The Role of the Company Secretary Course
- Duration:1 Day
- Cost:£539 + VAT
- Ref:CIMA515
Are you fulfilling your statutory obligations?
Who is it for
Company secretaries and assistant secretaries of medium and smaller companies registered under the Companies Act, together with finance directors, chief accountants and administrators including anyone not trained as a company secretary who takes on the company secretary role.
Accountants and their staff in practice who provide company secretarial services experienced company secretaries who require an update.
The course would also be of value to those from public-sector organisations needing an awareness of current companies legislation.
What is it about
The importance of complying with the Companies Acts 1985 and 1989 was strengthened by the Company Directors of Disqualification Act 1986 and the Insolvency Act 1986. This and government determination to ensure compliance from all companies, whatever their size, has increased the responsibility of the company secretary.
Each year, more directors and their companies are being fined for non-compliance and an increasing number of directors are being disqualified and now major changes are being introduced by the 2006 Companies Act. This one-day seminar is practical in nature and will provide delegates with a thorough and an up-to-date understanding of the duties and responsibilities of a company secretary and will highlight the key changes being made by the 2006 Companies Act.
THIS COURSE IS RUN BY CIMA MASTERCOURSES
Course Overview
09.00 Registration and coffee
09.30 Session 1 The legislation
- The role of the company secretary today
- Limitation of indemnity
- Current legislation including the Companies Act 1989
- Company powers
- Membership of companies
- The memorandum and articles
- Alteration of the memorandum and articles
- Overseas companies
10.45 Coffee
11.00 Session 2 Company forms.
- Maintenance of statutory books and records
- Rights of inspection
- The seal
- Headed stationery
- Directors’ contracts of employment
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Session 3 Filing of accounts, accounting exemptions
- Accounts requirements
- Dormant companies
- Audit exemption
- Annual return
- Allotment of shares
- Pre-emption rights
- Payment for share capital. Share issues
3.15 Tea
3.30 Session 4 Conduct of meetings
- Secretary’s duties at meetings
- Directors’ responsibilities and duties
- Directors’ remuneration and interest in contracts
- Property transactions
- Loans to directors
- Insider dealing
- Directors and the Insolvency Act
4.45 Close of seminar
What will I get out of it?
- Practical up-to-date knowledge of current companies legislation
- A more acute awareness of the increasing importance being placed on compliance with the legislation and the need to file the required returns under the Acts
- 8 Hours CPD (for non-CIMA members)
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