ACCT 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Share Capital, Retained Earnings, Authorised Capital

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When accumulation is a negative number, the term deficit is used to describe it. A corporation issues share certificates to its owners in exchange for their investment in the business usually cash. The basic unit of share capital is a share. The total number of authorized shares is limited by a charter. Shares are sometimes referred to as stock. The terms authorized, issued, and outstanding are frequently used to describe a corporation"s shares. Authorized refers to the maximum number of shares a corporation is allowed to distribute to shareholders. Issued refers to the number of shares sold or transferred to shareholders. Outstanding shares are those actually in the hands of shareholders. Sometimes a company repurchases shares it has previously issued so that the number of shares outstanding will be less than the number of shares issued. The total shares outstanding at any time represents 100% ownership of the corporation.

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