Monday, September 24, 2012

How Does Shareholder Value Create the need for a Restructuring?

Companies benefit immensely from corporate restructuring. They restructure with a view to improve the present state of affairs. They review all the systems, process and policies of the company then they make necessary modifications so the company functions more efficiently.

Corporate restructuring is all about drastically altering the company's interval environment and hierarchies. Through this process, the management may consolidate the company's debts. Management also may decide to sell off the company's redundant assets.

Corporate restructuring almost always increases shareholders' value.

Concentrating on the Pluses


    With corporate restructuring, management can dramatically and radically change the face of the business. Many times, corporate restructuring involves merger with another company in the same line of trade. Both the companies have pluses and minuses in their styles of functioning. Corporate restructuring sees to it that the strengths of the two companies get accentuated and that they curb weaknesses. When the functioning improves, the new company will likely make more profits than the two companies merge. Shareholders' value in the company increases.

Shareholders' Decision

    Many times, shareholders force management to consider restructuring the business. When the value of their investment in the company constantly depletes, the shareholders put across this proposal. Periodically, management apprises the shareholders of the state of the company's affairs, its growth and expansion plans. The shareholders learn the company's market share. They are able to comprehend if the competitors are eating into their market share. The shareholders then decide and force the management into correcting the present state of affairs.

Communicating to Stakeholders