Corporate Records Handbook "With CD": Meetings, Minutes & Resolutions "With CD" [With CDROM]

by Anthony A. Mancuso

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1413302017
• ISBN13: 9781413302011
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: NOLO
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.3" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

great book

The Corporate Records Handbook is a great reference to have. Especially if you are like me, and would rather manage the corporate book in-house than pay someone to write letters. I found this book easy to read, understand and applicable to our situation. When a subject is explained, the author covers several types of company situations. I would be surprised if you don't find this book very helpful. But, also remember, it is your corporate book so it doesn't have to be exactly like these letters to be acceptable. Just having your corporate book in order will be more than most small to mid-sized accomplish.

Excellent addition to my business library

This has been a big help for my clinic as I was new to business this year. It is full of information to keep the corporation doing things the way the should be done. I would highly recommend this to any small business getting started that doesn't have a lot of corporate experience.

A valuable tool for the DIY CEO

I bought this book a few years ago and it has been very helpful. I incorporated my business myself, and this book has made it easy to maintain compliance - very important should your corporation's status as such ever come into question by the IRS or in a legal proceeding. It's well worth the cost for the DIY CEO and a valuable tool

A superb collection of forms for an established business

This book contains a great deal of ready to use forms for your corporate records on many aspects of business operations but be careful if you are looking for information on minutes of first meeting. The book says not to worry if you don't have organizational minutes; however, such important resolutions as corporate seal or principal office are missing. Apparently these resolutions are covered by other NoLo books, which deal with formation of various corporation types. So just be aware, you may need to pick up one of those books in addition to this one.

Great coverage of exactly what it says it's going to cover.

Many other books on corporate forms try to cover everything (from selection of entity type to formation, filings, taxes, legalities, etc.) which means they usually just cover these topics in a shallow and frustrating way. This book covers exactly what it says it covers (meetings, minutes and resolutions) and covers these topics very well, with lots of details, advice, examples and related useful tid-bits. It doesn't try to be an encyclopedia of everything related to corporations, which is GOOD, it has FOCUS. Also, it's from Nolo press, a generally better publisher of these types of books in my opinion, and Mancuso has written lots of good business/legal books. The book is overkill for the typical LLC or small S-corp, but, on the other hand, these are the businesses that are at greater risk of having their corporate veils discarded in court. You can crank down the degree of formality to whatever level you feel comfortable, but at least you'll have a good idea of how the larger and more professionally-managed corporations document themselves. If you're a sole proprietor upgrading to an LLC, or a two-person corp of any type, then this book probably won't be what you're looking for. If you're a newly-minted MBA or lawyer and now you're handling the affairs of a small- to mid-sized corp as an officer or advisor, then I'll bet you'll think the book is great (and maybe you'll secretly hide it in your desk to make everyone think you just know all this "corporate paperwork BS" off the top of your head). In general, the book is very good at clarifying the weirdness of corporate documentation.