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Retained earnings and stockholders' equity are decreased by a per-share cash dividend that is paid on common and preferred shares of stock, and not on shares of repurchased or treasury stock.
Save. Retained earnings, a balance-sheet account, is a form of income that a company has earned over time. But unlike accounts in the income statement, which are temporary accounts subject to closure at the end of an accounting period, the account of retained earnings is a permanent account.s temporary accounts, revenues and expenses are closed into the income-summary account at the end of a year. Subsequently, income summary is closed into retained earnings, increasing or decreasing existing retained earnings depending on whether the income summary represents a profit or loss.