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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Identify the correct statement for not being a reason for the popularity of partnerships as a legal form for businesses.
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Which of the following is a reason for the popularity of partnerships as a legal form for businesses?
Partnerships may be formed merely by an oral agreement.
Partnerships can more easily generate significant amounts of capital.
Partnerships avoid the double taxation of income that is found in corporations.
In some cases, losses may be used to offset gains for tax purposes.
Raising large amounts of capital is more difficult for a partnership than for a corporation. (True or False)
What term is used to describe the characteristic of a business entity where an individual(s)
associated with an entity can not only lose all of his/her investment in the firm but personal assets
can be taken to pay the debts of the firm if necessary?
For federal income tax purposes, what term refers to the business entity not being a separate
entity from the owners? This type of entity is not taxed but the owner(s) must record the earnings
from the business on his/her individual income tax return.
What is the characteristic of a partnership that gives the authority to any partner to legally bind the
partnership and all other partners to business contracts called?
Assess the truth of this statement: The day-by-day transactions of a partnership are recorded in
accordance with the double-entry accounting concepts and are recorded exactly like transactions
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Which of the following is a reason to use a partnership as the legal form of a business?
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Partnerships avoid the difficulty of raising capital.
B.
Partnerships avoid the issue of mutual agency.
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Partnerships avoid the issue of double-taxation faced by corporations.
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Partnerships avoid the issue of unlimited liability.
Chapter 9 Solutions
Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting
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- Pne disadvantage of forming a corporation rather than a partnership is that this makes it more difficult for the firm's investors to transfer their ownership interests. a. True Ob. Falsearrow_forwardHow does running a company as a partnership as opposed to a corporation benefit the parties involved? What are the drawbacks of this approach?arrow_forwardWhich of the following statements is CORRECT? a. A major disadvantage of all partnerships compared to all corporations is the fact that federal income taxes must be paid by the partners rather than by the firm itself. b. A slow-growth company, with little need for new capital, would be more likely to organize as a corporation than would a faster growing company. c. Attracting large amounts of capital is more difficult for partnerships than for corporations because of such factors as unlimited liability, the need to reorganize when a partner dies, and the illiquidity (difficulty buying and selling) of partnership interests. d. In a regular partnership, liability for other partners' misdeeds is limited to the amount of a particular partner's investment in the business. e. The limited partners in a limited partnership have voting control, while the general partner has operating control over the business. Also, the limited…arrow_forward
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