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Documenting your corporate actions is crucial to ensuring proper compliance with banking and tax regulations, as well as protecting yourself against any personal liability claims. The Complete Book of Corporate Forms provides you with over 130 common forms every business needs.
Complete with step-by-step instructions, sample forms and additional clauses to create forms specific to your situation, you can quickly and confidently respond to any situation that needs attention. Find forms for shareholders, the board of directors and officers, covering:
--resolutions
--consents to action
--notices
--certifications
--proxies
--articles of incorporation
--bylaws
--assumed name
--certificate of authority
--articles of amendment
--issuing stock
--stock ledger
--shareholders’ agreement
--declaring dividends
--calling special meetings
--directors’ meetings
--minutes of meetings
--voting at meetings
--actions without meetings
--employment agreements
--creating committees
--nondisclosure agreements
--removing a director
--changing registered agent
--loans to directors
--borrowing money
--indemnification agreements
--property or equipment acquisition

The Complete Book of Corporate Forms makes corporate record keeping simple!

Table of Contents

How to Use the CD-ROM -
Introduction -

Chapter 1: Understanding Corporation and Business Basics -
• Reasons to Have Corporations
• Alternatives to Corporations
• Choosing to Be a Corporation

Chapter 2: Getting Started -
• Location of the Corporation
• Business Corporation Statutes
• Corporate Names
• Articles of Incorporation
• Organization
• Issuing Share Certificates
• Corporate Kits

Chapter 3: Corporate Decision Making -
• Collective Decisions and Proof of Authority
• Formal Minutes
• Minute Books—The Corporate Memory

Chapter 4: Board of Directors -
• The Place of the Directors within the Corporation
• The Size of the Board of Directors
• Electing Directors
• Resignation, Removal, and Replacement of Directors
• Committees of the Board of Directors

Chapter 5: Directors’ Meetings -
• Meeting Frequency
• Who Attends Meetings
• Who May Attend Meetings
• Notice of Directors’ Meetings
• Keeping Records

Chapter 6: Shareholders -
• The Place of the Shareholder within the Corporation
• Creating Shareholders
• Buying and Selling Shares of Stock
• Stock Transfer Ledger
• Agreements Among Shareholders
• Creating a New Class of Shares
• Certification of Shares by Secretary
•Lost or Destroyed Stock Certificates

Chapter 7: Shareholders’ Relationships and Meetings -
• Living with Shareholders
• Shareholders’ Meetings
• Planning and Conducting Meetings
• Voting
• Keeping Records

Chapter 8: Dividends -
• Accounting Issues—Money for the Dividend
• The Role of Directors in Declaring Dividends

Chapter 9: Officers -
• Number of Officers
• Duties of Officers
• Appointment and Termination of Officers

Chapter 10: Employees, Independent Contractors, and Agents -
• Employee vs. Independent Contractor
• Employee Pay
• Independent Contract Consultants
• Employee Benefits
• Noncompetition and Nondisclosure Agreements
• Powers of Attorney
• Agents for Service of Process

Chapter 11: Protecting the Officers and Directors from Liability -
• Avoiding and Compensating for Liability
• Indemnification of Officers and Directors
• Insurance
• Conflicts of Interest

Chapter 12: Amending Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation -
• Amending Bylaws
• Amending Articles of Incorporation

Chapter 13: Changing the Corporate Name -
• Adopting a Corporate Alias
• Changing the Corporation’s Name in the Articles of Incorporation

Chapter 14: Doing Business in Another State -
• Other Business Requirements

Chapter 15: Mergers -
• Statutory Methods for Merging Corporations
• Corporations of Different States
• Merger of a Subsidiary Corporation into Its Parent
• Merger of Corporations with Different Owners
• Unavoidable Complexities

Chapter 16: Other Methods of Acquiring a Business -
• Share Exchange
• Stock Transactions
• Asset Transactions

Chapter 17: Financial Transactions -
• Borrowing Money
• Loaning Money
• Buying and Selling Real Estate
• Leasing Real Estate
• Selling and Purchasing Equipment
• Leasing Equipment
• Assignment of Assets from Shareholder
• Certified Documents

Chapter 18: Dissolution -
• Effects of Dissolution
• Dissolution before Shares Are Issued
• Dissolution after Shares Are Issued
• Filing Articles of Dissolution
• Liquidation

Appendix A: Directory of State Corporate Statutes -
Appendix B: Website Directory of State Corporate Statutes -
Appendix C: Blank Forms -
Index -

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