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  2. Public company - Wikipedia

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    The financial media, analysts, and the public are able to access additional information about the business, since the business is commonly legally bound, and naturally motivated (so as to secure further capital), to disseminate public information regarding the financial status and future of the company to its many shareholders and the government.

  3. Benefit corporation - Wikipedia

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    The term public benefit corporation (PBC) or another abbreviation may be added to the entity's name if the founders choose. Finally the share certificates that are issued by the entity should state that the firm is a public benefit corporation. A shareholder vote is required to amend the articles which must include "non-voting" shares.

  4. State ownership - Wikipedia

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    A house number plaque marking state property in Riga, Latvia. State ownership, also called public ownership or government ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, property, or enterprise by the national government of a country or state, or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party. [1]

  5. Entity classification election - Wikipedia

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    An entity, which is eligible to make an election, is referred to as an eligible entity. Generally, a corporation organized under U.S. federal or state statute (and referred to as a corporation, body corporate or body politic by that statute) is not an eligible entity. However, the following types of business entity are treated as eligible ...

  6. Privately held company - Wikipedia

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    Corporation: A business corporation is a for-profit, limited liability or unlimited liability entity that has a separate legal personality from its members. A corporation is owned by one or more shareholders and is overseen by a board of directors , which hires the business's managerial staff.

  7. Non-stock corporation - Wikipedia

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    There are different reasons for forming a non-stock, for profit corporation. A corporation created solely to act as nominal owner of some property might not need to have shares of stock because all of the directors or members would have been co-owners. For example, owning a safe deposit box in a corporate name: if the corporation is non-stock, the directors of the corporation are not its ...

  8. Quasi-corporation - Wikipedia

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    A quasi-corporation is [1] an entity that exercises some of the functions of a corporation, but has not been granted separate legal personality by statute. [2] For example, a public corporation with limited authority and powers such as a county or school district is a quasi-corporation.

  9. Public corporation - Wikipedia

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    Public corporation may refer to: . Government-owned corporation; Public company, i.e. a limited liability company that offers its securities for sale to the public; Statutory corporation, i.e. a corporation created by statute that is owned in part or in whole by a government, such as municipal councils, bar councils, universities)