Contracts: How They Effect Everyday Life BUS 311 – Business Law I Prof. Katheryne Rogers January 6‚ 2012 Most people in society think that contracts are pointless and unnecessary. Contractual law is not high on society’s list of things to study. What society does not realize is that contracts bind a majority of the decisions that they make on a systematic basis. In this paper I will make evident the effectiveness of contracts and how they are such an immense aspect in society’s everyday life
Premium Credit card Real estate Contract
A contract is an agreement between two parties‚ each agreeing to do or forbear from doing something. A contract‚ if properly formed‚ is legally binding and all parties to a contract are required to perform their respective obligations under the contract‚ failing which legal action can be taken. A failure or refusal to perform one’s obligations under the contract will be called a "breach" of the contract. Contract breaches have wide ranging consequences both legal and practical to the parties to
Premium Contract Law
public attention. But for the sheer audacity of the fraud‚ it ranks high up on the list. Adelphia executives testified that they routinely made up numbers that they gave to investors and lenders‚ even while the Rigases regularly withdrew money from the company without making reimbursements. Testimony at the trial included the story of how the company’s plane was used to fly a Christmas tree to a family member in New York City at a cost of $6‚000‚ and how Adelphia paid a $40‚000 annual salary to a personal
Premium Jury Fraud Not proven
4 Reasons Why Customer Service is Important for your Business Created by Josh 304 days ago. posted in Human Resources With the tags Business‚ coursepark‚ customer satisfaction‚ customer service‚ eLearning‚ etiquette‚Human Resources‚ polite‚ rude Customer service can make or break your business. If people find your employees are rude or don’t know what they’re talking about they’ll go elsewhere to make their purchases. You don’t want that‚ so it’s important to train them on good customer service
Premium Customer service Customer Good
Working and Learning: Learning Contract template We have provided this template to help you to build up and structure your learning contract. You will find an introduction to the learning contract in Activity 1.6 of the Study Guide and you will find detailed guidance in the Learning Contract Guidance. This will have been sent to you as a printed booklet and is also available on the Study Resources section of the Module web-site. For each of the five sections of this template there is a corresponding
Premium Management Thought
STUDENT ID: S120343 LECTURER/TUTOR: MR HUMPHREY MARAU NUMBER OF WORDS: 2284 Contract law is a body of law that governs oral and written agreements associated with exchange of goods and services‚ money‚ and properties. Not only does contract law set out the rules and guidelines of how to form a contract but also teaches us how the parties to a contract are to fulfil it and what may happen when the terms of a contract are not fulfilled. The background or facts of the scenario are that Credit Corp
Premium Contract Law
Tayja Walker English 1105 Emily Gilliam February 19‚ 2011 Can Technology affect your mind? "iPod+ iPhone+ iPad= iBroke”…and dysfunctional” Has your life begun to revolve around your cell phone? Are you checking your email‚ texting or tweeting more often than you speak to an actual human? Are you making life and death decisions at the computer. “Should I buy new iTunes or have gas for the rest of the week?” This is a growing problem. People have begun to let technology control their lives.
Premium Mobile phone
Can You Be Honest With Your Friends My sister is a person whom one might define as socially awkward. While neither of us possess the gift of tact‚ I have become slightly more adept a maneuvering unfamiliar social situations‚ whereas she avoids them wherever and whenever possible. We both have the same handicap: that being that we don’t possess a filter. Whereas most people know that it constitutes poor manners to point out a hanger from a perfect stranger’s nose‚ we feel it is our civic duty
Premium Friendship Interpersonal relationship Shopping
"Corporate Fraud" when you hear those words the first‚ most recent incident‚ many think of is The Enron Scandal. This same scandal produced the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002. This much needed act created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board under the Security Exchange Commission ’s supervision. This board sets accounting standards and investigates Certified Public Accountants and companies to ensure they are following the guidelines set forth. This board
Premium Enron Enron scandal Certified Public Accountant
intention Introduction Contractual certainty If businessmen are often not overly-concerned with the niceties of offer and acceptance it follows that their contracts may not be all-embracing and complete in every respect. The parties may have reached an agreement in principle and then prefer to rely on experience from previous dealings‚ business practice and goodwill. The law’s overall policy is to uphold bargains wherever possible and although businessmen tend to record their agreements in ‘crude
Premium Contract