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What are the advantages and disadvantages of partnerships. Why might partners form a limited liability company or a corporation? Discuss corporations you may be familiar with personally or from the news that have ousted their Chief Executive Officer.
Advantages of Partnership | ||||
1 | Partnership is better than sole proprietorship as two or more persons can join together and | |||
for a partnership. | ||||
2 | Partnership is easy to establish and start up cost is lower than corporation | |||
3 | Each partner will contribute capital, thus more capital is available for business. | |||
4 | Partnership firm does not pay taxes as an entity rather each partner pay tax on his share of | |||
income in his personal return. | ||||
Disadvantages of Partnership | ||||
1 | Under Partnership, the liability of the partners for the debts of the business is unlimited. | |||
2 | Every partner is liable "jointly and severely" for the partnership's debts. | |||
Partners might form LLC or a corporation as LLC and corporations are corporate structures | ||||
in which the members of the company are not personally liable for the companies debts, as | ||||
in the case of partnership. | ||||
Uber ousted their CEO Travis Kalanick | ||||
Intel ousted their CEO Brain Krzanich |