Corporate Records Handbook, The (Meetings, Minutes & Resolutions)

Keep your corporate status—and avoid personal liability

Incorporating your business is an important first step in obtaining limited liability status. To keep that status, you must observe a number of legal formalities, including holding and documenting shareholder and director meetings.

Meeting minutes are the primary paper trail of a corporation’s legal life—and The Corporate Records Handbook provides all the instructions and forms you need to prepare them. Minutes forms include:

•    Notice of Meeting

•    Shareholder Proxy

•    Minutes of Annual Shareholders’ Meeting

•    Minutes of Annual Directors’ Meeting

•    Waiver of Notice of Meeting, and

•    Written Consent to Action Without Meeting.

You’ll also find more than 75 additional resolutions that let you:

•    elect S corporation tax status

•    adopt pension and profit-sharing plans

•    set up employee benefit plans

•    amend articles and bylaws

•    borrow or lend money 

•    authorize bank loans

•    authorize a corporate line of credit

•    purchase or lease a company car

•    and more!

 With Downloadable Forms

All forms are available for download, instructions inside the book.