Business Law for CPAs
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Today’s CPA must have a working familiarity with a number of areas of business law to properly advise
clients and to protect their own interests as a practitioner. Business Law for Accountants is designed to meet both objectives. The course is broken into six main parts: (1) Business Entities; (2) Civil Liability and
Unfair Competition in Business; (3) Intellectual Property; (4) Employment Law; (5) The Law of Independent
Contractors; and (6) Bankruptcy Law for Businesses. You are bound to find many circumstances that are
relevant to you and/or your clients. |
Course Info:
- Course #: 7055B
- Delivery: Self-Study
- CPE Hours: 24
- Course Level: Basic
- Prerequisites: None
- Advanced Preparation: None
- NASBA Area of Study: Business
- Total Pages: 524
- Questions: 120
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Course Objectives
- To recall the major attributes of various entity forms
- To recognize requirements for forming certain types of business entities
- To identify the rights and duties of business owners
- To identify rules governing the management and control of business entities
- To identify personal liability characteristics of various business forms
- To recall characteristics of the American tort system
- To recognize when employers are liable for the acts of their employees
- To recognize the types of damages awarded in civil cases
- To identify the elements of a trade libel lawsuit
- To recall required elements for a cause of action based on intentional interference with
prospective economic advantage
- To identify the law of unlawful advertising
- To recognize characteristics of the major federal antitrust laws
- To identify characteristics of federal trademark protection
- To recognize characteristics of patent protection
- To identify characteristics of copyright protection
- To recall elements relating to various significant federal employment laws
- To identify what is covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- To identify how certain fringe benefits should be treated for tax purposes
- To recognize federal employment tax obligations of employers
- To identify penalties associated with misclassifying employees as independent contractors
- To recognize how the IRS determines worker status
- To identify the statutory classes of workers
- To recognize the employer’s good faith defense, and how it can be applied
- To identify some of the penalties involved in misclassifying workers for federal tax purposes
- To identify characteristics of the workers’ compensation system
- To recall characteristics of a chapter 7 bankruptcy
- To identify the provisions of chapter 11 bankruptcy
- To identify the filing requirements of a bankruptcy filing
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