Legal aspects of corporate management and finance.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Open Textbook Library, distributor.

Series:

Open Textbook Library.

Open textbook library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporation law.

Finance--Law and legislation.

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Updated irregularly.

Distribution:

Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.

Place of Publication:

Arlington, Virginia : Saylor Academy, [2012]-

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance is an up-to-date textbook that covers key legal issues relating to corporate management and finance. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style. After introductory chapters covering the legal environment of business, Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to contracts, agency law, partnerships, corporations, commercial paper, debtors and creditors. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy students will need to talk in an educated way to customers, suppliers, employees, creditors, shareholders, government regulators and other stakeholders - and to their own lawyers."--Open Textbook Library.

Contents:

Introduction to law and legal systems

Corporate social responsibility and business ethics

Courts and the legal process

Constitutional law and US commerce

Administrative law

Criminal law

Introduction to tort law

Introduction to contract law

Contracts

Relationships between principle and agent

Liability of principal and agent; termination of agency

Partnerships: general characteristics and formation

Partnership operation and termination

Hybrid business forms

Corporation: general characteristics and formation

Legal aspects of corporate finance

Corporate powers and management

Securities regulation

Corporate expansion, state and federal regulation of foreign corporations, and corporate dissolution

Nature and form of commercial paper

Negotiation of commercial paper

Holder in due course and defenses

Liability and discharge

Legal aspects of banking

Consumer credit transactions

Secured transactions and suretyship

Mortgages and nonconsensual liens

Bankruptcy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license.

Description based on online version, v. 1.0, 2012; Title from OTL website (viewed on July 22, 2016)

ISBN:

1453343253

9781453343258

OCLC:

953874742

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access