business structures introduction to business chapter six
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Business StructuresBusiness Structures
Introduction to Business
Chapter Six
Three Types of Business Three Types of Business StructuresStructures
Sole ProprietorshipPartnershipCorporation
Sole ProprietorshipSole Proprietorship A business owned by one person. Many small businesses are sole proprietorships. Examples:
– Restaurants, hair-Styling Salons– House painters, plumbers, electricians.
More than 2/3’s of all businesses are sole proprietorships.
The sole proprietor has complete responsibility for all business decisions and works in the business.
Pack rat becomes business owner. Collecting magazines since the
age of 12—rarely throws anything away!
Then he discovered ebay. His website- Pastpaper.com Customers include CBS, NBC,
BBC, Harpo Productions, Paramount, and A&E Biography.
Stores his papers and magazines in his four-car garage. Sole Proprietor
Brett Snyder—Sole ProprietorBrett Snyder—Sole Proprietor
PartnershipsPartnerships A business owned and managed by a small group, often
not more than two or three people, who are partners. The fewest number of businesses are partnerships. People join into partnerships to increase capital, share
responsibilities, and pool business skills. Articles of Partnership– a written agreement that provides
the details of how a partnership will operate. Includes:– Name of the business– Investment made by each partner– Salary of each partner– Duties of each partner– How profits will be distributed.
CorporationsCorporations
A business owned by a number of people and operated under written permission from the state in which it is located.
legal entity-the corporation has an existence and life separate from its owners.
certificate of incorporation—written permission from the state to form a corporation. JA Estee
Corporations (continued)Corporations (continued) shareholders—a corporation acts on behalf of
its owners. By buying shares of stock people become owners of corporations or shareholders.
dividends—part of the profits of a corporation that each shareholder receives.
board of directors—a group with responsibility to guide the operations of a corporation. Their most important job is selecting a good executive team—CEO, President, CFO, CIO, treasurer.
Advantages/DisadvantagesAdvantages/DisadvantagesSole ProprietorshipSole Proprietorship
Advantages
1. Easy to Start
2. Owner makes all the decisions and is own boss.
3. Owner receives all of the profits.
Disadvantages1. Capital is limited to what the
owner can supply or borrow.
2. Owner is liable (responsible) for all debts, even losing personal property if business fails.
3. Long hours and hard work are required.
4. Life of the business depends upon the owner; it ends if owner quits or dies.
Advantages/DisadvantagesAdvantages/DisadvantagesPartnershipPartnership
Advantages
1. Fairly easy to start.
2. More sources of capital available.
3. More business skills available.
Disadvantages1. Each partner is liable for
business debts made by all partners, even losing personal property if business fails.
2. Each partner can make decisions; more than one boss. People do not agree.
3. Partnership end if a partner quits or dies.
4. Each partner shares the profit.
Advantages/DisadvantagesAdvantages/DisadvantagesCorporationCorporation
Advantages1. More sources of capital
available.
2. Specialized management skills available.
3. Owners liable up to the amount of their investments—Have the Corporate Shield.
4. Ownership can be easily transferred through sale of stock; business not affected by change of ownership.
Disadvantages1. Difficult to start.
2. Owners do not have control of decisions made each day unless they are officers of the company.
3. Business activities are limited to those stated in the certificate of incorporation—much more regulation.
Management ActivitiesManagement ActivitiesPPlanninglanning
Includes thinking, gathering and analyzing information.
Making decisions about all phases of the business.
Goals must be set and strategies devised for achieving those goals.
FAIL TO PLAN, PLAN TO FAIL!
Management ActivitiesManagement ActivitiesOOrganizingrganizing
Determining what work has to be done and who will do each job.
Must devise an organization chart that shows relationships of the workers in the business.
Corporate Secretary
Sue Chung
Vice PresidentJo Rabinski
Corporate Treasurer
Tom Lowe
PresidentJulie Alcess
Board ofDirectors
Management ActivitiesManagement ActivitiesSStaffingtaffing
All personnel activities. Includes
– Finding– Selecting– Hiring– Training– Appraising– Rewarding good performance.
Management ActivitiesManagement ActivitiesLLeadingeading
Influencing people to act according to company plans.
Inspiring workers to willingly perform their jobs and accept their share of responsibilities.
Requires good human relations skills and good communications skills.
Management ActivitiesManagement ActivitiesCControllingontrolling
Comparing what actually happens with what was planned.
Using the standards set up in the planning stage.
Establishing quality control standards, and production standards.
Information gathered in this stage is used to establish goals in the planning stage.
FranchisesFranchises“A Business in a Box”“A Business in a Box”
franchise—a written contract granting permission to sell someone else’s product or service in a prescribed manner, over a certain period. Over 500,000 franchised businesses are in operation. A “Business in a box”May operate as sole proprietorship, partnership or corporation.
franchisee—person or group of people who have received permission from a parent company to sell its products or services.
franchisor—the parent company that grants permission to a person or group to sell its products or services.
ProsPros of Franchises of Franchises
Established name recognition and product line.
Easy to start.Advertising provided by the parent—may
include national ad campaigns.Less risk of failure than other small
businesses because of the name recognition and established business plan.
ConsCons of Franchises of Franchises
Requires a large investment of capital to start. Franchisor charges a percentage of sales to cover
national advertising and other services provided by the parent—cuts into your profit.
Must follow all of the rules—cannot offer your own products or deviate from the franchise agreement.
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