Corporate Secretarial Essentials
Learn the skills that make assistants invaluable in the daily running of a firm, including lodgements, governance processes, and requirements.
Course Information
Get to grips with the length and breadth of the roles a corporate secretary performs day-to-day by diving into rules governing business activities and getting to know your organisation’s workings from the inside out.
- Excel in the duties required of a corporate secretary
- Apply knowledge & skills to complete the role of a corporate secretary
- Gain the skills to process and complete ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) lodgments
- Explain governance processes and requirements
Who should enrol?
Anyone who is a newly appointed to the role or for financial professionals working with ASIC lodgements.
Details
Price: $660 or $29.00/week over 26 weeks
Course Duration
Up to 8 hours
Access Time
24 months from enrolment
We’re ready when you are
Start any time with flexible learning hours and fully remote modules
Ab² students enjoy:
- Deep industry connections to future-proof your career
- Course development and teaching by real-world industry leaders, not academics
- Unrivalled student support by specialists who only serve the accounting industry
- Free student membership with accounting and bookkeeping industry bodies
- 100% flexible – Study online, anytime, anywhere, on any device
Course Modules
Our course has been custom-built by industry experts with decades of real-world, practical experience and knowledge. This will give you top-notch skills and understanding, making you job-ready the moment you graduate.
- Responsibility of a company secretary
- The discretionary duties and RACI Matrix
- Personal liability and obligations
- Appointments and reporting lines
- The difference between general counsel and the company secretary
- Governance with disclosure to regulators, shareholders and the public
- Benefits of good corporate governance
- Detailed company constitution details
- Ordinary and special resolutions
- Overview of regulating companies
- ASICS overview, disclosures, financial reports and registered agent information
- What are whistleblowers
- Understanding high-risk encounters
- Protections and obligations
- What are meeting minutes and when you have to do them
- Requirements of minutes
- Guide to taking minutes
- Board meeting members’ meetings
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