Course Description: The choice of legal entity or business structure, including companies, trusts or partnerships, possesses a huge impact on taxation. The identification of the legal, regulatory and tax implications of each structure reveal essential. Many types of business structures and entities coexist and each one has a distinct impact on the required licenses, the amount of control held, potential personal liability and tax incurred. This course helps students develop and present a skilled analysis of business structure choices
 
 Course Objectives: This course will help you develop and present a skilled analysis of business structure choices.
 
Content:
Business structures: sole traders, partnerships and corporations
Trusts, agencies, joint ventures and incorporated associations
Tax legal aspects
Bankruptcy and insolvency
 
Duration: 12 Weeks 
Study hours: 10 hours per week
 
Professor: Dr Anne Walder