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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This unit will provide you with a comprehensive study of the law of business structures, with a particular focus on company and securities industry law. Topics include partnerships, trusts and other organisational structures, the effects of incorporation, the corporate constitution, registration requirements, prospectuses and share issues, administration of companies, raising finance, directors, shareholders, meetings, external administration and winding up, takeovers, special types of companies, and market regulation. If you have successfully completed the unit LAWS20029 you should not enrol in this unit.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: LAWS20058
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback
Improve the unit expectations and requirements
Unit expectations and requirements will be made clearer using Moodle, live workshops and overall design of the unit.
Feedback from Student feedback
Improve student feedback on the assessments
Feedback on the assessments to the students will be improved and more comprehensive feedback to be given to them.
Feedback from Student Feedback
unit to be more organised and improving the quality of the quiz questions.
Feedback considered to further improve the learning content of the unit. This feedback will be considered and unit learning materials to be improved from T1 2024.
- Research and advise on the principles of partnerships, trusts and company law
- Advise on the practical and legal features of the various types of corporate and non-corporate business structures, including advice on the risks and problems associated with particular structures
- Advise on and resolve problems and disputes arising out of partnerships, trusts and corporations
- Advise on proper practices of corporate governance, finance, reporting and record-keeping.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 40% | ||||
| 2 - Take Home Exam - 60% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||