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Student housing cooperative

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Student housing cooperative From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines . Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (September 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) A student housing cooperative , also known as co-operative housing , is a housing cooperative for student members. Members live in alternative cooperative housing that they personally own and maintain. These houses are specifically designed to lower housing costs while providing an educational and community environment for students to live and grow in. They are, in general, nonprofit, communal, and self-governing, [1] with students pooling their monetary and personal resources to create a community st...

Equity (finance)

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Equity (finance) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For other uses, see Equity. For equity securities, see Stock. This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (August 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Part of a series on Accounting Historical cost Constant purchasing power Management Tax Major types Audit Budget Cost Forensic Financial Fund Governmental Management Social Tax Key concepts Accounting period Accrual Constant purchasing power Economic entity Fair value Going concern Historical cost Matching principle Materiality Revenue recognition Unit of account Selected accounts Assets Cash Cost of goods sold Depreciation / Amortization E...

Shareholder

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Shareholder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search A shareholder is an individual or institution (including a corporation) that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation. Shareholders may be referred to as members of a corporation. Legally, a person is not a shareholder in a corporation until his or her name and other details are entered in the corporation‘s register of shareholders or members. [1] A beneficial shareholder is the person that has the economic benefit of ownership of the shares, while a nominee shareholder is the person who is on the corporation’s register as the owner while being in fact acting for the benefit and at the direction of the beneficiary, whether disclosed or not. The corporation is not required to record the beneficial ownership of a shareholding, only the owner as recorded on the register. When more than one person are on the r...