This course on the Regulation of Financial Affairs of companies consists of two Lessons:

• the books of accounts that must be maintained by a company
  
• the requirements and necessity of audits
  
• the functions, powers, duties, and liabilities of auditors

• the types of capital and the rights of different shares
  
• the various restrictions on raising debt and equity capital
  
• the restrictions of share transfer under the various ordinances

Peter Tashjian is Managing Director of the Institute of Professional Development (IPD), a commercial education and consultancy provider dedicated to practical education and training for executives and professionals in general, and those working within the legal and financial services industries in particular.

Peter is the former CEO of the Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries (HKICS), a professional body which promotes good corporate governance in Hong Kong and China as the territorial arm of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA).

Publication credits include developing and editing Hong Kong Company Secretarial Practice Manual in 1999 (Thomson), and co-authoring Regulatory Framework of Finance and Banking in Hong Kong in 1993 (Longman).

Peter has a BS in Business from Bentley College (1978), JD in Law from New England School of Law in Boston (1982) and a MIM in Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (1984), and has been teaching Law to students and practitioners, since 1985 – full time at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology (1985-1990) and City University of Hong Kong (1990-1996) and part-time at the University of Hong Kong (1990-2001). Peter is also an adjunct professor for the Australian Graduate School of Management MBA program, and legal seminar presenter for IPD and Mind Theme Legal in Hong Kong.