Form of business ownership wherein the owner is in command of his whole business and stands to lose as much as he puts in and even more to extent of all his personal holdings
Registration
Dept. Of Trade & Industry Bureu of Trade Regulation an Consumers Protection
Partnership
Business owned by Two or more people, each partner participates equally in the operation and personally liable for all debts of the business
Essential requisites of a partnership
Agreement to contribute money, property, industry to a common fund
Intent to divide the profits among themselves
Classification of Partnership
Universal Partnership
Particular Partnership
General Partnership
Limited Partnership
Silent Partnership
Partnership for a Fixed Term
Universal Partnership
Partnership formed by persons who agree to contribute to the partnership all of their individually owned property
Particular Partnership
Partnership formed for a single transaction or enterprise as distinguished from one organized for carrying on a general business
General Partnership
Form of partnership in which all other partners manage the business and are personally liable for the debts
Limited Partnership
The liability partners is limited to their investment in the partnership
Silent Partnership
Partners who usually provide capital to the business, share in the profits and losses, uninvolved in the management, and/or whose association with the business in not publicly known
Partnership for a Fixed Term
Term of its existence has been agreed upon expressly or impliedly, as when a particular enterprise or transaction is undertaken
ARTICLE 1772 - Every contract of partnership having a capital of three, thousand pesos or more, in money or property, shall appear in a public instrument, which must be recorded in the Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission
ARTICLE 1767 - By the contract of partnership two or more persons bind themselves to contribute money, property, or industry to a common fund, with the intention of dividing the profits among themselves.
FORMS OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
1. SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP
2. PARTNERSHIP
3. CORPORATION
ADVANTAGES of Forming a PARTNERSHIP
Easy to Form
Combination of Knowledge and Skills
Shared Decision Making
DISADVANTAGES of Forming a PARTNERSHIP
Instability
Unlimited Liability
Lack of Community
Partner are held Liability for each other's Actions