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vendredi 13 juin 2014

Why Your Company Needs Minute Books

By Ina Hunt


Corporate books are also referred to as corporate or business books. They are a timely and systematically kept records about the companies key resolutions and meetings that have a big impact on it.The law has a provision for organisations to keep records of its key activities but not maintaining these corporate books.Maintaining them is a professional move especially for registered companies.Minute books come in many forms but the popular ones are the premium and deluxe types.

The content that is contained include shares of stocks of a company, compensation and retirement payments, dividends payments to the shareholders, corporate articles, bylaws made by the managers, shareholders names and important details, minutes of meetings proceedings, information about company directors and vital transactions.

The book is divided into several sections.It may contain sections on minutes of meetings, yearly profits of the organisations, a record of any dealings with the government, share owners agreements, transfer of shares register, corporate article and original shareholders agreement.

Since they were in use they have been handwritten and carefully numbered and dated.This ensures that the records are not changed in any manner once they are entered and they cannot be taken out once the documents are stored.The least time frame the records should be kept is roughly seven years but its important to maintain the corporate records for as long as the firm exists.Recordings should be up to date always.

Advanced technology has changed a lot about this books but the concept remains the same. Mostly the minutes of the proceedings are now typed and printed out by a secretary. They are then fastened to the minute book and stamped to show approval.

This documentation is sensitive, consult experts that are also outsourced by other organisations for assistance.Ensuring they are trusted calls for the company to go an extra mile and ensure the pages are fastened and they hold credible signatures.

The person in charge of the records is the firm secretary. They make changes and enter new data when necessary. The storage location of the document is normally central to the whole organisation, maybe its main offices. They are thus easily accessible to majority of people and traceable.

It is important to keep track of it for various reasons. They are the best backup information for financial audits. They are also used to verify the taxes that a firm pays the government. In case of any legal implications they provide vital documents to be used by the attorney. They also ensure that the day to day management of the firm is streamlined by use of the bylaws in them. A secure way of storing data and ensure easy access to all employees and stakeholders that may need the data. On other occasions they provide the needed records for corporate lawyers in case the company owners want to sell the business. Firms that keep the recordings improve their corporate image and increase their overall integrity to the general public as they seem to have no skeletons to hide in their transactions.

From time to time, managing directors, workers, company lawyers, government officers, financial accountants and interested investors may need to have a look at it to make key decisions.




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