Product Description
Easy Guide to Company Law and Governance (eBook)
Author: DP Mahony
Format: Digital
The responsibility of running a company can be a mammoth and daunting task, especially for newly promoted directors. Directors are expected to ‘know their stuff’ – and it is ultimately up to them to ensure compliance with the Companies Act, which can be a formidable piece of legislation.
Knowing your way around the Companies Act and its regulations is only acquired by being able to look things up, understanding what is meant, and using this knowledge to make constructive input to board decisions.
This book has gathered related sections of the law into groupings – for example, auditors, directors, and records – and presents them in an easy-to-read style. The indexing of sections makes it possible to see what is required – for instance, with regard to appointing directors, removing them, remuneration, conflict of interests and more – in a single section instead of having to wade through the entire Companies Act to get the answers.
As such, it provides a handy assembly of data on the various company-law topics all in one place – a boon for those who have not studied company law and need quick answers, or those who need a succinct refresher.
Contents:
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Abbreviations
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1. Accounting records
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2. Alterable provisions
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3. Alternative dispute resolution
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4. Annual financial statements
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5. Annual return
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6. Associated company
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7. Audit committee
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8. Auditors
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9. Authorised share capital
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10. Board evaluations
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11. Business rescue
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12. Capitalisation shares
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13. Casting vote
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14. Certificate of incorporation
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15. Chairman
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16. Close Corporation
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17. Closed period
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18. Committees
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19. Companies
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20. Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)
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21. Companies Tribunal
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22. Company records
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23. Company secretary
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24. Compromise
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25. Conversion of a private company to public and vice versa
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26. Corporate governance
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27. Deregistration of a company
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28. Derivative actions
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29. Dissenting shareholders’ appraisal rights
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30. Director inductions
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31. Directors
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32. Directors’ report
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33. Distributions
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34. Financial assistance to purchase securities
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35. Financial assistance to subsidiaries
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36. Financial year end
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37. Foreign company
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38. Fundamental transactions
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39. Holding company
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40. Incorporation
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41. Insider trading
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42. Listing on a securities exchange
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43. Loans to directors
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44. Meetings of shareholders
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45. Memorandum of Incorporation
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46. Minutes
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47. Names of companies
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48. Non-executive directors
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49. Non-profit companies
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50. Oppression of minorities and others
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51. Parties acting in concert
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52. Perpetual succession
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53. Personal liability companies
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54. Pre-incorporation contracts
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55. Prescribed officers
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56. Price-sensitive information
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57. Prospectus
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58. Proxies
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59. Reckless trading
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60. Record date
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61. Registered office
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62. Related persons
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63. Reserve capital
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64. Resolutions proposed by shareholders
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65. Rights issue
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66. Ring fencing
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67. Round robin resolutions (directors)
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68. Round robin resolutions (shareholders)
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69. Securities
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70. Securities register
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71. Share option schemes
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72. Shelf companies
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73. Social and ethics committee
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74. Solvency and liquidity test
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75. State-owned companies
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76. Subsidiary company
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77. Takeovers
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78. Underwriters
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79. Whistleblowing
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80. Winding up
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