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.