This is how a partnership is officially formed. A partnership is a written agreement between two or more people to do business together. As noted by the IRS, "each person contributes money, property, labor or skill, and expects to share in the profits and losses of the business."
It’s important to note that partnerships are pass-thru tax entities, which means that you’ll pay taxes as an individual on your income as a whole, as opposed to the company paying taxes. It’s also important to note that a business arrangement can be deemed a partnership even if you haven’t signed any type of contract.
In your articles of partnership, you’ll define who is a part of the partnership, how much money each person has put in, how much of the partnership each person owns (and how much of the profits and losses each person will take), what the rules of the agreement are (what each partner will do, etc.), and what you’ll do if a partner dies (will their share be passed on, or will another partner buy it?).
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Finance: What are operating profits, net...59 Views
finance a la shmoop.what are gross profits operating profits and net
profits? well the greatest fishing company that walks the earth or swims
the ocean made a fortune last year from selling nets. catching things like well [fish is caught from the ocean]
me. but that's really a different thing and no Bueno. leave us alone. in an
accounting sense net profits come after operating profits that come after gross
profits .and the net thing is well pretty much taxes. so here's an income statement
yeah yeah revenues and then there's the cost of the stuff you're selling. okay
fine. we'll note the nets only cost a little bit to make and you sell them for
a fortune .way overpriced if you ask me. like whatever happened to line fishing
anyway lazy humans. so you have your revenues then your cost of goods sold.
all right well if you subtract those cogs from the revs you get your gross [income statement pictured]
profits. yeah gross just gross and sad frankly like why not eat more chicken
seriously. anyway .so then you have your costs of operating the business you know
overhead. secretaries and insurance and rent and fish-smell deodorizer. and then
you have operating profits after you subtract. them yep you subtract those
right from gross profits. get operating. so you made some number let's call it 10
million bucks why not .you know how many of my brethren died to give you that
money right? blood money. talk to Leo to see about it.
maybe he'll make a movie . anyway let's say the tax rates 30% well you'd pay 3
million in taxes on that 10 million of operating profit to then have net
profits of seven million dollars. lots of profits .there people. yeah hope you can [equation]
sleep at night.
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