1-2 Financial Accounting 10/e Solutions Manual Copyright © 2015 Pearson Education Inc.
(10 min.) S 1-3
a. Corporation, limited partners of a Limited-liability partnership (LLP)
and Limited-liability company (LLC). If any of these businesses
fails and cannot pay its liabilities, creditors cannot force the
owners to pay the business’s debts from the owners’ personal
assets. Creditors can go after the general partner of a limited
liability partnership.
b. Proprietorship. There is a single owner of the business, so the
owner is answerable to no other owner.
c. Partnership. If the partnership fails and cannot pay its liabilities,
creditors can force the partners to pay the business’s debts from
their personal assets. A partnership affords more protection for
creditors than a proprietorship because there are two or more
owners to share this liability.
(5 min.) S 1-4
1. The entity assumption applies.