Sole Proprietorship ✔️- Generally owned by one person
- Simple to establish
- Owner controlled
- Tax advantages
- Personal Liability
Partnership ✔️- Owned by 2 or more people
- Simple to establish
- Shared control
- Broader skills & resources
- Tax advantages
- Personal Liability
Corporation ✔️- Easy to transfer ownership
- Easy to raise capital (selling shares of stock)
- No personal liability (BIGGEST ADVANTAGE)
- Pay taxes twice (corporation & stockholders)
Accounting is the information system that ____________, ___________, and ________________ the economic events of an organization to
interested users. ✔️IDENTIFIES
RECORDS
COMMUNICATES
Internal Users ✔️Managers, Supervisors, Company officials
External Users ✔️Investors, Creditors, Regulators
Financial Scandal led to this Act ✔️Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 (SOX Act)
3 Types of Business Activites ✔️1. Financing- raising money (or borrowing)
2. Investing (purchase of resources needed to operate)
3. Operating (Day to Day operations)
Amounts Owed ✔️Liabilities
Party to whom amounts are owed ✔️Creditors
Payments to stockholders ✔️Dividends
Assets ✔️Resources owned by a business
Revenues ✔️Amounts earned from the sale of products
- Sales revenue