business entities
Companies and firms
Business entities are the legal structures through which people conduct commerce—corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, sole proprietorships, and the like.
Each type carries different implications for taxation, liability, and governance.
The lawyer advised her to form a business entity before taking on clients.
The term appears frequently in legal and financial contexts where the organizational form matters.
- corporationLegally separate business entity
- limited liability companyOwner-protected business entity
- private companyBusiness without public shareholders
- parent companyFirm owning subsidiary businesses
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
public company · partnership · social enterprise · sole proprietorship · joint venture · nonprofit organization · research institute · legal entities · registered agent · corporate structure · trust · educational institution · retail chain · advocacy group · companies · professional association · service provider · going concern
- corporate historyincorporation, chartered companies, limited liability, corporate law, mergers
- corporate lawincorporation, shareholders, corporate governance, limited liability, shares
- entitiesbeing, object, thing, item, unit
- financebank, CFO, banks, controller, finance
- corporationsApple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Toyota
- corporate financecost of capital, investment, capital markets, NPV, debt financing
business entitiesgovernment agencies
State-run administrative bodies
public sector · sovereign states · governmental bodies · municipalities · governments
business entitiesindividuals
Separate, distinct people
human beings · consumers · households · families · persons