Chapter 11 allows a company to continue operating while it attempts financial restructuring and payment of debts. Owners of common stock, shareholders, are usually involved in the election of corporate officers. The inclusion of subsidiaries in the financial statements of the parent company. The part of a company's financial statement that shows its financial position and operating results. Diversification A strategy of spreading risk between several markets, industries, or product lines.
Investors diversify by choosing several different types of investments.
The transfer of a company's earnings to stockholders in the form of property, additional stock, or cash. The average value of a group of blue-chip stocks used to judge the entire market movement and value. A service that provides information on the credit worthiness of companies. A contract between lessor and lessee wherein the lessee agrees to make payments totaling the purchase price and finance charges for an asset for the life of the asset. The measure of the total output produced and income earned within the United States.