Annual General Meeting (AGM) During these meetings, corporate board members present annual financial reports and accounts to be ratified by shareholders. Shareholders can also question board decisions and vote on the appointment, election, or removal of company directors.
Structuring your business or nonprofit as a corporation creates fiduciary responsibilities, or obligations of trust. Traditionally, corporate directors and officers owe fiduciary duties to the corporation and its stockholders.
But to keep the liability shield in place, corporations must follow certain formalities—such as holding and documenting an annual meeting. Failure to hold annual meetings could allow creditors to “pierce the corporate veil” to pursue shareholders' personal assets to satisfy the business's debts.
Annual shareholder meetings are necessary but they can be costly, ill-attended and often do not add value other than their vital purpose under corporate law.
(a) initially, no more than 18 months after the company's date of incorporation; and. (b) thereafter, once in every calendar year, but no more than 15 months after the date of the previous annual general meeting, or within an extended time allowed by the Companies Tribunal, on good cause shown.
A company other than OPC must conduct at least one Annual General Meeting (AGM) in a financial year. The first AGM of the company, i.e. a newly incorporated company, should be held within nine months from the closing of the first financial year.
If your business is set up and registered as a Corporation, you're required by law to hold an annual shareholder meeting and to document the meeting with minutes.
All shareholders must be notified of the format, date, time, and place of the meeting. How far in advance notices should be distributed may depend on your state, but generally, they should be sent out more than 10 days prior to the meeting, but less than 60 days.
A shareholders' meeting is a meeting held by the shareholders of a company to discuss the arrangements of the company or to vote in the election of board members.