Saturday, December 28, 2013

Maintenance And Proper Handling Of Corporate Minute Books

By Harriett Crosby


Minute books are a permanent record or document that contains the resolutions passed by a company at its meeting and the deliberations that followed such resolutions. Every company is by law required to keep a record of all business of the corporation. One important feature that characterizes such documents is that they have to be maintained in an up-to-date fashion.

Documents of this nature produced by and for use by the corporate body are usually accessible to all stakeholders of each firm. The law requires that such records be kept at the main office or headquarters of an institution for use by recognized persons. No official of any body would be right to prevent any stakeholder from accessing such records for any reason at all.

Bound volumes usually contain all legal documents that outline the formation and existence of the company. This is to say that basic features such as the memorandum of association, articles of association and information on shareholders could be found in such records. The information contained here is usually quite detailed, to the extent that one could learn of the entire history of each organization by perusing the volume.

As it was earlier on stated, the law requires that corporations always maintain documents that portray their activities and history. This ought to be a responsibility that every incorporated association maintains and adheres to. The importance of observing this requirement is that the firm in question would have a reference point for future transactions.

Having the above materials at hand would also be important in instances where the company is undergoing a merger. In such cases all records that consists the entire history of this organization would have to come under scrutiny. The process of merging corporations could be quite complicated, especially in circumstances where the firm had been undergoing a financial crisis.

Sale transactions involving businesses on the verge of collapse for example would also demand the availability of information. All data that form the existence of a firm would have to be scrutinized carefully for a number of reasons. For example, this could help in the assessment of all the value of each organization and even in formalizing sale agreements and contracts.

Large establishments usually have large databases that may not be catalogued or organized without the help of professionals. Thus, in some instances, an organization would need to hire an expert to maintain all information and documents of any given firm. In this way, everything would be kept in order for future use.

Staff members of a particular organization are never allowed to go home or any other place for that matter with the minute books of each institution. Such a move would be completely inappropriate and unprofessional. This is because the confidential information contained in such volumes could fall into the wrong hands and this could be a huge blow to the institution. It must therefore be well stored.




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