Running Head: LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATION AND PARTNERSHIP PAPER Limited Liability Corporation and Partnership Paper A.J. Smith FIN-419/Finance for Decision Making December 9, 2013 Limited Liability Corporations and Partnerships Introduction Legal forms of business organization are important aspects of financial management. Ownership structure, articles of organization, legal rights and liabilities of members, and other features of a business organization ultimately affect financial
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to customers, who pay for the value with cash or equivalents. The aim of businesses is to make profit and to grow. There are 3 business sectors in the UK, these are Private, Public and Voluntary sectors. Types of businesses in UK? The private sector has different categories which are sole traders, partnerships, companies and franchises. A sole trader is a type of business entity that is owned and run by one individual and in which there is no legal distinction between the owner and the business
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Kingdom, having a market capitalisation of nearly 4.5 billion pounds. As a public limited company, its Board is duty bound to maximise value to its shareholders by being as profitable as possible. Its Board is primarily concerned therefore with generating revenue by increasing sales, margins and the number of customers that buys its products, either on-line or through one of its many stores. As with any public limited company, Sainsbury’s will have a business strategy in place to deliver maximum shareholder
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discussed in this paper will be: sole proprietorship, general partnership, limited liability partnership, Limited Liability Company, S corporation, franchise, and corporate form. Sole Proprietorship A sole proprietorship is a business that is owned by one person. Someone new to the business world would want to start out having this type of business if he/she wants to keep the business small. There are several major advantages to operating a business as a sole proprietorship, and they include the
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Exploring Business Activity Scenario: Tesco’s core purpose is to create value for customers to earn their lifetime loyalty. (Source: www.tesco.com). Tesco is Cancer Research UK Charity of the Year for 2012. They aim is to raise around £10million to help find the cure for cancer but also help keeping families together by prolonging lives. Cancer Research is therefore the leading charity to help patients suffering with cancer. Task 1: There are different aspects of business activity
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business. • A firm is unprofitable when it fails to generate sufficient cash flows to pay operating expenses, creditors, and taxes. Firms that are unprofitable over time will be forced into bankruptcy by their creditors. In bankruptcy, the company will be reorganized, or the company’s assets will be liquidated, whichever is more valuable. If anything is left after all creditor and tax claims have been satisfied, which usually does not happen, the remaining cash, or residual, is distributed
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| Sole Proprietorship | Description | Sole proprietor is most common way of doing business owned by single owner not incorporated. | Two Advantages | Easy to create. No time or costs simply start doing business.Autonomy owner is the business. Easy to make decisions. Own hours, grow as big or stay little. Owner decides. | Two Disadvantages | If owner dies business dies. Only one person hard to raise capital.Because it is one person, if you don’t have individual wealth the business will have
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operations are as sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations. As such, after careful review and revision of the different business organizations, I have decided that I would establish a Limited Liability Company (LLC). A Limited Liability Company, quite simply is a company whose liability is limited. That’s the short version. The longer version is that a limited company is a type of company which when set-up allows an entrepreneur to keep their
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business and show the funding requirement of their company and devise ways of gathering the funds for their company. b 1 sole proprietorship; this is when a the company is owned by a single individual owner it advantages is that it is easily formed, it is not taxed at corporate level and it has few government regulations. its disadvantage is that it is difficult to obtain large sum of capital, owner has unlimited debts and the business life is limited to the life of the owner. ii partnership
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division or product in a company. In addition, managers should understand how their company is financed and whether it has a risk of bankruptcy. Conversely, managers should understand if the equity in the business is undervalued and has the potential to grow. Corporate finance provides the skills managers need to: (1) identify and select the corporate strategies and individual projects that add value to their firm; and (2) forecast the funding requirements of their company, and devise strategies for
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