Auditors: Their Duties and Responsibilities, Volume 1H.Good & son, 1906 - Auditors (Law) |
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31st December Act of Parliament Annual Annuities apply appointed Articles of Association ascertain assets audit authorised Balance Sheet Bank of England borrowed Building Societies Act capital Capital Account Cash Book cent Certificate Chapter charged Chartered Accountants Companies Act Companies Clauses Companies registered Company's Court credit side Debenture Stock debit debts deduction Deposit Depositors depreciation Directors dividend entitled Estate Duty examined expenditure expenses Fees Friendly Societies holders included income inspection interest invested issued Joint Stock Companies land Ledger liabilities Loans Loss Account Management Members Memorandum of Association ment Mortgage Debentures number of shares paid Partners passed payable payment period person prescribed Profit and Loss Public Auditor purchase purpose Railway Company receipts received Registrar remuneration rent Report respect Revenue Account Savings Bank Schedule Section Securities shareholders Society or Branch special Act Statement taken credit thereof Trade Trustee Savings Banks undertaking Vict
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Page 76 - ... or been guilty of any misfeasance or breach of trust in relation to the company...
Page 281 - ... (79) Once at the least in every year the directors shall lay before the company in general meeting a statement of the income and expenditure for the past year made up to a date not more than three months before such meeting.
Page 249 - Whosoever, being a director, manager, or public officer of any body corporate or public company, shall make, circulate, or publish, or concur in making, circulating, or publishing, any written statement or account which he shall know to be false in any material particular, with intent to deceive or defraud any member, shareholder, or creditor of such body corporate or public company, or with intent to induce any person to become a shareholder or partner therein, or to entrust or advance any property...
Page 192 - A Partner making, for the purpose of the partnership, any actual payment or advance beyond the amount of capital which he has agreed to subscribe, is entitled to interest at the rate of five per cent, per annum from the date of the payment or advance.
Page 201 - Any annuity or other interest purchased or provided by the deceased, either by himself alone or in concert or by arrangement with any other person, to the extent of the beneficial interest accruing or arising by survivorship or otherwise on the death of the deceased.
Page 248 - Company, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to any of the punishments which the Court may award as hereinbefore last mentioned.
Page 420 - A. in the First Schedule hereto, the last-mentioned regulations shall, so far as the same are applicable, be deemed to be the regulations of the company in the same manner and to the same extent as if they had been inserted in articles of association, and the articles had been duly registered.
Page 45 - The amount of the capital of the Company, and the number of shares into which it is divided...
Page 20 - Court thinks just, or to contribute such sums of money to the assets of the company by way of compensation in respect of such misapplication, retainer, misfeasance, or breach of trust, as the Court thinks just.
Page 150 - Act, either terminating or permanent, for the purpose of raising by the subscriptions of the members a stock or fund for making advances to members out of the funds of the society, upon security of freehold, copyhold, or leasehold estate, by way of mortgage...