SCENARIO-BASED Jerry Foster Is a Sole Proprietorship Who Owns a Canoe

question 34

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO-BASED
Jerry Foster is a sole proprietorship who owns a canoe renting business. Jerry’s employee, Terry Gibbs, greets customers at the company’s office, loads the customers and their rented canoes onto a van, provides them with safety instructions and drives them upstream. Once unloaded the canoers are on their own to float back to the company’s office to check in. Although there have been minor accidents, no one has drowned in the nine years the business has been in operation. Jerry plans to add kayaks and rubber rafts next year. The scenery is beautiful and each day people see wild animals come down to the water.

-If Jerry wanted to bring Terry into the business, and he was concerned about the cost of changing his form of organization, what legal form of organization would he most likely switch to

• A) corporation
• B) partnership
• C) joint venture
• D) sole proprietorship

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Definitions:

Double-Entry Accounting

A system of bookkeeping where every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to a different account.

Debits

Accounting entries that represent an increase in assets or expenses or a decrease in liabilities, equity, or revenue.

Credits

Recognition or acknowledgment for something received or accomplished, often used in finance to denote money received or a decrease in liabilities.

Liabilities

Liabilities are financial obligations or debts that a company owes to others, which need to be settled over time through the transfer of economic benefits including money, goods, or services.