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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 the contracts so tortuously wrangled over can be scanned, circulated, copied, digitised, OCRed, metadata extracted, catalogued, logged filed and archived do they can be locked away in deep storage never to be looked at again.
{{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 that 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.  
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.