The One-Stop Resource for All Your Board of Directors Needs

Become the best director you can be and strengthen your board committees to become as effective, dependable, and reliable as possible with Sheshunoff'sBank Director's Handbook. This single volume resource concentrates on the inherent responsibilities shared by all directors, and provides guidance on the narrower responsibilities that come with specific board committee membership.

Bank Director's Handbook is a director's primer, spelling out in detail what is expected of each director and what is necessary for a fully effective board, which is heavily dependent on the effectiveness of your committees. The manual is split into the following six parts:

• Executive Committee Responsibilities
• Risk Management Committee Responsibilites
• Loan Committee Responsibilites
• Audit Committee Responsibilites
• Planning Committee Responsibilites
• The Board's Legal and Regulatory Responsibilites

At the beginning of each chapter, you'll find "Goals and Highlights" to provide you with quick reference guidance on the crucial points of interest in the chapter material. At the end of each, you're given "Questions and Answers" to provide you with a means of checking your knowledge of the crucial points covered in the chapter.

The companion CD, sent upon receipt of payment, contains a PDF of the manual that can be quickly searched for guidance on issues that come up in your daily responsibilities, whether at your desk or out of the bank, as well as helpful tools such as:

• Board Support Material:
  • A set of community bank bylaws
  • Three different sets of model board minutes
  • A model directors' package for monthly meetings
• Lending Support Material:
  • A paper on the basic fundamentals of lending
  • A paper on how to apply these fundamentals to specific situations
  • A paper on loan management fundamentals
  • Material on loan loss reserves management
  • Material on OREO properties management
  • A paper on the basics of bankruptcies
  • A very important paper on how to lend money to a company that cannot or will not produce adequate financial statements
• Risk Management Resources:
  • A model risk management system
  • A model bank security system
  • A risk identification system

With Bank Director's Handbook, you'll receive the help and information you need to become the best director possible and to develop effective board committees that you can depend on to keep you, your bank, and the board out of trouble.

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