Stock &amp; Station Agents' Handbook
Contributors: Emms, Ken
Publisher: Elsevier Science &amp; Technology
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780080546278
Subjects: Stockyards -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals; Farms -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals; Agricultural Insurance; Animal industry -- Insurance -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals; Real property -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals
Description: This accessible and authoritive text has been written for students undertaking programs of study in stock and station agency practice, and for practising stock and station agents who will find this an invaluable reference work. Care has been taken toensure that the information contained within this book is not only accurate, but follows the syllabus provided for in the national core curriculum for rural agent/stock and station agent courses conducted throughout the country, but with some emphasis onmatters peculiar to New South Wales.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Stock &amp; Station Agents' Handbook; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Glossary of terms; PART I: STOCK &amp; STATION AGENCY; Introduction; Chapter 1. Market Value; Chapter 2. Wool Activities; Chapter 3. Sale of Rural Land; Chapter 4. Livestock Auctions; Chapter 5. Contracts and Agreements; Chapter 6. Merchandising; Chapter 7. Rural Finance, Stock and Property Mortgages, Liens and Agency Credit Control; Chapter 8. Controls over Land Development and Landuse; Chapter 9. Professional and Statutory Bodies; PART II: INSURANCE AGENCY; Introduction; title: Chapter 10. History of InsuranceChapter 11. Insurance and Superannuation Commission; Chapter 12. Insurance (Agents and Brokers) Act 1984; Chapter 13. Insurance Contracts Act 1984; Chapter 14. Insurance and The Trade Practices Act; Chapter 15. Insurance Company Operations; Chapter 16. Reinsurance; Chapter 17. Operating an Insurance Agency; Chapter 18. Rural Insurance Needs; Chapter 19. Specific Policy Benefits and Claims; Index