Form of Business
| Advantages
| Disadvantages
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| Sole Proprietorship
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- Easy to Organize
- Simple to Control
- Offers freedom of operation.
- Not subject to much government regulation
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- Difficult to acquire funds for expansion
- Lacks Permanence
- Subject to unlimited liability.
- Makes owner perform all management functions
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| Partnership
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- Easy to organize.
- Makes greater specialization of management possible
- Pooling of funds
- Little gov't regulation
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- Prone to disagreements by division of ownership
- Ends automatically with death or withdrawal of one partner
- Unlimited Liability
- Limited financial resources
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| Corporation
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- Well capitalized
- Limited liability
- Stable and permanent
- Permits specialization in management
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- Lots of gov't regulation
- Heavy taxation and organization costs
- Double taxation of income and dividends
- Separates ownership from control
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