This week’s topics
Legal Structures and Business Ownership
- Sole traders and traditional partnerships
- Private limited companies versus public limited companies
- Cooperatives and social enterprises
- Ownership rights and limited liability
- Webinar: Choosing the right legal structure for your business
- Forms of UK Business Organisations: Sole traders and partnerships
- Chapter 2- Types of Companies and Concept of Limited Liability - Business Law - SQE1 - LLB
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Compare different types of businesses.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: compare different types of businesses.
Study materials
Videos
- Webinar: Choosing the right legal structure for your business · YouTube · Companies House · 31 min · for registered students
- Forms of UK Business Organisations: Sole traders and partnerships · YouTube · Mariette Jones · 20 min · for registered students
- Chapter 2- Types of Companies and Concept of Limited Liability - Business Law - SQE1 - LLB · YouTube · SQE1window · 12 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Choose a legal structure for a new business (GOV.UK) · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
- Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 4.1–4.3: Sole traders, partnerships and companies · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 117–128 · for registered students
- Exploring Business, ch. 4: Selecting a Form of Business Ownership · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 166–200 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
