The Corporate Records Handbook

Incorporating a business is an important first step in obtaining limited liability status. To keep that status, a business must observe a number of legal formalities, including holding and documenting shareholder and director meetings. Meeting minutes form the primary paper trail of a corporation's legal life, and this book provides all of the forms needed and instructions on how to prepare them. Minutes forms include Notice of Meeting, Shareholder Proxy, Meeting Summary Sheet, Minutes of Annual Shareholders' Meeting, Minutes of Annual Directors' Meeting, Waiver of Notice of Meeting, and Written Consent to Action Without Meeting. This book also includes more than 75 additional resolutions for: electing S corporation tax status, adopting pension and profit-sharing plans, setting up employee benefit plans, amending articles and bylaws, borrowing or lending money, authorizing bank loans, authorizing a corporate line of credit, purchasing or leasing a company car, and more--