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AFM 335Business Law for Financial Managers

Units
0.50
Faculty
Arts
Subject
Accounting and Financial Management

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 4 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This course helps accounting and finance professionals become effective managers and better informed users of legal services. It contributes to developing a solid understanding of the legal and ethical environment in which businesses operate, expands on the legal concepts of business organization and contracts, introduces property and torts law, and integrates legal concepts through the preparation of a legal risk plan.

Prerequisites

Antirequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:
      • AFM231 - Business Law (0.50)
      • CIVE491 - Engineering Law and Ethics (0.50)
      • ENVS201 - Introduction to Canadian Environmental Law (0.50)
      • LS283 - Business Law (0.50)
    • Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in:

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Fall 2026 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 001431776 / 76TTh 10:00–11:20
LEC 002431876 / 76TTh 11:30–12:50
LEC 003431976 / 76TTh 14:30–15:50
TST 1014320228 / 228Nov 13 18:30–20:00

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 00141870 / 115TTh 10:00–11:20
LEC 701165970 / 9999Online or by arrangement
TST 10142090 / 115Mar 12 16:30–18:00

Reviewed on UW Flow

17% liked it63% easy17% useful

From 12 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Darren might be the most unengaging profs I've ever had. The midterm is pretty hard, it's just 60 MCQ with very ambiguous wording. The rest of the assignments are very easy, but theres a lot of weekly stuff. Do good on those and you can still finish with an 80 if you do bad on the MT. Class itself is kinda boring, but I guess Torts and contracts are kind of applicable to real life which is nice. Don't need a whole course to teach me about just those 2 concepts tho.

    Dec 2025 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Most of the most useless courses you will ever take in AFM, absolutely no relevance to this program whatsoever, and has the most vaguest marking schemes.

    Aug 2024 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Useless

    May 2024 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • (Spring 2022)
    This course is overall quite laidback in terms of workload but the grading scheme makes absolutely ZERO sense and it's difficult to do well

    Jun 2022 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

5 posts and comments in 5 threads mention AFM 335, February 2021 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

Fall 2023

Spring 2022

FARM vs MATH/CPA 2 points, 7 comments

“Hey everyone, &x200B; I have been fortunate enough to be accepted into both FARM and Math/CPA and have been very grateful for it:) Nevertheless, I am VERY struggling to choose between these two and …”

u/AFMISFULLOFNOOBS: “… Accounting 1 AFM 311 Connections to Ethical Context AFM 321 Personal Financial Planning AFM 335 Bus. Law for Fin. …”

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Winter 2021

AFM CPA/CFA Pathway 0 points, 21 comments

u/Drip_Killa: “… AFM 335 \- Business Law for Financial Managers 2. AFM 345 - Business Applications of Social Media Analytics | (2) BA Spec. 3. AFM 391 \- Intermediate Financial Accounting 2 | (CFA) 4. AFM 344 \- Accounting Information Systems | (3) BA Spec. 5. …”

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