The German authorities, who currently administer the corporation's interests in bankruptcy, have stated the measure was a " last resort " in accounting for the debt.

In financial reporting, guidance is a publicly traded corporation's official prediction of its own near-future profit or loss, stated as an amount of money per share.

Co. v. Riggs ( 203 U. S. 243 ( 1906 )), the Court accepted that corporations are for legal purposes " persons ," but still ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment was not a bar to many state laws that effectively limited a corporation's right to contract business as it pleased.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Similarly, individual employees, managers, and directors are liable for their own malfeasance or lawbreaking while acting on behalf of the corporation, but are not generally liable for the corporation's actions.

Even if the debt is not secured by collateral, debt holders may still sue for bankruptcy, to ensure that the corporation's assets are used to repay the debt.

In both of those markets, the corporation's television transmitters are the only ones that were not converted to digital.

Plans are currently being formulated to improve and expand the Westford CAT programming schedule to obtain these goals to the best of the corporation's ability.

Their duties and method of selection are governed by the corporation's charter.

However, most of the corporation's members are not authorized to hire employees.

" 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.

They oversee the internal accounting systems, and are dependent on the corporation's accountants and internal auditors.

Earnings are the net benefits of a corporation's operation.

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.

The corporation's bonds are traded publicly, as are shares of the company's Japanese affiliate, Levi Strauss Japan K. K.

Corporate bylaws are drafted by a corporation's founders or directors under the authority of its Charter or Articles of Incorporation.

When he discovers that he and his fellow Mudokons are to be slaughtered and processed into the corporation's new product line-up he decides to escape and liberate as many enslaved Mudokons as he can along the way.

In Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson, 538 U. S. 468 ( 2003 ), the Supreme Court determined that in order for a government owned corporation to qualify as a Foreign State under the FSIA because a majority of its " shares or other ownership interest " are owned by a foreign state or political subdivision, the Foreign State must directly own a majority of the corporation's shares.

In 1790, John Marshall, a private attorney and a veteran of the Continental Army, represented the board of the College of William and Mary, in litigation that required him to defend that corporation's right to reorganize itself and in the process remove professors, The Rev John Bracken v. The Visitors of Wm & Mary College ( 7 Va. 573 ; 1790 Supreme Court of Virginia ).

In 1969, the word " Glass " was deleted from the corporation's name ; the company had made an evolution into an organization that was no longer just a " glass " company.

The discovery helped establish the concept of " bioactivation " and dashed the German corporation's dreams of enormous profit ; the active molecule sulfanilamide ( or sulfa ) had first been synthesized in 1906 and was widely used in the dye-making industry ; its patent had since expired and the drug was available to anyone.

* A corporation's continued participation is not dependent on demonstrated progress ;

But he had been interrupted by Mackenzie who told Maxwell that he is an operative to the Liberty Army ; Morales had known of the World Council's corruption and their affiliation with Mechatronics ; that was the reason why he attacked the corporation's facility and tried to prevent the launch.

From 2006 to 2008, she was the BBC's controller of fiction ; in this capacity she oversaw the corporation's output in drama and comedy, as well as films and programmes acquired from overseas, across all television channels.

On TV he presented the first and second series of BBC show Winning Lines as part of the corporation's National Lottery output ; he also hosted a TV version of his radio feature " Confessions ".

* five students-at-large, who do not contribute to the paper and are elected at the corporation's AGM ;

He found that the parent corporation's floating debt was being transferred to the subsidiary before the parent's fiscal year end in November, to avoid appearing in year-end statements ; only to be shifted back to the parent prior to the subsidiary's own fiscal year end in December, thus effectively masking the joint enterprise's precarious condition overall.

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.

The board organizes itself ( also under the laws of the various state charters ) and hires corporate officers who then have as " corporate " individuals the legal responsibility to manage the corporation in the corporation's best interest.

These incumbents use various corporate governance tactics to stay in power including: staggering the boards ( i. e. having different election years for different directors ), controlling access to the corporation's money, and creating restrictive requirements in the bylaws.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A shareholder rights plan, colloquially known as a " poison pill ", is a type of defensive tactic used by a corporation's board of directors against a takeover.

The corporation was originally formed as a result of the merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications, and used the name MCI WorldCom followed by WorldCom before taking its final name on April 12, 2003 as part of the corporation's emergence from bankruptcy.

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

Costing £ 71. 4 million ( 2005 / 6 ), it is the BBC's most expensive national radio network and is considered by many to be the corporation's flagship.

Simultaneous with Sony Pictures's release of the film, its soundtrack was released by Sony subsidiary Columbia Records, while the corporation's digital effects division Sony ImageWorks issued a CD-ROM videogame version for DOS, Mac and Windows 3. x.

The reason given by the BBC was that 1964 was an election year, and it was felt the show's political material could compromise the corporation's impartiality.

* Stock ownership test: More than 50 % in value of the corporation's outstanding stock is owned by five or fewer individuals.

In the United States today, quo warranto usually arises in a civil case as a plaintiff's claim ( and thus a " cause of action " instead of a writ ) that some governmental or corporate official was not validly elected to that office or is wrongfully exercising powers beyond ( or ultra vires ) those authorized by statute or by the corporation's charter.

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 ).

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.

" Ten years later, they reaffirmed the result of Letson, though on the somewhat different theory that " those who use the corporate name, and exercise the faculties conferred by it ," should be presumed conclusively to be citizens of the corporation's State of incorporation.

These may vary in many respects between countries, but a corporation's legal person status is fundamental to all jurisdictions and is conferred by statute.

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.