Learning Outcomes:
Topic
Introduction to Law
- The Irish legal system
Company Law
Company formation
- Types of companies
- Promoters
- Pre-incorporation contracts
- Registration
- Company names
- The constitution of a company
- Corporate personality
- The doctrine of ultra vires
Company management
- Company directors
- Statutory auditors
- The company secretary
- Meetings
- Company accounting records, returns, registers and reports
Shares, shareholders and share capital
- Shares
- Shareholders
- Company capital
Insolvency and business recovery
- Loan capital
- Receivership
- Examinership
- Liquidation
- Liquidators
Compliance and enforcement
- Court orders
- Offences
Commercial, Contract and other Applicable Laws
Contract Law
Commercial Law
- Tort
- Consumer law
- Law of agency
Other Laws
- Employment laws
- Health and Safety Legislation
- Data Protection Legislation
- Regulation of Accountancy services
Review
Indicative Module Content:
The Corporate Governance and Ethics module explores corporate governance theories, best practice principles and their application in organizational settings. It also considers the ethical dimension of corporate governance, organisations relationship with stakeholders and the importance of corporate culture to the longevity of organisations.
Knowledge will be co-constructed as students will be required to consider and critically evaluate the theoretical perspectives and best practice approaches, relating them to their own professional experience and/or general business knowledge. Apart from presenting best practice principles and their application in a general organizational setting, this module strives to integrate an ethical dimension in the decision-making processes of those governing organizations.