Even where there is no requirement for a company to be limited by guarantee, it is still commonplace for incorporated social enterprises to be so. Generally speaking, this is because of the fact that shares are associated with profit and, in particular, the individual shareholder's ability to take profit out of a company, for personal gain, in the form of dividends. As most social enterprises exist to benefit a community or charitable cause rather than to make money for the people who run them, such a constitutional form is sometimes seen to be incongruous to the overall aims of the business, and the guarantee model is in turn seen as providing a more suitable framework. Of course, this is not to say that every worthwhile social enterprise has to be limited by guarantee: many CICs, for example, are limited by shares and find this an essential means of garnering investment which can then help them in the pursuit of their objects.