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Level 6 Diploma in Accounting and Business

Corporate Capital and Financing

AB601 · Corporate and Business Law — Week 9 of 16

CourseAB601
Week9 of 16
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This week’s topics

Corporate Capital and Financing

  1. Equity versus debt finance
  2. Maintenance of share capital doctrine
  3. Fixed and floating charges
  4. Regulation of public share issues and debentures
  5. Capital Maintenance – Payment of Dividends, Share Capital - Business Law (LW) (ENG)
  6. Corporate Financing
  7. Invalid Floating Charges | Business Law & Practice | SQE Prep

What you will be able to do

  • 5.2 Explain the capital and financing of private and public limited companies.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the capital and financing of private and public limited companies.

Study materials

Videos

  • Capital Maintenance – Payment of Dividends, Share Capital - Business Law (LW) (ENG) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 36 min · for registered students
  • Corporate Financing · YouTube · Dr Yannis · 36 min · for registered students
  • Invalid Floating Charges | Business Law & Practice | SQE Prep · YouTube · The Law Academy · 8 min · for registered students
  • Session 18: Financing Hierarchies, Miller-Modigliani & Cost of Capital Approach to Debt Optimization · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 88 min · for registered students
  • Session 19: The Payoff to Optimizing Debt Financing and Enhanced Cost of Capital Approaches · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 86 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • The Business Finance Guide, The journey and finance options · Reading · Other, report; pp. 6–29 · for registered students
  • Life of a company: event driven filings · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 17: How Firms Raise Capital · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 509–536 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: English Legal Framework
  • Week 2: Law of Contract and Obligations
  • Week 3: Sale of Goods and Supply of Services
  • Week 4: Competition and Anti-Trust Framework
  • Week 5: Cross-Border Competition and International Trade
  • Week 6: Intellectual Property Rights and Strategy
  • Week 7: Company Formation and Constitution
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Corporate Capital and Financing
  • Week 10: Company Management and Administration
  • Week 11: Corporate Fraud, Financial Crime, and Insolvency
  • Week 12: Applying Corporate and Business Law in practice: case studi…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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