You can--when you set up a corporation there are different kinds of relationships that people might have with a corporation.
当你建立一家公司时,人与公司之间,就会有千丝万缕的关系
There's the insurance company, could be a corporation and it could be either a non-profit corporation or a for-profit corporation owned by shareholders.
一个保险公司,可以是,非盈利性股份公司,也可以是以盈利为目的的股份公司
I read an article a while back about a private fire company, the Salem Fire Corporation, in Arkansas.
我看过一篇关于私人消防公司的文章,在阿肯色州有一家塞伦消防公司。
When you create a corporation, you write up a contract, which specifies the rules of the corporation; it's like a constitution for the corporation.
创建公司时,你会起草一份协议,其中规定了公司的条款,就像公司的宪法一样
Now, the critical thing to understand about a corporation is that in order to value a share in a corporation you absolutely have to know the number of shares outstanding.
理解这类公司的关键在于,要衡量一家公司股票的价值,你必须清楚总共发行的股票数量
The state law probably requires that a corporation have a board of directors, but it's also something that can be defined at the time that you create the corporation in the bylaws.
州法规定,公司必须要有董事会,但还有一些规定,是你在制订公司制度时自由规定的
The idea, of course, is that we have a legal entity--a corporation-- that issues shares that are either given to people or purchased by people and the idea is that shares represent contributions.
最初的做法是,一个法人实体即公司,发行股票,然后发放或卖给人们,理念就是,股票象征着贡献
Yale University is a non-profit corporation; the price of a share in Yale University is undefined-- it's zero over zero.
耶鲁大学可以看作是个非盈利组织,它的股价无法定义,是零除以零
Now incidentally, in a for-profit corporation-- this is how to understand this, this is a concept that is enshrined in law.
顺便提一下,在一家盈利性公司中,我们需要这样理解,这是个在法律中明文昭示的概念
If you take part in a partnership you are individually liable for the debts of the corporation.
如果你加入了合伙制企业,个人需要为企业的债务承担责任
Well actually, we have some voting among alumni I guess, but it's not a for-profit corporation.
实际上,在校友会活动中还是会投票的,但这不是个盈利性公司
People on Wall Street found that difficult to say -Federal National Mortgage Corporation- so they nicknamed it Fannie Mae; it sounds like a woman's name.
华尔街的人觉得这名字很拗口,联邦,国民,抵押,贷款,协会,所以给它起了个昵称,房利美,这听起来像个女性名字
You can sign up with the Salem Fire Corporation, pay a yearly subscription fee, and if your house catches on fire, they will come and put out the fire.
你可以和塞伦消防公司签约,每年支付会员费,如果你的房子着火,他们会来灭火。
A corporation is an entity that could be sued or could lose more money than it's worth, but the value of a corporation can never fall below zero to the investors because the investors are not liable for the mistakes of the corporation.
公司是一个实体,它可能被起诉,或者亏损额超过了自身的价值,但是对于投资者而言,公司的价值永远不会小于零,因为投资者对公司的过失,不负有责任
A limited partnership is one kind of DPP and it has--it's not a corporation, so it's a partnership.
有限合伙制是DPP的一种,它不是公司制,而是合伙制
He has a new name for it -I think it's called Home Equity Protection Corporation -but almost the same idea.
他已经想出了一个新名字,我想应该是叫做住房资产保护公司,但是这几乎跟房主贷款公司是一样的
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