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Organizations, particularly those in the pursuit of profit, have been implicated in a number of scandals involving bribery & corruption, fraud, labour and human rights abuses, and environmental degradation. What role does law and ethics play in holding companies and individuals responsible for such scandals? How can companies ensure that they pay attention to social, environmental and governance factors and remain profitable? How do individuals and organizations decide what is the right thing to do? This course provides a framework for students to understand broad sustainability issues and to apply ethical reasoning processes to decision making in the business context as well as other entities - not for profit, family owned business etc.  

This course is one of 6 NBS Sustainability courses for ACBS and BUS undergraduates. 

The aim of this course is to provide you with the foundational and intellectual skills to navigate the legal aspects of business. Specifically, this course provides a solid foundation on the legal methodology and the main principles of law relating to business transactions. A number of topics will be discussed in this course ranging from the formation of contracts, terms of a contract, breach and termination of a contract, law of agency, business organisations and torts.

At the completion of this course, you will gain foundational competencies in how commercial law and business practices interrelate and often influence each other in shaping modern commerce and industry. Key legal topics will be explained and illustrated from a business perspective. At the completion of this course, you will also gain a deeper understanding of the legal issues impacting on businesses.

This is a Foundational course for all ACC/ACBS/BUS undergraduates.

This course provides a framework to understand the structure of the Singapore income tax and the goods and services tax, enabling a working knowledge of key tax concepts and principles and instilling awareness of the impact that taxes may have on the decision-making processes of businesses and individuals. Students will be able to apply the tax laws to ascertain the tax treatment of common business and personal transactions and devise appropriate strategies for the minimization of tax costs.

This is a Compulsory course for all ACC/ACBS undergraduates.

The course examines the legal framework and laws governing how companies may be constituted, the relationship between its various stakeholders, corporate governance mechanisms, corporate finance and insolvency. The aim is to equip the accounting or business professional with a firm understanding of the legal and regulatory mechanisms that govern companies in Singapore.

This is a Compulsory course for all ACC/ACBS undergraduates.

The course focuses on the employment law in Singapore as a foundation for an understanding of the employment relationship and its incidents. The course examines how the law determines the employment relationship from a contract for service (associated with independent contractors) as the cornerstone of the employment relationship. The rights and obligations of the parties are examined not only at the contractual level, but also from the wider perspective of the common law, statutory framework (where applicable) and other sources of law which impinge on the employment relationship. The course also examines how and when the employment relationship comes to an end - by proper termination, summary dismissal, frustration, threat of harm, etc., and highlights claims for wrongful and unfair dismissal, and other remedies available to both the employer and the employee.

Besides a sound working grasp of the basic legal principles, the course is also intended to provide perspectives, theoretical and practical, from which to critically assess the possible solutions and the law’s responses to vital problems commonly encountered both in Singapore and abroad. Selected topics are given a comparative international treatment.

This course is one of 8 Specialisation Prescribed Electives for ACBS/BUS undergraduates specializing in HRC. 

Have you ever wondered whether your social media account is in breach of other people’s intellectual property giving rise to liability? Or even possibly discovered that others have used your social media material you published but have no idea what your rights are?

 If you have – and even if not – people and businesses today are facing challenges in protecting their digital property in today’s highly wired world of business and entertainment. This course is designed to prepare the participants to be professionals ready for the challenges of electronic media with grounding in all the necessary rules and regulations that impacts on personal and business use of the online environment.

This course is one of 10 Major PE courses of the Business Enhancement Courses for ACBS/BUS undergraduates (BU9302 is for non-NBS undergraduates). 

This course introduces issues in Singapore taxation not previously covered in AC2301 Principles of Taxation and focuses on the identification of tax mitigation and planning opportunities. Issues covered include personal income tax mitigation strategies for the expatriate on an international assignment, taxation of unincorporated businesses, tax implications of business and corporate restructurings, use of income tax incentives, application of tax treaties and the tax treatment of cross-border economic activities, and transfer pricing and tax avoidance.

This course is an elective course for ACC/ACBS/BUS graduates.

This course introduces students to key income tax and legal concepts, and the principles of international taxation and trade law. Particular emphasis will be placed on the international tax and legal implications of the international trading of commodities. Relevant case law, the interpretation and application of tax treaties, and recent international tax developments, including the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plans and developments in digital taxation will also be covered in the course. The Law segment will provide an overview of the legal issues associated with international commercial transactions.

This is a Specialisation Core Course for ACBS/BUS (ITP) undergraduates.

The aim of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the law relating to business.  As an introductory elective course, it will cover the main legal principles and issues.  Topics ranging from the formation of contract to the terms of contracts to termination of contract will be covered together with the topics of agency, business organisations and tort.  This course hopes to equip students with an awareness of the main principles of law relating to business transactions and the legal methodology and analysis skills for the same.  Students will thus understand how law and business transactions inter-relate and will gain a better understanding of the legal issues which affect businesses.

