منظور شدہ سرمایہ
A formal compound noun phrase of Arabic, Persian, and Indic origin that denotes the authorized capital, the approved capital, or the sanctioned capital of a company, a corporation, a business enterprise, or a financial institution, referring to the maximum amount of the share capital, the equity, or the investment that a company is legally permitted, by its constitutional documents, its memorandum of association, its articles of association, and the approval of the relevant regulatory authorities, to raise from its shareholders, its investors, or the public through the issuance of the shares, the stocks, the bonds, or the other financial instruments. The phrase منظور شدہ سرمایہ is composed of the Arabic-derived passive participle منظور, manzoor, meaning the approved, the sanctioned, the accepted, the granted, the permitted, or the authorized, the Persian-derived auxiliary verb شدہ, shuda, meaning the made, the done, the become, or the rendered, which combines with the passive participle to form the past participle or the adjective meaning the made approved, the sanctioned, the authorized, and the Arabic-derived noun سرمایہ, sarmaya, meaning the capital, the wealth, the funds, the investment, the principal, or the financial resources that are employed in the production, the trade, or the business. The phrase thus literally and precisely means the approved capital, the capital that has been sanctioned and authorized by the competent authority, and it is a term of the fundamental and the foundational importance in the corporate law, the company law, the corporate finance, the securities regulation, the accounting, the auditing, and the business and the investment discourse of the Urdu-speaking world. The منظور شدہ سرمایہ is the ceiling, the upper limit, the maximum boundary of the financial capacity that the company is authorized to tap, and it represents the potential and the ambition of the enterprise as much as its legal and its regulatory constraint, a figure that is stated in the memorandum of association, that is disclosed to the public, the investors, and the regulators, and that can be increased or the altered only by the following of the specific and the prescribed legal procedures, including the approval of the shareholders in the general meeting and the sanction of the relevant regulatory authorities.