Do shareholders receive money?

Getting paid is important, but the way payments are made is equally as important. ... There are three ways that directors, employees and shareholders will normally receive payments from a company day to day; salary, dividends and expenses.

What shareholders are paid with?

A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, it is able to pay a proportion of the profit as a dividend to shareholders. Any amount not distributed is taken to be re-invested in the business (called retained earnings).