Top 8 Dividend Champions With Conservative Accounting Practices

Income-oriented investors might find the following list interesting. Here is a list of “dividend champions,” identified by the DrIP Investing Resource Center as companies that have increased dividends for more than 25 consecutive years. Among the entire list of dividend champions, we found only those that have conservative accounting practices, according to the ratings developed by forensic accounting firm Audit Integrity.Audit Integrity reports the Accounting and Governance Risk (AGR) rating – it is a forensic measure of the transparency and reliability of a corporation’s financial reporting and governance practices. The closer the score is to 100, the more conservative the company's accounting practices, according to Audit Integrity.Considering that these companies have a good track record of raising dividends, do you think they can continue to deliver? Full details below.AGR ratings sourced from Audit Integrity, short float and performance data sourced from Finviz.The list has been sorted... Read more