Company and Secretarial Practice

BBL 3614 By Shereen Khan

OBJECTIVES
To provides the basic legal companies are governed, framework within which To provide information on how companies are incorporated, To understand the rights, liabilities, role and responsibilities of company directors, company secretaries and auditors and the accounting and reporting requirements,

To understand corporate governance obligations of the incorporated bodies; private as well as public companies, To understand the application of critical anlaysis in the understanding of law and legal issues involving company law

Learning Outcomes
At the completion of the subject, students should be able to perform the following tasks;
Define the basic legal framework within which companies are formed and governed

Distinguish the roles, responsibilities and liabilities of Shareholders, Directors, Secretaries and Auditors
Apply the relevant statutory requirements on business transactions and reporting Prescribe Winding-up procedures, Mergers, acquisitions, reconstructions and Minority protection laws Apply the principles of company law to solve legal problems by:
- analysingcases - interpreting statutes

DELIVERY METHODS
Lectures

Tutorials Discussion

1 Group Assignment (20%) Mid-Semester Exam (15%)

Final Exam (65%)

Assignment
1 Group Assignment Assignment must be solved as a group. Each group not more than 10 persons. Minimum number 8 members. Choose your own members!

On the face/cover of your assignment YOU MUST:

- Type names of group members & ID

Warnings!!!
Inter-group copying is an offence-amounts to cheating and plagiarism- if caught you will get a zero! Plagiarism is an offence- do not cut an paste without quoting source!!!. Use your own words. Attend lectures punctually

References
Aiman Nariman Mohd Sulaiman. (2008): Commercial Applications of Company Law in Malaysia, CCH Asia. Cheah Foo Seong. (2006 or latest edition). Guide to Company Law & Secretarial Practice, Malaysia, CCH Asia.

The Malaysian Companies Act, 1965 (latest update)

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES
Tan Cheng Han (Ed.), Walter Woon on Company Law, Revised 3rd Edition, Sweet & Maxwell Asia.

Kang Shew Meng, Company Secretarial Practice in Malaysia, 2007, LexisNexis.

Zubaidah Zainal Abidin, Malaysian Company Secretarial Practice, Prentice Hall. Baxt, R. (2009): Corporations and Associations : Cases and Materials, 10th ed. LexisNexis Butterworth.

Other References
Companies (Amendment) Act 2007 [Act 1299]. Securities Commission Act 1992. Securities Industry Act 1983. http://www.ssm.com.my/en/main.php http://www.klse.com.my/website/bm/contact _us.html

Contact Details
Email: shereen.khan@mmu.edu.my shereen.khan.984@facebook.com Ph No.: 03-8312 5694 Room : FOM BR 2029 Consultation Hours : Wed : 10:00a.m. 11:00a.m. Thur. : 10:00a.m. 12:00p.m. Fri : 12:00p.m. 01:00p.m.