Assignment:
Question 1
1. What are the two purposes of the registration statement required for an IPO?
2. What four key pieces of information must it contain?
3. Why do you think each of these fours items of information are important to investors?
4. What are the three steps in the registration process after the registration statement? Why are each of these steps important?
Question 2
You are in charge of accounts receivables for your company (i.e. collecting money from unpaid invoices). Some of the debts are more than 90 days past due so you decide to turn the 90+ days receivables over to a collection agency to collect on them.
1. What are the ten activities that your collection agency may not do pursuant to federal law?
2. Why are these protections important?
3. Would you change any of them?
Question 3
1. What are the respective purposes of securities law, antitrust law, and consumer law? Who do they seek to protect?
2. For each of the three areas, state two problems/abuses that the particular area of law seeks to fix.
3. Name two federal statutes in each of the three areas of law.