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What are organisations, companies and forums?

Learn about the relationship between organisations, companies and forums in boardcycle

Written by Richard Conway

Your boardcycle account is organised into a 3-level hierarchy as follows:

Organisation

The highest level of your boardcycle account. You can only have 1 organisation per boardcycle account.

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An organisation can have 1 or many companies within it.

Example

A corporate group is an organisation in boardcycle.

Company

A company sits inside an organisation. Company is the word we use for a legal entity or other type of standalone organisational unit.

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A company can have 1 or many forums.

Examples

A public or private company, a trust and a partnership are all companies in boardcycle.

Forum

A forum is a group of people who are associated with a company who have meetings and make decisions or recommendations on behalf of that company.

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Meetings are created inside forums.

Examples

A board of directors, a committee or an executive team are all forums in boardcycle.

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