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When a corporation is dissolved due to fraud, graft, and corruption, can innocent employees and stockholders have claims over the asset of the corporation after satisfying all its liabilities?

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Chapter1: Ethics Expectations

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When a corporation is dissolved due to fraud, graft, and corruption, can innocent employees and stockholders have claims over the asset of the corporation after satisfying all its liabilities?

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Liabilities are referred, when the money is borrowed and there is obligation to pay that sum of money in a particular period is known as liability. Liabilities are of two types namely non- current liabilities and current liabilities.

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