This course is for non-NBS undergraduates.The aim of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the law relating to business.  As an introductory elective course, it will cover the main legal principles and issues.  Topics ranging from the formation of contract to the terms of contracts to termination of contract will be covered together with the topics of agency, business organisations and tort.  This course hopes to equip students with an awareness of the main principles of law relating to business transactions and the legal methodology and analysis skills for the same.  Students will thus understand how law and business transactions inter-relate and will gain a better understanding of the legal issues which affect businesses.

This course is for non-NBS undergraduates.

This course introduces the fundamentals of ethical reasoning by asking basic questions about the nature of our ethical propositions and the way they work, and exploring how the key ideas in major branches of ethical – utilitarianism, Kant and Kantian theories, Virtue Ethics, and Natural Law - attempt to address these questions and their implications. The “Practical” in the title speaks to the latter half of the course which explores through case studies how such ideas may be applied in a variety of business contexts relevant to corporate social responsibility, employment and environmental sustainability.

This course is an elective open to all NTU undergraduates as part of NTU’s Liberal Studies menu.

This course aims to increase awareness of the negotiation process, to equip students with a basic framework with which to analyse and prepare for negotiations, and to help students develop a more effective negotiating style. This course also aims to introduce students to the concept of mediation, which is essentially negotiation with the aid of a neutral third party who is skilled in negotiation techniques. These skills are relevant to everyone and cut across all industries and professions, and are necessary in each person’s personal as well as professional life.”

This course is one of 10 Major PE courses of the Business Enhancement Courses for ACBS/BUS undergraduates 

The Law of Obligations and Intellectual Property is a course that comprises two parts. 

In its first part, the course seeks to instill an understanding and appreciation of the key legal principles and concepts that underpin the law relating to contracts, which could be regarded as a fundamental aspect of the law described as the Law of Obligations. Students will be introduced to common law, equitable and statutory principles pertaining to the formation, contents, validity, termination and breach of contracts, as well as the various remedies available to contracting parties. 

  

The second part of the course will be focused on the legal treatment of intellectual property (IP), which could be (albeit vaguely) described as creations of the human mind. Students will be introduced to three key types of IP, namely trademarks, copyright and patents, and will investigate how the law seeks to protect the rights of those who own IP and the limitations to such protection. In addition, students will have the opportunity of considering some of the current issues and emerging debates surrounding the protection of IP.

This course is for Renaissance Engineering undergraduates.

This course will introduce students to the classical theories of ethical behaviour, as well as applied ethics, and their relevance and implementations in real-world technology applications faced regularly in the business world today. It aims to stimulate the students’ sense of responsibility not just within the organisation, but to the society at large and to humanity in general. At the end of the course, students will be able to more readily recognise and be deeply aware of the various substantive ethical and governance issues pertaining to technology management, such a data ethics and be able to apply the techniques that allow them to resolve the conundrums in a manner profitable to the business and ethically acceptable to society.

This course is designed to provide participants with a working knowledge of the concepts, principles and applications of taxation laws and practices in Singapore, most notably those relating to the Income Tax and the Goods and Services Tax.  The emphasis of the course will be on the identification of tax issues faced by businesses and individuals in structuring their economic transactions, the analysis of the impact that taxes may have on the decision-making processes of businesses and individuals, and the formulation of strategies to mitigate and control such costs through legitimate tax planning.

This course is offered in the MSc Accountancy programme.

This half-course focuses on the management of key aspects of legal obligations in business. It will begin with an introduction to the Singapore legal system and regulatory framework for doing business. It will focus on giving participants an understanding of obligations in key business torts and contracts before introducing various legal tools commonly used to manage these obligations and strategies which enable contracting parties to best protect their interests. The course will conclude with an examination of the legal issues when contracting through agents.

This course is offered in the MSc Accountancy programme.

The course examines the legal framework and laws governing how companies may be constituted, the relationship between its various stakeholders, corporate governance mechanisms, corporate finance and insolvency. The aim is to equip the accounting or business professional with a firm understanding of the legal and regulatory mechanisms that govern companies in Singapore.

 

This is a compulsory course for the MSc Accountancy graduates.

Not many objectives in life can be achieved unilaterally. In order to get things done, we often need to obtain the agreement and cooperation of other people or organisations. Strong negotiation skills are therefore an important prerequisite for professional and personal success. Negotiation is valuable not only in a business context, but more usually and perhaps more importantly, in social and domestic settings. One of the aims of this course is to help you become a more effective negotiator. With the help of a variety of negotiation simulation exercises, we hope to provide you with the opportunity to identify your strengths as a negotiator and to work on your relative weaknesses. More fundamentally, this course will also provide you with a basic conceptual framework with which to diagnose problems and promote agreement in both your professional as well as personal life.

This course is offered in the PMBA programme.