This document discusses authority control for corporate bodies in the dPanther digital collections system. It covers: 1. The definition of corporate bodies and corporate names. 2. The concept of preferred names, which are commonly known forms of names based on preferred sources. 3. Guidelines for capitalization, transcription, and treatment of initial articles and name changes for corporate names. 4. Determining whether to record corporate names directly or subordinately based on RDA rules. 5. The importance of consistency when inputting corporate names into dPanther to avoid duplicates.