(plural foundries) 1  A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc. 2  The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
Funds raised by issuing shares in return for cash or other considerations. The amount of share capital a company has can change over time because each time a business sells new shares to the public in exchange for cash, the amount of share capital will increase.
Paid-in Capital or Contributed Capital. Capital stock is a term that encompasses both common stock and preferred stock. Paid-in capital (or contributed capital) is that section of stockholders' equity that reports the amount a corporation received when it issued its shares of stock.here are 10,000 authorized shares, and of those, 2,000 shares have been issued for $50,000. At the balance sheet date, the corporation had cumulative net income after income taxes of $40,000 and had paid cumulative dividends of $12,000, resulting in retained earnings of $28,000.