Business Entities: Different forms of business entities, their formation, dissolution, and legal implications.

Business Entities: Different forms of business entities, their formation, dissolution, and legal implications.

Week 1: Overview of business entities (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, LLC)

  1. Day 1: Introduction to business entities and legal considerations
  2. Day 2: Understanding sole proprietorships: characteristics, benefits, and drawbacks
  3. Day 3: Understanding partnerships: characteristics, benefits, and drawbacks
  4. Day 4: Understanding corporations: characteristics, benefits, and drawbacks
  5. Day 5: Understanding LLCs: characteristics, benefits, and drawbacks

Week 2: Formation, operation, and management of each business entity

  1. Day 1: Formation of sole proprietorships and partnerships: registration, agreements
  2. Day 2: Formation of corporations and LLCs: registration, articles of incorporation/organization, bylaws/operating agreement
  3. Day 3: Operation and management of sole proprietorships and partnerships
  4. Day 4: Operation and management of corporations: board of directors, officers, shareholders
  5. Day 5: Operation and management of LLCs: members, managers, meetings

Week 3: Dissolution and winding up of each business entity

  1. Day 1: Dissolution of sole proprietorships and partnerships: procedures, liabilities
  2. Day 2: Dissolution of corporations: procedures, distribution of assets, liabilities
  3. Day 3: Dissolution of LLCs: procedures, distribution of assets, liabilities
  4. Day 4: Winding up and termination of business entities
  5. Day 5: Case study analysis of dissolution and winding up

Week 4: Comparing and contrasting business entities, choosing the right entity

  1. Day 1: Comparison of sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and LLCs: liability, taxation, management
  2. Day 2: Choosing the right entity: factors to consider
  3. Day 3: Changing business form: conversion, merger, consolidation
  4. Day 4: Case study analysis of choosing and changing business entity
  5. Day 5: Review and wrap-up