Corporate Minutes Book: A Legal Guide to Taking Care of Corporate Business

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Forming a corporation as a small or mid-size company doesn't mean a sudden switch to cookie-cutter products and impersonal service. For the owner, incorporating spells financial flexibility, tax advantages and limited liability -- in other words, ways to stay ahead in today's competitive economy.

The Corporate Minutes Book addresses small business owners who have formed a corporation and want to make sure it is treated that way. It offers them the answers, advice and forms they need to maintain the legal validity of their corporation before the courts and the IRS. Since minutes are the primary paper trail of a corporation's legal life, the book emphasizes when and how to prepare minutes of meetings. It also explains routine legal formalities such as how to record important business transactions, tackle formal recordkeeping and fill out a Corporate Records Book. The book offers more than 80, ready-to-use resolutions forms, both as tearouts on disk, that enable readers to approve and record the most common legal, tax and business transactions that occur in the life of a small corporation.

SYNOPSIS

If you've taken the time to turn your business into a corporation, chances are you'd like to see it stay that way. Your business card may say "incorporated," but if the courts and the IRS think differently, it's closing time.

Because meeting minutes are the primary paper trail of a corporation's legal life, it's important to know when and how to prepare these minutes. The Corporate Minutes Book provides all the answers, instructions and forms you need to get the job done.

Tear-out and disk minutes forms include:
Call of Meeting Meeting Participant List Notice of Meeting Certification of Mailing Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Meeting Shareholder Proxy Meeting Summary Sheet Minutes of Annual Shareholders' Meeting Minutes of Special Shareholders' Meeting Minutes of Annual Directors' Meeting Minutes of Special Directors' Meeting Waiver of Notice of Meeting Approval of Corporate Minutes By Directors of Shareholders Cover Letter for Approval of Minutes of Paper Meeting Written Consent to Action Without Meeting

The Corporate Minutes Book also gives you more than 80 additional resolutions -- both as tear-outs and on CD-ROM -- to insert into your minutes:
elect S-corporation tax status adopt pension and profit-sharing plans set up employee benefit plans amend Articles and Bylaws borrow or lend money from or to directors, shareholders and banks authorize the issuance of shares of stock declare dividends hire employees and contract with outside firms and businesses approve the purchase or lease of commercial property approve corporate contracts select a corporate tax year approve salary increases and bonuses authorize bank loans authorize a corporate line of credit purchase or lease a company car authorize the use of a corporate credit card to pay business expenses

The 2nd edition is completely revised and updated to reflect current law. So take a few minutes and read this book -- your corporation deserves it!

About the Author

Attorney Anthony Mancuso is a corporations expert and author of Nolo￯﾿ﾽs bestselling corporate law series. He is the author of How to Form Your Own Corporation for California, New York, Florida and Texas; How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (National and California Editions); The Corporate Minutes Book; California Incorporator (software) and co-author of Nolo￯﾿ﾽs Partnership Maker (software) and How to Create a Buy-Sell Agreement & Control the Destiny of Your Small Business. His books and software have shown over a quarter of a million businesses and organizations how to incorporate.

FROM THE CRITICS

Orange County Register

This practical guide gives step-by-step instructions plus the legal forms to be filled out and filed to keep corporate status.

Bookwatch

Answers, instructions and forms are packed into this guide - along with a disk of sample resolutions. The Corporate Minutes Book should be a part of any serious business library - and any corporate library.

Orange County Register

This practical guide gives step-by-step instructions plus the legal forms to be filled out and filed to keep corporate status.

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