Business Studies · Ch 6 — Social Responsibilities of Business and Business Ethics

Responsibility towards the shareholders or owners

6.5.1

Responsibility towards the shareholders or owners:

A business enterprise must provide a fair return to its shareholders or owners on the capital they have invested.
It must ensure the safety of that investment.
Where the business is a company form of organisation, it must also give shareholders regular, accurate and full information about how the enterprise is working, as well as its schemes for future growth. …