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Chapter 2Financial Goals and Corporate Governance (Questions 2-1. Ownership of the Business. How does ownership alter the goals and governance of a business? The return to a shareholder in a publicly traded firm combines current income in the form of dividends and capital gains from the appreciation of share price: where the initial price, P1, is equivalent to the initial investment by the shareholder, and P2 is the price of the share at the end of period. The shareholder theoretically receives income from both components. For example, over the past 50 or 60 years in the U.S. marketplace,