Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sole Proprietorship
- Advantages
- Cheap to start
- Only a trading licence required
- Owner can easily adapt to
changing circumstances
- Owner makes
independent decisions
- All profits belong
to owner
- No name required by law
Anmerkungen:
- and the name will usually be singular, for example Aviwe's Pie shop
- Owners gain experience
in all aspects of business
- Disadvantages
- Capital is limited
Anmerkungen:
- To what one person can contribute
- Unlimited liability
Anmerkungen:
- Means that the personal assets of the owner are at risk.
- Lacks continuity
Anmerkungen:
- The sole proprietorship lack continuity and the form of ownership therefore ends with the owner.
- Owner must perform
variety of tasks
- Finance is difficult
to obtain
Anmerkungen:
- Due to a lack of legal personality.
- Difficult to retain service of
competent employees
- Characteristics
- Only a trading licence is required
- Business is not a legal entity
Anmerkungen:
- which means that the owner enters into contracts in his or her own name, can sue and be sued
- Unlimited liability exist
Anmerkungen:
- and therefore the owner may lose personal assets to settle business debts.
- Has no continuity
- If owner dies then
ownership ends
- Is not a legal person and
therefore is not taxed