by Jason M. Gordon | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Entities, Corporate Governance & Ownership
What are Cumulative Voting Rights? Cumulative voting refers to a system of voting used by companies when electing the directors of a company. Cumulative voting allows a shareholder cast all their votes to a single candidate rather that share the votes across the...
by Jason M. Gordon | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Entities, Corporate Governance & Ownership
What is the Shareholder Register? A shareholder register is a record of the company’s shareholders who currently own shares in the company. In other words, it is a record containing a list of active company owners. The company creates the first register at the...
by Jason M. Gordon | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Entities, Corporate Governance & Ownership
What is Shareholder Value? Shareholder value is the Shareholders’ financial worth in a company. Shareholder value may go up due to the overall success of the company leading to an increase in their capital gains and dividends. A company may have an increase in...
by Jason M. Gordon | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Entities, Corporate Governance & Ownership
What is Business Continuity Planning? Business continuity planning (BCP) refers to the mechanism of developing different measures so as to protect and recover a business from prospective threats. The main objective of BCP is to make sure that the staff as well as...
by Jason M. Gordon | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Entities, Corporate Governance & Ownership
What is a Compensation Committee? This refers to a board of independent directors who set the level of compensation and decide the payment rate for managers at the senior level. The committee also helps in the choosing of other compensation like profit sharing,...
by Jason M. Gordon | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Entities, Corporate Governance & Ownership
What is a Subsidiary Company? A subsidiary refers to a company that is subordinate, supplementary or additional to another company. A company that is under the control of a parent company or a holding company is a subsidiary. A subsidiary could be a public enterprise,...
