If a company's purpose is to maximize shareholder returns, then sacrificing profits to other concerns is a violation of its fiduciary responsibility.

The purpose of the takeover by Square Enix was to both increase Taito's profit margin exponentially as well as begin their company's expansion into new forms of gaming ( most notably, the arcade scene ), and various other entertainment venues.

The purpose of these " ratings triggers " is to ensure that the bank is able to lay claim to a weak company's assets before the company declares bankruptcy and a receiver is appointed to divide up the claims against the company.

Kondo was the first person hired by Nintendo for the purpose of creating compositions, and was to play an integral role in making the company's games and music recognizable worldwide.

Much of the Edison company's most creative work in the motion picture field from 1897 on involved the use of Kinetoscope-related patents in threatened or actual lawsuits for the purpose of financially pressuring or blocking commercial rivals.

Their purpose was to offer in-depth analysis of current affairs that would counter the perceived bias of the newspapers in addition to being the company's response to the popularity of Gollancz's Left Book Club.

The main purpose of a liquidation where the company is insolvent is to collect in the company's assets, determine the outstanding claims against the company, and satisfy those claims in the manner and order prescribed by law.

The company's stated purpose was to make opera accessible to a wide audience at a reasonable ticket price.

The swindler disseminates false or fraudulent information through the same methods, but this time with the purpose of causing dramatic price decreases in a specific company's stock.

Almost since the company's beginning, Infocom's games included " extras " ( called feelies ) in the packages, often serving a dual purpose of entertainment and copy protection.

The company's first major acquisition occurred in 1929, when the company issued stock for the purpose of raising 2. 5 million pounds to invest in Rhodesian copper mining companies, which was fully invested by the end of 1930.

After El Hazard, the last such game, the company's strategy with licensed anime series changed and it began issuing " Ultimate Fan Guides " which served the same purpose while avoiding the need to reprint the same BESM-based mechanics.

The company's purpose was to examine changes in the use of office furniture that had taken place during the 20th century, but not the furniture itself.

In contrast to fund valuation, the assets of a company will generally be valued for the purpose of a NAV calculation using the book value, the historical cost or the amortised cost of the company's assets, or an appropriate combination of the three.

During the 1970s, Premier invested heavily in a new, purpose built factory to meet demand for their products, but in 1983, the Della-Porta family resigned from the board and the company's name was changed to Premier Percussion in 1984 following a management buyout.

The purpose for selecting this name, was in order to recognize the company's link to the origins of the type of music the company performs to.

* Notes from the Companies Database indicating the company's purpose.

The company's pyramidal logo is a metaphor for the purpose and use of its software.

In 1964 the company's first purpose built ferry was delivered.

The company's logo ( from 1914 ) and its motto, " When it rains it pours " ( from 1911 ), were developed to illustrate the point that Morton Salt was free flowing even in rainy weather after the company began adding magnesium carbonate as an absorbing agent to its table salt in 1911 to ensure that it poured freely ; calcium silicate is now used instead for the same purpose.

According to the company's website, the purpose of the company is " to assist Christians who desire to move from thoughtless consumption of modern culture to a vantage point of thoughtful engagement.

The key to effective marketing is wrapped up in defining your company's marketing problems realistically.

The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Clinton Hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire.

According to Autodesk company information, the AutoCAD software is now used in a range of industries, employed by architects, project managers and engineers, amongst other professions, and as of 1994 there had been 750 training centers established across the world to educate users about the company's primary products.

* See Leveraged buyout, or highly leveraged transaction, or " bootstrap " transaction, when an investor acquires a controlling interest in a company's equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through leverage ( borrowing ).

Ballpoint pens are often provided free by businesses as a form of advertising — printed with a company's name ; a ballpoint pen is a relatively low cost advertisement that is highly effective ( customers will use, and therefore see, a pen daily ).

BeOS R5 is considered the last official version, but BeOS R5. 1 " Dano ", which was under development before Be's sale to Palm and included the BeOS Networking Environment ( BONE ) networking stack, was leaked to the public shortly after the company's demise.

It is also largely accepted in most jurisdictions that this principle can be overridden in the company's constitution.

According to the Corporate Library's study, the average size of publicly traded company's board is 9. 2 members, and most boards range from 3 to 31 members.

The company's effort to regain its footing is the subject of Tom Barbash's 2003 book On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9 / 11: A Story of Loss and Renewal.

If the company's stock is publicly traded, a Chapter 11 filing generally causes it to be delisted from its primary stock exchange if listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the NASDAQ.

This service involves installing a special telephone interface at the customer's premises that converts the analog signals from the customer's in-home wiring into a digital signal, which is then sent on the local loop ( replacing the analog last mile, or Plain old telephone service ( POTS )) to the company's switching center, where it is connected to the Public switched telephone network ( PSTN ).

* Creative director, a person usually responsible for creative development of Interactive Entertainment, and is generally regarded as the prime design authority across the company's product range.

The game is neither a sequel to Doom 3 nor a new beginning of the franchise and it will use the company's new id Tech 5 engine.

In such a situation, a company's lifespan was measured by its burn rate: that is, the rate at which a non-profitable company lacking a viable business model ran through its capital served as the metric.

The European Company Regulation is complemented by an Employee Involvement Directive which sets rules for participation by employees on the company's board of directors.

The Vitagraph company's The Man That Might Have Been ( William Humphrey, 1914 ), is even more complex, with a series of reveries and flash-backs that contrast the protagonist's real passage through life with what might have been, if his son had not died.

Once the design and validation process is complete, the binary file generated ( also using the FPGA company's proprietary software ) is used to ( re ) configure the FPGA.

In corporate finance, a company's capital structure is the total mix of financing methods it uses to raise funds.

The amount of debt is also a major consideration in determining a company's health.

In certain industries, such as the mass media where major part of the revenue comes from advertisers, it is often in the company's interest to reach as many people as possible.