Other Types of Business Owners
Completion requirements
View
- 2a Discuss the legal forms of businesses, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited-liability corporations, and subchapter S corporations (CLO 3)
Hybrids: S-Corporations and Limited-Liability Companies
To understand the value of S-corporations and limited-liability companies, we'll begin by reviewing the major advantages and disadvantages of the three types of business ownership we've explored so far: sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation. Identifying the attractive and unattractive features of these three types of business ownership will help us appreciate why S-corporations and limited-liability companies were created.