LAW 6505 - Professional Obligations
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Course Details
| Course Code | LAW 6505 |
| Course | Professional Obligations |
| Coordinating Unit | Law School, Faculty of the Professions |
| Term | Semester 1/2 2013 |
| Mode | Internal |
| Level | Postgraduate coursework |
| Location/s | North Terrace |
| Units | 3 |
| Contact | Intensive |
| Prerequisites | LAW 6501 |
| Corequisites | Not applicable |
| Incompatible | Not applicable |
| Assumed Knowledge | Not applicable |
| Restrictions | Not applicable |
| Quota | Not applicable |
| Course Description | This course will provide an understanding of your professional obligations as a legal practitioner. You develop the knowledge, skills and values to maintain compliant trust account records according to law and good practice. Topics include but are not limited to: -Fiduciary duties and trust accounts -What is trust money -Risks to the trust account such as fraud and money laundering -Record keeping requirements -Receiving and paying out trust money -Cashbooks -Trust ledgers and Transfer Journals -Reconciling the trust account -Accounting to clients (trust account statements) -Registers of investments, securities and direct payments -End of matter procedures and responsibilities -External supervision of trust accounts -Ethics -Costs -Trusts and Office Accounting -Practice Management -Risk Management |
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