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No, Australian companies do not have a par value (or nominal value) for their shares. The concept of par value was abolished by law in Australia in 1998.
The No-Par value shares are those whose prices are determined by whether the investors want to pay for them or not.
If a share costs 95 pence to buy, then that is its par value.
There is no correlation between PAR and MARKET PRICE . Par value was the assigned value of a share when the company was set up. There can be par value shares and no par value shares. After the first second, the value of that share has changed from the time it was identified as a share or issued as an outstanding share.
Issue of shares at par - Shares are said to be issued at par when they are issued at a price equal to the face value. For example if the face value of a share is $100 and issue price is also $100 than the share will be said as thae share has been issued at par.
Issue of shares at par - Shares are said to be issued at par when they are issued at a price equal to the face value. For example if the face value of a share is $100 and issue price is also $100 than the share will be said as thae share has been issued at par.
"No Par Value Shares" are a relatively new phenomenon.It literally means that the shares of stock in a company do not have a "Par Value". Please read this entire response as electing to form a company using "No Par Value" shares can create significant tax issues (assuming you are a start-up planning to raise outside capital, but the issue can exist even if this is not your situation).Par Value for Stock is an archaic concept. In "olden" days, companies used to issue (sell) shares of common stock at Par Value, a price below which no other shares could be sold (by the company, secondary sales are a different matter). Back when securities markets were not well regulated, this approach was intended to protect the purchaser and provide a simple accounting method as the par value per share times the shares sold was equal to the amount raised, which appeared on the balance sheet as Paid in Capital or Contributed Capital.Using Par Value can be avoided, but likely should not be. Most states, including Delaware, allow you to form a corporation with "No Par Value" shares, meaning you do not need to assign a Par Value to the stock. It can make the accounting and paperwork a little easier, but we do not recommend going this route because there are potential tax implications (Delaware Franchise Tax for instance), and since Par Value has been used "forever", most legal and accounting materials factor it in already so the idea it can make this stuff easier is debatable. Over time as "No Par Value" becomes more common we expect it will be better to take this approach, but our basic view here is that if it "ain't broke, don't fix it", and Par Value may be archaic, but it ain't broke.Make sure to consult with a good corporate attorney on this and ask them about the tax issues mentioned above.
Shares of stock that are issued at a value in excess of a company's actual assets are known as watered stock. The term arose many decades ago when a par value was assigned to shares of stock by the board of directors. The par value was correlated by many investors to the actual asset value per share of a company since companies could not sell additional stock below the stated or par value. Dishonest stock promoters would deceptively assign a high par value in order to sell overvalued or watered shares to investors. Due to investor confusion and misuse by shady stock issuers legislation was passed to allow stock to be issued at no par value. Once used as a metric of stock valuation, the term par value has little meaning for present day investors.
Par value, sometimes referred to as maturity value is the face value of a stock certificate or bond and sets the price below which the security will not be issued. In the case of a bond, it is the principle amount that is due at maturity or call. In the case of a company's stock, the par value has no relation to the market value of the security and is typically set at $0.01 or $0.001 for US companies (though they can also issue no par value shares). Federally incorporated Canadian companies by contrast can only issue no par value shares. Provincially incorporated companies can issue shares with a par value which can be helpful in tax planning, estate freezes and unique preferred share issues. So the short answer to your question is that the 5,000, simply denotes how many shares you have, but the "no par value" part is for all intents and purposes irrelevant and only means that the shares were initially created with no par value. It's an aspect of the shares that's really only relevant to the company's accountants.
Par value has no real connection to the worth of common stock. For example, when Starbucks went public, its shares of stock was $0.001 par, but opened at $17 and closed in the same day at $21.50; so if there were 2,500 shares sold at opening, it worth 2,500 x $17 = $42,500, but this has no connection to par value. Assuming the 2,500 shares of common stock sold at par value and the earnings was $100,000.00; the par value would be $100,000 / 2,500 = $40.00
Paid-in Capital in Excess of Par Value in increased in accounting records when the value of a corporation's shares exceeds the par value of those shares. The latter occurs when investors purchase share from the corporation instead of from other shareholders.
Debit Cash / bank 2500000 Credit Preference shares capital 500000 Credit Common share capital 2000000