Education and Career Forum

The study of company law and secretarial practice is very important in the whole course of commerce. If an individual seeks to perform the duties of a company secretary efficiently then he has to be aware of the rules and regulations and also the way certain functions are completed in order to accomplish the organisational objectives. Some of the topics taught in this course are the definition of a company secretary, his duties, responsibilities and liabilities, statutory meeting and the company secretary’s role in a statutory meeting, the different kinds of share a company can issue, the advantages and disadvantages of different kind of shares, debentures and different kind of debentures, the different methods of redeeming debentures, steps to be taken to obtain the certificate of commencement of business, share certificate and share warrant and their differences, ways to acquire the membership of a company and the ways in which it ceases, private and public company and their differences, basic qualifications of a company secretary.