PART 2 EQUITY Flashcards
Types of corporation
Limited liability corporation
Close corporation
Public company or listed company
Stock corporation
De jure corporation
Stockholders are not personally liable for corporate obligations and cannot be held liable to third persons who have claims against the corporation beyond their agreed subscriptions or contribution to the corporate capital
Limited liability corporation
All the corporations issued stocks of all classes exclusive of treasury shares shall be held of record by not more than a specified number of persons not exceeding 20
Close corporation
Corporation shall be deemed not a closed corporation when at least how many of its voting stocks or voting rights is owned or controlled by another corporation which is not close corporation as defined
2/3
Close corporation shall not least in any stock exchange or make any public offering of any of its stock of any class
True
In close corporation all of the issued stocks of all classes shall be subject to one or more specified restrictions on transfer permitted by the corporation code
True
With a class of equity securities listed on any exchange OR
Public company or listed company
With assets in excess of 50 million and having 200 or more hoarders at least 200 of which are holding at least (100 shares of a class of its equity securities)
Public company or listed company
A company that is authorized to issues shares of stock to investors
Stock corporation
Shares of stock represent ownership interest in the corporation
Stock corporation
Stock corporations are regulated by the?
Securities and exchange commission
What are the formation of a corporation
Articles of incorporation
Bylaws
Certificates of incorporation or juridical personality commences
Powers of a corporation
A contract between the state and the corporation
Articles of incorporation
A contract between the stockholders members in case of non-sto corporation and the state
Articles of incorporation
A contract between a corporation and stockholders members
Articles of incorporation
The articles of incorporation do not become effective and binding as the charter of the corporation unless they have been filed and register with what commission?
Security and exchange commission
Articles of incorporation shall contain substantially the following matters
- name of the corporation
- names nationalities and residences of the incorporators
- number of the directors or trustees
- names nationalities and residences of the persons who shall act as a director’s or trustees until the first regular director or trust are duly elected and qualified in accordance with the corporation code
- specific purpose or purposes for which the corporation is being incorporated
- place where the principal office of the corporation is located which must be within the philippines
- term for which the corporation is to exist
- if it be stuck the amount of its capital stock in lawful money of the philippines and capital contribution if it’s non-stock corporation among others
This signifies the rules and regulation or private laws enacted by the corporation to regulate govern and control its own actions affairs and concerns and its stockholders or members and directors and officers with relation there to and among themselves in the relation to it
Articles of incorporation
Relatively permanent and continuing rules of action adopted by the corporation for its own government and that of the individuals composing it and having the direction in whole or in part in the management and control of its affairs in activities
Articles of incorporation
Adopted before or after incorporation
Bylaws
Bylaws
The rules of action adopted by a corporation for its internal government
Adopted before or after incorporation
Approved by the stockholders if adopted after incorporation
A condition subsequent in the acquisition by a corporation or a juridical personality
When to adopt bylaws
Within one month after receipt of the official notice of the issuance of the certificate of incorporation by the sec
Names mentioned in the articles of incorporation as originally forming the corporation and are signatories
Corporators
Stockholders
Members
Incorporators
Corporate doctrines
Doctrine of corporate entity
Doctrine of piercing the veil of corporate fiction
Right of succession
Ultra vires acts of a corporation
Doctrine of corporate opportunity
The principle on separate identity of a corporation from its stockholder. The stockholders or members of a corporation are not the same as the corporation itself and the property belonging to a corporation cannot be attached nor held answerable for the depth of the stockholders
Doctrine of corporate entity
The principle of separate identity of a corporation from its stockholders may be disregarded when it is used to defeat public convenience justify wrong protect or cover fraud or defend crime or work and injustice
Doctrine of piercing the corporate veil
Granted by law to a registered corporation means that a corporation has a continuity of corporate life during its term of existence stated in the articles of incorporation
Right of succession
No corporation under the corporation code shall possess or exercise any corporate powers except those conferred by the code or by its articles of incorporation and except such as are necessary or as incidental to the exercise of the powers as conferred
Ultra vires acts of a corporation
When a director attempts to acquire or acquires in violation of his duty any interest adverse to the corporation he acquires for himself a business opportunity which should belong to the corporation
Doctrine of corporate opportunity
This refers to the total amount of shares which a corporation is allowed to issue if the shares have a par value.
Authorized Capital stock
This is the part of capital stock which is subscribed whether paid or unpaid
Subscribed capital stock
The part of the subscribed capital stock paid to the corporation
Paid up capital stock
That part of the capital stock which is not issued or subscribed
Unissued capital stock
This refers to the total shares of stock issued to subscribers or stockholders whether or not fully or partially paid except treasury shares
Outstanding capital stock
The term surplus is generally defined as the excess of the net assets of a corporation over its capital or stated capital
Paid in surplus
Under this doctrine the capital stock and assets of the corporation are held in trust for the creditors
Trust fund doctrine
A _______ is one of the units into which the capital stock of the corporation is divided
Shares of stock