Types of companies
Bodies and partners
General terms
Accounting
Company incorporation
100

The owner or manager of a business enterprise who, by risk and initiative, attempts to make profits

What is an entrepreneur?

100

A person who administers the affairs of an organization

What is an administrator?

100

The name used by a manufacturer, merchant, service company, farming business, etc., to identify itself individually as a business.

What is a business name?

100

A daily record of all the transactions of a legislative body, an organization, etc.

what is a journal?

100

A tax on the profits of a company or other incorporated body

What is a corporation tax?

200

A company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.

What is a stock company?

200

A partner with unlimited liability for the debts of the partnership

What is a general partner?

200

An organization using the surplus of its revenues to further its objective, rather than distributing its income to the organization's shareholders, leaders, or members

What is a non-for-profit organization?

200

Document that contains the accounting legal regulatory framework and guidelines to be applied for all the companies.

What is the General Acoounting Plan?

200

A place of business together with its employees, merchandise, equipment, etc.

¿What is a business establishment?

300

A company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.

What is a limited company?
300

A business partner who has no management authority and no personal liability

What is a limited partner?

300

An individual, company, or other entity which has legal rights and is subject to obligations

What is a legal person?

300

A statement that shows the financial position of a business enterprise at the end of the financial period by listing the asset balances and the claims on such assets

What is a balance sheet?

300

Government agency responsible for the intake of government revenue, including taxes and sometimes non-tax revenue.

What is a revenue agency?

400

A commercial enterprise owned and managed by and for the benefit of customers or workers

¿What is a cooperative society?

400

The statutory meeting of the directors and shareholders of a company or of the members of a society, held once every financial year, at which the annual report is presented

What is an annual general meeting?

400

A formal document with permanent rules established by an organization, corporation, etc., to govern its internal affairs.

What are the articles of association?

400

Book in which transactions are recorded (one page for each account) to facilitate subsequent entry in the balance sheet

What is a general ledger?

400

A government department that provide social services concerned with pensions and benefits for the elderly, the sick, etc

What is Social Welfare?

500

A partnership formed by at least one general partner and at least one special partner

What is a limited partnership?

500

A meeting specially called to discuss a particular item of a company's business, usually one of some importance. The meeting may be called by a group of shareholders or by the administrators

What is an extraordinary general meeting?

500

A formal legal document signed, witnessed, and delivered to effect a transfer of property or to create a legal obligation or contract

What is a notarial deed?

500

A statement of all the debit and credit balances in the ledger of a double-entry system, drawn up to test their equality, unless once every three months.

What is a trial balance?

500

Office with a database which lists all companies which are licensed to operate in a country, region or municipality.

What is Commercial Registry?