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description: A Shareholder is someone who owns shares of a Company.
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# Share Holder

* A Shareholder is any person, company or other institution that owns at least one share of a company’s stock.&#x20;
* Because shareholders are a company's owners, they reap the benefits of the company's successes in the form of increased stock valuation.&#x20;
* If the company does poorly, shareholders can lose money if the price of company stock declines.

Any profit or loss made by a Company belongs to the Shareholders and hence the Shareholders are a liability to the Company.

ActiveBooks allows you to keep a track of all your Shareholders and maintain Share Transfers, Share Ledger and Share Balances.&#x20;

A shareholder is uniquely identified by the Shareholder ID. Normally this ID is a Naming Series starting with 'ACC-SH-'. Also as soon as the Shareholder makes even a single transaction, a Folio number is allocated to him. This also is unique to the Shareholder.

To access the Shareholder list, go to:

Accounting > Share Management > Shareholder

### 1. How to create a Shareholder[ ](https://docs.erpnext.com/docs/v13/user/manual/en/accounts/shareholder#1-how-to-create-a-shareholder) <a href="#id-1-how-to-create-a-shareholder" id="id-1-how-to-create-a-shareholder"></a>

1. Go to the Shareholder list.
2. Click on '+Add Shareholder'.
3. Enter the name of the Shareholder.
4. Add Address and Contact details.
5.  Save.

    ![Shareholder](https://docs.erpnext.com/files/shareholder.png)

A Shareholder can avail the features (operations) in the Share Transfer process. Only after shares are issued to them, a Folio Number and the shares will be visible.

#### 1.1 Contacts and Addresses[ ](https://docs.erpnext.com/docs/v13/user/manual/en/accounts/shareholder#11-contacts-and-addresses) <a href="#id-11-contacts-and-addresses" id="id-11-contacts-and-addresses"></a>

Contacts and Addresses in ActiveBooks are stored separately so that you can attach multiple Contacts or Addresses to Shareholders and other parties.\
