Skip to Navigation
Wellers Logo

  • Home
  • About us
    • About us
    • Partner profiles
  • Our services
    • Business services
      • Bookkeeping and accounting
      • Business start-up
      • Company and partnership formations
      • Company secretarial
      • Corporate finance
      • Mergers, acquisitions & disposals
      • Payroll bureau services
      • Profit and cash flow forecasting
      • Strategic planning
    • Tax and audit
      • Advice on wills
      • Audit and specialised audit
      • Coming to the UK
      • Corporate tax planning
      • Estate planning
      • Personal tax planning
      • Retirement strategies
      • Self assessment
      • Trusts and executorships
      • VAT planning and compliance
    • Specialist services
      • Agriculture
      • Bloodstock
      • Charities
      • Construction industry
      • Contracting in the U.K.
      • Forensic accounting and litigation
      • H. M. Revenue and Customs enquiries
      • Hotels, pubs and restaurants
      • Legal practices
      • Pension schemes
    • Wellers Contractors
    • Wellers Wealth Management
  • Contact Us
    • Oxford office
    • London office
    • Thame office
    • Banbury office
  • Guides
    • Business
      • An outline summary
      • The cuts revealed in their full extent
      • Lessons and challenge from the Spending Review
      • Low carbon economy
      • Transport
      • Pensions
      • Tax
      • Employment and PAYE
      • What they said about the Comprehensive Spending Review
      • In advance of the Review
      • Business start-up
      • Limited companies
      • Business finance
      • Partnerships
      • Your customers
      • Your employees
      • Sales and marketing
      • IT and e-business
      • Business regulations
      • Business and the environment
      • Selling your business
    • Personal
      • An introduction to tax planning
      • Introduction to the tax system
      • Planning aspects
      • Home aspects
      • Investments and investing
      • Retirement and pensions
      • VCT and EIS
    • Tax
      • Budget 2012
      • Year end tax planning
      • Financial planning guide
      • Tax rates and allowances
      • VAT
      • PAYE and NI
      • IR35 Centre
      • Tax and business calendar
      • Autumn Statement 2011
      • Budget archive
      • Finance Bill 2012
      • The Finance Bill 2011
      • 2011 PAYE Update
      • Regulation changes from April 2012
    • Business Plan Services' (BPS)
  • Calculators
    • Capital gains tax
    • Business start-up
    • Car benefit
    • Corporation tax
    • Unincorporated profits
    • Loan
    • Millionaire
    • Payslip
    • Savings
    • Stamp duty
    • VAT
    • Inheritance tax
    • Break even
    • Gross profit
    • Fuel cost
  • Business news
    • Business tax
    • Wellers News & Press Releases
    • Government Announcements
    • PAYE and NI
    • Pensions savings investments
    • Personal tax
    • Regulations
    • VAT
  • Links
  • Careers

Follow us on TwitterFind us on Linkedin

Home › Guides › Business › Limited companies › Companies Act 2006 › A more in depth look at the act

A more in depth look at the act

  • Forming a company
  • Choosing a name for your company
  • Changing the company name
  • Registered office
  • A company's members
  • Appointment of directors
  • General duties of directors
  • Transactions with directors requiring approval of members
  • Loans to directors
  • Related agreements
  • Directors' service contracts
  • Directors' liabilities
  • Records of directors meetings
  • Company secretary
  • Accounting records
  • How long should accounting records be kept?
  • Financial year
  • Group accounts
  • Directors' report
  • Appointment of auditors
  • Auditor's rights to information
  • Shares and share capital

Related guides

  • Accounting records
  • Summary of sections of the Act
  • General duties of directors
  • An auditor's rights to information
  • Group accounts
  • Business
    • An outline summary
    • The cuts revealed in their full extent
    • Lessons and challenge from the Spending Review
    • Low carbon economy
    • Transport
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Employment and PAYE
    • What they said about the Comprehensive Spending Review
    • In advance of the Review
    • Business start-up
    • Limited companies
      • The tax system for companies
      • Associated company tax rules
      • Tax and the company car
      • Company bonus or dividend?
      • Entrepreneurs' relief
      • Tax saving strategies
      • Claiming expenses - it's all or nothing
      • Benefits in kind and expenses payments
      • Corporation tax
      • Penalties for late returns
      • Main capital allowances
      • Industrial buildings allowance
      • Interest and tax payments
      • Business deductions
      • Companies Act 2006
        • A company's members
        • A more in depth look at the act
        • Accounting records
        • An auditor's rights to information
        • An historical record of the key changes
        • Appointment of auditors
        • Appointment of directors
        • Changing the company name
        • Choosing a name for your company
        • Directors transactions requiring members approval
        • Directors' liabilities
        • Directors' report
        • Directors' service contracts
        • Do you need an audit?
        • Filing of accounts and late filing penalties
        • Financial year
        • General duties of directors
        • Group accounts
        • Loans to directors
        • Records of directors meetings
        • Registered office
        • Related director agreements
        • Shares and share capital
        • Signing of accounts: directors and auditors
        • Summary of sections of the Act
        • Forming a limited company
      • Companies House - forms you need to know about
      • Should you form a limited company?
      • Buying a company 'off the shelf'
      • The law and directors' responsibilities
      • Statutory records
      • The company secretary
      • Essential record keeping
      • Getting the company struck off
      • Could your business survive without you?
      • 'Green' travel arrangements
    • Business finance
    • Partnerships
    • Your customers
    • Your employees
    • Sales and marketing
    • IT and e-business
    • Business regulations
    • Business and the environment
    • Selling your business
  • Personal
  • Tax
  • Business Plan Services' (BPS)
© Wellers
  • Site map
  • Terms and conditions
  • Copyright
  • Register
  • Login