Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Business Ownership
- Franchise
- Firms successful business model and their name
- Pay the firm to use their name and sell their stuff.
- Examples
- The twilight saga
- The hunger games
- Mcdonalds
- Franchiser
- Advantages
- More money
- Business grows faster
- Disadvantages
- Badly run
- Bad reputation
- Franchisee
- Advantages
- Support of the franchiser
- Staff training
- Good franchiser reputation means good buisness
- Franchiser provides advertising, packaging and equipment
- Disadvantages
- Don't have any control
- Expensive to buy into the company
- Franchiser fails and so does franchisee
- Sole trader
- Owned by one person
- Individual
- Single
- Advantages
- Own boss
- May not need to employ staff
- Easy to set up, with few starting costs
- Disadvantages
- Difficult to take time off
- Unlimited liability, sell possesions to get out of debt
- No sharing risks, or anyone to help with decision making.
- Partnership
- 2 people
- Dual
- 3-1=2
- Advantages
- Time and cost commitments are shared
- More money can be raised
- Wider range of skills, talents and ideas
- Disadvantages
- Profits have to be shared
- Harder to close down
- Partners might argue
- Limited company
- Liability of members of the company is limited to what they have invested
- Can't use personal belongings to pay off debt
- Only the money put in by the buyers
- Public
- Advantages
- Value of shares go up
- Not personally responsible for debt
- More access to finance
- Disadvantages
- Loss of individual control.
- Value of shares go up
- Threat of being taken over
- Private
- Advantages
- Share of profits
- Easier to raise funds
- Shareholders aren't responsible for debt
- Disadvantages
- Complicated to set up
- Control of the company is spread out
- Employees might not be committed