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 MeetingShareholder ProxyMinutes of Annual Shareholders’ MeetingMinutes of Annual Directors’ MeetingWaiver of Notice of Meeting, andWritten Consent to Action Without Meeting.You’ll also find more than 75 additional resolutions that let you:elect S corporation tax statusadopt pension and profit-sharing plansset up employee benefit plansamend articles and bylawsborrow or lend moneyauthorize bank loansauthorize a corporate line of creditpurchase or lease a company carand more!“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 part of any serious business library—and any corporate library.”—Bookwatch