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Sunday, April 19, 2009

The Importance of a Corporation

By Mara Hernandez-Capili

A corporation is a group of people with shares or stocks from a company that make them part-owners of that company. A company may either be a privately held corporation or a publicly held corporation. A privately held corporation is one where owners know each other, or are related to each other. An example of this is the Cargill Company which sells animal feeds and stocks. A publicly listed company is one where shares are sold to anyone who can afford it and who pass up on some tests/ requirements the company has in addition. Shareholders of publicly listed companies do not virtually know each other.

One advantage of a corporation is that the owners have limited liability. For example, when a company that is a corporation lost in court, the corporation is the one answerable or pays the settlements. The worst thing that can happen is for the company the close down. If the company is a sole proprietorship it is the owner who is answerable to any damages and thus he may lose everything he has or even go to jail in the process. Corporations limit the risk and protect its shareholders.

A corporation gives the company huge amounts of initial capital. This is so because more and more people would be buying shares in the hope of gaining annual dividends from the company. With this, it would then be easy for people to invest in the company because of its attractive business packages.

Corporations are known to exist eternally as long as there are shareholders that possess their stocks. This lies in the value that the company is strong and stable. Investors are also attracted to the companys excellent business operations made possible because of the corporations huge capitals. A corporation has a good operations systems and working environment because of the huge capital invested on equipments and manpower which makes it attractive for future investors.

There are a lot of privately-held companies nowadays who switch to making their company publicly-owned for the reasons of: expansion and improvement or sophistication of business models. - 23196

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