A short & happy guide to business organizations /
"'Short and Happy?' This book is indeed 'short' - much shorter than any other student guide. The reason is that other student guides are written to help you understand your business associations/organizations course, to get you through 42 or 56 class-hours. This student guid...
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St. Paul, MN :
West Academic Publishing,
[2016]
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| Series: | Short & happy law series
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Table of Contents:
- First word
- Part 1. Fundamentals of all business organizations: What you need to know about agency
- What you need to know about financial statements
- What you need to know about your course title
- Part 2. Partnerships: What you need to know about the legal attributes of a partnership
- What you need to know about starting a partnership
- What you need to know about operating a business as a partnership
- What you need to know about a partnership's adding new partners
- What you need to know about partners' making money
- What you need to know about dissociation
- What do you need to know about partnership dissolution?
- Part 3. Corporations: What you need to know about the legal attributes of a corporation
- What you need to know about starting a corporation
- What you need to know about who is liable for a corporation's debts
- What you need to know about a corporation's issuance of stock
- What you need to know about the role of shareholders in running a corporation
- What you need to know about the role of directors and officers in running a corporation
- What you need to know about the legal obligations of directors to the corporation
- What you need to know about the law of shareholder derivative actions
- What you need to know about how insurance, indemnification, and the articles of incorporation protect a director from bearing the financial consequences of her breach of fiduciary duty
- What you need to know about dividends and other distributions to shareholders
- What you need to know about close corporations
- What you need to know about federal securities laws for a basic business associations/organizations course
- What you need to know about mergers and acquisitions for a basic business associations/organizations course
- Part 4. Limited partnership: What you need to know about limited partnerships
- Part 5. Limited liability companies: What you need to know about limited liability companies
- Last words