Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)


Question 1
a) Use the web site of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and (if necessary) other legal sources to answer the following questions.
(i) What isthe difference in purpose between anACN and an ABN?
(ii) What types of entities are entitled to an ABN and how does this differ from the entities that receive an ACN? (1 mark)
(iii) When setting up a company, how do you ensure that your preferred name for the company is available? (1 mark)
(iv) In what circumstances will the name be unavailable?
(v) What steps are required to change a company name?
b) Search the register of enforceable undertakings and locate the enforceable undertaking of Stuart Hamilton Camerongiven in October 2011. Use the information in the undertaking and relevant legislation (if necessary) to answer the following questions using your own words.
(i) What legal powers was ASIC enforcing when it became involved in this matter?
(ii) What negligent and unlawful conduct of Mr Cameron led to ASIC’s intervention?
(iii) What was the outcome of ASIC’s intervention?
Question 2 4 Marks
Use the web page of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and the Corporations Act 2001 to answer the following questions in your own words:-
(a) In what exceptional circumstances is a publicly listed company NOT required to make continuous disclosure of information which would materially affect its share price?
(b) Summarisethe requirements in the listing rules for proxy forms?
For Question 3 you are expected to access, interpret and analyse legislation related to the regulation of companies in Australia.
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Question 3
In this question you should research the Corporations Act 2001 and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001(ASIC Act) to identify offences.
a) What conduct is involved in securities hawking?
b) Susan is a supplier of financial services. She advertises that if customers purchase her services, they will be entitled to a free book on profitable investment strategies. She actually has no such books, and intends to tell customers that stocks have run out. What offence has she committed? Specify the section and how the section has been breached.
For Question 4 you are expected to access, interpret and analyse a recent law caseusing its primary record (the published law report).
Question 4
At the website of www.austlii.edu.au, locate the New South Wales Supreme Court decision in the Application of Marilyn Joy Cottee; Estate of Gwenyth Shirley Smith [2013] NSWSC 47, and answer the following questions, using your own words for longer answers.
(a) How many beneficiaries did the trust have and how many were under 25 years of age?
(b) What relationships did the testator have with the trustees and beneficiaries?
(c) Why did the trustees apply to the court, even though they had an absolute discretion under the trust?
(d) Why was it wise to get the solicitor to interview the children and swear an affidavit?
(e) What was the main legal point the Court had to decide before giving the plaintiffs what they sought in their application?
(f) Why was the mortgage proposed?

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Management

Management You are required to write a report that critically identifies the relationship between Employee Engagement and Overall Organisational performance. Your report must be of a critical nature and must not assume that Employment engagement has a positive relationship with profit margins.

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criminology


1.) In what senses are labelling, conflict and feminist theories of crime radical? (900 words)
2.) How have neo-classical and right realist theories of crime influenced crime control since 1970? (500 words)
3.) compare and contrast the ideas of the classical criminologists (e.g. Beccaria and Bentham) with those of the early positivists (e.g. Lombroso, Ferri, Garofolo)

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Priorities for the Future of the U.S. Education System


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1984 by george orwell

1984 by george orwell English In many respects, we are living in the age of Big Brother, which–in our 21st century–has made the novel more relevant than ever. Why is that true? Don’t simply restrict yourself to the obvious (government surveillance), but to other issues raised in the novel as well.

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Service Management


Business and Management
Focus of the Paper
In your Paper, identify and select a service organization you are familiar with (as an employee or customer). Once you have selected a service organization:
Describe the customer expectations and satisfaction for the service organization you have chosen and discuss the importance of achieving customer expectations and satisfaction with respect to this organization.
Propose and explain criteria for developing and evaluating strategies for change, such as a quality management initiative, in your selected service organization.
Illustrate the essentials of quality management and the techniques that are associated with it, including benchmarking and knowledge management, as they could apply in your selected service organization.
Analyze the anticipated impact on service organization culture that the quality management initiative would have on customers and employees.
Provide recommendations to your selected service organization that will enhance its organizational strategies to meet consumer demands.

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Performance Management Plan


Management
Develop a performance management framework to recommend to my client (Bradley Stonefield). Please make sure you address the following:
1. Alignment of the performance management framework to the organizational business strategy
2. Organizational performance philosophy
3.The job analysis process you will complete to identify the skills needed by employees
4. Methods used for measuring the employee’s skills
5. Process for addressing skill gaps
6. Approach for delivering effective performance feedback

Phone Conversation with Bradley Stonefield
Traci: Hi, this is Traci.
Bradley: Hey, Traci, this is Bradley Stonefield returning your call.
Traci: Hey, Bradley, did you get the recommendations for the pay and benefits strategies I sent over?
Bradley: Yes, I got them and I’m still looking them over, but they look really good so far.
Traci: Great! While you review those, I’d like to have my employees start working on some recommendations for a performance management plan for you. Is that all right?
Bradley: That would be great. What information do you need from me?
Traci: I think I have everything I need, but let me just run through it with you to make sure our information is current. Let me pull up my list. OK…type of business?
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Bradley: Limousine service.
Traci: New location?
Bradley: Austin, Texas.
Traci: Current location?
Bradley: Same place.
Traci: Number of employees?
Bradley: Plan for 25.
Traci: Annual Net Revenue?
Bradley: I expect -$50,000 annual net revenue this year.
Traci: Revenue growth?
Bradley: 5%, for a couple of years.
Traci: OK, that’s the information I have on file, so we’re good to go there. We’ll also need to know your turnover rate.
Bradley: Sure. I’m going to predict an annual employee turnover rate of 10%.
Traci: All right. That should be all the information we need right now to come up with some recommendations for you. We’ll get them over to you within the next week or two.
Bradley: That sounds great!
Traci: OK, have a great week.
Bradley: You too.

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