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AFM 231: Business Law 
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University of Waterloo - AFM 231: Business Law

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024 - 2025

University	University of Waterloo
School	Accounting and Finance
Course Code	AFM 231
Course Name	Business Law
Notes Title	Comprehensive Revision Guide and Notes
Page Length	56

This is a complete summary of everything that is examinable for AFM 231: Business Law at the University of Waterloo. Within this document, you will find a comprehensive evaluation of the examinable topics for the course. You will learn and discover how the law affects business decision making and operations. It does so by examining a number of fundamental legal principles that impinge upon key business areas such as contract law, tort law, and consumer law. It also considers the relationship between business and regulators. This ideal guide is extremely helpful for you to revise all the topics, and to prepare for your assessments and the final exam.

AFM 231: Business Law focuses on the legal aspects related to contracts and business organizations. It also covers sources of law, the judicial process, real and personal property, torts, agency, credit, and negotiable instruments. Key topics include the legal environment of business, dispute resolution, contract law (covering contractual relationships, contract terms, and ending contracts), tort law, and business organizations (including organizational forms, corporate governance, and banking and credit). Additionally, the course explores property law, both personal and real, as well as intellectual property.

This course is not open to students in Accounting and Financial Management, Mathematics/ Chartered Professional Accountancy, or Biotechnology/ Chartered Professional Accountancy programs.

Antirequisites include AFM 335, MTHEL 100/COMM 231, BUS 231W, CIVE 491, GENE 411, and ME 401.

COURSE CODE	COURSE NAME
AFM 101	Introduction to Financial Accounting
AFM 102	Introduction to Managerial Accounting
AFM 231	Business Law
AFM 272	Global Capital Markets and Financial Analytics
AFM 273	Financial Instruments and Capital Markets
AFM 274	Introduction to Corporate Finance
AFM 275	Corporate Finance
AFM 280	Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
AFM 291	Intermediate Financial Accounting 1
AFM 322	Derivative Securities
AFM 391	Intermediate Financial Accounting 2
ECON 101	Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 102	Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECON 201	Microeconomic Theory for Business and Policy
ECON 221	Statistics for Economists
ECON 290	Models of Choice in Competitive Markets
ECON 322	Econometric Analysis 1
ECON 323	Econometric Analysis 2
ECON 371	Business Finance 1
ECON 372	Business Finance 2
ECON 423	Time Series Econometrics
MGMT 244	Principles of Marketing
PSYCH 292	Basic Data Analysis
STAT 202	Introductory Statistics for Scientists
STAT 443	Forecasting

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