Wednesday, August 20, 2014

By Deanne Shepard


Running a corporation or a company of sorts is no easy feat. It takes special people with their innovative ideas to make one small business grow from a small shop to a big group of companies. It needs daring, creativity, bravery, cunning, and a love for details and organizations.

Bigger companies have more things to attend to. The more the business becomes successful, the more it is riddled with controversies. Jealousy often pushes people to do all sorts of things, so heads of corporations are no strangers to the tactics and methods that competitors might play upon them. If, for anything, they come prepared for these attacks and secure the sake of their business empires by keeping well maintained minute books.

This book is a very important collection of documents that every company should have. It contains records of every type of resolution that has come to be agreed upon in every single meeting from every single department within the huge cluster that is a corporation. These very important papers are often entrusted to the capable hands of the company secretary.

Like all collections of documents, this book is a very important possession that companies should guard with care. It contains every transaction, every record of actions ever done by the company in the pursuit of growth. It is some sort of trail that allows one to look back upon everything else just as easily as they happened only recently.

They are also being kept by the company for loads of underlying reasons. They serve as guides that allow the management to supervise all aspects of operations with ease. They also prove to be of much importance in terms of security and efficiency in all company undertakings. Since all of the records are important, it is essential that they are placed together in a secured area for easy consultation whenever necessary.

This record book should hold every single official looking piece of paper that has something to do with the management and operations of a certain venture. Most often, certificates and articles of incorporation can be stashed inside. Shareholder agreements, by laws, director and shareholder meetings and resolutions are also to be kept in one secure location.

There are many reasons why these records should be maintained and updated as often as possible. For starters, they can be used to protect all shareholders from personal liability issues. A well maintained book allows every investor to take advantage of the liability protection that each company is required to provide. A corporation is only as good as its books.

It also allows one to take the required actions when the need arises. It prevents anyone from being left behind and kept in the dark regarding company decisions, especially as you have invested good money in the business along with the others. It allows a shareholder to be in the thick of things for him to be able to weigh his options and act accordingly.

They also should be updated for easy review by third parties. Big companies do not do all the work by themselves. Sometimes they need the help of bankers, who will look into their records to determine if they are worthy of the assistance or otherwise.




About the Author:



0 commentaires:

Post a Comment