Talk:Company secretary

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Company secretary, at least in Australia, is someone who acts as secretary to the company's board and has various legal functions under the Corporations Act. They are a quite senior position, with a great deal of legal responsibility. Sounds nothing like what this article describes -- they are certainly not a "secretary" as in someone doing answering phone calls....

Yes, you are right, that is the definition. I'll change it.

EDIT Hi! I've edited your page. I'm a Chartered Secretary. I hope you are in agreement with the slight modifications I've made. Apart from that, "Well done!" Regards. Brian (ACIS) --217.205.245.158 21:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chartered secretaries employed as....

"Chartered secretaries are employed as chairs, chief executives and non-executive directors, as well as executives and company secretaries. Some chartered secretaries are also known in their own companies as corporate secretarial executives/managers or corporate secretarial directors."

This is rather confusing - a chartered secretary may well be a director of a company he is secretary of. However, he should never be a chairman or non-exec as this would be an enormous conflict of interest. I assume that the writer actually means that he may take one of these positions in a company for which he does not act as secretary but this is not clear and is it worth even mentioning this as a lawyer or accountant or any completely unqualified person could equally be a director or chairman of a company ?

Mahutchinson (talk) 16:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Please change the references link

Please change the references link for "The Corporate Secretary - Duties and Responsibilities". I don't have access. The link has been changed and should be: http://www.governanceprofessionals.org/society/The_Corporate_Secretary_-_Duties_and_Responsibilit.asp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.91.251.136 (talk) 22:26, 21 January 2009 (UTC)