Business Plan Organization: Issues Analysis, Legal Forms, and E-Business Partnerships, Slides of Fundamentals of E-Commerce

Download Business Plan Organization: Issues Analysis, Legal Forms, and E-Business Partnerships and more Slides Fundamentals of E-Commerce in PDF only on Docsity! Business Plan Organization (continued) • DISCUSS CASE ON PAGE 99. Remember Scalability from Chapter 2. Docsity.com Business Plan Organization (continued) • Issues Analysis and Critical Risks Identifying the threats to and opportunities for a startup e-business is called an issues analysis or risk assessment (or sometimes SWOT analysis). An issues analysis should consider the following outside influences that can affect an e-business’s success and describe any necessary contingency plans. •Economic changes •Impending product innovations and/or technological advancements •Environmental changes and government regulations •Barriers to market entry •Legal factors and staffing concerns •Level of managerial expertise among the business’s principals Docsity.com Legal Forms of Organization • Sole proprietorship – Business started by an individual – Owner and business are one in the same for tax and legal liability issues Docsity.com Legal Forms of Organization (continued) • Partnership – Legal business entity with two or more co-owners – Follows a partnership agreement – General partnership: Tax and legal liabilities flow through to individual partners – Limited partnership • General partner manages and assumes unlimited liability • Limited partners have liability for amount of their capital contribution and their accepted debt Docsity.com Legal Forms of Organization (continued) • Corporation – Separate legal and taxable entity from its owners – “C” corporation owners are it shareholders • Liability is limited to investment in business • Profits are taxed twice: once for the corporation and again when distributed to owners as stock dividends. But its income is taxed at lower rates than individual income. • Great if your business needs to accumulate capital for inventory or finance other growth. • Lower taxes than LLCs for the first 50,000 to 75,000 profits • Attracts VC investments. Docsity.com