Business and Corporate Law in Practice
PostgraduateTAS-BFA6012025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $3,127
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Business and Corporate Law in Practice
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain business and corporate law principles and critique its application.
- Apply business and corporate law to authentic legal situations.
- Communicate advice and reach conclusions to issues raised in authentic business and corporate law case studies.
- Week 1 - Introduction to the Australian Legal System
- Week 2 - Legal sources. Legal methods and reasoning
- Week 3 - Principal elements of the contract
- Week 4 - Terms of the contract and Australian Consumer Law
- Week 5 - Genuine consent in Contract Law
- Week 6 - Contractual remedies
- Week 7 - Torts and agency
- Week 8 - Business entities
- Week 9 - Corporate types and constitutions
- Week 10 - Corporate management
- Week 11 - Corporate obligations and responsibilities
- Week 12 - Corporate finance
- Week 13 - Corporate insolvency
This subject covers a range of legal topics relating to the business environment. It combines topics that are necessary for a consideration of business and corporate law including: an introduction to legal systems; contract law principles (including breaches and disputes);varied business structures, the law of agency, competition and consumer law; and basic corporate law and governance principles. The subject teaches students how to work through commercial disputes by identifying and addressing the relevant legal issues. These are essential skills for those wishing to work in both the fields of accounting and business management.
- Take Home Exam (30%)
- Workshop written submissions (x 7) (35%)
- Written Paper (35%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-PFA-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting
- TAS-PFA-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Professional Accounting
Elective
- TAS-MPA-MAS-2025 - Master of Professional Accounting
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting
PostgraduateTAS-PFA-GCE
Graduate Diploma of Professional Accounting
PostgraduateTAS-PFA-GDI
Master of Professional Accounting
PostgraduateTAS-MPA-MAS