Whether or not a company secretary is appointed, the attendant duties and functions of the role must still be undertaken. It is therefore essential that anyone acting in the capacity of company secretary has a firm understanding of his wide-ranging responsibilities.

One Stop Company Secretary provides essential practical, advice and guidance on the whole range of company secretarial functions, including:

• company forms, meetings, resolutions and minutes, shareholding, dividends, reports and returns
• compliance by the company and its officer with legislation and other regulatory requirements
• the maintenance and updating of the statutory records and filing with the Registrar of Companies with the time limits
• an interface with the shareholders or guarantors, convening their meetings and compiling a record of proceeding
• the servicing of the board’s meetings, and that the legally required record of proceedings are compiled
• the provision of a focal point for legal matters and interpretation, and a logical point of contact for third parties with company.

Up to date for October 2009

Thoroughly revised and updated to include the changes resulting from the Companies Act 2006, from its Royal Assent to the implementation of the last remaining provisions on 1 October 2009, as well as corporate governance, environmental and business review issues.

Key features

Structured in an easy to use A-Z format, One Stop Company Secretary includes:

• Sample documents
• Case studies
• Checklists
• Warning notes, useful hints and tips

This refreshing no-nonsense approach gets straight down to the business of showing you how to tackle the problems yourself, making it an indispensable practical guide to the wide range of legal issues you are likely to encounter in your role as company secretary.

Paperback •  ISBN: 9781860724268 •   352 pages • Published July 2009 • £34.95

Contents
Using this book
Table of cases
Agenda and notice
Allotment and transfer of shares
Annual general meeting
Annual report
Annual return
Articles of Association
Auditors
Authority, control and delegation
Board meetings
Briefing the chairman – general and media
Briefing the chairman – meetings
Charging assets
Classes of shares and class meetings
Company secretary
Corporate governance
Derivative claims
Directors: appointment and familiarisation
Dividends
Elective regime
Electronic communications
Environmental obligations
(Extraordinary) general meeting
Financial year end
Forms
Gifts, ethics and interests
Incorporation
Interests in shares
Memorandum of Association
Minutes
Names and name changes
Nominee shareholdings
Operating and financial business review
Proxies
Quorum
Record inspection and retention
Registered number and office
Registrar of Companies
Re-registration
Resolutions
Resurrection of companies
Risk management
Sea
Shadow directors
Shareholders agreements
Single member companies
Social responsibility
Statutory books
Types of companies
Voting and taking a poll

About the author
David Martin: David Martin, FCIS, FIPD, FIoD is Director of Buddenbrook Consultancy which provides extensive corporate and personnel services to a range of client companies. He is a representative on the Employment Tribunal Panel and a member of the Registrar of Companies Wider Users committee. He is also a regular conference and seminar speaker and the author of more than 35 books