Showing posts with label Cooperative Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cooperative Management. Show all posts

Friday, June 22, 2012

How Soon Should The CDA Act On Your Application For Registration?

The CDA 30 days, after failing to act on applications for registration. If there is no action within 30 days, the application is considered approved, unless the application himself causes the delay.


What About Cooperative Unions?


What About Cooperative Unions?

Registered cooperatives and federations may organize a federation or join cooperatives unions to represent the interest and welfare of all types of cooperatives at the provincial, city, regional, and national levels.


How To Register Your Cooperative


How To Register Your Cooperative

          Once you have organized your cooperative, your work does not end there. The cooperative now needs a legal personality, so that a cooperative is supposed to perform. With a legal, personality, the cooperative can borrow money, sell its goods, and services, deliver goods, and enter into all sorts of business transactions. So that your cooperative can do all these, you must register your cooperative . Here is how you do it.


How Is The Net Surplus Of A Cooperative Allocated And Distributed?


How Is The Net Surplus Of A Cooperative Allocated And Distributed?

              Generally, the distribution of a cooperatives surplus is determined by-laws. Surplus is determined at the close of a coops fiscal year or as prescribe by its by-laws.

What Are The General Privileges Enjoyed By Cooperatives?


What Are The General Privileges Enjoyed By Cooperatives?

            These privileges are:
  • The right to deposit their valuable in government offices free of charge with the government official acting as custodian of such valuables.

Tax Exemption Privileges of Cooperatives


Tax Exemption Privileges

·         For instance, a cooperative which does not transact business with non-members or the general public are exempted from government taxes or fees imposed under the Internal Revenue Laws and other laws.

What Is The Board Of Directors?


What Is The Board Of Directors?

          The Board of Directors is the body that formulates policies, directs, supervises and manage the business of the cooperative.
          It is composed of five (5) to fifteen (15) members elected by the general assembly.

What Is The General Assembly?


What Is The General Assembly?

          The General Assembly is the highest policy-making body of the cooperative and is the final authority in the management and administration of the affairs of the cooperative.

How To Manage Your Cooperative


How To Manage Your Cooperative

          By organizing and registering a cooperative, you have taken the first steps toward helping prospective cooperative member make fuller use of their resources.

What does The Article of Cooperation contain?


What does The Article of Cooperation contain?

The Article of Cooperation is a duly notarized document that legally binds all the signatories in the formation of a cooperative.

What Are Cooperative By-Laws?


What Are Cooperative By-Laws?

By- laws should are the set of rules that determines how a cooperatives is to be run without confusion. In general, by-laws should be consistent with the provisions of the Cooperative Code of the Philippines (RA 6938). The by-laws include:

What is an Economic Survey?


What is an Economic Survey?

          An economic survey is a general statement describing the structure, purpose, economic feasibility of the proposed cooperative, area of operation, size of membership and other pertinent data. It, in fact a project feasibility study. The structure describes the kind of cooperative being set, up whether it is primary, secondary or tertiary and whether it is a credit, consumer transport or any other type of coop.

General Steps in Forming a Cooperative


What are the General Steps in Forming a Cooperative?

Basically, there six steps in setting up a cooperative.

1.      Get organized.
          You must have at least 15 members to do that. At once determine the common problems you would want solved and the basic needs you would want provided for through a cooperative. You may want to include increasing of your production, marketing of your produce, credit assistance, power generation, banking or insurance and other similar needs.




          Organizing a cooperative can both be complex and simple.
·         It requires, first of all an understanding of the basic needs of the perspectives cooperative members.
·         It demands patience from the co-organizer who must take the cooperative goal and objectives.
·         Its visions and long term goals a real part of the members lives.