Secretarial Standard

Realising the need of growing Compliance Reporting mechanism in letter and spirit, SEBI came out with the Circular dated February 08, 2019 mandating Annual Secretarial Compliance Report to be submitted by a Company Secretary in Practice to the listed entity on an annual basis, regarding compliance of all applicable SEBI Regulations and Ci...

WITH ANALYSIS Every Company, while pursuing its business activities, has to comply with  so many rules and regulations relating to the Companies Act, Securities laws, FEMA, Industry Specific laws and General laws like Labour laws and so on… Therefore company have chances to face non- compliance risk like fine imprisonments penalties, l...

Non Adherence to Secretarial Standards lands Companies in a soup ;ROC imposes penalty The Companies Act, 2013 has entered into a maturity phase as its inception is over seven years. Secretarial Standards were introduced to plug in the gap that the Act did not provide for as a measure of good Corporate Governance. Yet, the […]...

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India 17th November, 2020 Dear Sir/Madam, Subject: Extension of last date to submit comments on exposure draft of Guidance Note on Auditing Standards on Secretarial Audit (CSAS-4) The Institute of Company Secretaries of India had issued first four Auditing Standards namely CSAS-1: Auditing Standard ...

This Standard prescribes a set of principles for convening and conducting Meetings of the Board of Directors. This Standard is applicable to the Meetings of Board of Directors of all companies incorporated under the Act except One Person Company (OPC) in which there is only one Director on its Board and a company licensed under […]...

To set out the explanations, procedures and practical aspects in respect of the various provisions contained in the Auditing Standard on Secretarial Audit (CSAS-4), the Auditing Standards Board (ASB) of the Institute has brought out the Exposure Draft of the Guidance Note on Auditing Standard on Secretarial Audit (CSAS-4)....

Checklist on SS-4 Report of the Board of Directors Reserves 1. If amount is transferred to reserves then mentioned the same. 2. If no amount is transferred to reserves the note should be mentioned in report. Dividend 1. Amount of dividend per share, percentage and dividend distribution tax thereon is to be mentioned. 2. Amount […]...

Secretarial Audit a system to check the overall compliance of Laws, Rules, Regulations, Circulars, Notifications etc, which are applicable on an Organization.  Secretarial Audit ensure that the proper compliance system are in order. Why Secretarial Audit is Important? To Protect the interest of the stakeholders of the Company To avoid t...

(SS-1) on Meetings of Board of Directors The Board may, by a Resolution passed at a Meeting, delegate certain powers to any Committee of Directors, the Managing Director, the Manager or any other principal officer of the company or in the case of a branch office of the company, the principal officer of the branch office, on such condition...

Clarification/ Guidance on applicability of Secretarial Standards on Meetings of the Board of Directors (SS-1) and General Meetings (SS-2). As you are aware, Section 118(10) of the Companies Act, 2013 provides for mandatory observance of SS-1 and SS-2 by all companies....