The Company Secretary is one of the key and strategic positions of a company and is highly responsible one. In some organizations a Company Secretary is also called as Corporate Secretary. Company Secretary holds broad skills including adherence to corporate laws, finance, corporate governance, strategy and corporate secretarial practices.
During the last two decades a lot of changes and developments have been occurred in corporate laws and regulations. Across the world the regulators for bringing stringent internal controls, have incorporated codes of corporate governance. Similarly in Pakistan after promulgation of the code of corporate governance more frequent changes are occurring at corporate levels. Due to such frequent and stringent changes the role of the Company Secretary has become more challenging.
Therefore to keep the company secretaries equip and conversant with the corporate laws, regulations and code of corporate governance there was a dire need of a platform where the company secretaries and their allied professionals may have the opportunity to join together and share and exchange their practices and experiences. Professional discussion and sharing related ideas may make the company secretaries more knowledgeable and uptodate with the latest and more frequent changes occurring on the front of the corporate laws and regulations.
The mission of the Corporate Secretary Forum (CSForum) is to strengthen the capacity of its joiners and members to better support their corporate entities and their boards.
In Corporate Sector there was a great need of exploring the possibility of forming a platform for the company secretaries. Therefore the CSForum has been founded to bring the company secretaries together from across the corporate sector and strengthen their capacity. The main objective of was to develop a platform that would encourage networking between the wide array of corporate secretaries and associated professionals as well as corporate service providers and to share up-to-date information on corporate secretarial practices, The forum has also been aimed at capacity building, strengthening relationships and to foster the employment and professional growth of the company secretaries.