The Financing of Public Service Corporations

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Ronald Press Company, 1918 - Corporations - 508 pages
 

Contents

IO What Constitutes Public Service
15
Rule as to Determination of Public Service Corporations
19
Relationship Between Public Service Corpora
20
tions and the Public 13 Regulation by Commission
23
Public Service Commissions
25
Federal Interstate Commerce and Trade Com missions
28
Part IICapital Stocks III ISSUE AND TRANSFER OF CAPITAL STOCK
31
Authority for Issue of Capital Stock 18 Par Value of Capital Stock 19 Certificates of Stock
36
Issue of Stock
38
Payment for Shares of Stock
40
Subscriptions to Capital Stock
43
Transfer of Certificates of Stock
45
Certificates of Stock as Negotiable Instruments
49
Shares of Stock Taxed as Personal Property
51
CHAPTER PAGE IV RELATION OF PAR VALUE TO PRICE OF ISSUE AND VALUE OF STOCK
54
Convertible Preferred Stock
57
Watered Stock
58
1 Stock Issued for Property or Services
59
DIVIDENDS 60 Declaration of Dividends
60
2 Statutory Restraints on Watering Stock
61
Determination of Surplus
62
1 Importance of Correct Accounting
63
3 Effect of Watering Stock of Public Service Corporations
64
4 Aspects of StockWatering Sometimes Con sidered Defensible
66
Stock Issued at Discount
70
Stock Issued at Premium
73
Accounting for Issues of Stock at Discount or Premium
75
Par Value in Relation to Actual Value
76
Issue of Shares Without Par Value
78
1 New York Statute as to Shares Without Par Value
80
2 Characteristics Compared with Par Value of Shares
81
STOCKHOLDERS AND CORPORATE CONTROL
84
Voting Rights
85
Proxies
87
Voting Trusts
88
Majority Control
89
CHAPTER PAGE 90 Property Subject to Mortgage
90
Special Responsibilities of Majority Stock holders
91
Minority Representation
92
Trustees
93
Qualifications of Stockholders
94
Stock of Corporation Held by Itself
95
CLASSIFICATION OF CAPITAL STOCK
96
Common Stock
97
Preferred Stock 51 Preferment as to Assets
98
Lien of Preferred Stock
99
Debt
100
Preferment in Dividends 54 1 Participating and Nonparticipating
101
2 Cumulative and Noncumulative
103
Preferment in Control
104
3 Real Surplus Distinguished from Book Surplus
118
4 Manipulation of Surplus
121
Amount of Surplus Which May Be Divided
123
Dividends in Relation to Wasting Assets
127
LoanCapital
148
Funded and Unfunded Debt
149
Corporate Bond Issues
151
Bonds and Notes 82 Bonds and Stocks
152
Par Value of Bonds
153
Security for Funded Debt
154
Mortgages and Deeds of Trust
155
Parties to and Authority for Execution of Trust Deed 87 The Bond Agreement
158
Parties to the Bond Agreement
160
Coupon and Registered Bonds
161
PAGE
164
Reorganization
183
CLASSIFICATION OF BONDS
185
Mortgage Bonds Secured on Realty
187
Mortgage Bonds Secured on Personalty
188
IOI Ranking Order of Liens
198
CHAPTER PAGE
199
Debts Unsecured by Mortgage or Pledge
202
Reinforced Security 104 Taxation of Bonds
206
BOND INTEREST AND NET Yield
210
Payment of Bond Interest
211
Nominal Interest Rate
213
Effective Interest Rate
214
Issue of Bonds at Discount or Premium
215
IIO Bond Values III Net Dividend Yield I12 Net Interest Yield
219
112
221
Accounting for Premium and Discount on Bonds
222
Interest Payable in Gold Coin or Legal Tender
227
MATURITY Refunding AND REDEMPTION OF BONDS
228
Interminable and ExtraLongTerm Bonds
229
LongTerm Bonds
230
ShortTerm Bonds and Notes
231
Redeemable Callable and Optional Bonds
233
I20 Convertible Bonds 121 Redemption of Debt Upon Maturity
235
Amortization of Debt
236
1 Serial Bonds
239
RELATION OF BONDS TO STOCK
251
Proper Proportion
261
Part IVCapitalization
267
THE TASK OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS IN REGU
286
147
289
Financial Record and Status of Applicant to
303
Competition
314
FIXED AND FLOATING CAPITAL AND THE ACCOUNTING
335
Accounting for Fixed Capital Withdrawn
345
to Be Avoided
355
INTERCORPORATE RELATIONSHIPS INVESTMENTS CON
394
Capitalization for Purposes of Intercorporate
404
Holding Companies
410
Consolidations and Mergers
416
CAPITALIZATION FOR SUNDRY PURPOSES
426
counting Analyses
433
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