Finance for industry. Part 2: The public company

In the first article of this series, we examined the financing of the private company, and evaluated a number of the alternative options when raising outside capital with which to buttress the company´s own capital production from retained profit. In this article, we will be examining the transition of the private company to the public company, and the use by the latter of the `public¿ markets here in the UK to obtain equity and loan capital