Why do you need a Partnership? Jaroorat Kya hain partnership ki?

We have learned about sole proprietorship in our XI class and learned about accounting for sole proprietor and their financial statements (B/s, P&L Account). 

Now if you need to expand your business, you would need: –

More capital

More working hands

Someone to share some amount of inherent risks too.

In such situations, a person would look for a partner who can help with above 3 problems.

• Someone who can contribute more capital
• Someone who can take care of some operations as with expansion, staff and area of operation do increases and one person can’t take care of everything.
• Every business has some inherent risks involved in it and to share that risk, it is better to have someone who can share those risks too.

Key Terms: –

• A system which takes care of above problems and recording business transactions for such arrangement is called Partnership Accounting.
• The arrangement under which it is made is called Partnership.
• The business structure which comes in to existence is called Partnership Firm
• The person who arranges all these things are called Partners.