Video: Business Structures Overview

In this lesson, Nick Palazzolo, CPA, provides an engaging introduction to the array of business structures that entities may adopt. He delves into the distinctive features of partnerships, S-Corps, LLCs, sole proprietorships, and C-Corps, laying the groundwork for understanding their taxation and structural differences. With a focus on identifying the most advantageous business structure for various scenarios, the lesson also covers the rights, duties, and legal obligations of owners and management across different entities. Nick ensures to clarify the formation, termination, and non-tax operational characteristics of these business forms, and concludes by examining the tax classification options available to LLCs, their implications, and the reasoning behind choosing one over the other.

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Instructor: Nick Palazzolo

Nick Palazzolo is head instructor of ExamPrep.ai CPA Review. Nick's teaching style is engaging & upbeat, combining practical Big 4 tax & assurance expertise with years of 1-on-1 coaching. His lessons are concise and emphasize what you need to know to pass. Whether you're a recent grad or working full-time, we’re confident you can conquer your CPA exams with Nick’s review.

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We know that later in the course, we're gonna see a lot of different business structures. We need to talk about taxation for partnerships, S-Corps, LLC, sole proprietorship, C-Corps, all of those wonderful types of entities. However, what do we have for you right now? This is, you could think of in multiple ways. We've got this lesson to kind of introduce you to the various types of entities, for one, which we will see again later on much more in depth with taxation. And this lesson is very much more so about what are the attributes of those, being able to identify in a scenario, whether it be multiple choice question or simulation, what type of entity are we talking about based on its taxation, based on structure, based on the types of individuals who own it. We're gonna see questions asking, what is the most advantageous business structure for a particular circumstance? Is it better, would you recommend as a consultant that someone in a given example should open up a LLC or a partnership or an S-Corp? We're gonna talk about that and so much more. Let's see what our learning objectives are for today. Well, first, we're gonna summarize the process for formation and termination of various business entities. I kind of gave you a good old overview of the types of entities we'll be seeing. We also wanna summarize the non-tax operational features of these entities, because again, we're gonna talk very much about the tax later on when they each have their own dedicated lessons, some even having multiple lessons, but we will touch upon the tax for sure here. Also, we wanna identify the type of business entity that is best described in a given scenario for non-tax related circumstances. Again, we will

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