Monday, 25 August 2014

What You Need To Know About Keeping Minute Books

By Deanne Shepard


The field of business is one that can easily swallow any novice who makes the mistake of wandering in, all wide eyed and innocent looking. The world of finances only favors those who know exactly what they want. A successful entrepreneur is one that is strong enough to make decisions for himself, brave enough to jump into risks, and creative enough to get the public interested in what he has to offer.

When one has all these traits, all that he needs to do then is to find similar people and work wit them towards a single goal that everyone believes quite positively in. Since there are more people who have invested all their time, money and effort in a single endeavor, it is then important that the company exercise some sort of transparency. Keeping minute books is one way to reassure everyone that no one is taking advantage of the other.

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 kept by every single company for a multitude of reasons. They provide for that ease in management so that the entire operations fall into place without any sort of hitches. They are also kept in a safe place for efficiency and security purposes. It is very integral that every single one of these documents be kept in a single location for ease of access when the need to consult them arises.

Not everything is kept in this record book. Most of the time, this includes records of agreements between parties, resolutions from shareholder meetings, decisive matters that rose up from director meetings, and the like. Articles of incorporation and corresponding by laws are also found inside.

Every corporation has its own reasons for keeping one. Some keep it to favor the shareholders. When everyone stays true to every single record, then they get protected by the company up to a certain level. These documents serve as a shield from personal liability issues that most shareholders are subjected to.

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.

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.




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