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CAS provides you with the worlds leading solution for managing your company secretarial needs. CAS lets you take control of corporate compliance and convert your current compliance costs into profits.

And with CAS the company secreterial service you provide to your clients is simple.

From its humble beginnings in 1987, the Corporate Affairs System (CAS) has grown to be the most widely used and comprehensive Windows based company secretarial registry management solution available in the world.

• CAS is a clever, fast, intuitive and very easy to use task orientated corporate registry software package. When you use CAS you will quickly forget the days of manually preparing forms for Companies house.

• CAS automatically creates and prefills forms and supporting documentation to ensure you comply with all requirements of the Companies Act. As a user, all you need to do is input the change and CAS will automatically prepare all the documents you need.

• CAS automatically prepares electronic documents for lodgement the Companies House. CAS knows which documents to prepare for electronic lodgement for any change to your company records. By simply recording the changes and printing documents, electronic forms are quickly and easily created, ready for you to lodge. Not only will you experience greater efficiency in your work, but you will save yourself half the paper lodgment fees as well!!

• CAS produces and prefills the following forms for electronic filing with UK Companies House
  
  

  Form Number	Form Name
  10	First Directors, Secretary and Registered Office
  88(2)	Return of Allotment of shares
  123	Increase in Nominal Capital
  190/190a	Location of Register of Debentures
  287	Change of Registered Office
  288a	Appointment of Director or Secretary
  288b	Resignation of Director or Secretary
  288c	Change of particulars of Director or Secretary
  353/353a	Location of Register of Members
  363a	Annual Return

• CAS also produces and prefills the following commonly used forms for Limited Company and Limited Liability Partnership for manual filing with the UK Companies House
  
  

  Form Number	Form Name
  6	Cancellation of Alteration to objects
  12	Declaration on Application for Registration
  88 (3)	Particulars of contract relating to share issue
  122	Notice of consolidation, division, etc.
  169	Return by a company purchasing own shares
  225	Change of Accounting Reference Date
  318	Location of Directors Service Contracts
  325/325a	Register of Directors interests in shares
  391	Resolution of Removal of Auditor
  395	Particulars of Mortgage or Charge
  398	Certificate of Registration of Charge
  400	Mortgage or Charge subject to property
  403a	Declaration of Satisfaction of Charge
  652a	Application for Striking Off
  652c	Withdrawal of Application for Striking Off

• CAS includes a very comprehensive screen based electronic help system. Simply written, CAS help and online training manuals are designed to guide you step by step through the data input and document preparation processes, ensuring you will always comply with the requirements Companies House.

• CAS gives you the power and functionality to be able to prepare in excess of 400 Company and Business names forms and documentation that guarantee compliance for 16 corporate jurisdictions including Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore.

• CAS allows documents to be automatically exported to Adobe Portable Format (PDF). CAS intelligently saves these documents for easy document retrieval. CAS includes an in-built email system that will allow you to easily email PDF file to your clients or business associates. By using Crystal Reports, the world's leading report writer and our highly sophisticated text maintenance system, CAS users can easily change any document to meet individual needs.

• CAS automatically tracks all documents as and when they are prepared. This tracking, coupled with automatic updates after electronic filing and the unique CAS Task Management system, give you full control over documents from preparation to lodgement and beyond.

• CAS includes hundreds of standard management reports and listings as well as BGL Query, a sophisticated software solution that enables you to create user defined reports.

• CAS includes BGL Corporate Tree - an easy to use graphical tool that allows the creation of corporate trees from your CAS database in seconds.

• CASNet, the browser interface to CAS allows reports to be viewed by your clients or staff via the Internet or your corporate Intranet, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

• The CAS Product Range includes three scalable corporate registry solutions - CAS, CASLite Plus and CASLite. By providing you with choice, BGL can ensure you have the right solution to meet your business needs.