The document discusses various types of long-term finance sources and shares. It describes that long-term finance includes borrowed capital repaid over 5+ years. Common long-term finance sources are shares, public deposits, debentures, and financial institutions. Shares are a common way to raise long-term finance from markets. There are different types of preference shares including cumulative, non-cumulative, redeemable, non-redeemable, participative, non-participative, convertible, and non-convertible shares. Equity shares do not have repayment or dividend preferences. Companies issue various types of equity shares like blue chip, income, growth, cyclic, defensive, and speculative shares.