Corporation Basics Record Keeping

Corporate Minute Book

A corporate minute book is a binder (physical or digital) containing corporate records of the corporation.

By law, corporations are required to maintain certain records with respect to their shareholders, directors and officers, as well as important decisions made by the corporation. A minute book is a central place for storage of all of this information, including the Certificate of Incorporation, corporate by-laws, and records of share ownership.

Many incorporation websites will sell you a minute book but only give you blank documents to fill in. This often leads to corporate records not being kept or being completed incorrectly, which can cause significant problems in the future.

The minute books we provide upon incorporation contain all corporate resolutions, by-laws, registers, ledgers and other documents required to properly set up the corporation and record organizational decisions.

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