As well, because the corporation is legally considered the " person ," individual shareholders are not legally responsible for the corporation's debts and damages beyond their investment in the corporation.

Chancellor William B. Chandler, III of the Delaware Court of Chancery, despite describing Eisner's behavior as falling " far short of what shareholders expect and demand from those entrusted with a fiduciary position ..." found in favor of Eisner and the rest of the Disney board because they had not violated the letter of the law ( namely, the duty of care owed by a corporation's officers and board to its shareholders ).

" Piercing the corporate veil " refers to looking at the individual natural persons acting as agents involved in a corporate action or decision ; this may result in a legal decision in which the rights or duties of a corporation are treated as the rights or liabilities of that corporation's shareholders or directors.

In contemporary business corporations, the main external stakeholder groups are shareholders, debtholders, trade creditors, suppliers, customers and communities affected by the corporation's activities.

A company or corporation's book value, as an asset held by a separate economic entity, is the company or corporation's shareholders ' equity, the acquisition cost of the shares, or the market value of the shares owned by the separate economic entity.

Shareholders send their responses to the corporation's agents, and the corporation will send the proceeds of the action to the shareholders who elect to participate.

Burt, Boulton retained the majority of shares in the company but took on Senator John S. McLennan from Nova Scotia and Drummond, McCall & Co. of Montreal as the corporation's first Canadian shareholders.

Milton Friedman and others have argued that a corporation's purpose is to maximize returns to its shareholders, and that since only people can have social responsibilities, corporations are only responsible to their shareholders and not to society as a whole.

For example, if a target corporation's stock were trading at $ 10 per share, an acquirer might offer $ 11. 50 per share to shareholders on the condition that 51 % of shareholders agree.

Common examples of this cost include that borne by shareholders ( the principal ), when corporate management ( the agent ) buys other companies to expand its power, or spends money on wasteful pet projects, instead of maximizing the value of the corporation's worth ; or by the voters of a politician's district ( the principal ) when the politician ( the agent ) passes legislation helpful to large contributors to their campaign rather than the voters.

Instead, the corporation's income or losses are divided among and passed through to its shareholders.

The Form 2553 must be signed by all of the corporation's shareholders.

* Alter Ego ( judicial doctrine ), a doctrine by which a court of law holds individual shareholders liable for a corporation's debts if the corporation is deemed to be nothing more than an " alter ego " of the corporation's owners.

The idea was revived in the 1950s and, in June 1958, the government approved the corporation's scheme for a university at Brighton, the first of a new generation of what came to be known as plate glass universities.

Capital tax is a tax charged on a corporation's taxable capital.

The independent charter airlines were suspicious of BEA's motive to enter the IT market and thought that there was a hidden agenda to destabilise this market by undercutting the independent carriers, none of which could match the corporation's financial resources and access to capital at the time.

The members of the Agri-Mark cooperative, who supply Agri-Mark's equity capital and directly elect its directors, are not stockholders of record and therefore have no right under Delaware statutory law to inspect the corporation's books and records.

However, this has predictably only created an increase of the corporation's boycott and lack of respect.

The corporation's total investments in 2011 amounted to $ 18. 66 billion.

According to the CBC, this would reduce the corporation's yearly costs by $ 10 million.

This estrangement was quickly repaired by successor Iger upon Eisner's exit, and on January 24, 2006, the company announced it would acquire Pixar in an all-stock deal worth US $ 7. 4 billion, catapulting Jobs, also co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc, to Disney's largest shareholder with 7 % of the corporation's outstanding shares.

At the end of 2009, the corporation's total assets were more than $ 84 billion, and the company insured more than 60 million people worldwide.

A prize of $ 10, 000 was slated for the announced winner, based on an independent judging corporation's ( D. L.

The Billboard article also noted the enormous growth and vital significance of W7's music operations, which were by then providing most of Warner-Seven Arts ' revenue — during the first nine months of that fiscal year, the recording and publishing divisions generated 74 % of the corporation's total profit, with the publishing division alone accounting for over US $ 2 million of ASCAPs collections from music users.

