1. Business Structures and Formation Choice
Compare sole traders, partnerships, LLPs and companies by personality, liability, ownership, management, finance, tax and disclosure.
How to study the CPQ Advanced stage
Prepare each separately assessed component on its own terms, then connect legal analysis, client judgment, drafting, accounts and research across the route.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Business forms allocate legal personality, liability, control and compliance differently.
Exam cue: Identify owners, decision rights, capital needs and risk appetite.
Concept 2
Formation documents and registrations create or evidence authority and ownership.
Exam cue: Compare liability, tax, filing, privacy and succession.
Concept 3
The right structure depends on commercial objectives as well as legal protection.
Exam cue: Record the formation steps and governing documents.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Choosing a company solely because liability is limited.
Guardrail: Do not study all optional modules as mandatory, combine unlike assessment structures, exceed professional authority or rely on outdated law, procedure, tax or regulator rules.
Treating an LLP as an ordinary partnership in every respect.
Guardrail: Do not study all optional modules as mandatory, combine unlike assessment structures, exceed professional authority or rely on outdated law, procedure, tax or regulator rules.
Ignoring personal guarantees and director duties.
Guardrail: Do not study all optional modules as mandatory, combine unlike assessment structures, exceed professional authority or rely on outdated law, procedure, tax or regulator rules.
Memory anchors
Structure choice
Personality, liability, control, finance, tax and filing.
Formation file
Name, people, capital, documents, registration and records.
Commercial fit
Objective, risk, cost, growth, exit and succession.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Two founders want limited liability, separate legal personality and flexible external investment through shares. Which structure most directly fits?
A self-employed consultant trades alone without incorporating. What is the principal liability position?
Answer all questions to submit.
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