The Company Director's Desktop Guide

Overview

Stay on top of your obligations and save time, trouble and costs

The Company Director’s Desktop Guide has been providing accessible, expert guidance and assurance to company directors for many years.

With this comprehensive, user-friendly guide you can be assured that you comply with an ever-growing maze of legislation and minimise your exposure to personal liability.

PRACTICAL, JARGON-FREE

The tasks and responsibilities of the company director are becoming more demanding as the amount and complexity of legislation increases. This is a practically oriented book, ideal for you if you:

• Have no legal training – refers to the law but is jargon-free
• Need to know what you have to do and what you should not do – packed with checklists, hints and warnings
• Are pressed for time – focuses on ensuring that you know the essentials and do not break company law
• Are concerned about your liabilities – outlines how these can arise and provides guidance on how to minimise their effects

VALUABLE NEW MATERIAL

This new edition has been fully updated and revised to take account of all the latest changes to law and practice. It includes new material on:

• Employee comparability and consultation, including part time employees and fixed term contract personnel
• Accounting for ‘human assets’
• The Operating and Financial Review
• Corporate Social Responsibility

Content

Contents include:

1 The nature of the beast
2. A rose by any other name
3. Scaling the peak
4. Board members – and others – beware
5. The risk business
6. ‘Ill met’ – without method
7. A meeting’s two key players – The Chairman and Secretary
8. Board without boredom
9. An Inspector calls
10. Setting an example
11. ‘He who communicates leads’
12. Meeting the owners
13. Going public
14. ‘Write a better book’
15. No such thing as bad publicity?
16. ‘A personal viewpoint’
17. ‘Comparability and consultation’
18. ‘Directing now’

FREE CD

The new edition of this best-selling desktop guide is fully revised and updated to reflect the latest legislation. It includes A FREE CD, containing the most important Companies House forms and explanatory notes.

Reviews

‘I have come across many books that have purported to cover similar ground, but most fail by being either too simplistic to be of practical value, or too academic and wordy to sustain the attention of the reader. The Desktop Guide succeeds where its rivals fail, by focusing on the details that matter to directors. It is an excellent guide to what you are letting yourself in for, if you accept that tap on the shoulder.’

Robin Chew, Accounting Technician Magazine

The author

David Martin FCIS, FCIPD, FIoD has many years’ experience as a listed PLC Company Director and Secretary, consultant and author. For the last 21 years he has run his own consultancy, Buddenbrook, carrying out projects for a range of clients, large and small. He is a regular seminar speaker and author of over 40 books.