Reduction of capital or capital reduction is to decrease
stock
Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the Share (finance), shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided. A single share of the stock means fractional ownership of the corporatio ...
of a company. During reduction of capital, sometimes the company returns a portion of the stock of a company to shareholder. A private company can reduce its capital in many different ways using new procedures for the reduction of capital under the Companies Act 2006. Before these provisions came in, a court order was required to reduce share capital
See also
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Capital impairment
Capital impairment is the case when the company lost its asset, so the asset is lower than the stock of a company. One way to avoid capital impairment is reduction of capital without any compensation. Impaired capital may occur when a company inc ...
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Capital increase (
:de:Kapitalerhöhung)
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Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders, after which the stock exchange decreases the price of the stock by the dividend to remove volatility. The market has no control over the stock price on open on the ex ...
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Financial capital
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