I found some dividend warrants…but the date has passed!
Have you ever gone through your old clothes sorting them out to give them away only to find a tidy sum of money forgotten in the pockets? Or maybe not in the clothes, but in an old notebook you used to read. How did you feel? You may have jumped up like the woman in the Gospel that found the drachma she was looking for. Sometimes finding an unclaimed dividend warrant can be like that too. You suddenly realise that you are even richer than you thought. Many people today are like that. They struggle without knowing how rich they actually are. Dividend warrants are like cheques. In fact, they are cheques. You know that there are two types of cheques. Since you started doing business you would have seen both of them – the open cheque and the crossed cheque . The open cheque can be paid in cash but not so the closed cheque. The closed or crossed cheque can only be paid into a bank account usually a current account. Usually there can be a few exceptions to this rul...