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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Advantages of a Corporation

By Mara Hernandez-Capili

A corporation is a company where a group of people are perceived to be part-owners. There are basically two types of corporations: one that is privately owned and another, a publicly held corporation. A privately held corporation is one where the shareholders know each other. They are usually related to each other, some corporations have the whole family as the shareholders. An example of a privately listed company is Cargill Corporation. A publicly listed corporation is one where the shareholders virtually do not know each other.

One advantage of a corporation is the limited liability exercised to its owners. When the company was engaged in a lawsuit, the corporation is liable for its settlement fees and not the owners or major stockholders. In the case of sole proprietorship, the owner of the business is considered as the company itself thus he will be held liable should he lost in the lawsuit. He will be the one answerable and might just go to jail. In a corporation, the worst thing that can happen is for the company to close down.

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. - 23199

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