marți, 19 august 2014

What You Need To Know About Keeping Minute Books

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.

While everyone can have all these qualities and more, the very successful ones do not make it alone. Instead, they have affiliated themselves with a bigger group. After all, there is great power in numbers, which is why a corporation is very successful when it has accumulated loads of partners. These groups of companies also keep meticulous records in minute books, so as to assure of credibility and transparency that is important for every successful partnerships.

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.

They also provide the needed transparency that helps maintain the trust that one has for each other. After all, investors and owners bring in more or less the same amount of effort, time, and money for the growth of the establishment in question. These records assure each one that no important decisions were agreed upon by the others without their knowledge and approval.

Lastly, they allow third parties to look into it with ease. Most companies often turn to these third party providers for help, such as bankers and other financiers. A well updated plan will help the company receive all the assistance they can get.




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