Knowledge and understanding
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- categorise companies;
- explain similarities and differences between individual types of companies and practical reasons for the existence of companies;
- explain the concept of merchant, trade company, individual merchant, pre-company, branch, seat of the company;
- explain the concept and purpose of the court register;
- explain formation, organisation and operation of a partnership and corporation;
- discuss the purpose and manners of merging companies and statutory changes;
- indicate key regulation from the area of company law.
Application
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- distribute companies according to their different characteristics;
- interpret similarities and differences between individual types of companies and reasons for the existence of companies:
- demonstrate the manner of formation, organisation and operation of individual types of companies;
-apply knowledge about company law.
Analysis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- categorise different types of companies in Croatian law;
- identify basic differences between individual company forms;
- examine advantages and disadvantages of performing certain business activity through a company;
- distinguish among company as a legal person, pre-company, subsidiary and branch office
- indicate basic characteristics of internal organisation of joint stock company and limited liability company
Synthesis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- plan internal organisation of a concrete company;
- design division of duties and powers in the internal organisation of a company;
- propose solutions in managing basic organisational processes in company bodies (appointment, relief from duty and resignation of members)
- formulate basic characteristics of various forms of representing a company.
Evaluation
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- estimate the importance of company law in economy on the macroeconomic level;
- assess the importance of correct choice of company form on the microeconomic level;
- select an optimal company form for individual situations;
- assess recent development of company law stimulated by EU law, such as, for example, the introduction of a simple limited liability company