Example sentences of "directors ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIRECTORS ' PROGRAMMES |
| 2 | The Institute and the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency have published three new guidance notes , dealing with disqualification of directors , employees ' non-preferential claims and directors ' claims as employees . |
| 3 | The third note , Treatment of Directors ' Claims as ‘ Employees ’ in Insolvency Administration , explains the criteria that have to be met for such claims to be accepted . |
| 4 | I have obtained the permission of the chairman to sell the shares as required by the company 's inhouse rules for directors ' dealings . |
| 5 | The London Stock Exchange requires that listed companies adopt rules governing directors ' dealings which are at least as strict as those of the Model Code . |
| 6 | Net profits of £30,000 with directors ' drawings of £25,000 will not generally help a business — except to collapse . |
| 7 | Most black directors ' budgets are pegged at around $7m , compared with the $25m-40m spent on the average Hollywood film . |
| 8 | The institute 's auditing committee said there are limitations on the auditors ' ability to know the systems as well as the directors , or to challenge directors ' judgments on activities and risks and the solutions they have adopted . |
| 9 | I would be interested to know how you think company meetings by telephone — particularly in the case of directors ' meetings — should be evidenced in the minute book . |
| 10 | Deputy chairman David Atkins and finance director Nicholas Fazakerley were criticised over irregularities relating to directors ' meetings , although , as the report stresses , their integrity was not in doubt . |
| 11 | directors ( number of directors , alternate directors , powers of directors , delegation of directors ' powers , appointment and retirement of directors , disqualification and removal of directors , remuneration and expenses of directors , directors ' appointments and interests , directors ' gratuities and pensions , proceedings of directors ' meetings ( including board meetings ) ) ; |
| 12 | It is not suggested however that directors ' duties , which are largely of judicial creation , are shaped by a theory that regards the purpose of the company and company law as being to further the public interest : it is not suggested that the ‘ social enterprise ’ perspective has influenced the development of the law . |
| 13 | Whatever the merits of entity or enterprise formulations as a means of protecting ‘ third party ’ interests , the content of directors ' duties is not currently defined in enterprise terms . |
| 14 | It is often suggested that ‘ the members ’ as the beneficiaries of directors ' duties means ‘ the present and future members ’ . |
| 15 | It seems to follow that if one wishes to change corporate goals one must look further than the modification of directors ' duties . |
| 16 | Should this be the case , it would seem to follow that a strict concern with shareholder interests would dictate that managers should instead attempt directly to maximise share price , and that directors ' duties should be framed accordingly , and not as just suggested . |
| 17 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 18 | If these short-termist pressures exist ( whether they do or not is controversial ) , the solution would appear to lie in addressing the market and institutional conditions that generate them , rather than the precise formulation of directors ' duties . |
| 19 | A consideration of the problem of standing and the practical difficulties faced by would-be litigants will be postponed until other aspects of directors ' duties have been examined , and will appear in Chapter 8 . |
| 20 | It proposes a new legal format , the Incorporated Business Firm ( IBF ) , which wold require a simpler presentation of accounts , simpler constitutional documents , a clearer definition of directors ' duties , and a choice between partnership or limited liability tax regimes . |
| 21 | Directors ' duties |
| 22 | Directors ' duties under company law are contained in Part IX of the Companies Act 1985 ( Sections 282 — 344 ) . |
| 23 | Show directors ' rights to subscribe for shares in or debentures of the company granted to or exercised by each person during the year . |
| 24 | These include , for example , directors ' contracts of service , and the registers of : — the directors and secretary , directors ' holdings of , and dealings in , the company 's securities , and ( in the case of a public company ) the register of 3 per cent . |
| 25 | Yet the committee voted four-to-two in favour of smoking in the directors ' suites — though they reckoned the air-conditioning would need fixing . |
| 26 | Persuade them to eliminate privilege parking , abolish executive dining facilities and open up directors ' toilets to everyone . |
| 27 | At the 2½ hour meeting , private shareholders raised persistent questions over the auditors ' and the directors ' actions . |
| 28 | Many delegates have talked about Europe this week , about the E C , about the directors ' laws and regulations come out of it . |
| 29 | Thus , although the legal model may prevent directors from regarding third party interests as ends in their own right , it is arguable that it is consistent with the directors ' obligations to the shareholders for the company to sacrifice profits in order to protect them given these possible relationships with shareholder utility . |
| 30 | These include , for example , directors ' contracts of service , and the registers of : — the directors and secretary , directors ' holdings of , and dealings in , the company 's securities , and ( in the case of a public company ) the register of 3 per cent . |