Exploring Directors' Roles, Shareholders & Methods of Raising Capital

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of directors' roles and powers within a company, including their appointment, qualifications, disqualifications, duties, and relationship with auditors. It also explores the rights and obligations of shareholders, their relationship with the directors, and the concept of share capital. Furthermore, the presentation outlines various methods of raising capital, such as long-term loans, debt financing, internal funding, and crowdfunding. The presentation concludes by summarizing the key aspects of directors' roles, shareholder rights, and capital raising methods, drawing from a range of academic references to support its analysis.

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 DIRECTORS ROLES AND POWERS
 SHAREHOLDERS
 OTHER METHODS OF RAISING CAPITAL
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 Business organization is the entity that is created and formed for the particular
purpose in order to carry the commercial firm.
 The current presentation will outline the powers and roles of the directors.
 Further this presentation will put focus on the rights and obligations of the
shareholders and relationship with the directors.
 Moreover, this will also indicate some methods of raising capital in the
company.

DIRECTORS ROLES AND POWERS
 Appointment: The directors of the company are appointed by the shareholders of the
company in the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
The resolution is there in order to appoint the directors and the votes are taken and majority of
votes makes the director (Zanardo, 2018).
 Qualifications: The person who is 16 and over is qualified in order to become the director
of the company.

CONTD..
 Disqualifications: There are number of reasons that makes the person to be disqualified
to become the director.
If the person has done wrongful trading, declared insolvent, have imprisonment, has done
tax evasion, etc.
 Relationship with auditors: The directors and auditors used to have the strong
relationship that help the company to grow in the market (Subai, 2021).

CONTD…
 Duties: The duties of directors are as described below:
1.They must act with the powers provided to them by the company.
2.It must promote and supports the success of the organization (Caliskan and Subai, 2020).
3. He must help the company in order to avoid conflicts and other issues.
4. The directors must not accept the benefits from any outside parties (Cassim, 2021).
5. He must give the independent judgement which help the company to grow.

SHAREHOLDERS
 The shareholders are the individual or the group of people who has own the shares the of
the company and enjoys dividends in return.
 Rights and obligations: The shareholders of the company have various rights and
obligations which help to have the smooth flow of the company.
They have right in order to appoint the directors of the company (Syed Mohd Fuzi and et.al.,
2019).
 Share capital: The share capital is the amount that is invested by the owners or
shareholders of the company by taking the share of the company (Jeet, 2020).
It can be given as equity share capital or preference share capital.

CONTD…
 Relationship with directors: The shareholders are basically the real owners of the
company who used to invest their capital in the growth of company.
 and shareholders used to have good relation which helps the company to grow in the
market (Jiang and et.al., 2018).
 The directors of the company used to have proper direction on the capital invested by the
shareholders.

OTHER METHODS OF RAISING
CAPITAL
 Long term Loans
 Debt financing
 Fund by company itself
 Crowdfunding

CONCLUSION
 From the above presentation it is concluded about the director roles and powers.
 This is evaluated by describing the appointment, qualification, disqualification, etc. of the
directors.
 Further the presentation has described about the shareholder rights and obligations and
relationship with directors.
 At last this presentation has evaluated about some methods of raising the capital.

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