US companies can have foreign shareholders, so no problem on that count.

美国的公司可以有外国股东，因此美国方面不会有问题的。

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Some of the City's biggest and most influential shareholders are also part of the problem – their bosses are among those raking in multimillion-pound salaries.

金融城的一些最大最具影响力的股东本身也沉沦其中——他们的大老板跻身那些暴赚数百万英镑薪金者之列。

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The problem is lying about it—the best way to describe backdating options. The practice may defraud shareholders, as well as altering the appropriate accounting and tax treatment of the option grants.

尽管如此,就算如今作弊不多,仅仅处理1990年代的股票期权授予就够检察官们忙了.以低于市价授予股票期权并不违法.问题是对此说谎--关于股票期权回溯的最佳说法.此举可能欺骗股东,同时改变了股票期权授予的会计税务适当处理方法.被供述的UNITEDHEALTH的股票期权回溯---老板WILLIAM MCGUIRE收取16亿股票期权--如果属实,其利润和税务减免会损失几亿.

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Otherwise, if you don't buy all the debt, you still have a problem because those debtors can go after you because they are-- they're not shareholders but they have rights and they could come in and say, we don't like what you're doing; we're going to sue you because we think that you're doing something contrary to our interest as debtors.

不然,如果你没接下全部债务,就不能安枕无忧,因为这些债务人会跟着你,他们不是股东,但他们有权利,他们会跳出来说,我们不喜欢你的做法,我们要起诉你,因为你的做法违背了我们债权人的利益

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That could be a problem for shareholders when same-store sales and margin gains slow down, as they inevitably will.

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Others argue individual shareholders suffer from a collective action problem, where they are forced to sell out for a price above the market price because other shareholders will, even if the entire company is worth much more.

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Many corporations are reluctant to disclose the full impact and cost of the problem to their shareholders because they fear legal action.

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