Forms of business organizations

Accountants habitually refer to a business organization as an accounting entity or a business entity. A business entity is some business organization such like a hardware store or grocery store that exists as an economic unit. For accounting purpose every business organization or entity has an existence separate from its owner(s), employees, creditors, customers and other businesses. This separate survival of the business organization is known as the business entity concept. Therefore in the accounting records of the business entity the activities of each business must be kept separate from the activities of other businesses and from the personal financial activities of the owner(s).