ALSBers, 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 BUSINESS LAW COURSES OFFERED FOR THE CPA EXAM 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 ===================================================================== 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 ===================================================================== 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 ===================================================================== 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