Anteilsglaettung

English translation: to avoid fractional shares / amounts of capital

21:09 Mar 24, 2002
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Accounting / accounting
German term or phrase: Anteilsglaettung
From the discussion of a balance sheet:
"Das Gezeichnete Kapital von xxx $ hat sich um xxx $ veraendert, dies erfolgte zum Zweck der ANTEILSGLAETTUNG"

What is going on, and how to say it in English?

Many thanks in advance!
Chris
Chris Koenig
Local time: 03:26
English translation:to avoid fractional shares / amounts of capital
Explanation:
I doubt whether there is a single English term for this (in fact, there isn't one in German: "Anteilsglättung" is not quite correct, since it's the capital - rather than individual shares - that needs smoothing).

These adjustments of capital (e.g. of a company's issued share capital) frequently occurred as a result of converting the capital from, say, deutschmarks to euros. Consider a plc with a capital of DEM 10 million, divided into 2 million unit shares. Converting this into euros would result in EUR 5,112,918.81, or effectively EUR 2.55646 per share. Many companies therefore adjusted their capital to avoid these fractional amounts.
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Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 11:26
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Thank you both! The text makes sense now.
Chris
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Summary of answers provided
5to avoid fractional shares / amounts of capital
Ralf Lemster
4downward adjustment (in capital)
Roddy Stegemann


  

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to avoid fractional shares / amounts of capital


Explanation:
I doubt whether there is a single English term for this (in fact, there isn't one in German: "Anteilsglättung" is not quite correct, since it's the capital - rather than individual shares - that needs smoothing).

These adjustments of capital (e.g. of a company's issued share capital) frequently occurred as a result of converting the capital from, say, deutschmarks to euros. Consider a plc with a capital of DEM 10 million, divided into 2 million unit shares. Converting this into euros would result in EUR 5,112,918.81, or effectively EUR 2.55646 per share. Many companies therefore adjusted their capital to avoid these fractional amounts.


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Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 11:26
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 183
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Thank you both! The text makes sense now.
Chris
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downward adjustment (in capital)


Explanation:
The term "-glättung" can also mean leveling in the sense of decrease -- in other words a downward adjustment

You might like to try the Google search engine. It is where I got the idea: publication
... Erfolgt jedoch gleichzeitig infolge Entstehung rechnerisch krummer Beträge eine Kapital- oder Anteilsglättung, verbleibt es bei herkömmlichen Grundsätzen. ...
www.ra-jannack.de/seite2.htm

Roddy Stegemann
United States
Local time: 03:26
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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