Spring 2027

Business Organizations and Negotiable Instruments

Covers commercial paper, real estate, personal property, partnerships, corporations, and bankruptcy within business organizations and negotiable instruments.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Willie Boucher

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.72 GPA, 90.4% A/AB (n=73 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.76 GPA, 92.8% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 98.5% A/AB (n=65 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe business entity types, differentiating key elements of each, and reasons to choose one type.

  • Describe the meaning of fiduciary duty and which parties are covered.

  • Demonstrate how to form an entity and pick a business name.

  • Describe the types, risk and use of Negotiable Instruments.

  • Apply the technical legal rules covered in the course, regarding Bankruptcy, Securities Regulation, Accountants’ Liability, Environmental Law, Real Property, and Employment Law.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ACCTIS 401

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.72 GPA, 90.4% A/AB (n=73 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.76 GPA, 92.8% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 98.5% A/AB (n=65 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

WILLIE BOUCHER is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.72 GPA, 90.4% A/AB (n=73 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.76 GPA, 92.8% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.90 GPA, 98.5% A/AB (n=65 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Commercial paper, real estate, personal property, partnerships, corporations, and bankruptcy.
  • Securities regulation, accountants' liability, environmental law, and employment law.

Skills

  • Differentiate business entity types and demonstrate how to form an entity and select a business name.
  • Describe the types, risks, and uses of negotiable instruments.
  • Apply technical legal rules for bankruptcy, securities regulation, accountants' liability, environmental law, real property, and employment law.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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ACCTIS 401 · Spring 2027

Business Organizations and Negotiable Instruments

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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