According to the CBC, this would reduce the corporation's yearly costs by $ 10 million.

Norfolk Southern has announced that it expects the disaster to cost between $ US 30 to $ 40 million, including the corporation's self-insurance retention under its insurance policies and other uninsured costs, but not any fines or penalties that might be imposed.

It indicated the corporation's funded debt as US $ 65 million, resulting in US $ 5. 5 million annually in carrying charges, compared to just over US $ 3 million in earnings for the railroad and a US $ 600, 000 loss for the Coal & Iron Co.

The inspector general's report issued 15 November 2005, said that Mr. Tomlinson appeared to have violated both the federal law and the corporation's own rules in raising $ 5 million to underwrite The Journal Editorial Report, a PBS program by the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.

The corporation's budget for 2007 was $ 9 million, with approximately $ 1. 9 million coming from farebox collections, pass sales, charters and other services.

On 1 June 2006, the SBS managing director Shaun Brown announced the corporation's desire to initiate in-show commercial breaks.

Following its commercial debut on 1 September 1968 on BEA's internal German routes, the airline's new One-Eleven 500s began regular scheduled operations on 17 November 1968, respectively replacing Vanguards and Viscounts on the corporation's Heathrow – Manchester and Berlin routes.

On 1 April 1963, Cambrian Airways took over BEA's remaining routes to and from the Isle of Man as well as all of the corporation's services between Liverpool and Belfast.

Parliaments represent a small market, making up only 1. 7 % in Philip Morris sales figures, in stark contrast to the corporation's leading seller, Marlboros, which represent 41. 1 % of all Philip Morris sales.

So we are faced with a vast network of amorphous entities perpetuating themselves in whatever manner they can, without regard to the needs of society, controlling society and forcing upon it a regime representing only the corporation's needs for survival.

In fact, a cash purchase of a corporation's stock followed by liquidation might also be an effective way to transfer a claim for refund if the Kimbell-Diamond doctrine is not applied to eliminate the intermediate step.

Section 381(a) applies only to a transfer by liquidation of a subsidiary owned to the extent of at least 80 per cent, a statutory merger or consolidation, an acquisition of substantially all a corporation's assets solely in exchange for voting stock, or a change of identity, form, or place of organization.

In the rare case where a corporation's only substantial asset, or its most important one, is a claim for refund, perhaps its transfer should not be permitted, whether the reorganization takes the form of a statutory merger or of the acquisition of assets for stock.

Section 362 requires carryover of the transferor corporation's basis for property transferred, and section 1223 provides for tacking on the transferor's holding period for such property to that of the transferee.

The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes.

* Sarah Tyrell: The niece of Eldon Tyrell, Sarah locates and hires Deckard to eliminate the final replicant in order to retain her corporation's hold over the market.

The BBCi brand launched in 2001 and was conceived as a cohesive multi-platform brand name for all the BBC's digital interactive services, encompassing the corporation's digital teletext, interactive television and website services.

A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.

In another kind of corporation the legal document which established the corporation or which contains its current rules will determine who the corporation's members are.

Franchise taxes in Delaware are actually far higher than in most other states which typically charge little or nothing beyond corporate income taxes on the portion of the corporation's business done in that state.

Insider trading is the trading of a corporation's stock or other securities ( e. g. bonds or stock options ) by individuals with potential access to non-public information about the company.

Their targets included banks, embassies, the Miss World event in 1970 ( or rather a BBC Outside Broadcast vehicle to be used in the corporation's coverage ) and the homes of Conservative MPs.

Each Future World pavilion was initially sponsored by a corporation who helped fund its construction and maintenance in return for the corporation's logos appearing prominently throughout the pavilion.

Bellanca remained President and Chairman of the Board from the corporation's inception on the last day of 1927 until he sold the company to L. Albert and Sons in 1954.