Business Basics for Law Students : Essential Terms and Concepts

by Hamilton, Robert W.; Booth, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9780735525580
• ISBN10: 0735525587
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
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Summary

The book specifically designed to familiarize law students with such business concepts as accounting, economics, real estate, tax, business organizations and finance, fully revised for its Third Edition. This concise volume provides a solid foundation in the basic mechanics, concepts, and legal contest of important business topics. Business Basics for Law Students is tailored To The needs of lawyers who lack a business background: the authors draw on their experience as a casebook author and legal scholar to achieve the proper level of discussion straightforward explanations demystify the subject generous use of examples to convey ideas and applications a hepful list of New Terms in the Appendix is conveniently keyed To The pages in the text where they are used and explained frequent visual aids (reproduced documents, tables, and graphs) reinforce the text lists of topics at the beginning of each chapter uses bold type to speed identification of key terms and concepts, and presentation of many helpful lists clearly enumerate points and examples the Third Edition responds to used feedback while it reflects changes in the field: new and expanded coverage of residential real estate transactions, mortgages, bankruptcy, and insolvency more emphasis on valuing stock new and improved examples throughout the text, especially for real estate financing and tax benefits increased coverage of basic economic principles

Author Biography

Richard A. Booth is Professor of Law & Faculty Editor - The Business Lawyer at University of Maryland.

Table of Contents

Contents	ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	xvii
Debt and Interest	1	(18)
Present Value	19	(14)
Real Estate	33	(36)
Annuities and Retirement Plans	69	(18)
Insurance	87	(26)
Accounting and Financial Reporting	113	(48)
Valuation of a Going Business	161	(38)
Federal Taxation	199	(26)
Insolvency and Bankruptcy	225	(12)
Business Organizations	237	(42)
Corporate Securities	279	(22)
Dividends and Distributions	301	(16)
Mergers and Acquisitions	317	(38)
Trading in Stocks and Bonds	355	(52)
Options, Futures, and Derivatives	407	(32)
Investment Companies and Investment Advice	439	(38)
The Business of Law	477	(28)
Master Word List	505