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Bbibek10y ago
Dear sir, Can a company issue shares at discount?could plz explain the reasons to the answers. plz kindly reply the answer. thank u!!
MikeLittleMikeLittleTutor10y ago#1
"Can a company issue shares at discount?" No, it's against the law "could plz explain the reasons to the answers." It's against the law!
Bbibek10y ago#2
and what about private companies?can they issue at discount?
MikeLittleMikeLittleTutor10y ago#3
No, that is also against the law. However ...... a company is legally able to take a non-cash asset in exchange for shares being issued and, for a private company only, there is no requirement to have that non-cash asset independently professionally valued. So, in an extreme case, I could transfer a spare waste bin that I no longer need to a private company and, in exchange, receive 100 £1 ordinary shares credited as fully paid. Then the company would probably want to impair that waste bin down from its recorded value of £100 to a more realistic value of, say, £3 What no company can do, neither public nor private, is issue shares purely for a cash consideration where the amount received (or acknowledged as due to be received) is less than the nominal value OK?
Bbibek10y ago#4
ok sir,thank u very much!!
MikeLittleMikeLittleTutor10y ago#5
You're welcome
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