Corporate Regulation

Unit code: BEO2006 | Study level: Undergraduate
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
City Campus
Footscray Park
Online Real Time
VU Sydney
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit will provide students with an introduction to key elements of effective corporate governance and will familiarise them with the concept of corporate regulation. Important areas of corporations law will be examined, with particular emphasis on the duties of directors and managers. Aspects such as incorporation, share capital and membership, company constitutions, agency and contracting, dividends, fundraising through share issues and by debt, shareholder rights and the insolvency and winding-up of companies will be addressed. Stock exchange regulation and corporate social responsibility will also be explored. Students will consider the types of rules and behaviours that constitute good corporate governance, equipping them to become effective business managers and 21st Century citizens.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Interpret duties owed by Directors, managers and employees, as corporate agents, to their organisations, shareholders and broader society, taking into account the body of corporations law;
  2. Assess alternative approaches to corporate regulation;
  3. Interpret and construe applicable laws and regulations that impact upon the roles of managers;
  4. Analyse legal problems and synthesise legal rules and principles with fact situations, applying methods of reasoning, to recommend courses of action; and,
  5. Persuasively advocate, in academic writing, suggested solutions to problems that can arise in contemporary business practice.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Assignment
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Grade: 20%
Problem based assessment (Group)
Assessment type: Case Study
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Grade: 30%
Applying company rules to a business scenario case study (Group)
Assessment type: Test
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Grade: 50%
Open book class tests - 2 Progressive Assessments (25% each)

Other locations

For students studying at Henan University, Liaoning University
Assessment type: Assignment
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Grade: 20%
Problem-based assessment (Group)
Assessment type: Case Study
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Grade: 20%
Analysing effective governance principles (Group)
Assessment type: Examination
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Grade: 50%
Open book examination (3 hours)
Assessment type: Test
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Grade: 10%
Multiple Choice and short answer questions

Required reading

Selected readings will be made available via the unit VU Collaborate site.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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