... responsibility and the company has a separate legal identity. An example of a PLC is Woolworths PLC. Public Limited Companies is in a better position of raising capital than other companies due to the high standards of the companies so therefore investors and creditors are more willing to offer finance, but what are the costs of obtained financial resource? There are many possible sources of finance available for a PLC: * Suppliers, * banks, * factoring, * leasing and hire purchase companies, * government grants and loans, * venture capital institutions, * public share issues via the stock exchange www.revisionnotes.co.uk Even though there are many potential sources of finance I am only going to look at 3 of the above and to show you what the costs are for obtaining the finance. SHARES One form of finance is shares. Large PLC's has shares on the stock market and anyone can buy into them. For the smaller PLC's there is the ...

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