Fundamentals of Business Organizations for Paralegals

by Bouchoux, Deborah E.

• ISBN13: 9780735558434
• ISBN10: 0735558434
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-06
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Summary

Comprehensive, but without the length, Fundamentals of Business Organizations for Paralegals combines crisp writing and learning aids with a thorough treatment, plus up-to-date forms and cases. This thorough but unimposing paperback provides a remarkable fundamental knowledge: covers all types of business organizations, with both a basic and thorough understanding in a direct and concise format balances the need to cover critical topics with a straightforward approach, allowing the material to be covered in a shorter course. discusses each form of business organization thoroughly, including the nature of the entity, advantages and disadvantages, formation, operation and management, transferability of ownership, dissolution, and tax consequences details the role of the paralegal in each organization type, outlining the tasks commonly performed by paralegals includes useful exhibits and charts that highlight important topics. integrates sample forms with the textual discussion includes Internet resources that provide additional information, forms, or agreements defines key terms defined in annotation, and a complete glossary provides an easy reference for terminology uses case illustrations that illustrate the concepts of each chapter guides students with discussion questions that stimulate class discussion and ensure that students Understand The material features a complete ancillary package, with instructor's manual and test bank, PowerPoint slides, plus additional forms, such as tax forms The Second Edition is strengthened by: new "Net Worth" sections in each chapter, which list Internet sites pertinent to each chapter Practice Tips which provide useful and pragmatic suggestions for business and corporate practice an enhanced discussion of the 2001 Uniform Limited Partnership Act and of limited liability limited partnerships a new discussion of entity domestications (changing the state of organization) and entity conversions (changing the form of a business entity) a discussion of new and emerging trends in corporate governance, shareholder activism, and corporate reform forms up-to-date for 2006