Question
What is a share? State the types of shares.

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Capital which can be divided into transferable small denominations which are known as share. According to companies act, a company may issue two types of shares :
$(i)$ Equity share
$(ii)$ Preference shares.$(i)$ Equity shares: The shares which are not preference shares are known as equity shares. Equity share capital is known as principal share capital of the company. Equity shareholders have voting rights and right to participate in management of the company. At the time of liquidation, equity shareholders gets amount after complete payment to preference shareholders. Company gives dividends on equity shares every year on the basis of current year’s profit.
$(ii)$ Preference shares: Preference share is one which gives preferential right to its holder for receiving the dividend at a special rate before any dividend paid to equity shareholders.
Types of preference shares are as under :
$(1)$ Cumulative preference shares: In case of cumulative preference shares, arrears of dividend shall be paid together with current year’s dividend in the year when there is sufficient profit.
$(2)$ Non-cumulative preference shares: In case of non-cumulative preference shares, such arrears of dividend are not accumulated and are not paid in future.
$(3)$ Redeemable and Irredeemable preference shares: If the amount of preference share is to be repaid by the company at the end of stipulated period, such shares are called
redeemable preference shares. A preference share which can be redeemed only at the time of liquidation of company are called irredeemable preference shares.
$(4)$ Participating and Non-participating preference shares: Preference shareholders who hold participating preference shares get fixed rate of dividend as decided by the company.
In addition to this, they also have a right to participate dividend to equity shareholders subject to terms of participation. Preference shareholders of non-participating preference shares get only a fixed rate of dividend and do not carry a right to participate in the surplus profit or in any surplus capital.
$(5)$ Convertible and Non-convertible preference shares: The preference shares which can be converted partly or fully into equity shares as per agreed terms at the time of issue are known as convertible preference shares. The preference shares which are not convertible into equity shares are known as non-convertible preference shares.

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