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  2. Shareholder - Wikipedia

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    A beneficial shareholder is the person or legal entity that has the economic benefit of ownership of the shares, while a nominee shareholder is the person or entity that is on the corporation's register of members as the owner while being in reality that person acts for the benefit or at the direction of the beneficial owner, whether disclosed or not.

  3. Privately held company - Wikipedia

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    The owner may operate on his or her own or may employ others. The owner of the business has total and unlimited personal liability for the debts incurred by the business. This form is usually relegated to small businesses. Partnership: A partnership is a form of business in which two or more people operate for the common goal of making a profit ...

  4. Stakeholders vs. shareholders: What’s the difference?

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    All shareholders are stakeholders, but not all stakeholders are shareholders.

  5. Private company limited by shares - Wikipedia

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    "Limited by shares" means that the liability of the shareholders to creditors of the company is limited to the capital originally invested, i.e. the nominal value of the shares and any premium paid in return for the issue of the shares by the company. A shareholder's personal assets are thus protected in the event of the company's insolvency ...

  6. Shareholders vs. Stakeholders: What's the Difference?

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    Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser chats with Rick Engdahl in a side-of-desk interview about developing a personal investment philosophy, and shares his own four-point system for deciding whether a ...

  7. Non-stock corporation - Wikipedia

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    A non-stock corporation (or nonstock corporation) is a corporation that does not have owners represented by shares of stock, [1] in contrast to a joint-stock company. A non-stock corporation typically has members who are the functional equivalent of shareholders in a stock corporation.

  8. Limited liability - Wikipedia

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    Although a shareholder's liability for the company's actions is limited, the shareholders may still be liable for their own acts. For example, the directors of small companies (who are frequently also shareholders) are often required to give personal guarantees of the company's debts to those lending to the company. [5]

  9. Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Limited liability separates control of a company from ownership and means that a passive shareholder in a corporation will not be personally liable either for contractually agreed obligations of the corporation, or for torts (involuntary harms) committed by the corporation against a third party (acts done by the controllers of the corporation). [5]