business organizations 3
DUE: 09.13.14 @ 11:59pm
Please fill out the documents necessary to create your own corporation (Articles of
Incorporation). A Web resource to locate your secretary of state online is provided below.
Assignment 1:
1. Write up a brief description of your fictional business (200 500 words). Describe how you filled out
the form and any decisions you needed to make during the process.
2. Fill out the Articles of Incorporation based on the description you provided.
Note: If your state does not have the form available to download online, use any State’s form. Be sure to save your filled out form to submit with the above.
You may find that many of these forms are in a PDF format, which will not allow you to save the
information to your computer. If this is the case, then attach the PDF form and fill out the
information on a separate Microsoft Word document and attach it as well. You may have multiple
attachments once you have completed this assignment.
Assignment 2: Case Analysis:
Scenario:
Greg Allen is an employee, shareholder, director and the president of Greg Allen
Construction Corp. In 1996, Daniel and Sondra Estelle hired Allen’s firm to renovate a
home they owned in Ladoga, Indiana. To finance the cost, they obtained a line of credit
from Banc One, Indiana, which required periodic inspections to disburse funds. Allen
was on the job every day and supervised all of the work.
He designed all of the structural changes, including a floor system for the bedroom over
the living room, the floor system of the living room, and the stairway to the second floor.
He did all of the electrical, plumbing, and carpentry work and installed all of the
windows. He did most of the drywall taping and finishing and most of the painting.
The Estelles found much of this work to be unacceptable, and the bank’s inspector
agreed that it was of poor quality.
When Allen failed to act on the Estelle’s complaints, they filed a suit in an Indiana State
court against Allen Construction Corporation and Allen personally, alleging in part that
his individual work on the project was negligent. Can both Allen and his corporation be
held liable for this tort? Explain.
In responding to the question be sure to:
• Analyze whether or not a director/officer can be held liable for the torts of the Greg Allen
Construction Corporation.
• Discuss whether or not the facts would constitute the type of act protected by the
corporate entity.
Paper Requirements:
>Use standard margins: 1″ on all sides.
>Use standard 12 point font size.
>Use standard double spacing: average of 22 lines per page, and between 20 and
24 lines per page.
>Use left aligned text. Do not right justify.
>There should be no spaces between paragraphs within the paper.
>When citing a quote of more than four lines, you should indent the entire quoted passage 10 spaces from the left margin. It is not necessary to indent these block quotes from the right margin. Continue with the usual double spacing, and give the usual acknowledgements at the end of the quote. Block quotes do not require quotation marks.
>MS Word Document
>3 pages per assignment, at least
>apa citation
>at least 3 sources per assignment
>in depth analysis of each case
>please, no plagiarism!