ACCT256-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012

Law of Business Organisations

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 9 July 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 22 July 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 7 October 2012

Description

This course considers aspects of the law relating to companies, partnerships and other trading structures and provides an introduction to personal and corporate insolvency law.

This course intends to provide a basic framework of the law underlying the formation and practice of various business structures including companies, joint ventures and partnership and an introduction to the basic principles of individual insolvency.  With the diverse and complex nature of these areas of law, the course focuses on important principles rather than the detail. It is not intended to be a course for law students but for accountancy students requiring an overview of the law of various organisations.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students hould have a broad knowledge and understanding of fundamental issues underlying the law of organisations and individual and corporate insolvency.

Prerequisites

One of ACCT152, ACIS152, AFIS151, AFIS152, LAWS101.

Restrictions

AFIS253, ACIS256, AFIS256, LAWS312

Course Coordinators

Annick Masselot and Raymond Tiong

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Tutorial Attendance 10%
Term Test 40%
Final Exam 50% Take Home Exam via LEARN

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Beck, Andrew. , CCH New Zealand Limited; Guidebook to New Zealand companies and securities law ; Ed. 8; CCH New Zealand, 2010.

Graw, Stephen; An outline of the law of partnership ; 3rd ed; Thomson Legal & Regulatory, 2007.

Watson, Susan; The law of business organisations ; 5th ed; Palatine Press, 2009.

Wells, Nick , Wilkie, Phillippa; Wells' limited partnership handbook ; LexisNexis, 2008.

Students should have a copy of either CCH's Companies and Securities Legislation for Students, New Zealand Company Legislation, or Butterworths Company Law Statutes incorporating the Companies Act 1993, the Partnership Act 1908 and the Limited Partnerships Act 2008.

NOTE: You must purchase a copy of the commercial legislation as you can take it into the Term Test and the Final Examination.

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $655.00

International fee $3,138.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Accounting and Information Systems .

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