Company and Insolvency Law
The 40% syllabus area covering incorporation, capital, members, directors, finance, charges and insolvency.
How to study the ACA Certificate Level
Use the current 2025-26 syllabus and exam pages, study every module, practise the relevant objective and scenario formats and keep ethics, sustainability and professional scepticism active across the whole level.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Compare sole trade, partnership, LLP and company personality, liability and administration.
Exam cue: Define the information, person, entity and requirement relevant to company and insolvency law.
Concept 2
Apply incorporation, constitutional, promoter and pre-incorporation-contract rules.
Exam cue: Select the current ICAEW syllabus principle, apply it to the evidence and show any required calculation.
Concept 3
Identify capital, share issue, distribution, transfer and statutory reporting requirements.
Exam cue: Check the conclusion for professional scepticism, ethics, sustainability and practical consequences.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating company and insolvency law as a definition list without applying the supplied facts.
Guardrail: Do not use a former module name, retired rule, unsupported assumption or answer that ignores evidence quality, ethics, sustainability or timing.
Using a former ACA module label, retired scope or unsupported rule instead of the current syllabus.
Guardrail: Do not use a former module name, retired rule, unsupported assumption or answer that ignores evidence quality, ethics, sustainability or timing.
Ignoring an assumption, data limitation, ethical issue, deadline or effect on the financial conclusion.
Guardrail: Do not use a former module name, retired rule, unsupported assumption or answer that ignores evidence quality, ethics, sustainability or timing.
Memory anchors
Company and Insolvency Law - Scope
Compare sole trade, partnership, LLP and company personality, liability and administration.
Company and Insolvency Law - Rule
Apply incorporation, constitutional, promoter and pre-incorporation-contract rules.
Company and Insolvency Law - Method
Identify capital, share issue, distribution, transfer and statutory reporting requirements.
Company and Insolvency Law - Risk
Apply shareholder rights, director appointment, powers, duties and disqualification rules.
Company and Insolvency Law - Action
Distinguish charges, rescue procedures, receivership and liquidation priorities.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What is separate legal personality?
A shareholder has fully paid for their shares and has given no guarantee. What does limited liability generally protect them from?
Answer all questions to submit.
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