Monday, 24 December 2012

SHARE CAPITAL

SHARE CAPITAL

A company's share capital be defined or categorized in following four ways:-
  • Authorized capital :- This is the maximum amount of capital that can be raised by the company.                                                                    It is fixed in the Memorandum of an association and the Articles of a company as required by the company's act. It is also known as NOMINAL CAPITAL. 
  • Issued Capital:- This is the amount of capital which company intends to raise at a given point of time.
  • Subscribed Capital  :- This is the capital which has actually been subscribed by individuals or firm.
  • Paid up Capital :-This is the amount of capital that has been called and received against the subscribed capital.

1 comment:

  1. Great post! I really love how you explain the different shared capitals of the company must have. I hope you can share more information like this. Anyway, you can also read more information about capitals, just browse here.

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