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General Partnerships – Part 1

general Partnerships

A general partnership consists of two or more individuals who share the management of an entity and are personally responsible for the obligations of the business. The simplest way to organize your business if you have more than one person involved in the management is to become a partnership. Partnerships are relatively flexible in that [...]

Corporations

Corporation

Corporations are the most well known and well used business entities of all the forms of business organization. Corporations have limited liability, although shareholders of smaller corporations are often asked to personally guarantee loans. The advantage of this liability protection is that the corporation is legally considered a separate entity from the shareholder owners. As [...]

Limited Liability Companies

Limited Liability Companies

A limited liability company (LLC) is a hybrid form of business entity that combines several features of a corporation with different key aspects of a partnership. The LLC is treated like a partnership in terms of the tax flow-through aspects, but LLC benefit from the liability protection of limited partnerships or corporations. LLCs differ from [...]

General Partnerships – Part 2

general Partnerships part-2

General partnerships are the simplest way to organize a business that has more than one owner. Partnerships are not as complicated as corporations to form. All it takes is two or more prospective partners, a desire to earn a profit, and an agreement between the partners hopefully in written form. Partners must share a vision [...]