Exam date:
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Examiner: David Kelly
Paper F4
Corporate and Business Law (Eng)
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Exam tips for ACCA Paper F4 June 2009
List of 13 possibles - but clearly only 10 will be asked!
Numbers in brackets are the question numbers from the BPP revision kit
- Delegated legislation ( 9 )
- Terms in contracts ( 26 )
- Interpretation of statute ( no question - look at course notes )
- Meetings for companies ( 86 )
- Corporate governance ( 105 )
- Redundancy rules ( 47 )
- Termination of partnerships ( 60 )
- Exclusion clauses in contract ( 28 / 29 )
- Dividends ( 81 )
- Inheritance ( 84 )
- Agency ( 52 )
- Money laundering ( 111 )
- Directors' statutory duties ( 90 )
Please Note
Tips should not be relied on - they are only intelligent guesses.
Their only purpose is to give you suggestions for topics to concentrate on in your last few days of preparation. Do not exclude other topics from your overall preparation.
Paper F4 Free Course Notes June 2009
Please note that these course notes are not meant to replace study texts.
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- Chapter 1 - Structure of The Legal System
- Chapter 2 - Courts
- Chapter 3 - Statute Law
- Chapter 4 - Contract Law
- Chapter 5 - Common Law
- Chapter 6 - Law of Tort
- Chapter 7 - Employment Law
- Chapter 8 - Agency Law
- Chapter 9 - Partnership
- Chapter 10 - Company Law
- Chapter 11 - Company Law: Directors and Officers
- Chapter 12 - Company Law: Meetings and Resolutions
- Chapter 13 - Company Law: Loan Capital
- Chapter 14 - Company Law: Liquidations
- Chapter 15 - Company Law: Corporate Governance
- Chapter 16 - Company Law: Illegalities
- Chapter 17 - Capital Maintenance
- Chapter 18 - Cases
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Audio Lectures for Paper F4
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- Introduction to Paper F4 and preliminary Exam tips for Dec 2008 exams
- Chapter 3 - Statute Law
- Chapter 3 - Statutory Interpretation Rules part 1
- Chapter 3 - Statutory Interpretation Rules part 2
- Chapter 3 - Statutory Interpretation Presumptions
- Chapter 3 - Aids to Interpretation
- Chapter 3 - Delegated Legislation
- Chapter 4 - Contract Law (part 1)
- Chapter 4 - Contract Law (part 2)
- Chapter 4 - Termination of Offer
- Chapter 4 - Offers
- Chapter 4 - Offers (part 2)
- Chapter 4 - Acceptance
- Chapter 4 - Acceptance (part 2)
- Chapter 4 - Consideration
- Chapter 4 - Pinnell and its Exceptions
- Chapter 4 - Pinnell and its Exceptions (part 2)
- Chapter 4 - Intention to Create Legal Relations
- Chapter 4 - Contractual Terms
- Chapter 4 - Contractual Terms (part 2)
- Chapter 4 - Exclusion Clauses
- Chapter 4 - Exclusion Clauses (part 2)
- Chapter 4 - Breach of contract
- Chapter 4 - Damages
- Chapter 4 - Damages (Measurement)
- Chapter 5 - Common Law - Remedies for breach (part 1)
- Chapter 5 - Common Law - Remedies for breach (part 2)
- Chapter 5 - Common Law - Remedies
- Chapter 9 - Partnership (Introduction)
- Chapter 10 - Company Law - Types and Ways of Formation
- Chapter 10 - Company Law - Types
- Chapter 10 - Company Law - Advantages
- Chapter 10 - Company Law - Disadvantages
- Chapter 10 - Company Law - Lifting the Veil
- Chapter 10 - Company Law - Lifting the Veil (part 2)
- ** NEW** Chapter 10 - Company Law - Formation
- **NEW** Chapter 10 - Company Law - Memorandum and Articles
- **NEW** Chapter 10 - Company Law - Articles - Alterability
- **NEW** Chapter 11 - Directors and officers - Directors Statutory Duties
- **NEW** Chapter 11 - Directors and officers - Common Law cases
- **NEW** Chapter 11 - Directors and officers - Promoting Success
- **NEW** Chapter 11 - Directors and officers - Remedies
- **NEW** Chapter 11 - Directors and officers - Company Secretary
- **NEW** Chapter 11 - Directors and officers - Auditors
- **NEW** Chapter 11 - Directors and officers - Auditors - Rights and Duties
- **NEW** Chapter 12 -Meetings and Resolutions - Annual General Meeting
- Chapter 1 & 18 (Cases)
- Paper F4 Cases (Chapter 18)
Examiners Recommended Reading
Business Law, 5th ed, D Kelly A Holmes & R
Hayward, Routledge Cavendish, 2005
Smith and Keenan's Law for Business, Denis Keenan,
13th ed, Pearson Education, 2006
These books are recommended by the examiner . If you are having problems with a particular paper, or if you want to do extra reading out of interest, then you might them useful.
The most efficient way of obtaining them is from Amazon in the UK.