalisation is the cause of rising inequality further down the earnings distribution (or of the rise in unskilled unemployment in Europe).

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