Contributed Capital

Contributed Capital - Contributed capital is capital which is received from stock market investors for stock in a specific company, which in turn, is the equivalent of capital stock added to contributed capital. This is also called paid-in capital. Contributed Capital shows up on a company's balance sheet under the heading of stockholder's equity and is mainly shown beside the balance sheet entry where the heading reads additional contributed capital or additional paid in capital. Preferred shares may have a par value greater than marginal; whereas common shares generally have a par value of just a few cents; therefore these are added together to reach the total contributed capital. Control Stock - A control stock is the equity shares that are owned by the company's major shareholders for a company that is publicly traded. These company shareholders possess either a majority of the company's shares that are outstanding or a large portion of the shares, which is significant enough to enable them to have a controlling interest or influence on the decisions and daily operations made by the specific company they hold the shares in. In companies that have more than one class of shares, common shares that have great voting power, are the control stocks for that specific company.