Tom, PLease send me the table.
Don Boren
Department of Legal Studies
Bowling Green State University
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>ALSBers,
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> The following is a summary of the various responses to the
>question of what law coverage is provided for future CPAs.
> I have this in a nice table, but I couldn't upload it into our
>e-mail system. If you would like the table, send me a message and I'll
>mail it to you.
>
> Tom Dunfee
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>BUSINESS LAW COURSES OFFERED FOR THE CPA EXAM
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>Professor Laura Ginger
>Indiana University, Bloomington
>Required courses:
> -legal environment course
> -something about commercial law, concerning topics on CPA exam (jr or
>sr year)
>May add new 150-hour requirement, which may require adding courses
>=====================================================================
>Leo C. Moersen, J.D., CPA
>George Washington University
>Required Courses:
> -1 business law course
> -a second business law course or a second tax course (majority choose
>b-law course)
>=====================================================================
>Peter Shedd
>University of Georgia
>Required courses:
> -Legal Environment
> -B-law course (contracts, property, agency)
> -B.Law course (commercial paper, secured transactions, bankruptcy,
>business organizations)
> for those on the public accounting tract
>=====================================================================
>Gamewell Gantt
>Idaho State University
>Required Courses:
> -Legal Environrment
>Second, graduate level, B-law course offered for accounting students in
>MBA program
>=====================================================================
>Joan Kritzberg
>Cal State, San Bernardino
>Required Courses: 2 business law courses
> -Business Law, lower division (Contracts/UCC)
> -Legal Environment of Business, upper division
>Used to have a separate b-law elective (third course) for accounting
>majors which was essentially a CPA review, but since most of our CPA
>candidates take a proprietary review course, we have dropped that and now
>offer a professional responsibility elective, not taught by lawyers, which
>is mostly ethics, not law
>=====================================================================
>Laura Pincus
>DePaul University, College of Commerce
>Required courses:
> -Business Ethics
> -The Legal Environment of Business
> -Commercial Paper and Sales
>=====================================================================
>Gary McNary
>Creighton Universtiy
>Required courses:
> -legal environment course
> -UCC/BUS Law course, to cover CPA exam questions
>=====================================================================
>Kenneth Schneyer
>Johnson & Wales
>Required Courses:
> -Business Law for Accountants
>=====================================================================
>Peter Ward
>Else School of Management, Millsaps College
>Required Courses:
> -one-half course Introduction to the Legal Environment
>of Business that covers the Constitution, the legal system, the
>common law (mostly torts), administrative law and international
>law and environment. Plus, a junior level class on Management,
>Operations, Marketing and Finance we insert legal modules devoted to
>Antitrust, Product Liability, Labor
>and Securities Law. (=one year of Legal Environment)
> -Business Law (senior year), Contracts, Sales, Negotiable Instruments
>and Secured
>Transactions
>=====================================================================
>David Reitzel
>Cal State, Fresno
>Required Courses:
> -Business and the Legal Environment, (nature of law and the legal
>system; business and the
>constitution; civil procedure; overview of criminal law, tort law,
>the law of contracts, the law of agency, and overviews of labor and
>employment law and international business transactions. BA18 is a
>broad course with an in-depth, integrative focus on contract and
>agency law.)
> -Either BA150 (property law, intro to UCC topics: sales, secured
>transactions, commercial paper) or BA151 (partnership, corps, other bus.
>org, sec. regulations and bankruptcy, and insurance law)
>=====================================================================
>Ernie King
>University of Southern Mississippi
>Required Courses:
> -Legal Environment
> -CPA prep b-law course
>
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>Don Boren, Chair Dept. of Legal Studies
>Bowling Green State University
>Required Courses:
> -legal environment course
>Commercial Law I & II offered, but not required; Commercial Law I may
>take the place of legal environment course
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>Mary Ann Donnelly
>Le Moyne College
>Required Courses:
> -intro legal environment/commercial law course
> -Business Law for Accountants
> -Federal Income Tax course, taught by lawyer
>=====================================================================
>Lucy Katz
>Fairfield University
>Required Courses:
> -legal environment course
>=====================================================================
>John Gray
>Loyola College
>Required Courses: (undergrad)
> -legal environment course
> -commercial law course
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>Fran Hill
>U. of Wisconsin - Whitewater
>Required Courses:
> -B-law 1 (3 c.u)
> -B-law 2 (3 c.u. UCC stuff)
>=====================================================================
>Jeff Gale
>Loyola Marymount University
>Required Courses:
> -legal environment: sophomore year class, with some UCC topics
>Not required, but advised: 2nd b-law course dealing with CPA topics,
>tradition business topics
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Don Boren, Chair
Department of Legal Studies
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
(419) 372-8023
FAX (419)372-2875
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