Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting
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ISBN: 9780077862237
Author: Joe Ben Hoyle, Thomas Schaefer, Timothy Doupnik
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Describe the advantages and the disadvantages of operating a business as a partnership rather than as a corporation.
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The advantages of operating a business as a partnership rather than as a corporation are:
- The ability to make virtually arrangements defining their relationship to each other that the partners desire.
- Less hassle of forming a partnership.
- Fixed oral agreement is required to form a partnership.
- Operating costs are reduced and partners can make decisions which they desire.
- Partnership can claim losses as tax and do not pay taxes.
The disadvantages of operating a business as a partnership rather than as a corporation are:
- Partners have unlimited liability.
- Every partner is liable to pay the debts incurred.
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