Business Law | All Modules
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These modules introduce the legal system and the laws that shape business and corporations, using Australia as the framework for the legal environment.
What this course covers:
- The legal system and sources of law in Australia
- Common law and statutory principles in the commercial environment
- Key features of contract law and related areas
- Corporations law, including the separate legal entity and company formation
- Directors, management, members' rights, and winding up a company
It gives professionals and students a working appreciation of how law regulates business and society.
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Business Law | All Modules
Build a working understanding of the business law that underpins everyday commercial agreements.
What this course covers:
- Key features of contract law and other essential areas of business law
- What makes an agreement a legally enforceable contract
- Why honouring promises builds confidence and stability in the marketplace
- Examples ranging from a simple purchase to complex international and insurance contracts
You will leave able to recognise how the law applies to business enterprise.
Insolvency, the inability to pay debts as they fall due, drives about half of all litigation involving companies in Australia.
What this course covers:
- Law relating to directors, management, and members rights
- How insolvency applies to winding up a company
- Insolvent trading provisions under the Corporations Act 2001
- How bankruptcy differs from insolvency and applies to individuals
- Discharge from bankruptcy and its effect on provable debts
Essential grounding for study and for accounting, legal, and banking practice.
Corporations are created by statute, and this course examines the essential elements of corporations law that every business professional should understand.
What this course covers:
- The concept of a company as a separate legal entity distinct from its members
- Company formation and operation under the Corporations Act 2001
- The types of companies allowed and the role of the company constitution
- Promoters' fiduciary duties and the principle of perpetual succession
- Corporate governance and when courts look beyond the corporate entity
You will finish with a clear grounding in how companies are formed and governed.
This course develops your understanding and application of the law relating to company directors, management and the rights of members.
What this course covers:
- How a person becomes a member of a company, including consent and registration
- Application and allotment of shares as a contract with the company
- How membership passes through the transfer of shares
- The role of the register of members
- Directors' duties and shareholders' rights
Study company law at your own pace, self-paced on Coggno.
This course introduces the legal system and the common law and statutory principles that shape the commercial environment and corporate governance.
What this course covers:
A solid grounding in the legal principles behind the commercial environment.