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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.

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This practical guide gives step-by-step instructions plus the legal forms to be filled out and filed to keep corporate status. Orange County Register Should be a part of any serious business library -- and any corporate library.Bookwatch Mancuso presents readers with the seventh edition of his comprehensive guide to the keeping of corporate records. The author covers corporate documents and the law; how to keep minutes, and record written consent, and other corporate actions; how to prep for corporate meetings; how to hold a director's or shareholder's meeting; preparing minutes for various types of meetings; action by written consent; conflict of interest resolutions; resolutions for loans to insiders; fringe benefits and reimbursement resolutions; and a wide variety of other related subjects. Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView

"""This practical guide gives step-by-step instructions plus the legal forms to be filled out and filed to keep corporate status."" Orange County Register ""Should be a part of any serious business library -- and any corporate library.""Bookwatch ""Mancuso presents readers with the seventh edition of his comprehensive guide to the keeping of corporate records. The author covers corporate documents and the law; how to keep minutes, and record written consent, and other corporate actions; how to prep for corporate meetings; how to hold a director's or shareholder's meeting; preparing minutes for various types of meetings; action by written consent; conflict of interest resolutions; resolutions for loans to insiders; fringe benefits and reimbursement resolutions; and a wide variety of other related subjects."" Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView"

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Anthony Mancuso is a corporations and limited liability company expert. A graduate of Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, Tony is an active member of the California State Bar. Tony writes books and software in the fields of corporate and LLC law and has studied advanced business taxation at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He also has been a consultant for Silicon Valley EDA (Electronic Design Automation) and other technology companies. He is currently employed at Google in Mountain View, California. Tony is the author of many Nolo books on forming and operating corporations (profit and nonprofit) and LLCs. Among his current books are The Corporate Records Handbook; How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation; Incorporate Your Business; Form Your Own Limited Liability Company; and LLC or Corporation? His books and software have shown over 500,000 businesses and organizations how to form and operate a corporation or an LLC. Tony is a licensed helicopter pilot and guitarist.

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