Author : Ray B. Westerfield
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781330398104
Book Description
Excerpt from Banking Principles and Practice, Vol. 3 of 5 The Management of a Bank With the exception of certain private banks, banks in general are corporate institutions and as such have a representative form of government. The source of authority and control is the owners - the shareholders; they elect a board of directors to conduct the operations of the bank, and the board of directors delegates authority to certain officers, appointed and controlled by them, to execute their will and policy. Certain powers are inherent and inalienable with the shareholders, certain ones with the directors, and certain others with the individual officers. The officers common to all commercial banks are the president, one or more vice-presidents, the cashier, and one or more assistant cashiers. But with the expansion of business a number of the larger banks have found it necessary to have additional officers. Ordinarily the president is the chairman of the board of directors, but in certain large banks these offices have been distinguished from one another. A bank finding the number of its vice-presidents unduly expanding may designate several of its senior vice-presidents "executive managers," over whom one may be appointed "general executive manager." The duties devolving upon the president may be so great as to require an assistant to the president, and the duties devolving upon the vice-presidents may require assistant vice-presidents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.