Postgraduate - UnitBTF5950 - Business and corporations law

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Business Law and Taxation
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2014 (Evening) Caulfield Second semester 2014 (Day) Caulfield Second semester 2014 (Evening)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Phillip Lipton

Synopsis

This unit provides an introduction to the important areas of business law and corporations law. The topics include contract law, negligence, trade practices legislation, agency, characteristics of a company, directors' duties, share capital, members' remedies and corporate insolvency.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

identify the important elements in business law and the regulation of companies and how they may be applied
identify the important features and characteristics of companies as a form of business organisation
analyse hypothetical case studies and formulate a legal argument by the application of statute and case law
demonstrate in individual summative assessment tasks the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by this unit.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination: 70%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Phillip Lipton

Workload requirements

3 hours per week

Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in one of the following courses to undertake this unit: 0748, 0790, 0826, 1822, 3843, 3849, 4402, 3174.

Prohibitions

BTX9020, BTX9541, MBA9002, BTX9500