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{{a|g|[[File: Elephants and turtle.jpg|450px|center|The corporate secretarial unit, yesterday]]}}Once the shooting, and the shouting, is over, there is the delicate business of putting pen to paper, so | {{a|g|[[File: Elephants and turtle.jpg|450px|center|The corporate secretarial unit, yesterday]]}}Once the shooting, and the shouting, is over, there is the delicate business of putting pen to paper, so that [[contract]]s so tortuously wrangled over can be scanned, circulated, copied, digitised, character-recognised, [[metadata]] extracted, catalogued, logged, filed, archived and cryogenically frozen so they can be locked away in deep storage never to be looked at again. | ||
Part of | Part of the [[audit]] process is to validate that the signatures appended to the document on your counterparty’s behalf belong to people suitably authorised by your counterparty to put them there. | ||
It seems mundane, but the ritual has its roots in deep philosophical magic. This is the commercial Eucharist: the transubstantiation of the disembodied corporate spirit through mortal hands, to binding contractual covenant. | It seems mundane, but the ritual has its roots in deep philosophical magic. This is the commercial Eucharist: the transubstantiation of the disembodied corporate spirit through mortal hands, to binding contractual covenant. | ||