CO5121 - Law of Business Organisations
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | College of Business, Law & Governance |
This subject provides students with the knowledge of partnership and corporations law that is required for admission to membership of the accounting professional bodies in Australia. Coverage includes the nature and existence of partnerships; partners' duties; partnership property; relations with outsiders; assignment, retirement, expulsion and dissolution; limited partnerships. It also provides detailed treatment of types and formation of corporations; the concept of separate legal entity; share capital and membership; lifting of the corporate veil; basic principles of debt and equity finance (securing debt and raising capital); replaceable rules, corporate constitution and the statutory contract; altering the corporate constitution; powers of the board and the general meeting; meetings, and statutory validation; directors' duties; capital maintenance and insolvent trading; members remedies; corporate authority and the indoor management rule; voluntary administration, receivership and liquidations.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate an understanding of a broad and coherent body of knowledge that includes the fundamental areas of legal knowledge, the Australian legal system, and underlying principles and concepts, including international and comparative contexts;
- identify and articulate legal issues and apply legal reasoning and research, critical analysis and creative thought, judgment and intellectual independence to generate appropriate responses to legal issues and to identify and solve legal problems;
- communicate in ways that are effective, appropriate and persuasive to present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas for legal and non-legal audiences both orally and in writing;
- demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge and skills with initiative and judgment and with due consideration of ethical issues likely to arise in professional contexts, appropriate approaches to ethical decision-making, professional responsibility and professional judgment in planning, problem solving and decision-making in professional practice and/or scholarship;
- learn and work independently, reflect on and assess their own capabilities and performance, and make use of feedback as appropriate, to support personal and professional.
| Prerequisites: | CO5119 OR LB5004 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | CO5221 CO5112 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 7 | |
| Census Date 06-Jul-2017 | |
| Non-standard start/end 17-Jun-2017 to 28-Jul-2017 | |
| Face to face teaching 17-Jun-2017 to 16-Jul-2017 (Sat 17th & Sun 18 June; Sat 24th & Sun 25th June and Sat 15th & Sun 16th July 2017 (classes are video-conferenced from TSV to CNS)) | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial participation (10%); assignment (30%). |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 7 | |
| Census Date 06-Jul-2017 | |
| Non-standard start/end 17-Jun-2017 to 28-Jul-2017 | |
| Face to face teaching 17-Jun-2017 to 16-Jul-2017 (Sat 17th & Sun 18 June; Sat 24th & Sun 25th June and Sat 15th & Sun 16th July 2017 (classes are video-conferenced from TSV to CNS)) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd |
| Lecturer: | Dr Helen Sungaila. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial participation (10%); assignments (30%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 06-Apr-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial participation (10%); assignment (30%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 07-Dec-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial participation (10%); assignment (30%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 10-Aug-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial participation (10%); assignment (30%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 06-Apr-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial participation (10%); assignment (30%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 10-Aug-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); assignment (30%); tutorial participation (10%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 07-Dec-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial participation (10%); assignment (30%). |
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