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At the begining of March 2010, Bill Ritterath, Chief Financial Officer of Daktronics, Corporation., was meeting in the office with Jim Morgan, Boss, and Alered (Al) Kurtenbach, Chairman from the Board, about growing dividend obligations to investors. Daktronics was the earth's leading supplier of electronic scoreboards, large electronic display systems, and digital texting solutions to be used in sports, transportation and communications. The organization have been dealing with a hard period yesteryear 3 years using the recession within the national economy and also the sudden reversal within the company's operating and financial performance. Sales were forecasted by security experts to fall from the a lot of roughly $581 million in '09 for an believed worth of $424 million for fiscal year 2010 ending in May [1]. Stock cost had also fallen from the a lot of $38.66 per share on December 1, 2006 to $7.72 per share on March 3, 2010. However with the economy showing some indications of recuperating in the recession, Dr. Kurtenbach think it is time for you to review Daktronics' current dividend policy: "Money can buy to come back extra cash to investors given our confidence that the organization is popping around and clients are enhancing." Cash balances were growing quickly and also the outlook for future cash flows was positive. In deciding, Dr. Kurtenbach wanted so that it is according to an exam from the company's current cash position and future income forecasts: "I'm not going this dividend to reward shortTerm holders at the fee for our lengthy-term investors" Dr. Kurtenbach requested Mr. Ritterath to create a recommendation in the next Board meeting (in four days) on the new dividend distribution, including both amount and type of the distribution.