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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

Skills

Drafting and negotiating a commercial contract

A clear contract is a dispute avoided. Subject, price, deadlines, liabilities, warranties, exit: six well-drafted points make the difference between a lasting commercial relationship and a file that ends up in court.

Writing down what each party will do

Most commercial disputes arise from a point nobody wrote down: what happens if delivery slips by three weeks, who bears an unforeseen cost, how to exit cleanly from an agreement that has outlived its purpose. Contract drafting means settling those points while the relationship is good, and agreement therefore easy. The programme teaches it on the most common contracts — sale, services, subcontracting, procurement — and on the negotiations that precede them.

  • Draft the essential clauses of a sale or services contract
  • Provide for warranties, penalties and exit conditions
  • Negotiate a subcontracting agreement and manage its performance
  • Review a contract proposed by a third party and flag its open points

The modules that carry it

A cross-curricular module spread over several years reads « Years 1 to 3 »: it runs alongside the whole programme rather than a single term.

Teaching blockProgrammeTaught hoursYear
Contracts and obligationsBusiness Law and OHADA Compliance260 hYear 1
Security interests and recoveryBusiness Law and OHADA Compliance260 hYear 2
Procurement, contracts and supplier managementManagement and Project Management programme — Bac+5 level120 hYear 2
Foreign trade techniquesInternational Trade240 hYear 1

What the catalogue devotes to it

You draft, negotiate and monitor the performance of a company's routine contracts, through to renewal. Figures computed from the blocks listed above, on every build of the site.

teaching blocks
4

Catalogue rule: one credit is twenty-five hours of work, ten of them taught.

of taught instruction
880 h
credits in total
88
professional qualifications concerned
3
Business Law and OHADA Compliance
520 (59 %)
Management and Project Management programme — Bac+5 level
120 (14 %)
International Trade
240 (27 %)
Total: 880 taught hours

The programmes that award it

Each programme leads to an award, stated on its page, together with its assessment arrangements.

ProgrammeLevelDurationFees
Business Law and OHADA ComplianceBachelor's degree3 years5 200 000 GNF per year
Management and Project Management programme — Bac+5 levelMaster's degree2 years6 500 000 GNF per year
International TradeBachelor's degree2 years5 000 000 GNF per year

The roles that call for it

These professional qualifications target a named occupation. Their official framework carries this skill.

Professional qualificationTarget occupationLevelTaught volume
Legal Assistantlegal assistant in a firm or a company4 · Skilled employee and operative600 h
Business Development Manageraccount manager, senior salesperson5 · Senior technician and supervisor700 h
Compliance Managercompliance officer6 · Manager and professional750 h
Drafting and negotiating a commercial contract — Skills | IHETC — IHETC