This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to research and apply areas of company and associations law in order to support relevant operations of a legal office, financial institution, accounting office, government department or authority or corporate section.
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• communication skills to discuss and document findings
• analytical skills to:
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• relevant international, Federal, State and legislative and statutory requirements and provisions pertaining to common law principals
• nature and regulations of a range of corporation law issues, including:
• types of companies and development of company law
• companies and alternative business structures
• regulation of companies
• company constitution/replaceable rules
• corporate governance
• a company’s dealings with outsiders
• registration of a company
• corporate liability and the corporate veil
• membership – rights, obligations and remedies
• capital raising by a company
• nature and regulation of company management
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):